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Mindeord om Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

29. June 2016

Photo: Hanne Budtz-Jørgensen

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Bagpipe, avant-garde for children and more at KLANG

21. June 2016

Photo: Alexander Banck-Petersen One of the pieces that stood out – even at an avant-garde festival – was Lars Kynde’s “Pulsing Pipes” created in cooperation with the artists collective Illutron. “Pulsing Pipes” was written for three pulsejet motors and a bagpipe, and was premiered at Fælledparken in Copenhagen.

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New composers at Edition·S

21. June 2016

Welcome to Jeppe Just Christensen, Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki and Ylva Lund Bergner. 

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Simon Steen-Andersen joins Akademie der Künste

21. June 2016

Akademie der Künste was founded in 1696 and is one of the oldest cultural institutions in Europe. It is an international community of artists with a current total of 400 members covering all art forms. The members are all artists who have made a particular contribution to contemporary art.

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Sneak peek of new Edition·S project

13. June 2016

Bach, Brahms and Bartok did just that in pieces where educational considerations and artistic ambition walked hand in hand and offered brand new musical discoveries and experiences to the young musicians.

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Premiere recordings of Gustav Helsted

6. June 2016

Helsted’s “Decet” from 1891 and the dramatic string quintet in F minor, composed in c. 1917 is released on Dacapo Records. The release will be celebrated with a concert and a reception Saturday, June 11th at The Black Diamond.

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Christian Winther Christensen receives large grant

6. June 2016

“During recent years Christian Winther Christensen has set his mark as one of the most interesting, young composers, with music characterized by great sonic beauty, instrumental imagination and at the same time imbued with a wonderful sense of humour.”

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Simon Steen-Andersen at The Munich Biennale

3. June 2016

The piece is written for eighteen musicians and four actors employing features from theatre, lecture performance, traditional concert, light show, and installation.Politiken’s critic was there for the premiere and gave six hearts to the ambitious, philosophical piece, which, as he points out, however contains a great deal of humour:

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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.