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24-Sep-2021
50th Anniversary Festival of the Royal Danish Academy of Music – Denmarkby Christine Johnstone |
  Video: Seven Words for cello, bayan and strings (Sofia Gubaidulina) performed by the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Per Kristian Skalstad, with Geir Draugsvoll.The Royal Danish Academy of Music (RDAM) in Copenhagen, Denmark will hold an accordion festival from October 1st to 3rd, 2021, to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Festival organiser, Professor Geir Draugsvoll (picture above left) says “The Accordion department at the RDAM in Copenhagen, is considered to be an international centre for the accordion, with students from 9 different countries, and lots of guests from abroad. It is a pleasure to invite everybody to the 50th anniversary of accordion education at RDAM! We celebrate this by arranging an ambitious 3-day festival from October 1st to 3rd, where we put a spot on history, the present, and - of course - the future.” The festival will include 8 concerts of historical music, a pedagogic concert with children from all over Denmark, The Virtuosic Accordion, and portraits of some of the accordion’s most important composers. This includes a World Premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina, a World Premiere by David Lang, visit by the composers Martin Lohse and Staffan Mossenmark and a lot of wonderful new pieces by young American composers. Students from the Sibelius Academy, the Lithuanian Academy of Music and the Academy of Music in Oslo have been invited to attend and take part in masterclasses by Prof. Geir Draugsvoll, Claudio Jacomucci, Raimondas Sviackevicius, Bjarke Mogensen and Jose Valente. They will also perform during the festival together with students from RDAM. Concert performers include Frode Andersen, Geir Draugsvoll, Bjarke Mogensen, Radu Ratoi, Jostein Stalheim, Sini Ström, Hanzhi Wang and many more. All concerts will be live streamed including the premieres. All events will take place at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Festival program as follows: • October 1st: Opening Concert at the Studio Hall – 7.30pm to 9.30pm • October 2nd: Children’s Concert at the Study Centre – 1.30pm to 2.15pm • October 2nd: 50 Years of musical virtuoso and history at the Study Centre with RDAM accordion students - 3pm to 4pm • October 2nd: The Nordic Sound I at the Study Centre with Nordplus students from Oslo, Helsinki and Vilnius playing with RDAM accordion students – 5pm to 6pm • October 3rd: Academic Morning Presentation of research projects and development work on accordion with Andreas Borregaard, Bjarke Mogensen and Geir Draugsvoll at the Study Centre – 10am to 11am • October 3rd: The Nordic Sound II at the Study Centre with Nordplus students from Oslo, Helsinki and Vilnius playing with RDAM accordion students – 1pm to 2pm • October 3rd: Martin Lohse (50 years) and Staffan Mossenmark (60 years) concert of accordion works by these two composers at the Study Centre – 2.30pm to 3.30pm • October 3rd: New works by American composers with RDAM accordion students and Frode Andersen at the Study Centre – 4.30pm to 5.30pm • October 3rd: Concert celebrating the 90th anniversary of the birth of Sofia Gubaidulina with performances by Hanzhi Wang, RDAM accordion students and others - 6pm to 7pm For details email: dkdm@dkdm.dk |