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  • Gageego! 30 years

    Gageego! 30 years

    2025/02/09 @ 18:00 – 20:00

    Open your ears and clear your mind. Gageego! is the endlessly curious chamber ensemble celebrating 30 years of music in 2025. This celebratory concert presents a look back at three decades of music.

    The audience’s response propels Gageego! to continuously push forward, towards new discoveries. Gageego! from Gothenburg have been praised in the music world for their fearless dedication to newly composed music. The ensemble has toured Denmark, Russia and China. “A Swedish away victory!” “It made the audience forget their fatigue!” wrote the press after concerts in Vienna.

    This celebratory concert presents a look back at three decades of music, from the debut concert focused on American composer Stuart Saunders Smith to a premiere performance of music by Esaias Järnegard. The audience will also hear works by the modern great Pierre Boulez and Paris-based Madeleine Isaksson. This is music that is both challenging and richly rewarding.

    260:- – 330:- student 130-165 kr, unga t o m 29 år 130-165 kr

    Introduction

    Arrive at the Stenhammarfoajé one hour before the concert starts and meet Esaias Järnegard, Anders Jonhäll, Johanna Persson, and several of the evening’s composers for a conversation about the music.

    The introduction lasts approximately 30 minutes, is free of charge, and seating is unreserved. You are warmly welcome!

    Programme

    Pierre Boulez Dérive 1
    Carola Bauckholt Luftwurzeln
    Madeleine Isaksson Rum
    Simon Løffler b
    Stuart Saunders Smith In Common
    Esaias Järnegard Tunnlar. Diken. Gravar (first performance)
    Per Mårtensson Quartet
    Đjuro Živković Night Music
    Joakim Sandgren endroits susceptibles

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  • I’ve never felt this way about anyone and it’s not something I tell everyone

    I’ve never felt this way about anyone and it’s not something I tell everyone

    2025/01/26 @ 15:00 – 15:45

    Opera for middle school

    Can you forgive the person you love when they have done something stupid to your friend? And what is it like to be forgiven, is everything really cool after that?

    “Jag har aldrig känt så här för någon och det är inte en grej jag säger till alla” (“I’ve never felt this way about anyone and it’s not something I tell everyone”) is a newly written opera in Swedish, performed by Man Must Sing and Gageego!. The libretto in the underrated verse meter villanella is about solid friendship, passionate love and the forbidden desire to harm someone else.

    Story

    Okay, Anna, Kristoffer and Moa are besties and they hang out every night after school, that’s right, Anna and Kristoffer are together, Anna and Moa have known each other since they were little and it’s as cool as can be to hang out all three of them but one evening Anna feels like she wants to hang out with Moa herself so she asks Kristoffer to go to her house, completely reasonable, but Kristoffer gets super hurt and actually quite offended and suddenly feels a completely unreasonable hatred towards Moa, a hatred that has fatal and actually completely unreasonable consequences but oh well, Kristoffer was actually super sad and didn’t think at all about what the consequences would be.

    Libretto: Kristian Hallberg
    Music: Maria Lithell Flyg
    Directed by: Gunilla J Gyllenspetz
    Set Design/Costumes: Heidi Saikkonen
    Lighting Design: Christofer W Fogelberg
    Make-up Design: Linda af Boije Gennäs

    On stage

    Man Must Sing
    Moa – Nina Ewald
    Anna – Amanda Flodin
    Kristoffer – Karl Peter Eriksson
    Gageego!
    Flute: Anders Jonhäll
    Percussion: Jonas Larsson
    Cello: My Hellgren

    The show is financed with support from the Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Writers’ Fund, the Västra Götaland Region, the City of Gothenburg, Stiftelsen Signatur, the Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation, the Ekmanska Donation Fund, the Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research & Culture

    Photo: Ola Kjelbye

    Also performed on January 24 (premiere) and 25 at 3 pm and school performances January 28 – 31

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  • Jag har aldrig känt så här för någon och det är inte en grej jag säger till alla

    Jag har aldrig känt så här för någon och det är inte en grej jag säger till alla

    2025/01/24 @ 18:00 – 18:45

    Opera for middle school

    Can you forgive the person you love when they have done something stupid to your friend? And what is it like to be forgiven, is everything really cool after that?

    “Jag har aldrig känt så här för någon och det är inte en grej jag säger till alla” (“I’ve never felt this way about anyone and it’s not something I tell everyone”) is a newly written opera in Swedish, performed by Man Must Sing and Gageego!. The libretto in the underrated verse meter villanella is about solid friendship, passionate love and the forbidden desire to harm someone else.

    Story

    Okay, Anna, Kristoffer and Moa are besties and they hang out every night after school, that’s right, Anna and Kristoffer are together, Anna and Moa have known each other since they were little and it’s as cool as can be to hang out all three of them but one evening Anna feels like she wants to hang out with Moa herself so she asks Kristoffer to go to her house, completely reasonable, but Kristoffer gets super hurt and actually quite offended and suddenly feels a completely unreasonable hatred towards Moa, a hatred that has fatal and actually completely unreasonable consequences but oh well, Kristoffer was actually super sad and didn’t think at all about what the consequences would be.

