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Dagfinn Koch is a well established norwegian modern classical composer within the field of chamber music, orchestral music, theatre music, opera, ballet and fine art installations. NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS: 15. August 2008: Forsvarets Musikkorps Vestlandet (The Norwegian Army Band) with Trond Korsgård conducting, is going to perform Beyond Bayat during the Brass Wind Festival 26. to 28. of September. Also confer the posting from the 26. of June. Also check Dagfinns blog. 11. August 2008: On the 21. August Koch is going to preform some "Urban Portraits" for piano solo at Malin Kjelsrud & Kristin Rasmussens vernissage in Stadtbibliothek Schwerin.
7. July 2008: Koch wrote
an article in Ballade commenting
an essay by Eivind Buene in Minerva. Buene's essay is about writing
opera, and called "Ikke før den tykke damen synger"/"Not before the fat
lady sings". Koch's artikle "Og komponisten ble ikke fet - en kort sytete
kommentar"/"And the composer didn't get fat - a short whining comment"
where he writes that everybody but the composer and librettist gets well
paid. The article is in norwegian.
26. June 2008: Translucence for Brass Band, is going to be performed during the BrassWind Festival in Bergen/Norway on the 27. of September by Tertnes Brass conducted by Bjørn Breistein. The piece had its first performance with Oslofjord Brass conducted by Michael Antrobus at the BrassWind Festival in 2006. The composition is dedicated to Koch's collegue and friend, the finnish composer Jukka Koskinen. They studied in Berlin in the nineties.
If you would like to see the score, send an
email to the composer.
16. May 2008: A
blog is
now added to the home page. Next week on the 21. and 22.
Michala Petri is
coming to Oslo to record her recorder solo parts on the up coming record
"The Crown of Creation" with Lucifer Was, in which Koch has made all the
string arrangements and recorder and solo violin parts.
Jan Stigmer will
come to Oslo in June to record his parts. The string arrangements was
performed by the Kristiansand Chamber Orchestra, and conducted by Koch.
30. April 2008: Koch wrote
an article in Ballade commenting the discussion between the composer
Martin Romberg and music critic
Magnus Andersson about the role the modern
classical music has in society since Schönberg. The title is: The dream to
be liked, or composition as a strategy to survive in an existential way.
The article is in norwegian.
24. April 2008: Finnischer Tango to a poem by
Hans Magnus Enzensberger was giving its first performance by the
soprano Valentina Kozhanova and the pianist Irina Koslesnikova at the
opening of
Malin
Kjelsrud (paintings) and Kristin Rasmussens (ceramic objects)
exhibition in the
hunting castle Gelbendsande in Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern). The
composition is dedicated to Dieterich Cassube, a friend of his, who
organized the exhibition. Pictures from the opening of the exhibition is
published at Malin
Kjelsruds website.
31. Desember
2007: Dagfinn and his librettist, Ketil J. Zahl is one of the
three (of initially 19 projects) which were selected to develop a
music theatre piece for Musikkteater i Bodø. Their contribution is
called "Adele" and is built on August Strindbergs "play with fire".
The next stage is to have two workshops and in october next year it is
going to be a stage performance of some of the scenes. And one of the
three will get the commission. On the 4th. of December 2007 there were
a workshop at the State Opera with: Marianne E. Andersen
(mezzosoprano), Per Andreas Tønder (barytone), Michael McCarthy (Music
Theatre Wales), Bjarne Sakshaug (pianist) and Sissel Arnhaug
(Musikkteater i Bodø). Next workshop will take place in the end of
March 2008 in Bodø in northern Norway. |