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Nordlichter 2013 - Nordic Music and Arts in Berlin
17. April 2013
On April 27, 2013 the German festival Nordlichter (“Northern Lights”) presents an evening of Nordic music in Berlin.
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Ejnar Kanding On Tour
17. April 2013
Next week the Danish composer Ejnar Kanding will embark on a tour with the Berlin-based Ensemble Adapter.From April 25 to June 2, 2013 it will be possible to experience Ejnar Kanding’s work Stillstehen in both Denmark and Germany. The work was originally composed in 2009, but never had its premiere and will now be performed in a new version from 2011.
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Flashback Friday April 12
12. April 2013
This week has been full of exciting meetings with partners, prospective partners, composers and good people. We’re in the midst of planning our future and it looks bright and prosperous.Monday we met with our composer Morten Olsen and our colleagues at Dacapo Records, who have an album coming out soon with a brand new project called Be my quiet friend. Stay tuned for more info on this one – there are some interesting things coming up.
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HOWL – a suite of mini operas
12. April 2013
In May, the Canadian production company Vocalypse hosts an intimate encounter with 3 new mini operas performed by soprano Janice Jackson. One of the operas is composed by Edition·S – music¬sound¬art’s very own Klaus Ib Jørgensen.
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Steingrimur Rohloff Premiere
11. April 2013
On April 20, 2012 the prestigious Ensemble Modern premieres the second of two major works for sinfonietta composed by the Icelandic-born Steingrimur Rohloff.Ensemble Modern Akademie commissioned Steingrimur’s Colonies for their 10th anniversary in collaboration with the national German radio Deutschland Rundfunk. The work will be premiered Saturday April 20 at 8 pm at DLF-Forum neuer Musik.
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Flashback Friday April 5
5. April 2013
This week and the one before that we have had a little Easter focus on C.E.F. Weyse. His biography has been updated, his works have been #ScoreOfTheWeek on our Twitter profile and a short article has been written. Weyse was the man who refined the Danish lieder genre and Edition·S have published two volumes of his songs with piano. His music matches the sunny spring weather and the Easter holidays.
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Two Edition·S Composers Nominated for the Carl Prize
4. April 2013
Friday April 19, 2013 the brand new prize, the Carl Prize, will be handed out to the lucky winners. Among the nominees are two Edition·S – music¬sound¬art composers.
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Article: C.E.F. Weyse (1774 – 1842)
2. April 2013
Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse was the first composer of the Danish Golden Age and possibly the greatest. In Denmark he was a very recognized composer in his time and still is up to this day. To mark Easter we would like to draw attention to Weyse with this short article.
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Kind Words From The World Around Us
2. April 2013
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Pretty Sound Won Norwegian Grammy
1. April 2013
On Saturday March 23, 2013 Simon Steen-Andersen’s portrait album ”Pretty Sound” won the Norwegian Grammy Spellemann 2012.The Spellemann Grammy has since its first ceremony in 1973 been seen as Norway’s most prestigious music award. It is given out every year to artists and rights holders, who have contributed considerably to the music life the past year. The aim for the Spellemann Grammy is to honour, inspire and motivate all musicians and to strengthen the unity across genres in the music life.
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Flashback Friday March 22
22. March 2013
It should have been spring… but no, the snow returned and made Copenhagen a cold and dark city again. But here at Edition·S – music¬sound¬art we keep our spirits high! We’re still very excited about all the great news from last week – and perhaps this isn’t the end of it…
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Lullabies on Palm Sunday
18. March 2013
Ny Musik i Birkerød (New Music in Birkerød) has invited three composers to perform on Palm Sunday.
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The Carl Prize
18. March 2013
In April the Danish music scene gets a new prize ceremony and three Edition·S – music¬sound¬art composers are amongst the nominees.The Carl Prize is named after the great composer Carl Nielsen – not to confuse with the Carl Nielsen Prize – and founded by Danish Music Publishers' Association. The prize will be given out to a number of Danish songwriters and composers divided into eleven categories:Composer of pop/rockLyricistInternational BreakthroughSongComposer of jazz/folk/worldComposer of Children’s music
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Kunsten.nu Writes About Breathless Moment
15. March 2013
Yesterday, Thursday March 14, 2013 the Danish art website Kunsten.nu published an article about Klejs & Rønsholdt’s app-opera Breathless Moment.The article looks at Breathless Moment as an innovative art piece as well as a tangible way for opera audiences and tablets users to connect with the art.
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Flashback Friday March 15
15. March 2013
This week has been full of great news and kind words! First of all we are very proud to announce that the British newspaper The Times published an article about Danish music and in that context interviewed two of our composers!
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ANMF Becomes KLANG
15. March 2013
The annual festival Athelas New Music Festival is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year and has just announced that it is changing name.
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SPOR Programme Released
14. March 2013
Today SPOR Festival released this year’s programme and three Edition·S – music¬sound¬art composers are on it.
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Students Perform Portrait Concert
14. March 2013
Next week students of Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts will perform a portrait concert of Edition·S – music¬sound¬art composer Simon Steen-Andersen.The concert is held on the first day of a film and music festival arranged by the academy, which runs from Thursday March 21 to Saturday March 23, 2013. At the concert the students will perform four of Steen-Andersen’s works including the highly acclaimed Black Box Music.
