NORDIC CHORAL DIRECTORS’ CONFERENCE
Malmö October 2nd - 4th 2015
PROGRAMME Dear participants of the Nordic Choral Directors’ Conference! It is a great pleasure to welcome you to this conference! A record number of applicants have registered and we are so happy about that. These days a packed with musical treats and new impressions and we do hope all af you will return home ready to go back to work filled with energy and new, choral inspiration.
We address a huge Thank You to all our contributors and collaboration partners that have made this conference possible.
PLEASE JOIN US and experience concerts, lectures, workshops, seminars, written music exhibitions, presentations of new choral music, choral-sing-a-long – all under the theme: NORDIC CHORAL MUSIC – WHAT UNITES US?
Kära deltagare i nordisk Körledarkonferens! Det är en stor glädje att få hälsa er alla välkomna till denna konferens! Vi är enormt glada över det stora intresse som har lett till ett rekordstort antal deltagare. Dessa dagar är späckade med musikaliska upplevelser och nya intryck och vi hoppas att ni kommer att återvända hem till era vanliga arbetsplatser laddade med energi och körmusikalisk inspiration. Vi riktar ett stort tack till alla våra samarbetspartners och bidragsgivare som har gjort denna konferens möjlig. VÄLKOMNA att uppleva konserter, föreläsningar, workshops, seminarier, notutställning, presentation av ny körmusik, gemensam körsång — allt under temat: NORDISK KÖRMUSIK — VAD FÖRENAR OSS?
Lena Ekman Frisk Ordförande Föreningen Sveriges Körledare 2 Kære deltagere i Nordisk Korlederkonference! Det er en stor glæde at kunne hilse jer alle velkomne til denne konference! Vi er vældig glade for den store interesse, som har givet til et rekordstort antal deltagere. Disse dage er spækket med musikalske oplevelser og mulighed for nye indtryk. Vi håber, at I kan returnere til jeres daglige arbejdspladser ladet med ny energi og kormusikalsk inspira- tion. Vi retter en stor tak til alle vores samarbejdspartnere og bidragydere, der har gjort denne konference mulig.VELKOMMEN til oplevelser med koncerter, forelæsninger, workshops, seminarer, nodeudstilling, præsentation af ny kormusik, fælles korsang — alt under temaet: NORDISK KORMUSIK – HVAD FORENER OS?
Niels Græsholm Formand Danske Korlederforeningen
Kjære deltakere på Nordisk Dirigentkongress! Det er en stor glede å ønske alle velkommen til denne kongressen! Vi er svært glade over den store interessen som har ført til en rekordstor deltakelse. Kongressen blir fyllt med musikalske opplevelser og nye inntrykk som vi håper dere kan bruke i deres kor og arbeidsplass med energi og ny kormusikalsk inspirasjon.Vi vil rette en stor takk til våre samarbeidspartnere og bidragsgivere som har gjort denne kongressen mulig. VELKOMMEN, og opplev konserter, forelesninger, workshops, seminarer, noteutstilling, presentasjon av ny kormusikk, felles korsang — alt under temaet: NORDISK KORMUSIKK — HVA FORENER OSS?
Gry Sagmo Aglen Leder Foreningen Norske Korledere 3 Hyvät pohjoismaisen kuoronjohtajakonferenssin osallistujat! On suuri ilo toivottaa teidät tervetulleeksi tähän konferenssiin! Olemme valtavan iloisia, että tapahtuma on kerännyt ennätysmäärän osallistujia. Nämä päivät ovat pakatut täyteen musiikkillisia elämyksiä ja uusia vaikutelmia ja toivommekin, että palaatte täältä kotiin ja työhönne täynnä energiaa ja kuoroinspiraatiota. Esittämme lämpimän kiitoksemme kaikille yhteistyökumppaneillemme ja tukijoillemme, jotka ovat tehneet tämän konferenssin mahdolliseksi. TERVETULOA nauttimaan konserteista, esitelmistä, työpajoista, seminaareista, nuottinäyttelystä, uuden kuoromusiikin esittelystä, yhteisestä kuorolaulusta — kaikki saman teeman alla: POHJOISMAINEN KUOROMUSIIKKI – MIKÄ MEITÄ YHDISTÄÄ?
