Young ensembles in residency – Netherlands

After their residency in Graz (AT) for the impuls acadmy and festival and in Viitasaari for the festival Time of Music, the Courious Chamber Players, young ensemble from Sweden, will continue European residencies in Utrecht, at Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2013 :

Gaudeamus Muziekweek invites young ensembles during its 2013 and 2014 editions  to work intensively with young composers on the spot. Thus the ensembles are given the possibility for extensive rehearsals and artistic cooperation, taking advantage also of other offers: meet up with tutors, attend lectures, meet and exchange, interlink and work with different instrumentalists, building up new repertoire… and present the results in public concerts. These residencies are co-organised with Impuls (Graz, Austria), Time of Music and the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (Germany).

For 2013 the Stockholm based ensemble Curious Chamber Players has been selected as ensemble in residency :

Always full of curiosity, the Curious Chamber Players have explored a wide spectrum of new music since 2003 – from hard-core modernism to graphic scores, from minimalism to noise music, … with and without electronics, installations and improvisation.
Therefore experimenting is one of the main virtues of this ensemble located in Stockholm, which is co-directed by the composer Malin Bång. Since the very beginning it has worked with many mostly young scandinavian composers and is gladly expanding into new realms of sounds by including daily objects (like balloons or kitchen stuff, self built instruments or beckoning cats …).
After having worked especially with some young composers who are present at Gaudeamus Muziekweek, the Ensemble will present the resulting new works in concerts on 3, 4 and 5 September.

Curious Chamber Players

Anna Melander : flute /Karin Hellqvist : violin / Karolina Öhman : violoncello /

Anna Christensson : piano / Martin Welander : percussion; Rei Munkata : conductor

Listen to some excerpts of the pieces performed during their concerts in Utrecht here.

© Anna van Kooij

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