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  • Prèmiere [cancelled]

    Prèmiere [cancelled]

    2020/04/19 kl 20:00

    Malin Bång, tonsättare

    Profilic composer Malin Bång has worked with the composition class of the Academy of music and drama in Gothenburg. The concert presents several first performances – a unique possibility to taste what’s on right now in contemporary music.

    So how has Malin Bång and her composition students dealt with this challenge? It’s a privilege for the Gothenburg audience to discover.

    Malin Bång explored early on the acoustic instrument’s capabilities of producing other sounds than traditional tones. Instead, her music often explores movement and energy. This is a concert that promises exciting encounters with the unpredictable, with contrasts, intensity and intimacy.

    Malin Bång writes about her own piece:

    “There are many memories from my childhood in Sävedalen that are strongly associated with sounds and tones. Our townhouse was close to both an ice cream factory, a garbage station, the railroad and the motor way. This counterpoint of constant noise that goes on in the distance was the soundtrack that always were present and constituted our version of silence … If the noise of a gradually changing nature constitutes the foundation of the piece, these influential experiences arise as fragments in the noise and act as bridges between the surroundings and the activities of life … By composing this piece, I have with pleasure and a certain dose of nostalgia explored the neighborhoods of my childhood, and have had the opportunity to rediscover the sounds with a new, precise listening.”

    The concert also features a work by Swiss composer Katharina Rosenberger, who works in a similar spirit.

    Programme

    Katharina Rosenberger Shift
    Malin Bång blooming brume – first performance, commissioned by Gageego!
    Joshua Wat (composition student HSM) Low Fidelity – first performance
    Nino Håkansson (composition student HSM) Tackatta – first performance

    It doesn’t get any newer than this.

    Tickets

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    The Gothenburg Concert Hall offers discounts for students and senior citizens.

    Organizer

    Götaplatsen 8
    412 56 Göteborg Sverige
    031-726 53 10
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  • Bodily Communication

    Bodily Communication

    2020/02/16 kl 20:00

    Närbild av tonsättaren Rebecca Saunders

    The hand gripping the bow, the finger against the key, the weight of the arm as it strikes the kettledrum. This Gageego! concert is about what happens in the space between musicians, musician/instrument, and musician/audience in music by multi-award-winning composer Rebecca Saunders, amongst others. Prolific composer Rebecca Saunders is centre stage during this concert, which explores the magical physicality of sounds. Music breaks down borders, requiring intense communication.

    Prolific composer Rebecca Saunders is centre stage at this concert, which explores the magical physicality of sounds.

    Programme

    Iannis Xenakis Psappha
    Rebecca Saunders Aether
    Iannis Xenakis Kottos
    Rebecca Saunders Vermillion
    Luigi Ceccarelli Birds för basklarinett och fågelsång
    Elliott Carter Con Leggerezza Pensosa – Omaggio a Italo Calvino
    Betsy Jolas Episode septième ‘Nightaway’ för elgitarr

    Composer chat

    Missa inte tonsättarsamtalet en timme före konsertstart då musiker ur ensemblen pratar om någon av kvällens tonsättare. Alla frågor är välkomna. Också från publiken.

    Organizer

    Götaplatsen 8
    412 56 Göteborg Sverige
    031-726 53 10
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  • Celebrating Sven-Eric Johanson 100 years

    Celebrating Sven-Eric Johanson 100 years

    2019/10/18 kl 19:00 – 21:00

    Göteborg International Organ Academy celebrates the Swedish organist and composer Sven-Eric Johanson, one the most prolific composers of his generation.

    In this concert, Gageego! is joined by Rilkeensemblen (conducted by Gunnar Eriksson) and Ligita Sneibe, organ.