Kari Turunen Suomen Kuoronjohtajayhdistyksen puheenjohtaja
Ágætu þátttakendur á þingi norrænna kórstjóra! Það er okkur sönn ánægja að bjóða ykkur velkomin til þessa þings! Það er gleðilegt að nú er skráður metfjöldi þingmanna og erum við sérlega ánægð með það. Þingdagar eru þéttskipaðir tónlistargóðgæti og nýjum hugsunum og það er von okkar að allir snúi heim fullir orku og hugmyndum nýrra kórverka. Hugheilar þakkir fá allir fyrirlesarar og samstarfsaðilar sem gerðu þetta þing mögulegt. Komið og njótið tónleika, fyrirlestra, vinnufunda, námskeiða, verkakynninga og samsöngva undir yfirskriftinni: NORRÆN KÓRTÓNLIST — HVAÐ SAMEINAR OKKUR?
Jón Kristinn Cortez Formaður Félag Íslenskra Kórstjóra 4 Concert hall — Malmö Live Photo: Carl Jonsson
5 Programme — Short Version Friday, October 2nd Time Location Event 11:00 - 13:30 Malmö Live/ Kuben — Registration Lobby 13:30 - 15:00 Kuben Opening concert: Musica Ficta and Ensemble SYD 15:00 - 16:00 Kuben — Lobby Coffee, Exhibition and Hotel check in
16:00 - 17:00 Kuben/Green Room Seminar: Children & singing
16:00 - 17:00 Kuben/Green Room Workshop: Music by Carl Nielsen
17:00 - 19:00 Kuben — Lobby Exhibition
19:00 - 20:00 Malmö Live — Concert hall Concert: God in Disguise
Clarion hotel/Living Room 20:00 - 22:00 Choral Directors Pub Ground Floor
22:00 - 23:00 S:t Petri Church Midnight concert — Petri Sångare 6 Saturday, October 3rd Time Location Event 09:00 - 10:30 Kuben Repertoire presentation
10:30 - 11:00 Kuben — Lobby Coffee & Exhibition
11:00 - 12:15 Kuben Seminar: Scenic Choral Work
11:00 - 12:15 Green Room Workshop: Anne Rosing Method
12:15 - 13:30 Malmö Live Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Kuben Lunch concert: Schola Cantorums Women’s Choir, Carolinae Damkör and the Malmö Academy of Music Women’s Chorus
14:30 - 15:45 Kuben/Green Room Workshop: Rhythmic Choir
14:30 - 15:45 Kuben/Green Room Workshop: Renaissance Music 7 Saturday, October 3rd
Time Location Event 15:45 - 16:15 Kuben — Lobby Coffee & Exhibition
16:15 - 17:00 Niagara — Malmö univer- Parallell Sessions: sity — Neptuniplan 1 1. American Reading Session 2. Searching for sheet music on the internet 3. Exchange programme speed dating 4. A real high for your choir! 5. Communication in Choirs and Song 6. Brazilian Choir Music with a Swedish beat
17:30 - 18:30 Kuben Concert: Night to Day — Palaestra Vocal Ensemble
19:00 - 24:00 Malmö Town Hall Dinner Banquet
24:00 - Clarion Hotel Choral Directors Pub
8 Sunday, October 4th
Time Location Event 09:15 - 10:30 Kuben Workshop: Song!
10:30 - 11:15 Kuben — Lobby Coffee & Exhibition
11:15 - 12:45 Kuben Final Concert: Touché
13:00 - Malmö Live Lunch
Kuben Photo: Carl Johnson
9 Programme - Detailed Version Registration and Hotel Check in Friday, October 2nd / 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben Lobby
Opening Friday, October 2nd / 1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben
Opening Speach: Benny Marcel, Director Nordic Culture Fund Ensemble Syd Photo: Emil Malmborg Choral Sing-Along: Music by Carl Nielsen Welcome Greeting: Jesper Larsson, Director Malmö Live Concert Hall Introduction to the Conference: Niels Græsholm, Danish Choral Directors Association and Lena Ekman Frisk, Swedish Choral Daniel Hansson Photo: Richard Söderberg Directors Association.