    Libretto: Kristian Hallberg
    Music: Maria Lithell Flyg
    Directed by: Gunilla J Gyllenspetz
    Set Design/Costumes: Heidi Saikkonen
    Lighting Design: Christofer W Fogelberg
    Make-up Design: Linda af Boije Gennäs

    On stage

    Man Must Sing
    Moa – Nina Ewald
    Anna – Amanda Flodin
    Kristoffer – Karl Peter Eriksson
    Gageego!
    Flute: Anders Jonhäll
    Percussion: Jonas Larsson
    Cello: My Hellgren

    The show is financed with support from the Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Writers’ Fund, the Västra Götaland Region, the City of Gothenburg, Stiftelsen Signatur, the Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation, the Ekmanska Donation Fund, the Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research & Culture

    Photo: Ola Kjelbye

    Performed in Swedish, not translated. Also playing January 25 and 26 at 3:00 PM, plus school performances January 28 – 31.

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  • Video: New Music Journeys

    Video: New Music Journeys

    Earlier this year, Gageego! showcased ten Swedish composers in Glasgow during Nordic Music Journey, presented by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in collaboration with Swedish Society of Composers/FST – Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare and supported by Swedish Performing Rights Society, STIM.

    Below you can experience the works that Gageego! performed during the concert at The Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s New Auditorium on 13 January 2024. Before each piece, we are treated to introductions by the composers.

    Ylva Fred – Motor Music

    Sune Mattias Emanuelsson – And When the Words Evade Me I Wander in the Ruins from All Along the Ages

    Mika Pelo – Abandoned

    Lars Bröndum – Times Arrow

    Marie Samuelsson – Lejonet (The Lion)

    Henrik Denerin – collide

    Benjamin Staern – Hilma Scenes

    Mirjam Tally – Apparitions

    Alfred Jimenez – with Voice

    Madeleine Isaksson – Capsuled time

    See the whole concert at the YouTube-channel of FST.

  • Music by Klaus Lang Lisa Streich

    Music by Klaus Lang Lisa Streich

    2024/10/20 @ 19:30 – 21:00

    As part of the Göteborg International Organ Festival and GAS 2024, Gageego! will present a program of works by Klaus Lang and Lisa Streich.

    The concert opens with Seraph, a work for cello and organ that Lisa Streich composed in 2013 and which Gageego! performed this year during a digital pandemic concert. Now it finally gets to reverbate in the same space as the audience. We hear Johan Stern on cello and the festival’s artistic director Hans Davidsson on organ.

    Then follows Klaus Lang’s newly written Kaihogyo for organ and chamber ensemble. Gageego! premiered the work during the Kalvfestivalen this summer and this is the second time it has been performed in public. The name comes from the seven-year pilgrimage that the Buddhist Tendai monks make around Mount Hiei. Kaihogyo is performed with the composer himself at the organ and Gageego!, consisting of:

    Anders Jonhäll flute
    Ragnar Arnberg clarinet
    Jonas Larsson percussion
    Klara Hellgren violin
    Manon Briau viola
    Johan Stern cello

    Mark Tatlow conductor

    Programme

    Lisa Streich Seraph
    Klaus Lang Kaihogyo

    100:- – 150:-

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  • IV – Abandonment, Spirituality, Fire

    IV – Abandonment, Spirituality, Fire

    2024/08/10 @ 13:30 – 14:30

    We gather at Kalv’s schoolhouse and if the weather permits, we go out for a walk in the area. The focus is on the fourth word of the pilgrim, Spirituality. Haydn’s fourth reflection is paired with Anders Jonhäll’s interpretation of Marcus Lundberg’s delicate flute sounds in Snö, sken, minne.

    Performed by

    Mark Tatlow piano
    Anders Jonhäll flute

    Programme

    Josef Haydn Sonata IV. Grave.
    Marcus Lundberg Snö, sken, minne [2024]



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    512 61 Kalv Sweden
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  • III – Relationship, Sharing, Wind

    III – Relationship, Sharing, Wind

    2024/08/09 @ 23:00 – 23:59

    Sharing is the third word of the pilgrimage. Here Mark Tatlow meets clarinetist Ragnar Arnberg interpreting Emil Nilsson’s music in the late Kalv night

    Programme

    Josef Haydn Sonata III. Grave.
    Emil Nilsson. Dromo [2024], uruppförande

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    Kalvs kyrka
    512 61 Kalv Sverige
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  • VII — Reunion, Lightheartedness, Thunder

    VII — Reunion, Lightheartedness, Thunder

    2024/08/11 @ 12:00 – 13:30

    The closing concert of the 2024 Calf Festival features music by Thomas Tallis, Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, Luigi Nono and Joseph Haydn.

    A musical journey and festival come to an end. The 20th anniversary is over, and we take part in music that echoes through several centuries.

    We arrive at the old church with peace signs collected from nature. Is there any hope left?

    The earth gives up its spirit and returns to its creator. A sudden thunderstorm and even an earthquake; for a moment all hell breaks loose. An ancient melody dissolves the ensuing silence. Then a song of a morning star is heard…

    Performed by

    Gageego!
    ensemble mosaik
    Mark Tatlow
    Elena Gabbrielli
    Klaus Lang
    Chris du Preez
    The Kalv Choir

    Tickets are bought at the concert venue before the concert.

    Concerts 200 SEK
    Festival pass 500 SEK

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    Kalvs kyrka
    512 61 Kalv Sverige
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