Aarhus is set to become a haven for classical music enthusiasts with a series of enchanting events celebrating the works of Maurice Ravel. From the 'Fairy Tales' at the Aarhus Chamber Music Festival to the intimate 'The Inner,' each event promises a unique and captivating musical journey. Don't miss out on the magic at Musikhuset Aarhus!

Experience the Magic of Maurice Ravel in Aarhus

Join us in Aarhus for a series of spellbinding musical events featuring the works of Felix Mendelssohn. From the eerie 'SOUNDS OF DEATH' at Musikhuset Aarhus to the romantic 'Treble Tones' and the emotive 'The Big Feelings', these performances promise a journey through the dark and the beautiful, the romantic and the dramatic.

Experience the Magic of Mendelssohn: Chamber and Romantic Music in Aarhus

Embark on a mesmerizing musical journey with The Royal Academy of Music as it orchestrates a series of captivating concerts throughout 2024 in Aarhus, Denmark. From the avant-garde electronic compositions of DIEM Electro to the soulful expressions in Piano Matinees, and the fiery rhythms of Big Band Concerts, each event promises a unique auditory experience. Featuring students from the prestigious Jutland Conservatory of Music, these performances showcase the prowess, creativity, and passion of emerging musical talents, making them unmissable cultural highlights of the year.

Discover the Melodic Journey: Concerts Unveiled by The Royal Academy of Music

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Gradus Christmas Concert

Musikhuset Aarhus

With this concert, Domenico Mannelli makes his debut as a composer from the soloist class at RAMA.

Debut Concert – Domenico Mannelli: Confessions About Sun Light & Ghost Voices

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The conservatory's traditional Christmas concert again this year presents a wide selection of what the entire conservatory has to offer. From baroque music to Christmas choirs to completely new music, both rhythmic and classical, all carefully selected for this festive occasion.

The conservatory's Christmas concert

Aarhus Cathedral

Saxophone students from the Jutland Conservatory of Music play a mixed repertoire for their instrument, possibly along with other instruments.

The saxophone night

Royal Academy of Music Aarhus

Bassoon students from the Jutland Music Conservatory play a mixed repertoire for their instrument, possibly along with other instruments.

Trombone matinee

Cello students from the Jutland Conservatory of Music play a mixed repertoire for their instrument, possibly along with other instruments.

Cello matinee

After preliminary rounds in East and West Jutland, Region Central Jutland's most talented young musicians gather for a festive finale concert.

Young people play classical

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

Concert Café Aarhus

Closing concert after a weekend with young, talented classical musicians who have played chamber music together.

Chamber music talent camp – closing concert

Bassoon students from the Jutland Conservatory of Music play a mixed repertoire for their instrument, possibly along with other instruments.

Bassoon matinee

Tuba students from the Jutland Conservatory of Music play a mixed repertoire for their instrument, possibly along with other instruments.

Tuba evening

Concert with the Jutland Conservatory of Music's big band.

Big band concert

Daniel Tobijanski studies classical singing in the soloist class at the Jutland Conservatory of Music. The soloist class is the highest level at the conservatory.

Solo concert – Daniel Tobijanski, sang

Come by Rytmisk Sal on a very unusual Wednesday evening and enjoy this year's RMB Tour Show.

RMBshow

Mario Romero Madrid, saxophone, studies in the soloist class at the Jutland Conservatory of Music. The soloist class is the highest level at the conservatory.

Soloist concert – Mario Romero Madrid, saxophone

Meet the next generation of musicians at Huset in Hasserisgade!

Concert Aalborg – Next Generation

Hasserisgade

Joint concert with Randers Chamber Orchestra

The Royal Academy of Music

OPUS 24 – piano festival

Music for organ and flute/cello/trumpet/saxophone

Chamber concert

Just as Romeo and Juliet are an iconic couple in literature, Robert and Clara Schumann are an iconic couple in music history. We pay tribute to their music together with their good friend Johannes Brahms, where we also create new music in their spirit. What if we could play a piece of music by Schumann that has not yet been composed? Come and be part of our experiment.

Aarhus Chamber Music Festival: BRAHMS & THE SCHUMANNS

First, we take you on an inner journey through pensive poetry and dreamy melodies that transport you to utopian destinations. With jazzy tones and lightning-fast passages, it all ends happily when all the festival musicians come on stage and give it full throttle at the end.

Aarhus Chamber Music Festival: FINAL ACT

Come and experience tomorrow's stars from the Jutland Music Conservatory. Here, the students will play a varied program in different constellations with music by e.g. Brahms, Haydn and Saariaho. The audience will experience a flute/singing duo, a clarinet trio and a string quartet.

Aarhus Chamber Music Festival: RISING STARS

Ladies and gentlemen! Come and party as we transform the Café Stage into a spectacular Broadway show with the biggest cabaret and musical hits. Enjoy a refreshing drink from the bar, raise your glass and let's bring the night to life together!

Aarhus Chamber Music Festival: CABARET SHOW

Welcome to a dark experience that is sure to send chills down your spine. Can you also hear the witch in the corner or the sound of the echo of the dead behind the castle walls? If you're lucky, there's beauty to be found amidst all the dark and macabre.