The conference will open with a grand concert featuring profes- sional choirs Musica Ficta from Denmark conducted by Bo Holten
Musica Ficta and Ensemble SYD from Sweden conducted by Daniel Hansson. Photo: Per Morten Abrahamsen At the concert, a new work by Bent Sørensen, especially written for Ensemble SYD, will be performed. Music from the 150-year anniversary of Carl Nielsen will of course also be included in the programme. Bo Holten Ensemble SYD forms a new and exciting platform for professional Photo: Agnete Schlichtkrul choir singing at Malmö University in cooperation with The South- ern Choral Centre. Focus will be placed on the contemporary Nordic repertoire with an emphasis on key choral pieces that have placed choral music on the region’s professional music scene. 10 Musica Ficta is a professional vocal ensemble, founded in 1996 by composer and conductor Bo Holten. With this ensemble he has realised his vision about a flexible and project focused ensemble, where the virtuos ensemble singing is the main goal. Musica Ficta embraces a very broad repertoire. The speciality of the ensemble is middle age and renaissance music and Bo Holten is one of the foremost within this field. Musica Ficta also consider the performing of the Danish song canon as a central point of its work.
Concert programme Musica Ficta Concert programme Ensemble Syd
Nu lyser løv i lunde O morte from Queen Christina Madrigals Mel: Carl Nielsen for chamber choir a cappella Arr: Bendt Kallenbach Klas Torstensson Lyrics: Johannes Jørgensen First performance with support from Swedish Arts Council Sænk kun dit hoved du blomst Mel: Carl Nielsen Crucifixus Arr: Bo Holten Bent Sørensen Lyrics: Johannes Jørgensen First performance with support from Southern Choral Center Se dig ud en sommerdag Mel: Carl Nielsen Introitus Arr: Bo Holten Rex Tremendae - Lätt att röja Lyrics: Jeppe Aakjær Dies irae - Död för alltid! from Hur länge ska hon vara död Et respcientes viderunt W A Mozart Luca Marenzio Arr: Runesson/Ohlsson Violin solo: Filip Runesson Benedictus Dominus Accordion: Johan Ohlsson from Tre motetter op. 55 Carl Nielsen 11 Coffee, Exhibition and Hotel check in Friday, October 2nd / 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben Lobby
Lecture: Children and Song in the Nordic Countries – inspiration and future (This lecture will be given in Scandinavian languages) Friday, October 2 / 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben
The EU project VOICE – A Voice for Vocal Training – has coordinated representatives from countries throughout Europe at two conferences in 2013 and 2015 to collect knowledge and experiences of singing with children and young people. Repre- sentatives from the Nordic countries have been invited and want to further discuss issues about how awareness of singing with children and young people can be raised and how teaching competence can be developed in our Nordic countries.
Contributors include Gunnel Fagius, coordinator of the Child and Song Project, Swe- den, Dorte Bille, Choral Director for MidtVest Girls Choir and coordinator for education at The Jutlantic School of Singing, Denmark, and Ulrika Bergroth-Plur, General Secretary of the project Music at Schools, Norway.
12 Workshop: Music by Carl Nielsen Friday, October 2nd / 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. / Malmö Live — Green Room
All of 150 years have passed since the Danish composer Carl Nielsen was born, and the occasion is colouring concert life throughout Denmark this year. In this workshop, Michael Bojesen will present selected pieces of Nielsen’s music, arranged for mixed choirs. Michael Bojesen Photo: Søren Solkær
Buffé Dinner Friday, October 2nd / 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. / Malmö Live — Eatery Social Taqueria / Second Floor
Exhibition Friday, October 2nd / 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben Lobby
Exhibitions — Kuben Lobby Photo: Leif Johansson 13 Concert: God in Disguise Friday, October 2nd / 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. / Malmö Live — Concert Hall
Malmö Symphony Orchestra (MSO) will be opening the doors of their new concert hall Malmö Live and inviting us to experience a Nordic masterpiece: God in Disguise by Lars-Erik Larsson. The School of Music in Lund, which was named after this composer, performs this work annually and as few have the chance to make music together with the MSO and all the alumni students, we can expect a large choir to be standing in the new choir gallery. Sofia Söderberg Photo: Charlotte T Strömwall The choir from Lars-Erik Larsson-gymnasiet is conducted by Sofia Söderberg.
