On the quest to find new dissonances, Gageego! heads to Darmstadt, bearing witness to how widely separate expressions can still portray the same struggle, the same experience. This is the last stop on a musical exposé in four sections, highlighting the openly political, the sweet poetical and the austerely introverted. As usual, Gageego! approach their subject […]
Bits & Pieces is a collaboration between ShareMusic & Performing Arts and Gageego!. Within the scope of the project, a number of short compositions are commissioned for traditional instruments combined with various forms of digital technology. Now, two new pieces are being presented in an intimate session at Elementstudion. The ensemble Elefantöra is making its debut […]
A tribute to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies We will meet two complex characters; enigmatic and contradictive to the audience. They tell stories from the past, present and future, all intermixed, and maybe some that are mere fantasies, bordering on madness? The Medium is a woman who invites the audience to take part in her sessions, […]
A visual, perhaps disturbing, performance, based on the modern classic Eight Songs for a Mad King, with music by Peter Maxwell Davies and libretto by Randolph Stow. This production, made specially for the Halland Opera & Vocal Festival, features barytone Joa Helgesson, who most recently starred in the title role in the highly acclaimed Gothenburg production of Phantom […]
The opening concert of Göteborg International Organ Academy 2018 PROJEKTET is a work in twelve movements, composed by Paula af Malmborg Ward (born 1962), for soloists, three choirs, organ, percussion and chamber orchestra. Conductor is Ulrike Heider.
In 2018 – 2019, Gageego! goes out hunting for contemporary links, the starting point being composers that the ensemble has longed to perform for a long time and favourite composers.Based on these Gageego! icons, the ensemble has searched, traced and sniffed out (googled!) its way to the different composers’ respective influence on the world of […]