FIGURARCHIVE CONCERTS
2011
Seattle Chamber Players
A joint concert at The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art with this following exciting program:
Vladimir Nikolayev "Vnik-ton experience" written for the Seattle Chamber Players after a visit to the "Experience Music Project" captures the dreamy essence of Jimi Hendrix's music.
FIGURA’s own composer Peter Bruun's music for Don Quixote, entitled "Preludes to Disaster."
Steingrimur Rohloff‘s strong rhythmic and lyrical music with lyrics by Peter Laugesen.
Anders Brødsgård’s "Gallow Songs" with curled texts by Christian Morgenstern.
Wednesday 7th September · 8:00 p.m.
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, The Concert Hall, Gl Strandvej 13, 3050 Humlebæk
FIGURA Festspiele 2011
Vitamins for January's cold and dark.
The Figura Festspiele, 29th January 2011 was an evening full of music and celebration in The Concert Church.
FIGURA Ensemble and several guest stars served throughout the evening with concerts, speeches, and Oriental music. All spiced with dinner and drinks.
Please visit the Festspiele 2011 page (in Danish)
2010
Heaven-Haven
A musical and literary cabaret concert. Text by Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Blake. Music by Peter Bruun, FIGURA and Yasar Tas. Peter Bruun is a permanent member of FIGURA as composer and artistic "kicker". In Heaven-Haven he also takes part as a singer. The performance is build around several of his songs - varied with readings and instrumental music.
Poetic Concerts
The concert presents Ursula Andkjær Olsens lyrics spoken accompanied by percussion instruments. Ursula Andkjær Olsen (voice)
and Frans Hansen (percussion).
2009
FIGURA Festspiele 2009
Vitamins for November's cold and dark
Figura Festspiele 09 was an evening full of music, poetry and performing artists.
The creative dynamo of FIGURA Ensemble and the Copenhagen Saxophone Quartet and a number of guest stars hosted throughout the evening with concerts, talks, performances and a different kind of midnight mass. It was all spiced with dinner and drinks.
Figura Festspiele 09 was an eight-hour evocative program, which among others could present the mezzo-soprano Helene Gjerris in an intense cabaret show and the poet Ursula Andkjær Olsen and composer Peter Bruun at the midnight mass.
FIGURA Ensemble and the Copenhagen Saxophone Quartet opened the evening with a portrait concert of the composer Anders Brødsgaard.
A couple of hours and pink drinks later, the Church concert where FIGURA and friends played pieces by Svend Nielsen Steingrimur Rohloff, Matthias Ronnefeld and Dimitri Terzakis.
After dinner in the church room the evening's next chapter began, under the headline Cabaret Concert with works by Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler.
The party culminated in a Midnight Mass, where shades of Sofia Gubajdolina and Peter Bruun mingled with words of Ursula Andkjær Olsen.
Documentation
A whole new musical drama by Christian Winther Christensen performed FIGURA for the first time in 2009
2008
FIGURA Festival 2008
The FIGURA Festspiele started in 2008 as FIGURA Festival.PROGRAMME:
MIX 1, Saturday at 8 p.m.
Niels Rosing Schow Llanto
Alexandra Gardner The Way of Ideas
Tania Leon Axon
Enrique Granados La Maja Dolorosa
arr. Niels Rosing Schow
George Crumb Night of the Four Moons
Performers: Helene Gjerris, Anna Klett, Thomas Gooseman, Ida Speyer Grøn, Erik Jakobsson, Karen Skriver-Zarganis, Johan Krarup, Frans Hansen, Jesper Egelund and Seattle Chamber Players: Laura DeLuca, David Sabee, Mikhail Shmidt, Paul Taub
LATE NIGHT CABARET, Saturday at 10 p.m.
Derek Bermel Cabaret songs
Anders Brødsgaard Galgenlieder
Performers: Helene Gjerris, Anna Klett, Signe Asmussen, Paul Taub (Seattle Chamber Players), Frode Andersen, Frans Hansen, Jesper Egelund.
SOLO, Sunday at 11 a.m.
Bent Sørensen The Hill of the Heartless Giant
Kar Aage Rasmussen Encore 5
Harold Meltzer Rumours
John Luther Adams Three High Places
Anna Clyne Rapture
Performers: Laura DeLuca (Seattle Chamber Players), Helene Gjerris, Karen Skriver-Zarganis, Mikhail Shmidt (Seattle Chamber Players), Jesper Egelund
MIX 2, Sunday at 3 p.m.
Peter Bruun Preludes to Disaster
Peter Bruun MIKI Alone 1or 2 songs
Mason Bates The Life of Birds
Nico Muhly I know where everything is
Performers: Erik Jakobsson/director
Seattle Chamber Players: Laura DeLuca, David Sabee, Mikhail Shmidt, Paul Taub, FIGURA: Helene Gjerris, Anna Klett, Frans Hansen, Jesper Egelund
The Wheel Book – impro concert, Sunday at 5 p.m.
Performers: Peter Fuglsang, Torben Snekkestad, Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Anna Klett, Frans Hansen, Jesper Egelund
PLEX Københavns Musikteater, Kronprinsensgade 7, 1114 København K.
2007
Cabaret Songs
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.
CLICK HERE for listening to Ma´s Kitchen from the 5th og August 2007
The concerts was supported by Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond, Agustinus Fonden og The Danish Arts Council
Tan Dun
The Chinese/American composer Tan Dun is Academy Award winner of the best Original Score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He has unfolded his carrier abroad and is today living in New York. Tan Dun relates in his music directly to his Chinese roots and the Chinese culture but at the same time he draws on the Western classical music traditions. FIGURA met Tan Dun in New York in 2005 and last performed his music at The International Sound Around Öresund Biennale for Contemporary Music in October 2007.Triumph + Elfi und Andi
In September 2007 FIGURA and the composer Niels Rønsholdt joined forces in the production of the stage performance Triumph and Elfi und Andi as a combined evening show in LiteraturHaus, Copenhagen.Triumph is a micro opera by Niels Rønsholdt and the new media artist Signe Klejs. It's based on texts by Tjekhov and Sade.
Elfi und Andi by the composer Olga Neuwirth is based on a modified version of nobel award winner Elfriede Jelinek's Ein Sportsstück.
It was FIGURA and Rønsholdt's experiences from music drama and electro acustics, which was the main reason for our long wanted cooperation.
TRIUMPH + Elfi und Andi was supported by The Danish Arts Council, Danish Composers' Society/KODA's Fund for Social and Cultural Purposes.
The Wheel Book
It began as an experiment with the Danish jazz guitarist and composer Pierre Dørge and has since then developed into becoming a laboratory of research in sound and interplay where the key centered composition music is challenged by a spontaneous and playful approach:"THE WHEEL BOOK Laboratory on States of Sound".
A music theatrical piece by Christian Winther Christensen world premiered in 2009 by FIGURA.
The Wheel Book
It began as an experiment with the Danish jazz guitarist and composer Pierre Dørge and has since then developed into becoming a laboratory of research in sound and interplay where the key centered composition music is challenged by a spontaneous and playful approach:
"THE WHEEL BOOK Laboratory on States of Sound".