Concert programme Choir: Students and alumni from Lars-Erik Larsson gymna- Meeting I & II siet, Lund Meeting of melodies from Percussion: Dan Svensson, Ida Sweden and Middle East Bergström Forsberg Arr: Sofia Söderberg Orchestra: Malmö Symphony Orchestra Förklädd gud Recitation: Kardo Razzasi Lyric Suite op 24 Sopran: Frida Engström Lyrics: Hjalmar Gullberg Baritone: Daniel Hällström Music: Lars-Erik Larsson Conductor: Samuli Örnströmer
14 Malmö Symphony Orchestra Photo: Andrew Clelland
15 Choral Directors Pub Friday, October 2nd / 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. / Malmö Live — Living Room
Midnight Concert – Petri Sångare and Carl Adam Landström Friday, October 2nd / 10 p.m. - 11 p.m. / S:t Petri Church
Petri Sångare is a mixed chamber choir affiliated with the St. Petri Church in Malmö. The choir’s performance is characterised by Carl Adam Landström Photo: Leif Johansson a round and light choral sound with a strong musical and lyrical presence. The choir was founded by artistic director and conductor Alexander Einarsson in 2010. The choir is known for its high ambitions and the intensive interac- tion between the choristers and their conductor.
Alexander Einarsson Petri Sångare Photo: Georg Weiss
16 Attention was brought to the choir in December 2010 in connection with the opening of the Malmö City Tunnel when the choir, accompanied by an orchestra and soloists, per- formed Christmas Oratorio by J S Bach at the Malmö Central Station. In 2014 the choir won two first prizes at the International Krakow Choir Festival. Organist Carl Adam Landström has become well known for his imaginative improvisations, and on this late night you will be able to enjoy his approach to Nordic melodies.
Concert programme: Path of Miracles
Leon from Path of miracles Recitation: Staffan Nordström Joby Talbot Improvisation Conductor: Alexander Einarsson
Night comes Johan Magnus Sjöberg Organ: Carl Adam Landström Landström improvises over the following Improvisation Nordic melodies: Sound Canticle on Bay Psalm 23 Sweden: Ack, Värmeland Gregg Smith Denmark: I skovens dybe, stille ro Improvisation Island: Ridom, ridom Santiago from Path of miracles Joby Talbot Norge: Norsk Dans nr 2 (E. Grieg)
Improvisation Finland: Finlandia-hymnen (J. Sibelius)
Lux in tenaebris (first performance) Ulrika Emanuelsson
17 Repertoire Presentation Saturday, October 3rd / 9 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben
New choral music from the publishers will be presented by Helene Stureborg and Karin Oldgren, and the presentation will of course Helene Stureborg Photo: Erika Berglöf involve all conference participants singing together. Bring the special edition of music included in your welcome bag.
Coffee and Exhibition Saturday, October 3rd / 10.30 a.m. - 11 a.m. /Malmö Live — Kuben Lobby
Workshop: Scenic Choral Work with Pelle Nordhøj Kann Karin Oldgren Photo: Sensus Saturday, October 3rd / 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben
In this workshop we will get an introduction to The three perfor- mance circles and how these can be used as a tool to open choir singers’ conscience about performing and create new possibilities for the staging of a choral concert. Pelle Nordhøj Kann is trained as an actor at the The Danish National School of Acting, and works as an actor and director of theatre, TV and films. Besides his career as an actor he is the artistic leader of the successful Pelle Nordhøj Kann theatre companies Det Flydende Teater and Teatergrad. Since 2006 he has also worked as a staging-coach and director for renown choirs such as the Danish Radio Girls’ Choir, the Danish Radio Vocal Ensemble, Copenhagen University´ Rhythmical Choir and the African inspired Papaya. 18 Workshop: Anne Rosing Method Saturday, October 3rd / 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. / Malmö Live — Green Room
The Anne Rosing Method is a singing technique that is based on two concepts: the “Grain of the Voice” and the “Singing Body”.
It takes the basis that the body is an instrument on equal footing Anne Rosing with the singing voice. The “Singing Body” is the foundation for the training of a centred and balanced voice called the “Grain of the Voice”, which is the ideal base for musical freedom and technical opulence in all genres of singing.
Once the “Grain of the Voice” is established the singer’s personal sound resonates clearly and the voice gets a noticeably wider vocal range and strength.
Lunch Saturday, October 3rd / 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. / Malmö Live — Eatery Social Taqueria First and Second Floor
Exhibition Saturday, October 3rd / 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben Lobby
19 Concert: Female voices reflect Nordic music Saturday, October 3rd / 1:30 p.m. - 12:15 p.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben
Schola Cantorum Women’s Choir, Copenhagen, Carolinae Sigrid Damsager Damkör, Lund, and The Malmö Academy of Music Women’s Frandsen Chorus perform a concert programme especially composed for the occasion. The women’s choirs include both traditional Nordic music arranged for female voices as well as a selection of newly composed music. The conductors are Sigrid Damsager Frandsen, Ulrika Emanuelsson and Lena Ekman Frisk. Ulrika Emanuelsson
Lena Ekman Frisk
20 Concert programme: Min älskling du är som en ros Female voices reflect Nordic music Mel: Evert Taube Arr: Jonas Eliasson En yndig og frydefuld sommertid Mel: Danish Folk Song Pols fra Dunderlandsdalen Arr: Jakob Lorentzen Mel: Norwegian Folk Dance Arr: Ragnar Rasmussen I furuskogen Mel: Wilhelm Peterson-Berger Jag såg dig Arr: Gabriel Wilczkowski Mel: Eva Lestander Lyrics: Helena Nyblom Arr: Kraja Lyrics: Johan Henric Kjellgren, Mariukvaedi Lukas Moodysson Mel: Atli Heimir Sveinsson Lyrics: Halldór Kiljan Laxness Iltatunnelma Mel: Toivi Kuula Jeg plukker fløjlsgræs Lyrics: Lauri Kemiläinen Mel: Danish Folk Song Arr: Eino Linnala Arr: Ole Faurschou El Grito/Malagueña from Lorcasviten Nunc Dimittis first performance Mel: Einojuhani Rautavaara Mel: Merete Kuhlmann Lyrics: Frederico Garcia Lorca Lyrics: Lukas 2, 29-32 Veni, Emmanuel Magnificat Mel: Medeival hymn Mel: Merete Kuhlmann Arr: Ulrika Emanuelsson Lyrics: Lukas 1, 46-50 Eatnemen vuelie Prelude Silesian Folk Melody Mel: Ola Gjeilo Mel/Arr: Frode Fjellheim Lyrics: Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg 21 Workshop: Rhythmic Choir Saturday, October 3rd / 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben
Morten Vinther Sørensen became The Real Group’s new baritone singer in 2010 and has experience from a long line of cappella groups, such as the Danish Vox 11, Postyr Project and VoxNorth as well as the Nordic improvisation group Songs of the Moment. Morten Vinther Sørensen Photo: Min-On Concert This workshop will give you new ideas and tools to help develop Association a choir’s knowledge of rhythmic choral music.
Morten also gives tips and ideas on the teaching methods for songs and how all participants can test ideas out for themselves.
Malmö Live opened its gates to the public on June 4th 2015 Photo: Carl Jonsson
22 Workshop: Renaissance Music Saturday, October 3rd / 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. / Malmö Live — Green Room
Choral music of the 15th and 16th centuries forms an incredible treasure trove. Never in the history of music has so much choral music of the highest quality been written. Why is this music not performed more in choral concerts? Kari Turunen Singers love the flowing lines, audiences enjoy the calm intensity of the music. Does it come down to the discomfort of the conduc- tors when encountering Renaissance music?
In this workshop Kari Turunen, who holds a doctorate in the per- formance of Palestrina in 2014, will go through some historical evidence and its implications for modern performances. But this is not a workshop for specialists in the music of the Renaissance, it is for any choral conductor that wants to perform Renaissance polyphony.
