After a semester of running from project to project, I wanted to give a quick summary of the last couple months, and provide a quick look ahead into the new year (quite excited about 2022 at this point, so fingers crossed things will not derail once again!).
The fall of 2021 had almost to many exciting things bundled up together. From the Well - prepared Piano (Gothinburg Philharmonie) and Podiumfestivalen i Haugesund to La Boheme and Tosca (in Elbfilharmonie, Dusseldorf festival and more), Messian’s Quartet to the End of Time with LightsOut (tour in total darkness across Norway) to several solo and chamber music performances of various kinds and a recording of Sindings Violin sonatas with Magnus Boye Hansen for norwegian label LAWO.
The first quarter of 2022 has quite a few exciting things. First among them is a project presenting two concertos for only the left hand piano and orchestra by Ravel and Korngold with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and conductor Otto Tausk. These concertos were commissioned by the pianist Wittgenstein who lost is right arm during WW1. In Ravel’s case the concerto is commissioned only a few years after the war by a soldier fighting on the other side. No wonder the resulting piece is rather dark - spirited.
Next is the premiere of a brand new triple concerto for violin, double bass and prepared piano by the emminent Håkon Thelin. Fellow players are Magnus Boye Hansen, Nikolai Matthews and Norwegian super group Ensemble Allegria. This is preceded by the recording of a new album by Boyes Cafeorkester, including a few orchestral classics like Strauss Till Eulenspiegel, Ravel La Valse and Prokofiev symphony no. 1.
Sprinkled in between are a couple chamber music projects in Iceland, a few working phases for new projects (still secret), and the long awaited album release of On Palestrina.
All this planned before April, so really hope thing head (fast!) in the right direction.