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 | December 28th 2009
New string quartets released on Dacapo Records
Edition Samfundet composers Simon Christensen', Christian Winther Christensen', Jexper Holmen and Simon Steen-Andersen, as well as Jens Voigt Lund and electronica composer Morten Riis are the creators behind this intense string quartet experience, performed by the Polish Silesian Strings Quartet.
The record company writes:
"String quartet meets electronica - in a fruitful clash of traditions and new possibilities. The concept of ‘sound' is the common denominator for a whole new view of the venerable configuration of four string instruments in a quartet. Five young Danish composers lead the genre into the future, and the five are linked by electronic remixes of their works, so that the CD forms a "composition of compositions". The result is effortless, virtuoso, colourful music with a wealth of nuances! "
Listen to the music here
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 | December 22nd 2009
GLÆDELIG JUL / MERRY CHRISTMAS
Edition SAMFUNDET ønsker en glædelig jul og et godt nytår til komponister, samarbejdspartnere og kunder.
Edition SAMFUNDET sends its warmest greetings for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to our composers, partners and clients. |
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 | November 20th 2009
Jexper Holmen portrayed in Huddersfield tonight
Jexper Holmen is in focus next week as the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival presents three major works by the Danish composer in an exclusive portrait concert. The concert shows the 38 years old composer as a reformer of the role of the accordion instrument in art music – all three works are pivoted around the unusual instrument and open a whole new world of sound and musical experience. The concert features the world premieres of Eris as well as performances of Lullabies and Oort Cloud. Performers are Frode Haltli (accordion),
Frode Andersen (accordion),
Torben Snekkestad (soprano saxophone),
Jexper Holmen (accordion) and
Ejnar Kanding (sound engineer).
Also read last weeks comprehensive article on the composer in the Guardian - and see the details about the concert here |
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| | November 14th 2009
Line Tjørnhøj's Stabat Mater premiered in Århus
Line Tjørnhøj's enjoyed immense success as her opera Anorexia Sacra won the Opera Vista Festival 2009 in Houston. Her work will be featured again in a new production during the 2010 edition of the Texas festival. Now, the Danish composer is facing another success... |
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 | November 2nd 2009
Simon Steen-Andersen featured composer on Music Harvest Festival this week
The Danish Music Harvest Festival starts tomorrow, Tuesday November 3rd. This year's edition of the festival features several works by Simon Steen-Andersen, among those his highly celebrated mini concerto for the Chinese Gu Zgheng and symphony orchestra, Ouvertures (2008). The piece won the first prize in the prestigious Shanghai Spring International Music Festival in May 2008, and was most recently performed during the World Music Days in Gothenburg in September this year.
See the full festival program here. |
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| | September 27th 2009
Simon Steen-Andersen and Jesper Koch on ISCM Festival next week
Edition Samfundet composers Simon Steen-Andersen and Jesper Koch are both prominently represented with orchestral works on this year's edition of the World Music Days in Sweden. The festival began this weekend, September 24th, in the the city of Visby, then moves on to Växjö on September 28th and finishes with a four day program in Gothenburg starting on October 1st.
Steen-Andersen's and Koch's works are both performed in Gothenburg on October 1st and 2nd respectively. |
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 | September 25th 2009
Matthias Ronnefeld - 50th anniversary memorial concert October 2nd
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, singers Signe Asmussen and Helene Gjerris, the ATHELAS Sinfonietta Copenhagen and conductor Sebastian Gottschick form the international dreamteam as the music of Matthias Ronnefeld is programmed together with works by ... |
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| | September 16th 2009
Rune Glerup's new work to be premiered next week
Rune Glerup's dust encapsulated #1 (percussion and live-electronics)
will see its world premiere on Wednesday September 23rd at 7.30 PM in an Esbjerg Ensemble concert production. Christian Martinez is soloist and the concert can be enjoyed in a live radio broadcast, if you can't make it to the concert at the Vestjysk Musikkonservatorium. |
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| | September 6th 2009
Simon Steen-Andersen on Ultima next week
Simon Steen-Andersen's Chambered Music will be performed on this year's edition of the Ultima Festival in Oslo. Performers on this September 13th concert are the Oslo Sinfonietta under the baton of Christian Eggen. More details here. |
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| | July 27th 2009
Zugendlos in Gothenburg in August
Nicolai Worsaae Rasmussen's orchestral work of 2008, Zugendlos, will see its first Swedish performance as the Opera Orchestra of Gothenburg performs the music during this year's edition of the Nordic UNM Festival on August 8. See more about the performance and the festival on Facebook. |
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| | July 17th 2009
Simon Steen-Andersen artist in residence under the DAAD program in Berlin 2010
Following in the footsteps of a long line of great artists from all over the world, Simon Steen-Andersen has been granted a one-year residence under the DAAD program in Berlin in 2010. |
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 | July 9th 2009
Organ works by Fuzzy in Notre Dame July 12
The renowned organist Grethe Krogh will be giving a recital in the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on July 12th. She will be performing the Notre Dame trilogy by Edition Samfundets composer Fuzzy. See more
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| | July 3rd 2009
Young composers performed in France
Rune Glerup's new work, dust encapsulated #2 was premiered by the French ensemble TM+ at a concert in Nanterre on June 26, and on Wednesday July 8th, another great French ensemble, Ensemble Aleph, will be performing Christian Winther Christensen's Don't look back! |
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| | July 1st 2009
Marcin Gluch performs thoughout 2009
The Polish pianist Marcin Dominik Gluch continues to perform number of works from the Edition Samfundet catalogue on his programs. In 2009, Mr. Gluch will play works by Jesper Koch, Ilja Bergh and Rued Langgaard and several others.