The focus is practical — how do I get a grip of this music; how do I conduct it; how do I get the singers to sing it in a way that makes the music alive?
Coffee and Exhibition Saturday, October 3rd / 3.45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben Lobby 23 Parallell Sessions #1: American Reading Session Saturday, October 3rd / 4:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. / Malmö university — Niagara — Neptuniplan 1
Experience the latest trends in American choral music Kimberly Dunn Adams, Western Michigan University Dominick DiOrio, Indiana University Jacobs School
Kimberly Dunn Adams Two American choral conductors will be presenting choral music that is primarily aimed at church choirs and chamber choirs. A lot of the repertoire is not well-known in the Nordic countries. Featuring music by, among others, Abbie Betinis, David Conte, Dominick DiOrio, Stacey Gibbs, Michael Gilbertson, David Lang and Alice Parker.
Participants attending the session will be given, free of charge, a
Dominick DiOrio selection of written music from the current repertoire.
This workshop is being held in cooperation with FSK and SWIC- CO (Swedish International Choral Centre) and ACDA (American Choral Directors Association) are responsible for the programme as part of the ICEP (International Conductors Exchange Program) between Sweden and USA 2015.
24 Parallell Sessions #2: Searching for Written Music on the Internet Saturday, October 3rd / 4:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. / Malmö university — Niagara — Neptuniplan 1
Music publishers Örjan Klintberg - Wessmans musikförlag Lisa Carr - Gehrmans musikförlag Lisa Carr
Parallell Sessions #3: Exchange programme Speed dating Saturday, October 3rd / 4:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. / Malmö Live — Green Room
Speed dating provides an opportunity for choral directors to net- work with each other regarding repertoire and choral exchanges.
Örjan Klintberg Are you looking for new repertoire for your choir? Photo: Per Ekman
Have you got a favourite piece you would love to recommend?
Would you like your choir to visit another choir in another country or do some kind of exchange?
If any of this sounds interesting, then this is the perfect event for you. Sigrid Damsager Frandsen, board member of Danish Choral Sigrid Damsager Frandsen Directors’ Association, will be hosting this Bee hive. 25 Parallell Sessions #4: A Real High for Your Choir Saturday, October 3rd / 4:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. / Malmö university — Niagara — Neptuniplan 1
ScorX helps your choristers practice at home. Lillemor Bodin Carlson The Choir Academy
The Choir Academy produces professional recordings you can Lillemor Bodin Carlsson listen to from your computer with the possibility to adjust volume Photo: ScorX for separate parts.
It’s also possible to buy and distribute digital music scores directly to the singers in your choir.
Parallell Sessions #5: Communication in Choirs and Song Saturday, October 3rd / 4:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. / Malmö university — Niagara — Neptuniplan 1
AVaCO is an interdisciplinary research group that has examined how communication takes place between singers in vocal ensem- bles and between singers and audiences.
Sveriker Zadig Photo: Leif Johansson The group consists of Sverker Zadig, Karin Johansson, Ursula Geisler, Viveka Lyberg Åhlander and Sara Wilén some of whom will be here to present the project.
26 Parallell Sessions #6: Brazilian Choir Music with a Swedish beat Saturday, October 3rd / 4:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. / Malmö university — Niagara — Neptuniplan 1
Dr David Junker from the University of Brasilia presents Brazilian choral music and reflects on its similarities and differences to Nordic choral traditions. The University of Brasilia has an exchan- David Junker ge programme with the Örebro Academy of Music and David is in Sweden for his third exchange period.
Niagara — Malmö university — Neptuniplan 1 Photo: Pierre Mens
27 Concert: Night to Day Saturday, October 3rd / 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben
Are we good or are we evil? Is life sad or happy? Enjoyment or pain? Through music, dance and acrobatic capers we show a day on Earth with everything that exists of exuberant beauty and unabashed egotism. A New Circus Opera about the dou-
Cecilia Martin-Löf ble nature of people, and about the light and dark sides of life. Photo: Mikael Risedal Palaestra Vocal Ensemble meets circus artists and string instrumen- talists from Bastard Barock. Together they promise a newly created performance on life and people under the direction of conductor Cecilia Martin-Löf.
