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Wien Modern Festival 2013
10. November 2013
The 26th Wien Modern festival began this year on October 24 and concludes this week.
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Edition·S composers home and abroad
4. November 2013
It is another busy week of performances as not only do the virtuoso Jack Quartet come to Denmark to give their take on contemporary Danish works in a series of four concerts, Jesper Koch's Lonesome is premiered in Odense, and Sven Erik Werner's
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Jack Quartet in Denmark
1. November 2013
The young and exciting Jack Quartet will come to Denmark this month to play four concerts of contemporary Danish string quartets. Since forming at the Eastman School of Music, this American foursome has become one of the foremost exhibitors of contemporary music. Danish audiences will have the rare treat of hearing these virtuosos take on some of the most thrilling, sometimes moving, and more often ground-breaking chamber music Denmark has to offer.
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Sven Erik Werner’s Cæcilie-messe in November
31. October 2013
Sven Erik Werner’s Cæcilie-messe will receive two performances in coming weeks.
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Niels Rønsholdt in Belgium
31. October 2013
As part of November Musik in ’s-Hertogenbosch, Belgium, Niels Rønsholdt’s Me Quitte is to be performed by SCENATET on November 10. Completed just this year, this unique work is to be heard in an ideal location as it is based on a song of perhaps the greatest Belgian singer. The Danish Arts Foundation wrote about the work last year:
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Watch Rohloff and Steen-Andersen at NMD 2013
27. October 2013
This year's Nordic Music Days was, as ever, a triumph.
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Copenhagen premiere of Black Box Music
25. October 2013
Under Håkon Stene, who takes the dual-role of percussionist and conductor, the Århus Sinfonietta will open the Wundergrund Festival 2013 on October 26 with the Copenhagen premiere of Simon Steen-Andersen’s Black Box Music.
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Simon Steen-Andersen & the Carl Nielsen Prize
22. October 2013
We are now well into the 21st century’s second decade and so it is hardly an original observation to note that perhaps the foremost difficulty for artists of any genre working today is simply making sense of the multiplicity of means available. Some find new ways to use the existing forms, right through to where others devote themselves entirely to new avenues.
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Nordic Music Days 2013
16. October 2013
Rotating annually around the Nordic countries, this year Helsinki plays host to one of the world’s longest continuously running music festivals. Nordic Music Days 2013 presents the richest offering of contemporary Nordic music in all its diverse forms for five days beginning October 15.
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Copenhagen Phil in Christiania
11. October 2013
‘The Danish song is a young blonde girl’, or at least so said Carl Nielsen and Kai Hoffman in 1926.
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Edition·S composers at evening of Danish music
9. October 2013
Tonight sees surely one of the most exciting concerts in Copenhagen this year celebrating the 100-year jubilee of the Danish Composers Society. From 8pm, Den Grå Hal, Christiania, will host a unique showcase of contemporary Danish music encompassing everything from newly-invented instruments, the toy piano, the experimental group DYGONG, to the Copenhagen Phil.
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Kanding premiere in Copenhagen
9. October 2013
Following the new music collective TRANSIT’s premiere of Ejnar Kanding’s Texture 1 in New York City earlier this year, the TRANSIT DUO now comes to Copenhagen to give the first performance of his Mosaico 1 on October 11 at the LiteraturHaus, Copenhagen.
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Office closed from October 10-16
9. October 2013
Due to staff holidays the Edition·S office will be closed from October 10 to 16 inclusive.
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Lotte Heise Plays Morten Olsen on National Radio
27. September 2013
Tune in to BRAVO on Danish Radio 2 tomorrow at 6.03 pm, when Lotte Heise plays Morten Olsen’s I’ll make you cry on national radio.The Danish author and speaker Lotte Heise hosts a radio show every Saturday evening from 6 to 7.20 pm called BRAVO. The show focuses on opera as Heise is an opera lover herself and through her passion guides the listener through the wonderful world of opera. This Saturday September 28, 2013 she will play a track from Morten Olsen’s latest album Be My Quiet Friend.
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Simon Steen-Andersen Receives the Carl Nielsen Prize
25. September 2013
On October 25, 2013 the renowned Edition·S – music¬sound¬art composer Simon Steen-Andersen receives the honorary Carl Nielsen Prize.The press release sent out in March 2013 states:
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DokumentarKoncert #2: Niels Rønsholdt
17. September 2013
The highly acclaimed documentary film director Michael Madsen has created an exceptional silent film anno 2013 in collaboration with Denmark’s most experimenting ensemble for art and music, SCENATET.A camera strapped on composer and artist Niels Rønsholdt follows his whereabouts in airports, concert halls, on the street and in private. Sound and picture melt together to a unique portrait of the composer as SCENATET performs Rønsholdt’s own music live to the pictures.
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The Great, Danish composer in the shadow of Carl Nielsen
16. September 2013
The Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende published an article about Rued Langgaard and the Langgaard Festival in Ribe on September 11, 2013. The article explores the difficulties of raising money for the Rued Langgaard Edition and how important it is to publish Langgaard’s works in order to keep the music and memory of the somewhat eccentric composer alive.Composer and Langgaard expert Bendt Viinholdt Nielsen explains:
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ILK Celebrates its 10th Anniversary
12. September 2013
On the occasion of the experimenting, avant-garde record label ILK Music's 10th anniversary the composer collective hosts a grand and extravagant party at Jazzhouse in Copenhagen on September 13 and 14, 2013. ILK transforms Jazzhouse to a scenic ILK house, where site specific performances, obstreperous concerts from ILK’s current constellations as well as nostalgia of former ILK releases will be presented.
