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  1. KLANG announces festival programme

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    KLANG announces festival programme

    5. May 2016
  2. Great reviews of BEINTA

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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.
  3. Simon Steen-Andersen turns 40

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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.
  4. Martin Stauning selected for The International Rostrum of Composers

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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.
  5. World premiere of Squawk by Nicolai Worsaae

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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.
  6. Danish premiere of Songs of Doubt by Niels Rønsholdt

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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.
  7. World premiere of TUSK by Line Tjørnhøj

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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.
  8. Interview with Jesper Buhl about Lysistrate

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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.
  9. Five star review of Rohloff’s children’s opera

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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."
  10. PULSAR concerts praised by critics

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    PULSAR concerts praised by critics

    8. April 2016
  11. World premiere of BEINTA – symphonic song cycle

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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. 
  12. Niels Rønsholdt writes music for The Fool

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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.
  13. Nicolai Worsaae at MATA in NY

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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. 
  14. Rune Glerup Nominated for Carl Prisen

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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
  15. Royal Danish Theatre commissions ...

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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.
  16. Steingrimur Rohloff's Music Drama

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    Steingrimur Rohloff's Music Drama

    14. March 2016
  17. Chromatische Weltmusik at PULSAR

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    Chromatische Weltmusik at PULSAR

    9. March 2016

    Christian Winther Christensen’s double concerto Chromatische Weltmusik [Ohne Fremde Elemente] should have been premiered in 2013, but the performance was cancelled due to the storm “Bodil”. The premiere instead took place in 2014 at the Austrian festival Klang-spuren.
  18. Edition·S Orchestral Project with Composition Students

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    Edition·S Orchestral Project with Composition Students

    5. March 2016