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  • For the first time

    For the first time

    Gageego! in the Gothenburg Concert Hall

    2021/12/04 @ 19:00 – 20:30

    Sure, we know the expression “that’s unheard of”. Tonight, it’s high time to explore the essence of that saying – Gothenburg’s elite ensemble for contemporary music, Gageego!, presents no less than three premieres, all specially commissioned for this concert

    Here, experiences await the ears that the never before had the pleasure to partake of. For example, Joakim Sandgren’s new piece for the exciting ensemble violin, gong and bass clarinet.

    Programme

    Joakim Sandgren Arrêts de ligne (commissioned for Gageego!) for violin, gong and bass clarinet
    Kaija Saariaho Cendres
    Malin Bång Blooming Brume (commissioned by Gageego!)
    Joakim Sandgren Ainsi formées (commissioned for Gageego!) for flute, piano and cello
    Beat Furrer Presto for flute and piano

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    The Stenhammar Chamber Hall, Gothenburg Concert Hall

    Götaplatsen 8
    412 56 Göteborg Sverige
    031-726 53 10
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    Göteborgs konserthus

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  • Göteborg International Organ Festival

    Göteborg International Organ Festival

    Logo for Göteborg International Organ Academy

    2021/10/24 @ 19:00 – 21:30

    Creative Collisions V

    Rei Munakata, an extended Gageego! and two organists – Ligita Sneibe och Hans Davidsson – perform a work commissioned by Swedish Radios, and much more.

    Programme

    Michelangelo Rossi Toccata settima
    Christer Lindwall Sometimes standing in the void, sometimes shivering in the open
    Girolamo Frescobaldi Toccata quarta per l’organo da sonarsi alla levatione, Il seccondo libro di Toccate
    Paul Hindemith Kammermusik No. 2 op 36 No. 1 for piano and chamber orchestra
    Henrik Denerin Atmen Sie mit mir… (first performance, commissioned by Swedish Radio)

    Featuring

    Rei Munakata conductor
    Mårten Landström piano
    Øyvor Volle, Helena Frankmar violin
    Daniel Lee viola
    Johan Stern cello
    Thomas Allin double bass
    Anders Jonhäll flute
    Geoffrey Cox oboe
    Ragnar Arnberg, Kate McDermott clarinet
    Constantin Gerstein bassoon
    Lisa Ford horn
    Bengt Danielsson trumpet
    Endre Vetås trombone
    Kristian Karlstedt tuba
    Ligita Sneibe organ
    Hans Davidsson organ
    Stefan Östersjö guitar
    Jonas Larsson, Johan Bejke percussion

    Göteborg International Organ Academy

    +46 738 41 86 00

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    Örgryte New Church

    Lennart Svegelius väg 10 Göteborg Sverige
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  • Lund Contemporary 2021

    Lund Contemporary 2021

    Lund Contemporary 2021

    2021/10/12 @ 19:00 – 21:00

    The ensembles Gageego! and Elefantöra invites us to a powerful and unique world of sounds. This concert will, among other things, showcase newly composed music by Hugo Boothby, doctoral student at Malmö University, and by the Swedish composer Rosanna Gunnarsson – two works composed in the shadow of Covid-19.

    The concert is arranged in collaboration with Share Music & Performing Arts and is also part of the Inter Feral Arts festival organized by composer and professor Michael Edgerton.

    Odeum, Lunds universitet

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    Palaestra et Odeum, Lund

    Paradisgatan 4
    223 50 Lund Sverige
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  • GSOPlay: low fidelity

    GSOPlay: low fidelity

    A first performance that finally can meet its audience: Joshua Wat’s somber soundscapes, inspired by his native Hong Kong. Now streaming on GSOPlay.

    Please note: the clips of GSOPlay often have time limits. If this clip won’t play, it has probably been disabled for a shorter och longer time.

    Joshua Wat is a composer from Hong Kong. He has composed for orchestra, choir, various ensembles and solo instruments, as well as electronics. He has worked with ensembles like Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Gageego!. He has won the Stellar Composition Competition with his Prologue to Neither Here nor There for solo marimba. His piano quintet Souvenir of Fallen Grace was a finalist entry in the O/Modernt Composition Award in Sweden. His viola quartet Vanity of Repetition was also selected to be performed at a concert by the Dutch Viola Society. Earlier this year he has been accepted into the Swedish Society of Composers (Föreningen svenska tonsättare).

    low fidelity was written under the guidance of Malin Bång and Ole Lützow-Holm in the composition courses at the Academy of Music and Drama of the University of Gothenburg. In this piece, Joshua Wat looked at transposing daily soundscapes in Hong Kong into music for flute/bass flute, bass clarinet, percussion, piano and cello. This results in a calm and obscure listening experience in contrast to the swarming life of the city.

