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Several performances of Else Marie Pade's choral work

6. March 2024

Else Marie Pade's 'Völo-spa hoc est' is performed several times in Denmark and Germany in March.

nominations / awards

Bára Gísladóttir nominated for Icelandic Music Awards

5. March 2024

Bára Gísladóttir has received two nominations for the Icelandic Music Awards 2024.

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Else Marie Pade: Immortella world premiere

5. March 2024

Else Marie Pade's 'Immortella' composed for 7 percussionists in 1970 is premiered in Copenhagen on 10 March.

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KUNSTPAUSER

28. February 2024

Edition·S and Dacapo Records launch the event series KUNSTPAUSER, conversations about contemporary art music and its roots in literature, philosophy and existential questions.

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SPOT FLUX: New orchestral music at SPOT 2024

9. February 2024

SPOT Festival and Danish Composers' Society join forces and will launch the new concept SPOT FLUX - a platform for contemporary orchestral music - at this year's SPOT Festival.

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Kanding World Premiere at Giacometti exhibition

8. February 2024

Ejnar Kanding's 'Fragile Fortitude' is premiered at the art event SMK Fridays on 9 February celebrating the opening of the major exhibition: 'Alberto Giacometti – What Meets the Eye'

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Winter holiday coming up

8. February 2024

The Edition·S office and shop will be closed 12-18 February

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Mads Emil Dreyer album release and concert

26. January 2024

Mads Emil Dreyer's debut album 'Disappearer' is released on 2 February and celebrated with a release concert on 6 February in Copenhagen.

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World premiere of Simon Steen-Andersen's 'no Concerto'

25. January 2024

In a distant future with no awareness of music and concerts as we know it, archaeologists have excavated a tape machine and a number of tape rolls, one of them with a live recording of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto.

nominations / awards

Bára Gísladóttir receives the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize

25. January 2024

The Danish-based Icelandic composer and double bassist Bára Gísladóttir receives the prestigious, international Composer Prize 2024 from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.

releases

New publication: Choral works by Antonio Mortaro

19. January 2024

A new selection of works in the Monuments series has been published: Four volumes of choral works by Antonio Mortaro.

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Steingrímur Rohloff at Kaustinen Chamber Music Week

19. January 2024

Three chamber music works by Rohloff will be performed at the Chamber Music Week in Kaustinen, Finland 25-26 January.

releases

Rønsholdt: Den Sidste Olie album release

11. January 2024

On 12 January, Dacapo Records is releasing a recording of Niels Rønsholdt's innovative chamber opera Den Sidste Olie (The Last Rites) which depicts human exploitation of each other and our surroundings in the pursuit of progress and prosperity.

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Danish Diction in Art Song - New publication

9. January 2024

Danish Diction in Art Song is a special anthology of 55 Danish songs that combines scores with IPA transcriptions and translations (lyric and word-to-word), and biographies of the composers.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

20. December 2023

Edition·S wishes you all a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Before we truly close down 2023 we want to take a moment to dwell on the musical year and look back at some of the past year's premieres, prizes and publications.

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World premiere of Bára Gísladóttir's NĀT

7. December 2023

The Danish National Vocal Ensemble will premiere Bára Gísladóttir's 'NĀT' at the choir's traditional Christmas concert on 14 December.

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Tekla Griebel Wandall kicks off new publication series

6. December 2023

A hidden treasure from Danish music history once again sees the light of day. The first edition in the publication series, Danish Classical Music (DCM) is now available: Tekla Griebel Wandall's Collected Songs, Volume 1.

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World premieres by Mads Emil Dreyer and Jexper Holmen

4. December 2023

On Sunday 10 December, Ensemble K!ART begins a new Christmas tradition with the concert K!ART TIL JUL (Ready for Christmas). The concert features works by Mads Emil Dreyer, Jexper Holmen, Alexandra Hallén and Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki.