Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival 2009

The third edition of Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival will be held in Copenhagen November 2-8, 2009.

This years festival is exclusively dedicated to the neapolitan composer Ascanio Mayone, and includes important european musicians and musicologists, such Christopher Stembridge (uk/at), Mara Galassi (it), Jean-Marc Aymes (fr), Dinko Fabris (it) and Musica Ficta (dk).

There will be held masterclasses and workshops at The Royal Academy of Music with all the soloists, as well as an international conference on Mayone and the music culture in Napoli around 1600.

Laude Illustre

Laude Illustre is a visual concert for singers, medieval instruments and moving images - with italian medieval Laude music from 13th and 14th C. performed in a visual setting based on secco paintings from danish churches from the same period.

Peformers: Elizabeth Gaver, fiddle and rebec, Agnethe Christensen, cantele and voice, Gro Siri Johansen, voice, Björn Ross, video, light and setting.
Laude Illustre is produced in collaboration between Modus - Center for Medieval Music, Oslo, Modern Roots, Copenhagen and renaissancemusik.dk.

First performances in Gamlebyen Church, Oslo, June 20 and 21, 2009.

Associazione Ascanio Mayone

The Ascanio Mayone Society - Associazione Ascanio Mayone
was created May 1 2009 on internet at 16.09 pm.

Associazione Ascanio Mayone is a nonprofit network organization for promoting the work by neapolitan composer Ascanio Mayone (c.1565-1627).

The network was created by:

• Mara Galassi, harpist, educator, musical director, researcher, Milano

• Christopher Stembridge - harpsichordist, organist, musicologist, editor, Innsbruck
• Jean-Marc Aymes - harpsichordist, musical director, Marseille
• Dinko Fabris - musicologist, writer, musician, Bari
• Björn Ross - artist, organizer, manager, promoter, Copenhagen

Website: http://ascaniomayone.org

Art After Work: OPENING

OPENING - an art after work one day micro festival

text - image - video - audio - music - poetry - performance - bar - garden

Tuesday April 28, 2009, 17.00 - 23.00
Galleri Rostrum, Västergatan 21, Malmö, Sweden

OPENING celebrates cheap, simple, dynamic, improvisational, transitional and processual art, paper works, digital works, performance works, music and person-to-person meetings.

Artists:
Agnethe Christensen (se/dk), Annelie Nilsson (se), Björn Ross (se/dk), Brita Carlens (se), Chiaki (ja/dk), Dave Nold (us), Felix Gmelin (se), Fie Tanderup (dk), Jakob Riis (dk/se), Janos Vetö (hu/dk), Jodi Rose (au), Jonathan Podwil (us), Maria Lavman Vetö (se), Marit Lindberg (se), Mark Booth (us), Mikael Ericsson (se), Michael Johansson (se), Schmacke (de), Søren Raagaard (dk), Tanja Schlander (dk), Thore Soneson (se), Tuss Lysén (se).