Sunday, April 19, 2020

Première // Bång and Rosenberger // Gageego! in Gothenburg

• 18:00

• Göteborgs Konserthus, Stenhammarsalen, Sweden

The composer Malin Bång has worked with the composition class of the Academy of music and drama in Gothenburg, resulting in three première performances.

The concert presents three brand new pieces – a unique possibility to taste what’s on right now in contemporary music. In some of the concert’s music, like Rosenberger’s work, the focus is on the trombone, one of the most dynamic instruments of the orchestra.

Malin Bång writes about her own piece:

“There are many memories from my childhood in Sävedalen that are strongly associated with sounds and tones. Our townhouse was close to both an ice cream factory, a garbage station, the railroad and the motor way. This counterpoint of constant noise that goes on in the distance was the soundtrack that always were present and constituted our version of silence … If the noise of a gradually changing nature constitutes the foundation of the piece, these influential experiences arise as fragments in the noise and act as bridges between the surroundings and the activities of life … By composing this piece, I have with pleasure and a certain dose of nostalgia explored the neighborhoods of my childhood, and have had the opportunity to rediscover the sounds with a new, precise listening.”