Place of longing – role model – victim: the relationship between humans and nature is complex. Per Nørgård uses texts by Rainer Maria Rilke to search for a connection to nature in sound. Christian Mason composes according to the principles of swarm intelligence, observes the social strategies of fish and birds for living and surviving and asks: is adaptation the best survival strategy for us humans too? The willows in Johannes Maria Staud's choral work can tell you a thing or two about this, as they were witnesses to the death marches that passed by them. And the Korean composer Younghi Pagh-Paan's existential choral work tells of the earth that means home. It is about rural exodus, exploitation and the radical restructuring of Korean society to the point of "loss of the soul".

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Gastkonzert: Natur und Mensch

Alte Oper

In a concert featuring exclusively percussion instruments, audiences can expect to experience raw energy through their whole bodies. For this performance, the Percussion Ensemble of the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno and its Artistic Director Martin Opršál present a variety of works for percussion instruments at the Suk Hall. In Bartók’s Allegro barboro, pianist Dominik Gál will show how the composer also regarded the piano a percussion instrument.

Czech Chamber Music Society • Percussion Ensemble JAMU

Rudolfinum

We’re off to the wilds of Scandinavia! Northern Lights, midnight sun and a smorgasbord of Nordic greats. Chief Conductor John Storgårds has a natural affinity with this music and is the dedicatee of tonight’s opener, the thrilling, most recent symphony of Danish composer Per Nørgård, a mind-bending kaleidoscope for large orchestra. Sorgårds has been called a “master architect” of this great symphonist, as revealed in his recorded cycle of all the symphonies with the orchestra.

Grieg’s Piano Concerto

The Bridgewater Hall

Youth grows into experience. Pianist Marie-Ange Nguci, “one the most promising talents of her generation,” according to Le Figaro, makes her North American concerto debut. She brings a youthful spirit to Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto, music of an ambitious teenager. Finnish conductor John Storgårds leads us into the Nordic woods. The SLSO’s strings seduce us in Jean Sibelius’ The Lover, and then give shade in Per Nørgård’s Glade. Sibelius’s final symphony, the Seventh, leads us from dark forest into shining light.  

Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto

Touhill Performing Arts Center

The event is free and you can just show up without a ticket. Please come in good time.

Debut concert – Xiaobo Chang, guitar

Musikhuset Aarhus

The remarkable threads connecting three generations of composers are illuminated in their music and letters to one another.

Inspirations: Letters/Legacies

Davies Symphony Hall

A THELAS is relaunching the popular concert format Brand New Tuesdays, where the ensemble's musicians perform works written for smaller constellations over three evenings in a season. The small crews allow ATHELAS' musicians to create a more intimate and informal space between the musicians and the audience and at the same time unfold themselves in an extra equilibristic way on their instruments. Initially, it applies to the wind quintet, which demonstrates the many facets of the wind through a very varied and versatile program.

Brand New Tuesdays

The concert church

In the concert series Danske dialoger, ATHELAS commissions a new work from a Danish composer, who at the same time selects a work by another composer that has had a special meaning for them. This time it applies to Peter Bruun and his new work But always as it should be , which is performed in collaboration with the cellist Carl-Oscar Østerlind. Bruun has chosen Per Nørgård's Night-Symphonies, Day Breaks (1992). Hear why when Peter Bruun himself presents the new work as part of the concert and justifies the choice of Nørgård.

Peter Bruun & Per Nørgård

Musikhuset København

With both Mahler's overwhelming last symphony and Per Nørgård's transparent and light-filled violin concerto with a Danish super talent as soloist, Copenhagen Phil is preparing for an unforgettable concert with music from both the beginning and the end of the 20th century.

Mahler's 10th.

Konservatoriets Koncertsal

In the third anniversary concert, we celebrate that it is not only Mogens Dahl Concert Hall, but also Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir that has its 20th anniversary. We celebrate this again with good friends and collaborators: Mathias Heise on harmonica and Jonas Frølund on clarinet.

Anniversary Concert #3

Mogens Dahl Koncertsal

Odense Symphony Orchestra commemorates two giants in the Nordic classical music scene when, on the same evening, we play Per Nørgård's mysterious masterpiece with one of the most beautiful titles in music history, as well as Kaija Saariaho's sonorous transformation sphere of musical reflections in a purely Nordic concert that also features Sibelius's last symphony. A work that, in one long movement, transforms the symphony as a genre – into an organic, ever-changing sound universe. In other words, a journey is set to take place both into ourselves and into the most wondrous corners of music, when three of the Nordic greatest composers stand side by side in tonight's program.

Per Nørgård

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 30, 2026

Anniversary Concert #3 · Mogens Dahl Koncertsal

Mar 19, 2026

NØRGÅRD & SIBELIUS' 7th. · Odense Symphony Orchestra

Past events

May 16, 2025

Gastkonzert: Natur und Mensch · SWR Symphonieorchester

Apr 15, 2025

Czech Chamber Music Society • Percussion Ensemble JAMU · Czech Philharmonic

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