What happens when the avant-garde of modern art, 
music, theatre and literature unite?

 FIGURA Ensemble!

 FIGURA Ensemble is Helene Gjerris, Jesper Egelund, Frans Hansen, Anna Klett, Peter Bruun, Filippa Berglund and Ursula Andkjær Olsen. Each of the seven artists is among the country’s most respected and together they become FIGURA. 

Through the last 17 years FIGURA has unfolded creativity in many ways and month after month you will find them in various combinations in Denmark as well as abroad.

FIGURA is administrated by
Jesper Egelund, Sine Tofte Hannibal and Stine Marie Mortensen   



FIGURA'S RECENT AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

2011

FIGURA's Small Composers received the YEAH! Young EARopean Award

2010

Helene Gjerris received the Danish Composer's Society's Musician Price

2009

FIGURA Ensemble received the most prestigious Danish Theatre Award, The Reumert Prize for the Best Children Theatre of the Year 2009.
 The awarded play "The Story of a Mother", is a co-production with Corona La Balance/ZeBU. H.C. Andersen’s moving story told through modern music theatre with contemporary music by the composer Steingrímur Rohloff.



Ursula Andkjær Olsen was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2009 and was awarded by the National Arts Foundation Literature Committee for her literary work “Havet er en scene” (The ocean is a stage).

2008

Peter Bruun won the Nordic Council Music Prize 2008 for the opera MIKI ALONE with libretto by Ursula Andkjær Olsen. MIKI ALONE is a musical monodrama - a chamber opera for one voice and four musicians, the monologue of a human being in a belligerent world - about a modern woman's life - subtitled Seven Songs for a mad Woman. It was premiered with FIGURA in 2002 at Den Anden Opera in Copenhagen - as a huge success.