Young ensembles in residency – Curious Ears Abroad | Curious Chamber Players

The Stockholm based ensemble Curious Chamber Players (CCP) is the selected young ensemble by the Ulysses partners impuls, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Time of Music and Darmstadt International Summer Course.

After their residency in Graz (AT) for the impuls acadmy and festival, in Viitasaari (FI) for the festival Time of Music and in Utrecht (NL) for Gaudeamus Muziek Week, the Stockholm based ensemble Courious Chamber Players they will also be part of the 47^th International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt 2014.

Within the impuls Academy in February 2013 the CCP presented itself for the first time in Austria with compositions by Jorge Diego Vázquez, Eric Skytterholm Egan, Yukiko Watanabe and SukJu Na (all composers selected from an international call).

At Darmstadt the CCP will be one of the featured young international ensembles within the project ENSEMBLE 2014.

During the Internationale Musiktage 2014 they will perform the following program on Wednesday 6th August 2014 at 7.30 pm in the Orangerie in Darmstadt:

Ann Cleare: New Work (WP, Staubach Honoraria 2014)
Malin Bång: New Work (2013)
Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri: Alexandri Operator (2010/2013) (WP of the version for Ensemble)
Hikari Kiyama: New Work (WP 2013)
Simon Løffler: b (2012)
Hanna Hartman: Shadowbox (2011)

Direction : Rei Munakata

The Curious Chamber Players will also give a Reading Session for young composers taking part in the Summer Course.

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 …).