news
1 February 2012
Danish String Quartet Goes to the USA
Nordic Artists Management is immensely pleased to announce the appointment of the oustanding young ensemble the Danish String Quartet, to the prestigious Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two program beginning with the 2013-2014 season. Chosen from an international pool of applicants by a distinguished panel of performers, educators, and artistic administrators, recognising the quartet as an award-winning ensemble with exceptional musical training. Appointment to the three-year CMS Two residency program affords the young members of the quartet three full seasons of participation in every facet of CMS activity, including performances on all stages during the New York concert season; international and national tour appearances; recordings on both the in-house CMS Studio Recordings label, and the CMS Live! digital download series; concert broadcasts on American Public Media’s Performance Today, the CMS national radio series, Live From Lincoln Center television broadcasts, and numerous educational outreach opportunities. The depth of involvement reflects the commitment of CMS, under the leadership of artistic directors David Finckel and Wu Han, to foster an intergenerational roster of talent.
10 August 2011
Festival News
Summer is festival time and a great number of our artists have participated in festivals from May through August in all Nordic countries with success.
Our artists do not content themselves with only participating in festivals but they also arrange their own. The Danish String Quartet will mark their 10 year jubilee with a festival which will take place at Søetatens Pigeskole - the historical former school for naval officers' daughters in the heart of Copenhagen! The opening concert is on 25 August 21:00 where the string quartet performs with the folk music ensemble Dreamers' Circus. Other concerts with guests and friends are on 26 and 27 August. Read more about the festival on our website or on http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132207576870593
Tickets can be obtained by writing to jubilaeumsfest2011@gmail.com
Trio con Brio Copenhagen is organising a new international chamber music festival in Copenhagen from 21-25 September 2011. The Copenhagen Chamber Music Festival opens with a festive concert at The Academy Concert Hall on 21st of September and runs until 25th of September in major concert venues such as The Black Diamond, The Round
Tower and The Mogens Dahl Concert Hall. Internationally renown artists such as Pieter Wispelwey, Göran Söllscher, The Danish String Quartet, Tatjana Masurenko, Wenzel Fuchs and Trio con Brio Copenhagen will play together in new constellations and offer an exciting and varied festival program. Read more about the festival on www.ccmf.dk
20 July 2011
Congratulations to Christian Ihle Hadland
We are extremely pleased to announce pianist Christian Ihle Hadland has been selected as one of the BBC´s New Generation Artists from this September. Each year BBC Radio 3 selects a small number of outstanding young artists for the scheme. It lasts two years and gives the artists access to the BBC for performances with their orchestras, as well as solo recitals and chamber work.
You can read more on the scheme at:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007tb68
8 June 2011
Prize Winner News
Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky and pianist Wu Qian won the 1st prize at the Trio di Trieste Competition in Italy! They received a handsome prize of € 10.000. On top of money they will give a debut concert in the Carnegie Weill Hall in New York on 13 January 2012. In addition the duo will perform in Italy and several other European countries in the coming concert season.
Congratulations to Sasha and Wu Qian on this highly deserved prize. Read more about the competition on: http://www.acmtrioditrieste.it/concorso12.htm
Carion in Japan
Fabulous wind quintet Carion won Third Prize in the Festa of the 7th International Chamber Music Competition in Osaka. They were awarded with 600,000 yen.
The Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and Festa first took place in 1993, and has been held every three years since then, with the aim of providing a platform for musicians committed to chamber music. The Festa is an open category for ensembles from 2 - 10 persons and all musical styles. 16 invited ensembles chosen from several hundred applicants competed. The jury consisted of 100 chosen members of the audience. Carion was the only ensemble in the Festa which played a complete classical programme.
23 March 2011
New CD from Henschel Quartet
We proudly announce the release of the first contemporary CD album of the Henschel Quartet by NEOS Music:
Manfred Trojahn String Quartets
Further information at https://neos-music.com/
The 4th Quartet was written for The Henschel Quartet and received overwhelming response by the audience and the press when premiered by the Henschels for Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Düren 10 November 2009. Manfred Trojahn and The Henschel Quartet started their successful long-term cooperation when the Henschels premiered Manfred Trojahn´s "Lettera Amorosa" at the reopening of the Anna-Amalia Library of Weimar in 2007.
24 February 2011
Hetna Regitze Bruun Nominated for BBC Award
Nordic Artists Management’s mezzo-soprano Hetna Regitze Bruun has been nominated for the BBC Music Magazine Award with her recording as soloist in Rued Langgaard ‘MUSIC OF THE SPHERES’ with Danish National Symphony Orchestra. A recording that has topped the charts of BBC Music Magazine and American Classics Today.
In the summer of 2010 Hetna Regizte Bruun performed along with the rest of the cast from the Rued Langgard recording at the BBC Promenade Concerts taking the reviewers by storm.
The winner of the prestigious BBC Music Magazine Award will be presented in London on the 12th of April.
1 December 2010
Goetzel Prolongs Contract with Borusan Philharmonic
Austrian conductor Sascha Goetzel has signed a further three year contract as artistic director and principal conductor of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra. Goetzel met with Ahmet Erenli, the orchestra’s managing director, at Zurich’s historic Kronenhalle, during a free day between performances of a new production of The Magic Flute which he is currently conducting at the Lucerne Opera, to sign the contract. They were joined by Matthew Cosgrove of the London label Onyx Classics, to cement plans for the orchestra’s second CD which will be recorded in Istanbul next year. The young orchestra released its first CD and made its debut at the Salzburg Festival under Goetzel’s baton this year, surprising and delighting critics with their distinctive sound, unconventional repertoire, and brilliant playing. Tours are planned in the 2012/13 season.
