// NORDLYD 2019 :: A Festival about Freedom //
11: Welcome // Saariaho+Hume :: BOKSEN
A new creation knitting together the Musicall Humors of Tobias Hume and Kaija Saariaho’s Concordia explores freedom in form when baroque and contemporary music are intertwined to form one new piece...
Aliisa Neige Barrière, violin, arranger
Jakob Kullberg, cello, arranger
Kaija Saariaho, curator, arranger
12: Bathos :: HOVEDROMMET
-Reverberations, Terje Viken (WP)
-Smithereens II, Rob Waring
-Snow in Kalamazoo, Koos Terpstra
-Musique de table, Thierry de Mey
-Philip Glass Medley, Philip Glass (Arr. Simen Brenden)
-Drift, miniatyr, Harald Jordal (WP)
Simen Brenden, Håkon Drevland, Geir Strande Syrrist, percussion
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14: Panel discussion :: LAB
Guests from different fields join in a discussion about Freedom
15: Ensemble Temporum :: HOVEDROMMET
-Vortex Temporum, Gérard Grisey
Helen Benson, flute
Josefine Høydahl, clarinet
Aliisa Neige Barrière, violin
Vladimir Percevic, viola
Inga Grytås Byrkjeland, cello
Sanae Yoshida, piano
Kai Grinde Myrann, conductor
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17: French Baroque :: BOKSEN
There is perhaps no aesthetic more lavish, more abundant and full of decadence than the music of the court of the Sun King… The aesthetics of freedom par excellence?
-Apothéose de Corelli, François Couperin
-L'entretien des muses & Les cyclopes, Jean-Philippe Rameau (from Suite in D minor)
-Les sauvages, Jean-Philippe Rameau (arr. Jean-Pierre Guignon)
-Tambourin from Sonata op. 9 n. 3, Jean-Marie Leclair
Aliisa Neige Barrière, violin
Alexandra Peral, violin
Andreas Kaleb Øhrn, cello
Knut Johannessen, harpsichord
Janne Valkeajoki, accordion
18: 3 World Premieres x 1 duo :: LAB
A special project gathering three young rising composer talents under the mission of creating
repertoire for the unusual combination of violin and accordion, followed by a discussion about what freedom means to young composers freshly out of school, striving to find their own language
-These are gently spread across the marble (WP), Jonas Skaarud
-Washboard (WP), Lauri Supponen
-A growing crystal (WP), Mioko Yokoyama
Aliisa Neige Barrière, violin
Janne Valkeajoki, accordion
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20: Releasing emotions :: BOKSEN
In this performance, we attempt to explore musical expression of feelings throughout history...
-Abîme des oiseaux, Olivier Messiaen
-Terra Memoria, Kaija Saariaho
-Berceuse, Armas Järnefelt (arr. Aliisa Neige Barrière)
-Tendrement, Jean-Pierre Guignon
Víctor Martínez-Jara, clarinet
Nordlyd Quartet:
Aliisa Neige Barrière, violin
Alexandra Peral, violin
Vladimir Percevic, viola
Andreas Kaleb Øhrn, cello
21.30: Storytime…The Tale of the Soldier Fatzer :: LAB
A new setting of the tale of Igor Stravinsky in a new retelling by Aleksi Barrière, based on texts by Bertolt Brecht, where a soldier’s will for freedom could make him lose everything…
Víctor Martínez-Jara, clarinet
Aliisa Neige Barrière, violin
Janne Valkeajoki, accordion
Thomas Kellner, actor
Aleksi Barrière, stage director
22.30: Signing off! // open stage and jam session :: HOVEDROMMET
After a whole day of freedom, we unwind in a more relaxed atmosphere and hope you will feel liberated enough to share your talents with us as well!
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!Running all day!
A new installation by composer Mike McCormick created especially for Nordlyd and Kulturhuset
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We hope you will join us in the breaks in having a bite, a cup of coffee or exchanging your thoughts about what you see and hear... In other words, we would love to get to know who the people we are sharing these moments with are, so do not hesitate to approach us!