25/09/2024
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EP release on Friday with the Copenhagen based collective Damkapellet performing composers Alina Petrova, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh and Kirstine Lindemann.
Damkapellet is a music collective formed in 2016 to bring diversity to the Danish music scene by highlighting and performing music by artists who define themselves as women, non-binary or transgender. As an ensemble, Damkapellet embraces large parts of art music, from newly composed music and improvisation to opera, baroque, children's performances, and performance art. They also compose works collectively as a group.
Alina Petrova is a musician, multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and sound artist. She is the founder of the Kymatic Ensemble and a member of P***y Riot, one of the most significant protest groups. In her work, Alina uses electronics, string instruments, and performative practices to explore and push the boundaries between music, theater, and visual arts. As a composer, she favors working with clear harmonies reinterpreting them in unexpected ways.
Kirstine Lindemann
With a particular interest in the body and movement as compositional material, Kirstine Lindemann’s work as a composer and performer focuses on the space between you and I. In her work, the body and sound form part of an exploration of the limitations and the possibilities of connection posed by the body when it is understood as a musical instrument.
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh is a composer and pianist of contemporary classical music. Her music synthesizes Western classical modernist techniques with the Azerbaijani mugham art music. Franghiz attempts to build a bridge between the Western avant-garde and the music of her homeland Azerbaijan, but also of other regions of the Near East. On the Ep, the pianist of the collective, Nadia Okrusko performs a solo piece for piano by Franghiz.
photo: Søren Stenager