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Svend Hvidtfelt portrait concert

3. October 2018

Photo: Susanne Hvidtfelt Hansen

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Third season of 4'33 Phil coming up

26. September 2018

In 2016 the Copenhagen Phil and Edition·S launched the project, 4’33 Phil, a mini-concert format designed to present new pieces of contemporary music.The project is now in its third season featuring the following solo pieces:28 September 2018Flemming Christian Hansen:  Solo piece for bass clarinetSoloist: Tage Christensen

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Niels Rønsholdt turns 40

26. September 2018

Niels Rønsholdt. Photo: Lars Svankjær

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Ylva Lund Bergner podcast interview

25. September 2018

The journalist Birgitta Tollan is producing a series of podcasts portraying members of the Danish Composers' Society. The most recently published podcast is an interview with the Swedish born / Denmark based composer Ylva Lund Bergner.

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Løffler's 'b' in London

25. September 2018

NEKO3 Photo: Niklas Ottander / konsfoto NEKO3 has been invited to participate in two days of workshops and discussion on new chamber music coached by Antoine Françoise and Patrick Stadler from the internationally renowned Ensemble Nikel. 

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Danish premiere of Glerup string quartet

24. September 2018

Photo: Caroline Bittencourt

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Great reviews of Line Tjørnhøj's enTmenschT

17. September 2018

Photo: Anders Bigum Line Tjørnhøj made her official debut as a composer from the soloist class at the Royal Academy of Music Aarhus with the music theatre installation 'enTmenschT', and the work receives great reviews.

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Gravgaard Madsen Premiere at Warsaw Autumn

13. September 2018

Photo: Stine Vejen

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Worsaae CD release and portrait concert

13. September 2018

'Wesenheit ab Wesenheit' album cover by Denise Burt

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Premiere of Stauning trio in Odense

12. September 2018

 Martin Stauning. Photo: Caroline Bittencourt '3 Authoritarian Anthems' is commissioned by Trio Estera, and is written for flute, cello and piano. The piece consists of 6 movements: Three Cantus Vulgaris (folk tunes) separated by two disrupted intermezzi and with a postlude in the end.

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Løffler premiere at Ultima

11. September 2018

Simon Løffler  often works with egnimatic constructions, embracing traditional instruments (transformed in various ways) as well as novel instrumental concepts. 

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Gunnar Berg’s Gaffky’s performed in its entirety

10. September 2018

Steffen Schleiermacher performs Gaffky's I Gunnar Berg’s Gaffky’s consists of 10 movements, each consisting of 10 smaller parts. The piece composed in 1959 represents the climax in Gunnar Berg’s endeavours to create music in which structure and content is one and the same. 

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Toivo Tulev album release

9. September 2018

Photo: Tõnu Tormis“For me, music has to do less immediately with its aesthetic contents, but with the truth, the road, and the life.”

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Significant German music prize for Borup-Jørgensen's Marin

7. September 2018

Still from the animated film 'Marin'  Axel Borup-Jørgensen’s ‘Marin’ is an extremely challenging and meticulously detailed symphonic poem - sometimes written out in no less than 55 separate voices.

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Interview: Line Tjørnhøj - enTmenschT

30. August 2018

Photo: Kåre Viemose Fear of the future

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James Black at UNM

27. August 2018

James Black performing 'RAUS' at Klang festival 2017. Photo: Dennis LehmannUNM festival is an annual festival presenting the young generation of Nordic composers. The festival alternates between Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland and in 2018 the festival takes place in Bergen, Norway 28 August - 1 September.

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September08 on September 8th

13. August 2018

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Accordion extravaganza at RDAM

10. August 2018

Naxos Records releases a solo album featuring accordionist Hanzhi Wang. The album 'On the Path to H.C. Andersen' consists of solo works by Danish composers - works that are either directly inspired by specific fairy tales or seem to evoke the atmosphere they represent.