Teaterøen 28th of November 2020
Program
Mutual Intelligibility
Loïc Destremau
2017 (version for EKKI MINNA Duo 2019)
A( )part
EKKI MINNA Duo & Áslaug Magnúsdóttir
2020 (premiere)
Vidder 1
Mads Emil Dreyer
2019 (composed for EKKI MINNA Duo)
B(e)part
EKKI MINNA Duo & Áslaug Magnúsdóttir
2020 (premiere)
YOUR ONLY LIMIT IS YOU
Marta Śniady
2019
a lot of ANGELS to consider
Áslaug Magnúsdóttir
2020 (composed for EKKI MINNA Duo)
About the composers/performers
Mia Ghabarou (1993) is a composer and performer. She is part of the audiovisual performance group Pamela Angela alongside Áslaug Magnúsdóttir. She’s been co-writing the various versions of a lot of ANGELS to consider and assisting in the collaborative process
Loïc Destremau (b. 1992) – French-Danish composer and sound artist with an interdisciplinary approach to staged sound, crossing instrumental with electronic, multimedia and performance music for installations, soloists, ensembles and orchestras, exploring core musical premises and relations to linguistic features.
The works often comprise devices, preparations and home-made gadgets next to conventional instruments, visuals and electronics.
Participation in several international and domestic festivals, workshops and courses, and received commissions from various ensembles and soloists, resulting in collaborations with among others:
Athelas Sinfonietta, Aarhus Sinfonietta, Oslo Sinfonietta, ensemble recherche, Uusinta Ensemble, Figura Ensemble, Esbjerg Ensemble, Ensemble Dasein, Jutlandia Saxophone Quartet, NJYD Quartet, Taïga String Quartet, Ekki Minna Duo and eventuell.|duo.
Pieces performed at festivals such as Warsaw Autumn, NOW! Grenzgänger (Essen), KLANG Festival (Copenhagen), Nordic Music Days (Helsinki, Bodø), Figura Festspiele (Copenhagen), OpenDays (Aalborg) and Young Nordic Music Days (Aarhus, Reykjavik, Bergen, Piteå).
Composition studies with Simon Steen-Andersen, Niels Rønsholdt, Biagio Putignano and Marko Ciciliani in Aarhus, Bari and Graz (2012-2018).
Mads Emil Dreyer (b. 1986) is a Copenhagen-based composer working within the field of electroacoustic music. His pieces are often very condensed and minimalistic, but even though very little seem to happen, beneath the surface they're always developing. They often use much of the same material from start to finish and thus can be viewed as pictures or sculptures unfolding in the realm of time.
His music has been performed in Europe, US, and Asia and has been seleced for festivals such as Dark Music Days, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Young Nordic Music Festival, Klang Festival, and Nordic Music Days.
He is the recipient of the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Prize 2019 plus the Odd Fellow Music Prize 2019, and has received work grants from Danish Composers' Society, Augustinus Foundation, and Danish Arts Foundation.
He has worked with, among others, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Adapter, and Neue Vocalsolisten, and he's a founding member of the contemporary music group NEKO3.
Marta Śniady was born in 1986 in Pabianice, Poland, based in Lodz and Wroclaw. She graduated with honors composition with prof. Bronislaw Kazimierz Przybylski (2010) at the Music Academy in Lodz. She participated in various masterclasses and workshops conducted among others by Simon Steen-Andersen, Chaya Czernowin, Jennifer Walshe and Rebecca Saunders.
In her work as a composer, Marta Śniady follows the vision of a music that refers to different art forms. Furthermore, she feels that new music is an important medium of social communication, which is why she doesn’t treat it as pure sound art, but works on building multi-layered references and connections.
These ideas are mirrored in different works, which has been performed at several important international and Polish festivals of contemporary music as e. g. Warsaw Autumn, Sacrum Profanum, Musica Electronica Nova, Frau Musica (nova), Pulsar Festival and Klang Festival. She also worked with ensembles and performers such as Ensemble Garage, Kwartludium, ElletroVoce, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble, Esbjerg Ensemble, New Music Orchestra, Duo van Vliet and others.
In 2019 she finished Advanced Postgraduate Diploma studies in composition with Simon Steen-Andersen and Niels Rønsholdt at The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus. She is a board member of International Music Festival Warsaw Autumn since 2017. She holds PhD from the Academy of Music in Lodz, where she has been teaching since 2015.
Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (1993) graduated recently in Composition from the Music Conservatory in Aarhus. Áslaug’s music has an emphasis on coding and with the use of interactive processes and broadcasting, Áslaug creates sound which exists in the space between the possible and the real. Among her compositional interests is finding new performative strategies. She has worked with bands and projects such as Samaris, JFDR, ZAAR,Source Material, Pamela Angela and EKKI MINNA duo. in addition to composing for dance, theatre and is now collaborating with Mia Ghabarou on an upcoming release.