KoncertKirken

14/12/2025

I dag kl. 15:00 (dørene åbner 14:30) har Organ Sound Art Festival 2025 en gratis koncert i KoncertKirken med orgelstuderende fra The Royal Danish Academy of Music.

Alle er velkomne!!

Programmet ser ud som følger:

Benas Jonušas — organ
• Zita Bružaitė — Sparks (2023)
A bright, virtuosic, and energetic work blending jazz, medieval, and folkloric elements.
• Faustas Latėnas — Shine (1993)
A neo-romantic work juxtaposing a slowly unfolding, sci-fi-like motif with a pompous waltz.
• Jurgis Kubilius — ČeKsperiMentas VL ### (2025)
Written in memoriam M. K. Čiurlionis, this piece is a “musical contemplation” on how radical Čiurlionis’s music may have sounded to early listeners. Dedicated to Benas Jonušas.
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Alexander Bak-Hansen — organ
Dafne Nielsen — voice
🎼 Improvisations
• Baroque-style improvisation (3–5 min)
• Romantic-style improvisation on a poem by J. P. Jacobsen (3–4 min)
• Free improvisation (5–8 min)
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🎻 “Emanuel” — organ & violin
Nabil Hanna — organ
Marie Øxenhave — violin
• Nabil Hanna — Emanuel (2025)
A newly composed four-movement work inspired by prophetic biblical verses, forming a musical meditation on prophecy, incarnation, and divine presence.

13/12/2025

Copenhagen 12. december 2025

The Danish percussionist, composer, and bandleader Marilyn Mazur passed away today after a period of illness. This was announced by her family. She was 70 years old.
Internationally, she was perhaps best known for her time in Miles Davis’ band from 1985 to 1988—interrupted by a world tour with Wayne Shorter’s project in 1987.
From 1989 and onwards, she was once again active on the Danish and European music scenes with her own projects. She founded the band Marilyn Mazur’s FUTURE SONG which toured across Europe for 20 years.
At the same time she was a permanent member of the Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek’s group from 1991 to 2004. Together, they toured extensively all over the world.
As a composer, she wrote music ranging from solo projects to works for symphony orchestras. She collaborated with several big bands, including Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, the DR Big Band, and the NDR and WDR Big Bands in Germany.
Her many ensembles performed her music—music that ranged from the primitive, naïve melody to the complex and dangerously spiced chords—perhaps more inspired by classical music than by jazz in the traditional sense.
Marilyn had a special focus on women in music. She formed the all-female ensemble Primi Band in the late 1970s, and in 2015 the women’s band Marilyn Mazur’s Shamania.
Marilyn Mazur combined her extensive percussion setup with the drum kit in a unique and original playing style. She was a sublime master of timbre and rhythm, able to sprinkle stardust over the music with her ideas—an improviser of the very highest order.
She has been a great inspiration to countless people—not least to female musicians.
Kind regards,

Her husband
Klavs Hovman, bassist/musician

Our son
Fabian Mazur, music producer

11/12/2025

I aften markerer begyndelsen på fire dage med Organ Sound Art Festival 2025 i KoncertKirken, hvor vi fejrer vores 10-års jubilæum!!!

Vi glæder os til at se jer senere — dørene åbner kl. 19:30.

Festivalen er enormt stolte af at præsentere et nykommissioneret værk af komponistkollektivet Aar & Dag ledt af Anders Lauge Meldgaard og Michael Mørkholt. Værket 'Multiple Pipes for Major Players' er skrevet for mundblæste træ- og 3D-printede orgelpiber og opføres af et hold af Københavns fineste musikere:
Sarah Buchner, Jason Dungan, Carolyn Goodwin, Flavia Huarachi, Laura Marie Madsen, Sebastians Macats, Lone Meinich, Malina Midera, Laust Moltesen ™ Jēkabs Rēders.

Vi byder derudover velkommen til den slovenske pianist og komponist Kaja Draksler, som præsenterer en række soloværker for orgel og vocoder, og den svenske komponist og shō-spiller Mattias Hållsten, der fremfører dele af et nyt værk for shō og elektronik.

Der er stadig billetter — men døren til åbningsaftenen står nu kun på klem, så skynd dig at købe en billet: https://billetto.dk/e/organ-sound-art-festival-2025-billetter-1691306

07/12/2025

06/12/2025

Organ Sound Art Festival 2025
Sidste festival før jul.
Køb dine billetter nu! – https://billetto.dk/.../organ-sound-art-festival-2025...
En stor fejring af orglet.

04/12/2025

27/11/2025

OPEN CALL: Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 2026

Art Music Denmark er stolte af at kunne offentliggøre, at vores samarbejde med det anerkendte New York-baserede komponistkollektiv Bang on a Can fortsætter – og ovenikøbet udvides.

Vi har netop indgået en ny treårig aftale (2026–2028), som betyder, at én dansk komponist eller musiker hvert år får mulighed for at deltage i det tre uger lange residency på Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival i Massachusetts, USA.

Nu åbner vi for open call til 2026, som finder sted 13. juli – 2. august 2026 på MASS MoCA. Residenciet er et unikt tilbud til en kunstner, der arbejder nysgerrigt, eksperimenterende og modigt med ny musik – og som ønsker tre uger i et intenst, internationalt miljø fyldt med fordybelse, netværk og kunstnerisk udvikling.

Deadline for ansøgninger: den 14. januar 2026 kl. 23.00 (CET)

Du kan læse meget mere om Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival og ansøge via linket i kommentarsporet.

Foto: Doug Mason

27/11/2025

Tusind tak til Dansk Komponistforening for den fornemme udmærkelse!! Og fantastisk at få dele prisen med som jo været en aktiv part i KoncertKirken igennem mange år!