Ny version av This Is Not A Waltz framförs på 27th London New Wind Festival

Joel Slott, piano

Peter Sheppard Skærved, violin

Stockholms Saxofonkvartett och Quasar Quatuor de saxophones

Stockholms Saxofonkvartett och Quasar Quatuor de saxophones

Stockholms Saxofonkvartett och Quasar Quatuor de saxophones

Stockholms Saxofonkvartett och Quasar Quatuor de saxophones

Together with the Alma Quartet, the French clarinetist Samuel Berthod, now residing in Sweden, will open the 2024/25 season of the Lund Chamber Music Society with a program featuring Jörgen Dafgård’s Clarinet Quintet Whims and Wizardry among other works. The concert takes place at Magle Konserthus in Lund on Monday 2 September at 7 pm. The program also features Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A Major KV 581 as well as music by Korngold and soloist Samuel Berthod. The Alma Quartet consists of Malin Nyström and Anna Rosén on violin, Linda Fredriksson on viola and Ann-Kersti Goa on cello.

Whims and Wizardry was written in 2012 for the Stöde Music Week, where it was premiered by ARD-prizewinner Sebastian Manz and a star-straddled international string quartet. In 2013 Whims and Wizardry was nominated for the Swedish Music Publishers Prize in the chamber music cathegory and in the following two years it was performed in concert by Stefan Harg and the Dahlkvist Quartet as well as Samuel Berhod and the Weber Quartet. Whims and Wizardry is written in four movements.

Jörgen Dafgård’s double concerto Open Air for violin and viola had its world premiere on May 7, 2023 at Palladium, Malmö, Sweden, with Duo Gelland and Kammarorkester Öresund, conducted by Lennart Fredriksson. This was also the start of a short tour in the Öresund region, and a week later, on May 13, the work had its Danish premiere at Musikhøjskolen, Copenhagen. The final concert of the short tour took place at Magle concert house in Lund, Sweden, on May 14.

On September 28, 2024 Open Air will have its German premiere in St Wilhadi Church, Stade. Concerts with the co-commissioning orchestra Norrbotten Kammarorkester will follow later on.

Uruppförande av slagverksduo beställt av Mika Takehara och Ludvig Nilsson.

Lisa Larsson, soprano, string quartet from Malmö Symphony Orchestra