Chamber music and organ – a concert during Göteborg International Organ Academy.
Gageego!
Karin Nelson organ
Sofia Gubaidulina In Croce
Franco Donatoni Feria
Arvo Pärt Pari intervallo
Santa Bušs New commission 2025 (T.B.A)
Esaias Järnegard In her right hand she bare a trumpet of beaten gold
Fragments on a hidden theme by Arvo Pärt
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.
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!
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
Josef Haydn Sonata III. Grave.
Emil Nilsson. Dromo [2024], uruppförande
The Kalv Festival in early August 2024 will feature no less than four Gageego! performances.
It begins with the opening night’s premiere of the concert-long work Kaihogyo by Klaus Lang and ends with Sunday’s grand finale concert together with ensemble mosaic, Klaus Lang, Jonas Olsson, Chris Du Preez and the Kalv Choir under the direction of Mark Tatlow.
In between, Ragnar Arnberg on bass clarinet performs Emil Nilsson’s newly written work Dromo late Friday evening. On Saturday afternoon, flutist Anders Jonhäll participates as interpreter of Marcus Lundberg’s Snö, sken, minne.
Thursday August 8, 20.30 church of Kalv
Friday August 9, 23.00 church of Kalv
Saturday August 10, 13.30 Kalv school house
Sunday August 11, 12.00 church of Kalv
The first concert during Kalv Festival 2024 is a premiere of Klaus Lang’s kaihogyo for organ and ensemble. Gageego! performs together with the composer himself as organ soloist and the festival’s curator Mark Tatlow as conductor.
Klaus Lang is an Austrian organist and composer who has developed a distinctive musical language. With a conviction that beauty cannot be found in ornamented symbols, color spectacles or splendor – rather in shades of gray, in the imperfect and in traces of what has disappeared – and with a belief that beauty arises in the listener and not in the considered object, Lang creates a music that makes the listener turn their attention inward and see the beauty in itself. We encounter an approach that is most easily described as Buddhist. Not only in relation to sound, but also to life. Instead of imposing his meaning, Lang lets the musical vibrations become open questions, as if every impulse, every persevering or broken tone becomes a humble question of an existential nature. A music that defends itself against conveying a message and instead makes the listener move towards a contemplative state – a freedom.
Klaus Lang sees music as a free and independent acoustic object. In his music, he does not want to use sounds but rather let the sounds be explored and given an opportunity to develop its inherent rich beauty. Only when sound is allowed to be just sound can it be experienced as what it actually is: a temporal phenomenon – audible time. Klaus Lang views time as the composer’s genuine material, and at the same time as the fundamental content of music. According to his view, musical material is: time experienced through sound. The purpose of music is to create experiences of time through listening. Music is audible time.
Klaus Lang kaihogyo
Gageego!
Klaus Lang organ
Mark Tatlow conductor
Follow along with the score and listen when Gageego! premieres Days Distant Days by Aaron Holloway-Nahum.
The first tempo instruction reads “playful, quirky”. It changes already the next beat to “suddenly downshifting”. The odd time signatures succeed each other at breakneck speed and concentration is required to keep up.
Thanks to composer Aaron Holloway-Nahum publishing the score, synchronized with Gageego!’s live recording, everyone can try to follow the many twists and turns on Scorefol.io.
Recorded live at Gothenburg Concert Hall, March 2023.