The New York composer Derek Bermel has created the work Cabaret Songs for FIGURA. Derek Bermel has been hailed across the globe for his creativity and theatricality as a composer of chamber, symphonic, dance, theater, and pop works, and his virtuosity and charisma as a clarinetist, conductor, and jazz and rock musician. Wendy S. Walters has written the lyrics for Cabaret Songs. Walter's work as a lyricist has been performed at Carnegie Hall and the Huddersfield Music Festival (UK) among several others. It is a pleasure for FIGURA to collaborate with Bermel and Walters. The first performance of Cabaret Songs took place at The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art the 4th of August 2007 with Signe Asmussen as soloist.

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Jazz feat. Tuva Semingsen
An evocative night concert in the company of old and new jazz standards. The world-renowned mezzo-soprano Tuva Semingsen opera soloist at the Royal Theatre, is adding, as Denmarks one and only mezzo, the title as a jazz diva to her repertoire and digs up, along with FIGURA and saxophonist Peter Fuglsang, form the Danish Radio Big Band, songs from the days when classic show songs had their heyday on Broadway and in Hollywood's nightclubs. It's all mixed with interpretations of newer songs with the standard potential.

Galgenlieder (Gallow Songs)
The Danish composer Anders Brødsgaard's "Galgenlieder" composed for FIGURA Ensemble played opposite Sofia Gubaidulina's composition of the same. Lyrics by Christian Morgenstern.