Download the concert plan HERE . |
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| | June 2nd 2009
Line Tjørnhøj wins Opera Vista Competition in Houston!
After a week of competition, presentations and workshops, Edition Samfundet composer Line Tjørnhøj's performance-opera Anorexia sacra won the final vote of the audience. Along with the first prize of 1,500 USD comes a full production of the opera in the 2010 edition of the Opera Vista Festival i Houston, Texas.
See the presentation of the work here. |
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 | June 1st 2009
Sunleif Rasmussen in Switzerland this week
The Faroese chamber ensemble
Aldubáran will be premiering the new Fanfare Lontane by acclaimed composer Sunleif Rasmussen as they play two concerts in Switzerland (Bern and Wimthertur) on June 4 and 5. The new composition will also be performed during the annual Summartónar festival in the Faroe Islands. |
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| | May 22nd 2009
Anorexia sacra goes to Texas!
Line Tjørnhøj's performance-opera Anorexia sacra was succesfully premiered at the PLEX Music Theatre i Copenhagen 2006. Now the work is among the six semi-finallists at the Opera Vista Competition in Houston Texas. The composer is present in Houston when her work is being presented on Friday May 22nd.
See the presentation of the work here. |
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| | April 23rd 2009
Gunnar Berg in Nuremberg tomorrow
2009 is the centenary of Gunnar Berg , and his music is being played in denmark and abroad throughout the year. Tomorrow, his Spoon River, based on poems by Edgar Lee Masters, can be heard in a KlangKonzepte Nürnberg performance under the baton of the Agentinian conductor Jorge Rotter. The concert takes place in the Staatstheater in Nuremberg at 10.30 PM and marks the first performance of the music since 1959. Read more here.
Berg's music can also be heard in Denmark as cellist Toke Møldrup performs works by both him and Morten Olsen on Sunday April 26th at 8pm in the Sofiebadet in Copenhagen. |
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| | April 14th 2009
The Queen of the Eastern Wind to appear in Israel soon!
Rachel Yatzkan's new wok, Gaba'im, will see its world premiere as Irina-Kalina Goudeva sings, plays and moves throgh the composition for the first time in The Yellow Submarine in Jerusalem om April 21st. The work will also be performed intel sib on April 22nd, and again in the Jerusalem Performing Arts Lab on April 216th where it will also be broadcasted online as a part of the Deep Tones for Peace initiative. See more about the performance here |
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| | April 2nd 2009
Notations21 is out!
Mark Batty Publisher springs into its new season of distinctive volumes covering the graphic and communication arts with a comprehensive anthology of illustrated musical notation. "Notations 21", by New York-based musician and musicologist Theresa Sauer, features more than 300 pages of incredibly varied images that show how some composers use musical scores for much more than just instructions for musicians to play. Using a variety of nontraditional symbols, colorful paints and inks, photographic images and text, these composers show how they can turn musical scores into instruments of expression that graphically convey new information about the meanings or performances of their pieces.
Numerous works from Edition Samfundet's catalogue Edition Text & Graphix appear prominently in the new publication from Mark Batty Publisher.
See more and order online on the publisher's website. |
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| | April 1st 2009
Finn Savery launches new CD
Finn Savery has launched his own piano compositions A Flow into a Poem and Tracks 1-6 on CDJazz.com. Buy the new release here. |
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| | March 20th 2009
Michala Petri in world premiere by Sunleif Rasmussen next week!
Sunleif Rasmussen has written a new concerto for recorder and orchestra for the world's most well-known and recognized recorder soloist, Michala Petri. The new concerto, Territorial Songs, will be premiered on Thursday March 26th by Ms. Petri and the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra in Haderslev, Dennark, and will be repeated the following day in Aabenraa. Territorial Songs is Mr. Rasmussen's first concerto for recorder, but far from his first orchestra work. in 2002, he was the winner of the prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize for his Symphony No. 1 - "Oceanic Days", and has written several works for orchestra since then. |
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| | March 10th 2009
Rued Langgaard Festival in March-April
The Rued Langgaard Society, the Esbjerg Ensemble and several other outstanding musicians have arranged an extensive, country-wide festival celebrating the music of Rued Langgaard . During two weeks in March-April, Langgaard's music is being played all over the country. 15 concerts in all, mainly focusing on the vocal and chamber music of the great composer. It's an event not to be missed!
See the full program here (in Danish only). |
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| | March 6th 2009
Jesper Koch writes new piece for the Carl Nielsen Competition
Jesper Kochs was commissioned to write the obligatory solo piece for the first round of the International Carl Nielsen Clarinet Competition 2009. The new wok, Arabesques, is published by Edition Samfundet and can be ordered at our sales department. |
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 | March 5th 2009
Steen-Andersen and Koch on ISCM program 2009
Simon Steen-Andersen's Ouvertures and Jesper Kochs's The Show Queen - both orchestral works - will be performed during the ISCM Festival Listen To The Music in Sweden late September 2009. The festival will also present works by other Danish composers, Mogens Christensen, Bent Sørensen and Karsten Fundal.
More info on the festival website. |
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| | January 29th 2009
Langgaard symphonies 1-16 in box edition out now!
Over the last years, the record company Dacapo Records has released a number of orchestra works by Rued Langgaard in superb recordings by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Thomas Dausgaard. Now all 16 symphonies have been released in a luxurious box edition, and at a very affordable price, too. The new release get's phrasing words from Classics Today's David Hurvitz HERE.
Buy the box directly from the record company |
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