16 November 2010
Vilde Frang Receives Statoil’s Music Award
The violinist Vilde Frang Bjaerke(24) has been named the classical music talent of the year for 2010, receiving a grant by Statoil worth
NOK 1 million.
”It is an honour to receive Statoil’s talent award for 2010. I would particularly like to thank the panel of judges. Statoil can proudly look back at 20 years of fantastic support for Norway’s young classical music talents,” Frang Bjærke says.
In spite of her young age Vilde Frang Bjærke has already made her mark internationally as one of our top violinists, excellent reviews coming her way worldwide.
She has played with great names like the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the violinist Anne Sofie Mutter, making her first appearance with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 12.
Sought-after Soloist
A sought-after soloist in concert halls in Asia, the US and Europe, Frang Bjærke received Spellemannsprisen in 2009 for her first CD featuring music by Sibelius and Prokofiev.
Former receivers of the classical music award include Ole Edvard Antonsen, Henning Kraggerud, Tine Thing Helseth and the current chair of the judging panel, Leif Ove Andsnes.
The Judging panel’s citation read as follows: “Vide Frang Bjaerke was this year unanimously selected for Statoil’s talent award. She is a rare talent, and over the years she has developed into an exceptional stage personality. She is a violinist with a tone that carries to the farthest reaches of the large halls and interacts with the orchestras, and there is a presence and listening sensitivity in her violin playing that moves those listening to her perform.”
Heroes of Tomorrow
The grant is part of Statoil’s ”Heroes of Tomorrow” talent programme, supporting young performers within sports, culture and education. Statoil has supported musical talents since back in 1990, granting talent awards to promising performers within both classical and rhythmic music.
In addition to Andsnes, the judging panel consists of Anne Gjevang, casting director and acting head of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, and violinist Henning Kraggerud, Øyvind Gimse, leader of the Trondheim Soloists, Rolf-Cato Raade, director, Nordnorsk Opera og Symfoniorkester AS and Eirik Birkeland, principal of the Norwegian Academy of Music.
”We wish to support the heroes of tomorrow, boosting their careers internationally. The winners of the talent awards allow others to enjoy their talents and show the way for other young people who may become the stars of tomorrow,” says Statoil’s Oddvar Høie.
10 November 2010
Michala Petri Special Guest in New York
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has invited Michala Petri, recorder and archlutist Lars Hannibal to join in as special guests in the music society's performance of baroque music on December 19. The baroque holiday concert programme will reflect all the joyous pomp and circumstance of that era with works by Bach, Corelli, Matteis, Sammartini, Tartini, and Vivaldi.
First Performance
Immediately prior to the concert in New York Michala Petri will appear as soloist with Odense Symphony Orchestra, Denmark in the first performance of Anders Koppel's Double Concerto for recorder and saxophone.
Earlier in 2010 Michala Petri has enjoyed great success giving concerts in China as soloist in new concertos for recorder and orchestra by Chinese composers. The concertos are recorded. Read more and Michala Petri's website.
Michala Petri
27 October 2010
CA Upgrades Vocal Department
Copenhagen Artists is proud to present a handful of new singers in our management. We have recruited within almost every voice type and it is our aim to expand this part of our business even further.
Three Male Voices
DAVID HANSEN, age 29, is an Australian born countertenor with an extraordinary voice. Reviews like “You will probably never see or hear a better countertenor” (Herald Sun) has catapulted his career. David made his European debut for the Aix-en-Provence Festival in Purcell’s DIDO AND AENEAS and has performed all over Europe and Australia. He made his début with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle in Carmina Burana, and he performed the title-role in Handel’s SOLOMON with René Jacobs and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
MORTEN LASSENIUS KRAMP is a Danish bass who as one of the few chosen is participating in the Lauritz Melchior International Singing Competition in 2011. Season 2010/11 he is performing Crespel and Luther TALES OF HOFFMANN at Bergens Nye Opera under Marc Soustrot. In Denmark he is singing Colline LA BOHEME at Operaen I Midten. He has recently sung Philip Glass’ KOYAANISQATSI at Bergen International Festival 2010.
JOHANNES MANNOV is an experienced baritone in both operatic and concert repertoire. He has performed all over the world; New Zealand, Australia, South America, USA, Israel, Turkey, and throughout Europe. He has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Christopher Hogwood, René Jacobs, Peter Schreier and Leif Segerstam.
Two Female Voices
Mezzo soprano HETNA REGITZE BRUUN is a rising star in particularly the contemporary repertoire. Her debut CD with Olivier Messiaen's Harawi with pianist Kristoffer Hyldig received praises from Gramophone Magazine, Opera Now and BBC Music Magazine. Her Rued Langgaard CD Music of the Spheres with Danish National Symphony Orchestra also received flattering reviews.
AGNETE MUNK RASMUSSEN, Danish coloratura soprano, was a member of the soloist ensemble in Dresden from 2005-2009 singing numerous leading roles. In season 2010-2011 she sings Zdenka ARABELLA at the New National Theatre in Tokyo conducted by Ulf Schirmer. In Denmark Agnete Munk Rasmussen has recently sung Queen of the Night at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen and Violetta LA TRAVIATA and Gilda RIGOLETTO at The Danish National Opera.