Circus Opera — Night to Day Photo: Michel Thomas 28 Artistic Director: Cecilia Martin-Löf Stage Director: Maria Erlan Carlsson Choreograph: Maria Naidu Choir: Palaestra Vocal Ensemble Circus Artists: Anneli DeWahl, Hugo Bergman, Peter Larsson String Quintett: from Malmö Symphony Orchestra under direction of Marcus Mohlin
Thanks to Sparbanksstiftelsen Öresund, Musik i Syd and Sveriges Körförbund for your contributions that made this performance possible.
Concert programme:
Presto I – Aria from Battaglia Allegro from Battaglia Heinrich Biber Heinrich Biber
From Regn og Rusk og Rosenbusk Silencio nociuo Bo Holten Barbara Strozzi
From Very High, Strum, Hocket Pur ti miro from L’incoronazione Mary Ellen Childs di Poppea Claudio Monteverdi From Lagrime mie and L’eraclito amoroso O bel lumi Barbara Strozzi Filippo Vitali
Furie terribili from Rinaldo Damigella tutta bella Georg Friedrich Händel Claudio Monteverdi
From Ciel et terra armi di sdegno Hush no more from Fairy Queen Tamerlano Henry Purcell
From Dixit Dominus Chorale from Regn og Rusk og Rosenbusk Thomas Jennefelt Bo Holten
29 Dinner Banquet Saturday, October 3rd / 7 p.m. - 12 p.m. / Malmö Town Hall
All conference participants are invited to a banquet by Malmö City. Welcome Drink will be served 7 p.m. in Knutssalen, 2nd floor while we enjoy entertainment by Vocal Six (Staffan Paulson, Stefan Högström, Peder Tennek, Robert Green, Tommy Wallström Knutssalen Photo: Malmö stad and Per Kockum). Dinner starts at 7:30. During the dinner, scho- larships will be awarded to the Choral Conductor of the Year and the Children and Young People’s Choral Conductor of the Year.
The jewel in the crown of this evening will be the opportunity to dance to Roger Berg Big Band and their vocal trio. Swing from the 1930s and 40s is on the menu. The Big Band was founded in 2007 by band leader and drummer Roger Berg. The classical ar-
Town Hall rangements are often from Count Basie’s, Buddy Rich’s and Glenn Photo: Hamin Mousavi Miller’s repertoire. The singers in the vocal trio are Dorota Berg, Christina Ølgaard Thomsen och Katarina Elmberg Jonsson.
Vocal Six 30 Roger Berg Big Band Photo: SecaBluePhotography
31 Workshop: Song! Sunday, October 4th / 9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben
The majority of choral directors started out as choristers, which is perhaps where they got their passion for singing.
Once the move is made to the other side of the music stand, many directors stop singing actively in a choir. This is a great pity, be- cause we make better choral directors if we at times ask ourselves what it is like to sing in a choir. Sofia Söderberg Photo: Charlotte T Strömwall So here is your chance! Sing along in the Choral Directors’ Con- ference Choir where we can all let ourselves be inspired by music we can use ourselves while being conducted by Sofia Söderberg’s experienced hand.
Coffee and Exhibition Sunday, October 4th / 10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben Lobby
32 Final Event Sunday, October 4th / 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. / Malmö Live — Kuben
Representatives from the Nordic Associations of Choral Directors summarise their strongest impressions from the conference together with moderator Martin Martinsson.
Martin Martinsson Musik i Syd Final Concert: Touché Danish vocal jazz ensemble Touché conducted by Jesper Holm will offer their best jazz arrangements as they give the closing performance of the conference. The programme is inspired by the Count Basie Big Band and Singers Unlimitied and will be announ- ced from stage.
Touché Photo: Sven Ratzel
Lunch Sunday, October 4th / 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. / Malmö Live — Eatery Social Taqueria First and Second Floor 33 Map over downtown Malmö
Niagara
Malmö Live
34 Malmö Central Station
S:t Petri Church
Malmö Town Hall
35 Thank You to all our contributors and collaboration partners that have made this conference possible