In Between Strings: Between folk music, art music, notes and breath

In Between Music Festival and New Music for Strings present:

Between folk music, art music, notes and breath

Duo Knarborg/Andersen & Gro Marie Svidal on Harding fila!

A concert where the notes from the Norwegian west coast’s harding fila meet the unexpected – where traditional folk music is woven together with free improvisation and contemporary soundscapes. A journey through the frontiers of sound, where the past and innovation can converse freely.

After the break, we meet Duo Knarborg/Andersen – consisting of violinist, composer and festival leader Anne Sophie Andersen and percussionist and researcher Henrik Knarborg Larsen who invite you to a concert where body, movement and sound interact in real time. Four contemporary works by composers from different cultures explore the borderland between acoustics and electronics.

You as an audience become an active co-creator through your breaths(!) and the innovative MUGIC® sensor. A journey through new music, where technology and tradition pulse with the breath.

Gro Marie Svidal is one of Norway’s most recognized performers of traditional music on the harding fiddle. She started playing at the age of five and has immersed herself in folk music traditions from Sunnfjord, Hardanger and Voss. She is educated at the Ole Bull Academy and has a master’s degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music. Svidal became Norwegian harding fiddle champion in 2014 by winning the Landskappleiken, and has received several national scholarships and awards. She works as a soloist and collaborates widely – with musicians, dancers, storytellers and actors – both in Norway and internationally.

Anne Sophie Andersen is a violinist, chamber musician and composer and director of the international New Music for Strings Festival. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University and has studied under distinguished musicians such as Philip Setzer of the Emerson String Quartet. Anne Sophie has won several prestigious prizes and scholarships, including 1st prize in the Royal Academy of Music’s scholarship competition, the Samuel Baron Prize from Stony Brook University and work scholarships from KODA and the Statens Kunstfond. She is concert master of the Aarhus Chamber Orchestra.

Henrik Knarborg is one of Denmark’s most prominent percussionists. As leader of the percussion education at the Jutland Conservatory of Music, he has had a significant role in the development of percussion education in Denmark. Henrik has performed as a soloist at international festivals and held masterclasses worldwide, including New York, Berlin, Krakow, Dublin, Hanoi and Jakarta. His ground-breaking artistic research in movement, bodily resonance and scenic interpretation has been widely appreciated.