Aarhus Chamber Music Festival: SOUNDS OF DEATH

This is how most adventures start. Forget the stress of everyday life, sit back and let yourself be enchanted and come on a magical flight through an adventurous sound universe. Where your dreams come true and where imagination has no limits. Here there is only joy and warmth. Come and get a big musical hug!

Aarhus Chamber Music Festival: FAIRY TALES

Get ready for a killer musical showdown when a classical pianist and a jazz pianist meet for a lively and virtuosic piano duel! Join us for a festive and entertaining night concert where the two pianists create music in the moment and improvise on themes suggested by the audience.

Aarhus Chamber Music Festival: THE PIANO BATTLE

Join us on a journey through the different corners of the world of folk music when we take the music from the small villages into the big concert hall! Experience chirping birds from the USA, dancing rhythms and declarations of love from the Czech Republic and lose yourself in the Danish folk tunes. Tighten your belt and polish your shoes and get ready to dance!

Aarhus Chamber Music Festival: FOLK FUSION

Pianist Theo Benjamin Hjorth presents original music that combines Cuban folklore with Western romanticism and the freedom of improvisational music. In a close interaction between piano and trumpet, a dynamic and beautiful sound universe is created, where tradition meets innovation and where emotions are given free rein.

Debut concert – Theo Benjamin Hjorth, piano

Meet the next generation of musicians at Huset in Hasserisgade! Similar to previous years, a number of bands and soloists from the Jutland Music Conservatory move out of Musikkens Hus and into Huset during the autumn. The next concerts are on 23 October and 20 November.

Amanda Krogh Nielsens concludes her studies at the Jutland Music Conservatory with the musical performance "I have something for you".

Debut concert – Amanda Krogh, SDS

True to tradition, a number of bands with roots at the Jutland Music Conservatory play at Aarhus Festuge.

DJM@Aarhus Festuge, City Park

The Jyske Conservatory of Music continues its collaboration with Salling, where a number of the conservatory's students get the opportunity to perform for a wide audience on the much-visited roof terrace on top of the department store.

DJM@Salling Rooftop, Aalborg: RAA THURSDAY

Salling ROOFTOP

Guitarist Jeppe Lavsen presents with his band Clapper a unique musical universe that fuses classic soul and fusion jazz with inspiration from instrumental hip-hop and modern beats. With a dynamic and playful approach to improvisation, Clapper creates a powerful and engaging live experience where genres meet and new musical horizons are explored.

Debut concert – Jeppe Lavsen, guitar

She takes part here as a soloist at the traditional promenade concert with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, where she plays Elga's beloved "Salut d' amour".

Promenade concert

Aalborg Central Waterfront

Søren Nørbo's own compositions form the starting point for a series of unpredictable improvisation concerts with one or more of the Jutland Conservatory of Music's students.

Concert with Søren Nørbo, piano and Rihards Hermanis, drums

Piano students from the Jutland Conservatory of Music and Gradus Junior College play a mixed repertoire for their instrument.

Piano evening: Conservatory and Gradus Junior College

Young piano talents from Gradus Junior College aged 11-17 give tests of their skills.

Concert with Gradus Junior College

DJM has a close collaboration with Gradus regarding talent development.

Gradus summer concert

Trumpeter William Castaldi concludes his studies in the soloist class at the Jutland Music Conservatory with this concert. The soloist class is the highest level at the conservatory.

Debut concert – William Castaldi, trumpet

Vulnerable Immortality is a collaborative concert with works by Danish and Iranian composers based on the stories of Balder and Esfandiar from Danish and Iranian mythology respectively.

Vulnerable Immortality

Hao Deng concludes his studies in the soloist class at the Jutland Conservatory of Music with this concert. The soloist class is the highest level at the conservatory.

Debut Concert – Hao Deng, piano

Talent concert with around 16 young, classical piano talents from all over the country aged 7 to 21.

Degree with Guests

A tribute concert for the Jutland Conservatory of Music's former piano professor Anne Øland, who would have turned 75 in 2024, but who unfortunately died at the age of 66 from cancer.

"75 years or Christmas in June" #Øland's KlaverFest

Soloist concert – Daniel Tobijanski, song: A summery wreath of love

Experience a unique fusion between impulsivity, classical percussion, musical theater and dance!

Impulsive

Viktória Skokanová is a second-year master's student at the Jutland Conservatory of Music.

Flute evening – Viktória Skokanová, flute

Concert exam, where the students play and sing their exam program for the examiner and censor. The concerts are open to the public.

Electronic exam concerts Aarhus

Trumpeter William Castaldi studies in the soloist class at the Jutland Music Conservatory. The soloist class is the highest level at the conservatory.

Soloist concert – William Castaldi, trumpet

Hao Deng studies in the soloist class at the Jutland Conservatory of Music. The soloist class is the highest level at the conservatory.

Soloist concert – Hao Deng, piano

Classical graduation concerts

Rhythmic exam concerts Aarhus

Electronic exam concerts Aalborg

The pianist Pasquale Ivan Dante Rinaldi concludes his studies in the soloist class at the Jutland Music Conservatory with this concert. The soloist class is the highest level at the conservatory.

