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  1. Deadlock, Drifting – new duo piece by Simon Christensen

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    Deadlock, Drifting – new duo piece by Simon Christensen

    28. November 2017

    Simon Christensen. Photo: Jens SvankjærSimon Christensen’s new, rhythmically complex 16-minute piece for soprano saxophone and piano will be world premiered by saxophonist Henriette Jensen and pianist Maria Eshpai – the Duo Plus.
  2. Finn Savery Selection – new album out now

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    Finn Savery Selection – new album out now

    27. November 2017

    Finn Savery. © Savery.dkFinn Savery’s works have been released on more than a dozen albums through the years. With ‘Finn Savery Selection’, released on Gateway Music, six works for guitar, violin and string quartet are now also available for purchase and streaming.
  3. New Timothy Baxter Christmas album out now

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    New Timothy Baxter Christmas album out now

    25. November 2017

    A new CD by Timothy Baxter, who has lived in Denmark since 1990, will be released on 3 December.
  4. Worsaae pieces noted in Chicago media

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    Worsaae pieces noted in Chicago media

    14. November 2017

    Nicolai Worsaae. © Niels Magnússon
  5. Transit – new Line Tjørnhøj collaboration in Gothenburg

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    Transit – new Line Tjørnhøj collaboration in Gothenburg

    13. November 2017

    © Malin Skinnar‘A musical performance about being lost together’. The Swedish vocal quartet Tetra will perform the world premiere of ‘Transit’ next week, 24-26 November at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  6. Steen-Andersen’s Kagel Music Prize – the jury’s reasoning

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    Steen-Andersen’s Kagel Music Prize – the jury’s reasoning

    9. November 2017

    Simon Steen-Andersen. © Christian Vium“Darf man das tun?” Can you do that, Rainer Pöllmann asked at the beginning of his laudatory speech at this year’s Mauricio Kagel Music Prize award ceremony, celebrating the 2017 recipient of the prestigious award, Simon Steen-Andersen.
  7. Return of a non-event – Curatorium 2017

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    Return of a non-event – Curatorium 2017

    3. November 2017

    Last year’s festival poster as seen in real life.Curatorium is a curatorial non-event celebrating sound. The festival, both taking and not taking place, explores the possibility for an event or work of art to exist solely on the basis of the framing of said event or work of art.
  8. Bergner and Løffler premieres at Huddersfield Festival

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    Bergner and Løffler premieres at Huddersfield Festival

    2. November 2017

    Ylva Lund Bergner and Simon Løffler. © Ylva Lund Bergner, Lars SvankjærThe Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, which celebrates its 40th edition this year since the beginning in 1978, is the UK’s largest international festival for new and experimental music.
  9. 3 world premieres at Jesper Koch 50th birthday concert

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    3 world premieres at Jesper Koch 50th birthday concert

    1. November 2017

    Jesper KochAt the concert, arranged by the organisation Ny Musik i Birkerød, Jesper Koch’s Piano Trio #1 (2011) will be accompanied by world premieres of Piano Trio #2, ‘3 Rilke songs for soprano and piano trio’ plus ’A song cycle for guitar and soprano set to poems by Frank Kjørup’.
  10. Great ‘AGONY’ reviews and new Tjørnhøj album

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    Great ‘AGONY’ reviews and new Tjørnhøj album

    30. October 2017

    Line Tjørnhøj. Photo: Anders Bigum
  11. World premiere of ‘AGONY’, Tjørnhøj’s new eating opera

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    World premiere of ‘AGONY’, Tjørnhøj’s new eating opera

    19. October 2017

    Line Tjørnhøj. Photo: Anders Bigum
  12. Ejnar Kanding headlines new Concordia Festival in Sofia

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    Ejnar Kanding headlines new Concordia Festival in Sofia

    10. October 2017

    Ejnar Kanding. Photo: Anne SandnerThe first edition of Bulgaria’s Concordia Festival for Contemporary Music and Art, which takes place 13-15 October at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, will present works by a handful of Danish composers, including ten works by Ejnar Kanding.
  13. Tjørnhøj and Alsted receive the Carl Nielsen Prize 2017

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    Tjørnhøj and Alsted receive the Carl Nielsen Prize 2017

    9. October 2017

    Line Tjørnhøj. Photo: Anders BigumSince the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Foundation began granting its honorary award to Danish composers and musicians, in 1959, the Carl Nielsen Prize has been awarded to some of the greatest composers of recent Danish music history – from Vagn Holmboe and Per Nørgård to Simon Steen-Andersen and Juliana Hodkinson.
  14. Martin Stauning piece kicks off new 4’33 Phil season

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    Martin Stauning piece kicks off new 4’33 Phil season

    8. October 2017

    Martin Stauning. Photo: Jakob Boserup In 2016 the Copenhagen Phil and Edition·S launched a new collaboration, 4’33 Phil, a mini-concert format designed to present new pieces of contemporary music with a duration of 4 minutes and 33 seconds.
  15. Mise-en performs C.W.C., Worsaae and Glerup in New York

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    Mise-en performs C.W.C., Worsaae and Glerup in New York

    22. September 2017

    © ensemble mise-en As part of its CONNECTIONS series, ensemble mise-en invites its New York audience to an interesting concert on 5 October.
  16. We’re off to Nordic Music Days (in London, unusually)

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    We’re off to Nordic Music Days (in London, unusually)

    21. September 2017

    Nordic Music Days 2017 logo.This year’s Nordic Music Days takes place at the Southbank Centre in London. The festival, which features four days of music from the Nordic countries, follows up on last year’s Reykjavík edition by continuing the focus on northern lights as a source of inspiration.
  17. Worsaae journeys to the underworld in new opera Downfall

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    Worsaae journeys to the underworld in new opera Downfall

    21. September 2017

    Nicolai Worsaae. © Niels Magnússon‘A journey to the underworld and back again’, the subtitle of Nicolai Worsaae’s opera ‘Downfall’ (2017, Nedstigning) reads.
  18. Ivar Frounberg piano piece at ‘Modern Monday’

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    Ivar Frounberg piano piece at ‘Modern Monday’

    18. September 2017

    Ivar Frounberg.The next ‘Modern Monday’ (Moderne Mandag), the concert series organised by the Working Group Gunnar Berg, will present a welcome opportunity for fans of the piano to hear four intriguing works seldom performed.