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TUSK turned the street into an opera stage
10. May 2016
Foto: Anders Bigum"TUSK" is written by Line Tjørnhøj and was performed by Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Concert Clemens and the vocal soloists Anna Ottertun, Daniel Carlsson og Truike van der Poel. Musicians and singers were all spread out in shops, private apartments, on terraces and in the street.
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World premiere of new piece by Simon Steen-Andersen at the Munich Biennale
10. May 2016
Photo: Lars Svankjær
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Welcome to Solveig Lindeskov Andersen
8. May 2016
We are happy to welcome Solveig Lindeskov Andersen who as of April has been employed to carry out communication at Edition·S through social media, news on our website, press contact etc.The employment reflects the ambition to boost the awareness of the many projects initiated by Edition·S and our composers, and in general to increase the public attention to the works of our composers.
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KLANG announces festival programme
5. May 2016
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Great reviews of BEINTA
2. May 2016
Foto: Anne Aaby/SPOT Festival The piece is written by Anna Katrin Øssursdóttir Egilstrøð and Allan Gravgaard Madsen, who explore and combine sonorities from contemporary classical music and alternative pop accompanied by the raw, atmospheric work of Faroese film duo RAMMATIK.
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Simon Steen-Andersen turns 40
25. April 2016
In his pieces, Simon Steen-Andersen integrates instrumental music along with electronics, video and performative elements to create groundbreaking new musical works where sight and narrative is not just an added layer, but a fundamental part of the cross-media experience.
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Martin Stauning selected for The International Rostrum of Composers
19. April 2016
IRC is an annual forum organized by the International Music Council where broadcasting representatives from more than thirty national radio networks meet to exchange pieces of contemporary classical music.
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World premiere of Squawk by Nicolai Worsaae
18. April 2016
“Squawk” by Nicolai Worsaae is written for string quartet, video and electronics, and explores the tensions between live performance and fragmented replays.
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Danish premiere of Songs of Doubt by Niels Rønsholdt
18. April 2016
“Songs of Doubt” is a piece about the moments of important decision and the elements of doubt that inevitably goes with them.Confronted with big decisions, we tend to look back and forth from that point to see our world in the light of the contexts and consequences of the decision we are about to make – weighing the prospects against the retrospect.
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World premiere of TUSK by Line Tjørnhøj
15. April 2016
Through a montage of quotes spanning from ancient philosophy to contemporary daily life scenarios, the opera tells a fundamental tale of life, love and death.
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Interview with Jesper Buhl about Lysistrate
11. April 2016
In an interview for Fyens Stiftstidende the artistic director of The Funen Opera, Jesper Buhl tells about the new opera Lysistrate with music by Steingrimur Rohloff.Lysistrate will be the last large production with Jesper Buhl as artistic director. He leaves his position at The Funen Opera later this year. He describes Lysistrate as the ideal swan song.
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Five star review of Rohloff’s children’s opera
8. April 2016
Politiken’s Henrik Friis writes: "Rohloff’s music is discrete, but still he manages to accentuate and support the plot and text so everything comes together."
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PULSAR concerts praised by critics
8. April 2016
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World premiere of BEINTA – symphonic song cycle
5. April 2016
BEINTA will be given its first performance on Saturday 30 April at 15:00 by the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra with composer/singer Anna Katrin Øssursdóttir Egilstrøð, conductor Jesper Nordin and RAMMATIK, who have created visuals for the work.
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Niels Rønsholdt writes music for The Fool
5. April 2016
In collaboration with the stage director and mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg, the trio and the two British composers Rolf Hind and Richard Thomas, German Helmut Oehring and Danish Niels Rønsholdt have created a production in two parts with reflections on the archetypal figure of ‘the Fool’ with references to Shakespeare, Hindu culture and modern stand-up comedy. Read more.
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Nicolai Worsaae at MATA in NY
3. April 2016
The New York-based festival MATA was founded by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky and Lisa Bielawa in 1996. The festival commissions, presents and supports young composers from all over the world.
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Rune Glerup Nominated for Carl Prisen
1. April 2016
On 18 April the Danish Music Publishers’ Society will award the yearly Carl Prize, for which Rune Glerup has been nominated for his piece Clarinet Quintet - Still leaning toward this Machine in the category “Classical Compose
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Royal Danish Theatre commissions ...
30. March 2016
The libretto has been written by the author and musician Kristian Leth (b. 1980). The opera, with the title Dark Matters, will be premiered in the spring of 2018 on the Old Stage of the Royal Theatre by the opera soloists of the Royal Theatre, the Royal Danish Orchestra and the Chorus of the Royal Opera.
