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Edition·S at KLANG Festival

7. June 2022

KLANG Festival 2022 takes place in Copenhagen 9-18 June. The programme overflows with works by composers collaborating with Edition·S.

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Mads Emil Dreyer World Premiere

6. June 2022

HAV Duo will premiere Mads Emil Dreyer's piece 'Miniature 4' Thursday 9 May in Copenhagen.

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Work Grants from the Danish Arts Foundation

19. May 2022

The Danish Arts Foundation has given out 230 work grants to composers, songwriters and sound artists.

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Allan Gravgaard Madsen: Concerto Grosso World Premiere

10. May 2022

On 19 May 2022 JACK Quartet and Aarhus Symphony Orchestra will premiere Allan Gravgaard Madsen's Concerto Grosso, a work that contains the epic, the romantic and quite a few surprises.

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Edition·S at SPOR festival

21. April 2022

We are counting down to the annual SPOR festival taking place in Aarhus 27 April - 1 May 2022. The festival presents a great selection of contemporary music including works by Bára Gísladóttir, James Black and Jeppe Just Christensen.

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Kasper Rofelt · 40 years today

17. April 2022

The works of Kasper Rofelt span from experimental orchestra works to virtuoso solo pieces and spheric chamber music. On 17 April the accomplished composer turns 40 and a few days later, a portrait album containing his chamber music is released.

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Matias Vestergård: KORTE BREVE FRA EN LANG REJSE

11. April 2022

Matias Vestergård Hansen graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Music in March 2022, with a concert including the world premiere of his audio drama 'KORTE BREVE FRA EN LANG REJSE'. A video documentation of the performance is now available online.

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Simon Steen-Andersen in Venice, Biennale Musica 2022

7. April 2022

A new work by Simon Steen-Andersen is presented at the Biennale Musica Festival 'Out of Stage', dedicated to experimental music theatre.

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World premiere of Rohloff's Concerto Grosso

10. March 2022

Thursday 17 March, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra will premiere Steingrímur Rohloff's 'Concerto Grosso' with soloists associated with the Berlin Philharmonic.

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New publication series: Danish Classical Music

7. March 2022

The publishing series Danish Classical Music will release works from the Danish, classical music heritage. The first independent project focuses on works by Hilda Sehested, Tekla Griebel Wandall and Nancy Dalberg.

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Danish premiere of Simon Steen-Andersen’s spectacular masterpiece, TRIO

4. March 2022

Simon Steen-Andersen outdid himself with the grand multimedia work 'TRIO' premiered in 2019. Now the Danish premiere will be joining three major Danish ensembles in concert for the first time.

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Knudåge Riisager 125 years

2. March 2022

With his own distinctive tone, Knudåge Riisager (1897-1974) succeeded in enriching Danish music with an extra dimension of brilliancy and terseness. On 6 March 2022, we celebrate the 125th anniversary of Knudåge Risager’s birth.

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Steingrímur Rohloff World Premiere

22. February 2022

Copenhagen Phil and baritone singer Johannes Held will premiere Steingrímur Rohloff's 'Schumann Fragmente' on 4 March in a concert performance telling the story of Schumann's life, love and collapse.

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Marcela Lucatelli world premiere

21. February 2022

On 11 March 2022 Marcela Lucatelli takes the stage in DR Koncerthuset together with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra for the world premiere of her work RGBW.

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Sven Erik Werner 85 years today

21. February 2022

Sven Erik Werner turns 85 today, 21 February. On that occasion the journalist Georg Metz has written a text celebrating the composer and person, Sven Erik Werner.

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Mette Nielsen Essay

18. February 2022

Mette Nielsen is featured in the article series Sounding Women’s Work. Seismograf brings 11 essays about gender, technology and infrastructure in Nordic sound art and experimental music.

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Ejnar Kanding World Premiere

15. February 2022

Rudersdal Kammersolister will premiere Ejnar Kanding's 'Harmonices Mundi' on Friday 18 February.

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Rachel Yatzkan Children's songs at Vinterjazz

15. February 2022

Copenhagen Winter Jazz presents Rachel Yatzkan's 'Dreaming in many languages', a crossover concert for children between 6 and 12 and their parents.