Athelas Sinfonietta: 15 års Jubilæumskoncert

Musikhuset København

9th June 13.00

Programme

Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki: Hiding for Rosetta, 2014 (9 min.)
Alexander Schubert: Point Ones 13′
Mette Nielsen: Song I used to sing to the machines, 2013
Diana Soh: un-deux-trois-quatre-cinq, 2014 (10 min.)
Kristian Rymkier: Trois Profs, Prouve le Parfait, 2016 (12 min.)

In 2024, KLANG celebrates an amazing 15-year anniversary. To mark the occasion, we have partnered with long-term collaborators (and the organization Klang grew out of) Athelas Sinfonietta, and the new initiative Second Sound (an organization focused on promoting repeat performances of newly written works), to create a tour-de-force programme consisting entirely of works commissioned for or premiered by Athelas at Klang. Expect a true celebration of the insanity and vulnerability shown by the composers (and the musicians) over the last 15 years. 

Everything is on the table – from Mette Nielsen’s meditative and mournful Song I used to sing to the machines, to Kristian Rymkier’s wild and unruly Troi s Profs, Prouve le Parfait. Along the way we encounter the shimmering ghostliness of Diana Soh’s un-deux-trois-quatre-cinq, and a celebration of fragility in Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki's Hiding for Rosetta – a work which turns ideas of professionalism upside down as the bassoonist becomes a clarinet soloist. We end at Alexander Schuberts riotous Point Ones, where the conductor wears motion sensors to unleash avalanches of electronic noise.

In collaboration with Second Sound

Photo: Jakob Boserup

Venue

Musikhuset København

Vesterbrogade 59 1620 København V

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Artists

Athelas Sinfonietta

Ensemble based in Copenhagen. Since its foundation in 1990, Athelas has been established as the foremost ensemble for contemporary music in Denmark. In 2009, the ensemble initiated Athelas New Music Festival which later became Klang Festival.

Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki (1981)

Danish composer who works primarily with audiovisual concepts. In several works, he draws aspects of reality into his music, for instance by articulating the fragility of the concert situation.

Alexander Schubert (1979)

German composer exploring the cross-genre interfaces between acoustic and electronic music. The most characteristic feature of his work is the combination of different musical styles (like hardcore, free jazz, popular electronic music, techno) with contemporary classical concepts.

Mette Nielsen (1985)

Danish composer who works with what she calls imperfect unison – a state of friction that opens a space in which differences become clearer and micro-tones are made audible. Nielsen has received Klang's Pelle-prize.

Diana Soh (1984)

Singaporean composer residing in Paris since 2011. Soh's work is based on the idea that all music is experiential and there to teach us how to feel and how to love, and so she uses music as a means of responding to the world around her.

Kristian Rymkier (1977)

Composer and musician based in Copenhagen. He has written chamber-, vocal-, and orchestra pieces as well as sound installations and digital compositions. In particular, he is focusing on 3D music, composed with spatial awareness as a musical element.