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Simon Steen-Andersen – Piano Concerto Premiere
17. October 2014
This year, the Donaueschingen Festival will concentrate on figures who, in addition to their musical work, also express themselves in other fields and profit from the interrelations between the various disciplines. The focus will not be the large new world of hybrid or interdisciplinary products, however, but rather those which rest very much on the autonomy of their respective artistic branch.
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Fuzzy: Irrepressible Humour and a Sense of Fun
7. October 2014
Earlier this year we wrote about Chimes of Memory, a CD release on which a number of his works were collected for the occasion of his 75th birthday.We're not the only ones to have written about it. There have been many reviews, both locally and abroad, and the level of enthusiasm has been high:
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Chromatische Weltmusik and the Ghost of Schubert at Klangspuren Festival
16. September 2014
Chromatische Weltmusik was one of a wide range of Danish works that provided a resonant point of focus for the festival.
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Suså Festival
29. August 2014
A program highlight is the full performance of Svend Nielsen’s Sommerfugledalen by the fantastic Ars Nova Copenhagen. Premieres include Simon Steen-Andersen’s Mono (Autotune Study and Nachgesang) - for male voice, keyboard and electronics (7') (2014) and Jexper Holmen’s Extinct (2013) for soprano and chamber ensemble (a piece about extinct whale species!) performed students from the Helsingør MGK.
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Nordic Music Days 2014
26. August 2014
Simon Steen-Andersen's chamber opera Buenos Aires is to be performed twice during the Nordic Music Days, held this year on 17-20 September as part of the Ultima Festival in Oslo, Norway. The opera is about the Argentinean dictatorship in the period 1976-83, and in a conversation with the Argentinean Esteban Buch, who has psecialized on the relationship between music and politics, Simon Steen-Andersen talks about the work with the creation and production of the opera.
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Klangspuren Festival
26. August 2014
Christian Winther Christensen's orchestral work Chromatische Weltmusik (ohne fremde Elemente) is to be given its first perfomance at the opening of this year's Klangspuren Festival on 11 September. The work was originally to have been premiered by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in December 2013 in connection with the centenary of the Danish Composers Society, but was cancelled because of the storm Bodil. Instead DR chose to broadcast the full rehearsal of the work.
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Premiere in Denmark and USA
20. August 2014
Thomas Agerfelt Olesen is particulaly fond of composing string quartets. His String Quartet no. 7 will be premiered by the Danish String Quartet September 28th at the new concert house in Ålborg - Musikkens Hus. The new quartet will also be on the repertoire when the Danish String Quartet goes on tour to the States in October. The american premier will be in Chicago on October 10th.
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Bo Holten's 40th anniversary
20. August 2014
In 2014 the Danish composer and conducter Bo Holten can celebrate his 40th anniversary as a composer. September 27th the anniversary will be celebrated with a concert at The Royal Library (The Black Diamond) where the choir Musica Ficta and the Arild String Quartet will play music by Bo Holten among others a premier of his String Quartet no. 1 commisoned by the Danish Royal Library.
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A music performance about identity
19. August 2014
A performance about man’s search for identity. About belonging, feeling home or being in constant movement. How identity varies as to where you are in your life, where you live, who you meet etc. What is our identity today? Is it possible to keep ones identity and affiliation in a globalized and rapidly moving world…A glimpse...then I'm gone again is performed by Figura Ensemble at Marienlyst Castle in Helsingør August 22.- 24.
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Performance for mouth and ear
19. August 2014
Lars Kynde and Nikolaj Kynde have directed, composed and designed the sensuous performance Tasteful Turntable. A sensuous performance that explores the sense-interference between music and gastronomy. For the composer, the tastes are used side by side with the sounds in the score. For the chef, the sounds are used to flavour the ingredients.
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Voices from the War
19. August 2014
Line Tjørnhøj has set music to an “Afghanistan-suite” - Voices from the War written by Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky, a language officer formerly deployed in Afghanistan. A choral work with gripping tales of destiny that show the face of war. The piece, commissioned by the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, is interrupted by sudden drill commands and radio communication from bomber aircraft but none the less lit with a glimmer of hope throughout.
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Gunnar Berg celebration of Jørn Utzon’s architecture
18. August 2014
Gunnar Berg’s Gaffky’s is performed August 28 and 31, 2014 by the Boston based piano-duo Jung Mi Lee and Jon Sakata.The concerts are a celebration of the Bagsværd Church as well as the church’s piano both designed by the famous Danish architect Jørn Utzon. Moreover the concerts marks the 25th year of Gunnar Berg’s death, August 25, 1989.
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Suså Festival 2014
12. August 2014
Li-Ying Wu, Jexper Holmen, Hans-Henrik Nordstrøm, Svend Nielsen and Simon Steen-Andersen are on the program for this years Suså Festival. For the 21st year running, the Suså Festival in Næstved invites the public to three late summer days with new music, 29–31 August.
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Opening Reverb Festival in London
12. August 2014
Simon Steen-Andersen’s Black Box Music opens the London-based festival Reverb, which takes place 21–24 August. The festival, which focuses on living composers of new music.
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iPad Workshop Follow Up
8. July 2014
One of the main points that emerged was that setting up sheet music for the screen requires quite a different mindset from music printed on paper. A common reservation is that the screen size is too small. It turns out however that the space available can be used in quite a different way than we’re traditionally used to. We can now read novels on a screen the size of a business card, as John Gruber once pointed out. Screens clearly need to be thought of in a different way.
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Word for Word in Roskilde
13. June 2014
Niels has described the piece as an experiment with the opera genre in which he systematically turns all conventional notions of the opera upside down: “the spectacular becomes intimate, the many contributing become one, set design becomes dark. And above all, it’s true. From the often quixotic and exaggerated opera dramas to a small piece of reality, as we all experience it.”
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Worsaae in New York with Marx and Engels
8. June 2014
The performance will take place on June 8, 2014 at the Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The festival is dedicated to showcasing the best electroacoustic music and video art from all over the world in New York City, through a multi-day festival. It includes a wide range of music from electroacoustic pieces and works involving live electronics to works combining musical instruments or voices with recorded or live electronics, as well as video and multimedia works, audio and video installations.
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Heather Roche iPad workshop
2. June 2014
Heather Roche is a (bass) clarinetist currently on a residency in Copenhagen as part of the DIVA (Danish International Visiting Artists) program. Born in Canada, Heather completed a PhD on composer/performer relationships at the University of Huddersfield and is an active performer on the international new music scene. She is now based in Cologne where she is also a member of the ensemble hand werk.
