 ARS NOVA |
| Saturday 13/9 2003 16.00, Norrtullskolans aula, Växjö | |
| World premiere of compositions by Lauri Joeleh and Torbjörn Nilsson. Also: Jonas Bohlin and Göran Olsson´s |
|
Programme:
Lauri Joeleht: Ut Unum Sint for chamber ensemble (2002-03) (First performance of commission by NOMUS)
Torbjörn Nilsson: Elegy For A Lost Soul (2002-03) for cello and chamber ensemble(First performance)
Jonas Bohlin/Göran Olsson: I Saw it All (1999) for soprano, chamber ensemble and film
Performed by
Ensemble Ars Nova
Soloists:
David Peterson, cello
Jeanette Bjurling, soprano
Harald Eikaas, conductor | 
From the film for
| Interface - a concert series with Ensemble Ars Nova
Interface is a series of artistic projects situated in the confluence of music and the sister arts and technologies. Set in concert form, Interface tunes into the tangible harmonies and discords, musical and otherwise, generated in the fusion of disparate yet related artistic energies seeking a common ground.
I Saw It All
In the spirit of Interface, Ensemble Ars Nova continues its exploration of the concert as means of expression with this collaboration between filmmaker Göran Olson and composer Jonas Bohlin.
A work for soprano, chamber ensemble, and film, I Saw It All attempts to articulate a solitary
individual´s experience of war. The piece is rooted in the stories of Sula, a child - and a soldier - in war-ravaged Chechnya. The soprano sings excerpts from interviews with the child, interspersed with soundbites from media war reports. Jonas Bohlin´s ethereal music cradles Sula´s matter-of-fact narratives - the first time he held a gun in his hands, the first time he stood face-to-face with a Russian tank, the first time he killed a man. Göran Olsson´s film installation, projected simultaneously on adjoining screens, opens up additional layers of counterpoint with documentary visual material from the war, abstract patterns, word graphics from the libretto, and underwater footage. The diver´s weightless drift and existential solitude fues with the cradling music to provide a chamber that echoes Sula´s straightforward, brutal narrative.
Jeanette Bjurling
Born 1965. Studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and was awarded the Jenny Lind scholarship in 1989. A soloist in varying musical contexts ranging from contemporary music, song recitals, sacred works, to opera, she is a core member of KammarensenbleN in Stockholm and has performed as soloist at Confidencen, Vadstena Akademien, Sveriges Radio/Berwaldhallen, Stockholms Konserthus, Drottningholmsteatern, Norrlandsoperan, and Kungliga Operan. Her work is also featured in a number of radio, cd, and television recordings.
Jonas Bohlin
Born 1963 in Stockhol. Studied at the Royal College of Music with among others, Daniel Börtz, Sven-David Sandström, Magnus Lindberg (instrumental composition), Pär Lindgren, and Bill Brunson (electroacoustic music). His diverse works include a chamber opera, three orchestral works and a number of chamber music compositions. In addition to performances in Scandinavia, his work has been interpreted in the US, Germany, Italy and Estonia. NUNATAK, for string quartet, has for example been used at a New York dance peformance, in the film "Vinterskepp" broadcast on Swedish national telvision, as well as in other Swedish radio and television broadcasts and recordings. His choral work "Lamento" will provide the music for a new documentary film by Fredrik von Krusenstjerna.
Harald Eikaas
Born 1964 in Bergen. Studied at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory with Jorma Panula, Michel Tabachnik, and Dan-Olof Stenlund, graduation concert 1994 with the Århus Symphony Orchestra. Since 1994, he has served as conductor and choirmaster for the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. He has also worked with most of the symphony orchestras in Denmark as well as with Trondheim´s and Norwegian Radio´s Orchestra. Harald has led several world premieres with the BIT 20 ensemble and Trondheims Sinfonietta.
Ensemble Ars Nova
For the last decade Ensemble Ars Nova has been southern Sweden´s foremost ensemble for contemporary classical music. The brainchild of composer Johannes Johansson and composed of freelance artists as well as musicians from the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, the ensemble has a number of CD productions and is recorded regularly by Swedish Radio P2. They have toured nationally in Sweden under the auspices of Rikskonserter, as well as in Denmark, Poland, and Germany.
Göran Olsson
Born in 1965. Studied at the Royal University College of Fine Arts, architectural arts and video. Instructor and supervisor at Dramatiska Institutet, and managed the visual look of Swedish Television´s "Elbyl", created jingles and vinjettes (presented with the Scandinavian Trailers Awards 1998). He has also worked as a reporter, covering stories in Kaliningrad, Bosnia, Cairo, Italy, Hong Kong, London, and Sweden. Göran is the project manager and producer for Ikon, Swedish Television´s short documentary venture. Notable among his more recent films are: "If you want to know what war is - Sula, a child-soldier, 16 years old, narrates" (Swedish Television 1995); "Tuzla, TV-requiem" (SFI, SF, Göteborg Film Festival 1997); "Natalija and the future" (1988); "Fuck you, fuck you very much" (1988); and "Spin", an abstract film with Jonas Böjlin and graphic artist Johan Cnattingius.
David Peterson
Long-standing member of Ars Nova, also cellist for the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and frequent chamber instrumentalist in various musical settings. David is also a member of the string quarted Aniara.
Interface is made possible through the support of, among others, Framtidens kultur
Torbjörn Nilsson
CV and personal notes
Torbjörn Nilsson (born 1955)
-majored in cello at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm
-cello studies in London with W.Pleeth
-studied composition with L-E Rosell
-studied conducting with P.Lyng, P.Csaba, J.Panula
A former member of Stockholm´s orchestras and the chamber music ensemble "Sonanza", Torbjörn is most currently active as a freelance cellist and conductor, currently performing for the 11th time in the annual "Bachmarathon" (collected cello suites) at the Santa Clara Church in Stockholm, as well as conducting Stravinsky´s "The Soldier´s Tale" at Nalen.
Torbjörn has composed one work a year for the past fourteen years. His "Kyrkan o stenen" op 11 had its world premiere with Ars Nova at the Lyckå chamber music festival. His "Maria tårar" op 13, for choir, organ. obbligato clarinet, set to visuals by the artist Dan Dittmer, is slated for performance in 2004 by Jacob´s Chamber Chorus and Gary Graden.
"Elegy for a lost soul" op. 14 is as much an attempt to articulate sorrow over an individual´s moral downfall as it is a concrete musical composition and a story from a ravaged corner of the world
|
|
|
|
|
