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I haven't had time to sit down and give news for a while, so in this one you'll find both reports and upcoming projects!
COMPOSITION: new collaboration and residency in Iceland/France. Pieces in progress
ORCHESTRA: check out my scripting for orchestra video streaming... and playing
FILMS: staging as an assistant director
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COMPOSITION
Eilíft sólskin - New composition project!
I was invited by Lila Bazooka (Sophie Bernado & Céline Grangey) to join "Eilíft sólskin" - a new chapter in their adventures: an itinerant composition residency combining meeting/playing with Icelandic musicians (Eyjólfur Eyjólfsson, Berglind María Tómasdóttir...) and recording the forces of nature, geysers, sources, humpback whales etc in different parts of the country... after some improvised gigs, in a possessed church or in a dark farm (violin/song/ribbon-theremin for me), crazy encounters, boat trips and hydrophone mysteries, we are declared ready for the next phase of the project, a creation residency in December in Marciac in the south of France, gig included (stay tuned!)
Pictured below in Husavik, a humpback whale study station on the Northern coast of Iceland.
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Also, Elektronmusikstudion just re-opened after a long lockdown and no access to modular legends there. Joy! I returned yesterday to prepare a week of residency with Eilíft sólskin in October.
I am - actually - currently working myself on purely acoustic pieces - one for six hands, another one is a septet, another one with voices, and all include staging! - soon booking workshops with musicians, more info about these pieces during this fall.
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THINK TANK
I am now a member of "Unga tankar om musik", a think tank and reference group connecting 40 actors of the music industry under 40 years-old, in Sweden - as of now under the Royal Academy of Music. First meeting IRL this weekend! More info about our activities here.
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MORE FILMING!
Covid made me do a lot of filming...
I've had double roles as a music producer and assistant director for another movie made inside and around Berwaldhallen, home of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm. After Don Giovanni last summer, this time we've worked around Wagner's Siegfried Idyll in winter clothes.
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....And, yet another movie with that creative team - Andrew Staples is directing, I'm music producer and assistant director - this one is based on the creation of a new piece by Britta Byström for Malin Broman, who's once again performing all 8 parts - do you remember the Mendelssohn octet viral video?
This new Octet film goes in a completely different direction: see that mirror box!! It premiered online and in concert at the Baltic Sea Festival last week.
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OPERA!
As all opera houses now re-open, it was hard not to catch any opera festival this summer: I went to Munich Opernfestspiele for the first nights, catching the new Tristan with Kaufmann/Harteros main roles' debuts, staged by Warlikowski, Kirill Petrenko's final production in his role at the Bavarian State Opera, and then a Rheingold - awaiting for the new Ring in the making there, coming up soon:):)
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Ironically at the same time another Tristan was taking place in Aix - I also wish I'd caught Innocence by Kaija Saariaho there, and the Don Giovanni from Salzburg... watch all of these if you can!! --More opera work for me this autumn, see below--
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More orchestra work and opera
I've created the script and supervised the score in a series of orchestra concerts in Berwaldhallen this spring - for example the Jonathan Biss production, or the creation of a new piece written by Sally Beamish for Janine Jansen and Martin Fröst. These productions are available online with the selection changing regularly so check again later if you don't find what you wanted!
Same double role for me for the orchestra & chamber video streaming during the Baltic Sea Festival right now. Very happy to have Esa-Pekka Salonen and then Klaus Mäkelä in the hall again, with grandiose programs streamed live, watch them!
After the festival, I will produce some orchestra recordings in Malmö, starting with... an opera actually, Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Malmö Opera reviving the legendary staging by Peter Hall from Glyndebourne.
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I have also been playing at the final concert of Organ Space, Stockholm International Organ Festival, a humble violinist in the orchestra, for a symphony with organ by J Jongen featuring organ star Sarah Kim this weekend! The concert was streamed on their website.
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Last but not least... my cover interview with OPUS magazine is now available in the press section and in the shop.
//NB- the interview is in Swedish!
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There are also some copies left of the exclusive MUSICOMEXP CD box set with the music in binaural format, my day log on board the expedition with photos and drawings, and all sailing maps from my time at sea.
Get it here!
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