    Programme

    Max Käck SEJ in memoriam for flute, clarinet, two violins, cello and percussion Sven-Eric Johanson from String Quartet no. 2 (Adagio espressivo, Allegro), Nu är det sommarmorgon, Det är vackrast när det skymmer, Han på korset, Det är något bortom bergen, Vet du vad längtan är, Gravskrift, Psaltare och lyra, Concerto for organ and strings

    Concert introduction

    @ 6:00 PM by Max Käck

    200SEK
    Kyrkogatan 28
    411 15 Göteborg Sverige
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    +46 738 41 86 00

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    Goteborg International Organ Festival October 11 20 2019
  • Video: stop motion (2018)

    Video: stop motion (2018)

    One of our favorites: a first performance, filmed at a concert, spring 2018.

    Johan Svensson stop motion for percussionist, ensemble and electro-mechanical devices

    Conductor Christian Karlsen

  • Subscribe on Gageego!

    Subscribe on Gageego!

    Gothenburg Concert Hall has released subscription packages for the upcoming 2019 – 2020 season. Get a better price, a guaranteed seat and your very own chair.

    A subscription gives you four unforgettable Gageego! experiences, discounted ticket price, guaranteed place at concerts that quickly get sold out and own chair in the salon.

    • Priority line for ticket releases One day’s online headstart for tickets for other concerts
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    So, get a little special treatment! You’re worth it.

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  • How to reach the enchanted?

    How to reach the enchanted?

    Gageego! celebrates one of the most prolific composers of our time, Salvatore Sciarrino. With fifty symphonic pieces, chamber music is still the most peeled-back way to approach his music, which is rich in contrasts and innovation.
    Those who listen to Sciarrino become aware of themselves and their feelings. The music is introverted and expansive at the same time, sometimes like pigeons in a forest, sometimes like hyperventilating despair. You have to be quite the flautist to manage these sharp turns.

    Sciarrino’s titles refer to the mysticism of music, like this thing about understanding how to reach the enchanted. But the music also celebrates the three classical graces. These goddesses were responsible for the good things in life, such as joy, beauty and wisdom. In Sciarrino’s flute music, they make their mother, the goddess Venus, bloom.

    The flute can rest in Sarah Nemtsov’s partially amplified music and in ‘b’ by Simon Løffler. Electrifying opportunities, such as light and the tension in the musicians’ own bodies, are explored.

    Composer Conversation

    Don’t miss the composer conversation one hour before the start of the concert, where musicians from the ensemble talk to one of the evening’s composers. All questions are welcome. From the audience as well.

    Programme

    Salvatore Sciarrino Hermes
    Simon Løffler b
    Salvatore Sciarrino Come vengono prodotti gli incantesimi?
    Salvatore Sciarrino Canzona di ringraziamento
    Sara Nemtsov Seven Colours
    Salvatore Sciarrino Venere le grazie la fioriscono

  • Music Technology, Inclusion & Innovation

    Music Technology, Inclusion & Innovation

    The Västerås Concert Hall is the venue for a second international symposium about inclusion as the starting point of technical and artistic development within the music area. 

    • What does inclusive work mean to the artistic process?
    • How can music technology unlock new doors for practitioners and pave the way for artistic development?
    • What does it mean to work with an inclusive ensemble – as a musician and as a composer?

    Representatives from ShareMusic & Performing Arts, invited Swedish and international guests and participants from the development project Digital Technique in Interdisciplinary Artistic Processes will take part in the conversation. Also, ShareMusic’s ensemble, Elefantöra will, together with Gageego!, perform the five pieces that have been composed this far – especially for them – as part of the project. 

    Book your seat at Share Music & Performance Arts.

     

  • Music Technology, Inclusion & Innovation

    Music Technology, Inclusion & Innovation

    An international symposium about inclusion as the starting point of technical and artistic development within the music area. 

    • What does inclusive work mean to the artistic process? 
    • How can music technology unlock new doors for practitioners and pave the way for artistic development?
    • What does it mean to work with an inclusive ensemble – as a musician and as a composer? 

    Representatives from ShareMusic & Performing Arts, invited Swedish and international guests and participants from the development project Digital Technique in Interdisciplinary Artistic Processes will take part in the conversation. Also, ShareMusic’s ensemble, Elefantöra will, together with Gageego!, perform the five pieces that have been composed this far – especially for them – as part of the project.

    The symposium is held in English.

    Sign up for attendance at Share Music & Performance Arts .