Debut concert – Pasquale Ivan Dante Rinaldi, rhythmic piano

Church of Our Lady Aarhus

Horn player Hayley Tonner concludes her studies in the soloist class at the Jutland Music Conservatory with this concert. The soloist class is the highest level at the conservatory.

Debut concert – Hayley Tonner, horn

Violin students from the Jutland Conservatory of Music play a mixed repertoire for their instrument, possibly along with other instruments.

Violin matinee

This afternoon he plays an extensive program of solo works from the 17th to the 20th century.

Piano concerto – Albin Axelsson, piano

Jonathan Henneveld concludes his studies in the soloist class at the Jutland Conservatory of Music with this concert. The soloist class is the highest level at the conservatory.

Debut concert – Jonathan Henneveld, trombone

Rhythmic exam concerts Aalborg

Students play chamber music works by Beethoven, Arensky, Langgard and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

Pianist and composer Dan Hjorth studies in the soloist class at the Jutland Conservatory of Music. The soloist class is the highest level at the conservatory.

Soloist concert – Dan Hjorth, piano

Viola students from the Jutland Conservatory of Music play a mixed repertoire for their instrument, possibly along with other instruments.

Fraternities

Piano students from Gradus play a mixed repertoire for their instrument.

Piano matiné: Students from Gradus

Four new voices on the Danish music scene – Laura Maj Zeuthen, Forræder (Viktor Ravn), Pernille Sørensen and Blurred Lines (Asbjørn Rud Mathorne) – are all studying on the songwriting track at the Jutland Music Conservatory.

Skriverum Mols Bjerge – Four concerts and a meal

Maltfabrikken

Sankt Lukas Church

At this last concert before the overall project presentation on Tuesday 18 June, we investigate new ways of interpreting music, starting from the scenic space and the modern person's point of view on the traditions.

The Art of Interpretation

The violinists Richard Soldan and Aoi Tomioka both study in the soloist class at the Jutland Music Conservatory. The soloist class is the highest level at the conservatory.

Soloist concert – Richard Soldan and Aoi Tomioka, violins

Pianist Karin Viktoria Jakobsson will make her debut in 2024 from the Southern Danish Conservatory of Music and will therefore tour the country with her debut concert program.

Pre-debut – Karin Jakobsson, piano

Violin evening

The pianist and composer Agnė Pasaravičienė concludes her studies in the soloist class at the Jutland Conservatory of Music in Aalborg with this concert. The soloist class is the highest level at the conservatory.

Debut concert – Agnė Pasaravičienė, piano

The members of the BRICO Collective – Anna Bignami, Thomas Cortes and Tom Irvine – have each written a new work for string quartet to be premiered at this concert.

BRICO Collective X Absalon String Quartet

Frihavn church

The piano concerto "Jeg Ser Dig" is a work that explores how each of us interprets a story in different ways, depending on where we come from and where we are now.

A modern piano concerto: "I see you" by Louise Schrøder

Vocal Soirée

Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium

Afternoon student concert with a mixed program.

Piano Matinée

Niels Munk Petersen studies trumpet at the soloist programme at RAMA.

Soloist Concert – Niels Munk Petersen, trumpet

Sofia Ericson studies flute at the soloist programme at RAMA.


Soloist Concert – Sofia Ericson, flute

Afternoon student concert with a mixed program.



Concert feat. Aarhus Kammerorkester

The concert includes a concrete narrative, which is displayed as a text on a large screen as an integral part of the concert. Like a film script and score but without the film. It’s up to the audience to create the film in their imaginary vision.

Soloist Concert: Louise Schrøder, composition

Søren Nørbo’s compositions are the foundation of a series of improvisation concerts feat. academy students.


Concert feat. Søren Nørbo, piano

An Evening with Trumpets

DIEM Electro 2025

Søren Nørbo’s compositions are the foundation of a series of improvisation concerts feat. academy students

Blood Sweat Drum + Bass & Randers Kammerorkester præsenterer: Magic Flutes from India & the Middle East

Blood Sweat Drum+Bass

Rytmisk Sal

Maria Eshpai Birthday Concert

Søren Nørbo’s compositions are the foundation of a series of improvisation concerts feat. academy students.

Jacob Gade Kammermusikkonkurrence – The Competition

Jacob Gade Kammermusikkonkurrence – Jacob Gade Jazz Quartet

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Jacob Gade Kammermusikkonkurrence – Award Concert

DIEM Elektro

An Evening with Guitars

Chamber Concert

RAMA Festival 2025 Aalborg

RAMA Festival 2025 Aarhus

Julija Sadaunykaite is a Lithuanian pianist, a Grand Prix winner of the Malta Valletta International Piano Competition. She studied at Vilnius Academy of Music and Universitaet Mozarteum in Salzburg with prof. P.Lang. Julija holds two master’s degrees: one from Vytautas Magnus University, where she studied with prof. D. Racys, and the second one from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she studied with prof. F. Fali and was admitted with the full scholarship. In year 2022 Julija started her advanced postgraduate studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with prof. Marianna Shirinyan.

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