Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival 2008

The second edition of Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival will be held in Copenhagen October 12 - November 9, 2008.

The programme includes important european groups and musicians such as Marco Horvat & Ensemble Faenza (fr), Micrologus (it), Christopher Stembridge (uk), Mara Galassi (it), Janice Santos (de), and Freiburger Renaissance Ensemble Passo e Mezzo (de) - as well as leading groups and musicians from Denmark and Sweden: Ars Nova Copenhagen (dk), Musica Ficta (dk), Laude Novella (se) , Anders Danman (se), Fredrik Bock (se) and Lars Colding Wolf - among others.

There will also be held masterclasses with Marco Horvat & Deda Cristina Colonna, Micrologus and Christopher Stembridge, an international conference on Early Opera in collaboration with Nordic Network for Early Opera, a screening of the movie version of The Full Monteverdi with I Fagiolini at The Danish Film Institute/Cinemateket and a lot more....

Festival website: www.festival.renaissancemusik.dk. 

Festival blog here.

L'ORFEO 2007

L'ORFEO - Favola in musica da Claudio Monteverdi - had its premiere in Palazzo Ducale in Mantua, February 24 1607. 

The celebration of the 400 years anniversary of L'Orfeo in Denmark took place at Hofteatret/The Theatre Museum in Copenhagen with three sold out performances November 23 - 25 2007. 

I produced and created the videographic stage setting.

Musical direction: Peter Spissky.

Director and dramaturg: Magnus Tessing Schneider.

Singing master: Jette Barnholdt Hansen.

Costumes: Anette Abrahamsson.

Singers: Mathias Hedegaard, Elenor Wiman, Steffen Bruun, Paul Kirby, Tomas Medici, Pernille Madsen a.o.

For more info go to the website.

Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival 2006

Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival 2006 - the first international renaissance music festival in Copenhagen - took place between October 22 - November 26 2006 as part of the Danish national Renaissance year.

During five weeks 18 different ensembles and soloists gave 17 concerts in all, including 164 individual musicians from 13 different countries.

Concerts were given by I Fagiolini (uk), Tetraktys (it), Tallis Scholars (uk), Maria Cristina Kiehr (ar), Ketil Haugsand (no), Janice Santos & Michael Spengler (de), Jauna Muzika (lt), Laude Novella (se), Ars Nova Copenhagen (dk), Musica Ficta (dk), Desperando Spero (dk), I Petrarchisti (dk), Allan Rasmussen (dk), Baroque Fever (dk), Capella Hafniensis (dk), Kantus København (dk) a.o.

Five masterclasses - with Jill Feldman, Kees Boeke, Ketil Haugsand, Michael Spengler and Robert Hollingworth - were given in collaboration with The Royal Danish Music Conservatory. The masterclasses were attended by 46 participants from 7 different countries.