nyMusikk 80th Anniversary
Various venues
17/9, 17.30-23.00
Free entrance (except Ensemble Ernst)
Founded by Pauline Hall in 1938, nyMusikk has supported new composers and worked to inform the public about the ever changing forms of contemporary music. nyMusikk celebrates 80 years of promoting contemporary sounds with a city tour of Oslo venues that doubles up as a round trip of cutting edge modern music.
Hotel Continental, 17.30
The odyssey kicks off with a string trio with Tanja Orning, Lene Grenager and Per Zanussi, plus pianist Ellen Ugelvik, performing nyMusikk’s founder, Pauline Hall’s Op. 1 (1913), Kåre Kolberg´s Jaba 768 (1968), and a world premiere of Christian Blom´s Nu Grines Julen Inn (2018, WP)
Egertorget, 18.45
Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen beats himself up with an outdoor rendition of Vinko Globokar’s body percussion classic ?Corporel (1985)
St. Edmunds kirke, 19.15
Lene Grenager’s vocal meditations Breathe by quivering leaves (2017) on texts by Carl von Linné, performed by Sofia Jernberg, Agnes Hvizdalek, Janne Berglund, Eva Landro, Jon Harthug, Eirik Krokfjord
Folketeaterpassasjen, 19.45
Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen returns, this time with indoor percussion in Georges Aperghis' Le Corps à corps (1978).
Kulturkirken Jakob, 20.30
Three world premieres of new Norwegian compositions by Bente Leiknes Thorsen, Øyvind Mæland and Jan Erik Mikalsen performed by Ensemble Ernst (see separate page).
Platous gate 18, 22.00
The journey ends at the nyMusikk HQ with a birthday party and an unconventional world premiere performance from Trond Reinholdtsen and Jennifer Torrence: Institute for Post Human Performance Practice (2018, WP).
Produced by nyMusikk.
(Photo: NTB Scanpix)