    Programme

    Joshua Wat low fidelity

    Rei Munakata conductor

  • GSOPlay: Tackatta

    GSOPlay: Tackatta

    In may 2020, Gageego! was scheduled to perform composer Nino Hellberg Håkansson latest work Tackatta. Restrictions due to the Corona pandemic undid those plans, but a concert was given nonetheless, in front of the Gothenburg Concert Hall’s sophisticated cameras and microphones.

    Now, this performance is available for a limited time below and on GSOPlay.

    Composer Nino Hellberg Håkansson is a methodical composer. In a master’s thesis, he has investigated how three of his compositions, using three different composition methods, are structured. The first one is to build the form of the work first and then the detailed material, according to this structure. The second is to work directly on small musical fragments that are later put together into a larger form. The third way is a combination of the first two, where one works with musical fragments while having a large form that they must fit into.

    Conclusion: to combine the first and second working methods to find a work process that is personal, while trying to innovate by working methods you are not comfortable with. The piece Tackatta was composed under the guidance of Malin Bång in the composition class at the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg.

    Programme

    Nino Hellberg Håkansson Tackatta

    Conductor Rei Munakata

  • GSOPlay: Rosenberger’s Shift

    GSOPlay: Rosenberger’s Shift

    From a concert that never met a live audience, due to the pandemic. But here it is: Gageego! and conductor Rei Munakata perform Shift by Katharina Rosenberger.

    Swiss composer Katharina Rosenberger studied in Boston, London and New York and is currently active in the United States. She pays special attention to the works that move between the art forms with elements from concert music, musical theater, sound art and sound installations. Her work has been performed at concerts and festivals in London, Rome, Berlin, Prague, Marseilles and Shanghai.

    Her piece SHIFT for two trombones and ensemble was composed in 2016 and premiered in January the following year. One reviewer wrote that her music “seemingly exists in solid, liquid and seemingly gaseous states and on a myriad of planes in our spacetime continuum as we know it”.

    GSOPlay is a video channel published by Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Concert Hall of Gothenburg. You can watch its content on the web or in the app GSOPlay.

  • Gageego! & Ensemble l’Itinéraire

    Gageego! & Ensemble l’Itinéraire

    Gageego! i Göteborgs konserthus

    2022/05/07 @ 19:00 – 21:00

    What is spectral music? The French Ensemble l’Itinéraire knows this pretty well. As early as the 1980s they created music that changes “timbres by bringing together orchestral masses”.

    This is about chamber music, but the principle is the same, and it is most obvious when you hear the music. In collaboration with Gageego! the Ensemble l’Itinéraire explores a French genre unique in its aesthetics.

    Programme

    Gérard Grisey Stèle 7
    Xavier Leroux De l’épaisseur
    Grégoire Lorieux New work
    Núria Giménez Comas Abraxas M
    Gérard Grisey Partiels
    Núria Giménez Comas Light Forces

    The Stenhammar Chamber Hall, Gothenburg Concert Hall

    Götaplatsen 8
    412 56 Göteborg Sverige
    031-726 53 10
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  • Scenes from a Polyamorous Marriage

    Scenes from a Polyamorous Marriage

    Man Must Sing framför Scener ur ett polyamoröst äktenskap

    2021/10/06 @ 19:00 – 21:30

    Marie, Ann and Johan have been together for over ten years and have two children in common. After exploring identities during adolescence, all three landed in a pansexual polyamorous position.

    When we meet them, however, the everyday grip with toddler logistics, weekly shopping, career priorities, bathroom renovations, and so on, has put parts of life on autopilot. A dull scent of boredom has crept in. Like most parents of young children, they struggle and have found a decent balance. However, the balance is disturbed as suddenly as unexpectedly.

    A drastically humorous chamber opera with eternal themes of love, morality, responsibility and tolerance. Performed in Swedish.

    Music: Marie Samuelsson
    Libretto: Klas Abrahamsson
    Director: Gunilla Johansson Gyllenspetz
    Art Director/Costume: Martin Eriksson
    Lighting Design: Christofer W Fogelberg
    Make-up: Linda Boije af Gennäs

    Man Must Sing

    Marie: Nina Ewald
    Ann: Amanda Flodin
    Johan: Karl Peter Eriksson

    Gageego!

    Clarinet: Gustav Wetterbrandt
    Cello: Frida Bromander
    Percussion: Jonas Larsson

    Few seats

    Due to the pandemic, only 25 seats are available each night. This ensures safe distancing, but makes it more urgent to book your seat now.

    Man Must Sing

    Atalante, Göteborg

    Övre Husargatan 1
    411 22 Göteborg Sverige
    031-711 82 00
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