Concert Curation

As the founder and Artistic Director of New Music for Strings Denmark, I am an experienced event organizer and curator.

Below are some examples of concert programs I have designed/co-designed:

New Music for Strings Festival

Conversations with Bach

(Contemporary music inspired by and modeled over baroque music)

Program 1

Stefan Klaverdal: Earthquakes (violin, electronics)
J. S. Bach: Suite no. 5 c minor (solo cello, excerpt)
Eivind Buene: Conversations with J.S. (solo cello)
J. S. Bach: Sonata C major (solo violin, excerpt)
Anne Sophie Andersen: Sonata for Solo Violin
Bela Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin

Program 2

Bela Bartók: 44 Duos (2 violins, selection) 
J.S Bach: Partita no. 3 E major: Prelude (solo violin)
Eivind Buene: City Silence. I: lontano, molto fluido (solo violin)
J.S Bach: Sonata no. 2 a minor: Grave (solo violin) 
Eivind Buene: City Silence. II: Lento
N. Paganini: Caprice no. 6 opus 1
Eivind Buene: City Silence. III: Misterioso
Kaija Saariaho: Aure (violin and viola)
Murray Gross: Dark Forest (solo viola)
J. S. Bach: Suite for Solo Cello C major: Prelude, Sarabande, Gigue
Sofia Gubaidulina: 10 Preludes for solo cello (selection)

In the wake of magnitude

Golijov: How Slow the Wind (soprano, string quartet)
Nørgaard: Out of this World (10 solo strings)
Beethoven: Grosse Fuge (string orchestra)
Nørgaard: Plutonian Ode (soprano, cello)
Barber: Adagio (string orchestra)

Solo programs

Program 1
J. S. Bach: Partita d minor
Anne Sophie Andersen: Sonata for Solo Violin
Eugene Ysaÿe: Ballade

Program 2
J.S. Bach: Partita E major
Anne Sophie Andersen: Sonata for Solo Violin
Eugene Ysaÿe: Sonata no. 2 (Thibaud)

Program 3
J.S. Bach: Partita E major
N. Paganini: Caprices nos 1-5
Anne Sophie Andersen: Sound of Music Medley

Recital Programs

Program 1
Franz Schubert: Grand Duo A major
Lennart Fredriksson: Violin Sonata
intermission
Robert Schumann: Sonata a minor
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: Last Rose of Summer

Program 2
Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata g minor
Franz Schubert: Fantasie C major
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet c minor

Program 3
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata no. 9 ("Kreutzer")
Johannes Brahms: Sonata no. 3 d minor

Concertos (selection)

Bela Bartók: Violin Concerto no. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto (cadenza: Andersen)
Elliott Carter: Violin Concerto
Mats Edén: Violin Concerto no. 1
W. A. Mozart: Concertos no. 3, 4 and 5 (cadenza: Andersen)
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no. 1
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto no. 1

Lecture recitals

"Developments in writing for the violin. From Bach to the music of our time" (New Music for Strings 2016)

"Talea—Music Frozen in Space" (TEDxSBU 2015)

"Adaptation of the song "Sei mir Gegrüsst" in Schubert's C major Fantasie"
(DMA lecture recital, 2013)