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Late Summer Festival Hvide Sande
12. aug. - 16. aug.
Hvide Sande
The anniversary edition of Late Summer Festival, ”Fra det Høje Nord”, offers highlights of the Nordic musical landscape, gathering some of the most talented and acclaimed musicians and composers of the North. Besides the Nordic, we will also experience the great European classics, performed by some of the best musicians Denmark has to offer. We invite the audience to a week filled with unique musical experiences.
The audience can look forward to experiencing ”Årets P2 Talent 2024”: the soprano LouiseMcClelland Jacobsen, who will dive into a repertoire ranging from the deeply emotional to the technically challenging, and Michala Petri, who will enchant the audience with her masterly recorder playing. The four star musicians from Denmark's elite ensemble, Ensemble MidtVest: Nicolas Dautricourts, violin, Sanna Ripatti, viola, Jonathan Slaatto, cello and Martin Qvist Hansen, piano are Late Summer Festival's much-loved musicians, who fascinate every time with their lively playing of classical and new music. As a surprise we also welcome the young Li-Or Ginnerup, who is both a violinist and a composer.
Throughout the week the festival will present works by five distinctive Nordic composers, several of which are premieres. Cecilie Ore explores deep human themes, while the great Norwegian composer Lasse Thoresen integrates Nordic traditional elements into modern musical structures. The genre-crossing compositions of the Danish-American Lil Lacy, as well as the Swede Mats Eden's fusion of Swedish folk music and contemporary music, will give us refreshingly new experiences.
This year's six concerts open up to everything that the High North has to offer in outstanding vitality and traditions – not least in the form of the Sami joik, the Sami people's ancient vocal tradition. We receive a visit from the master joiker Allioš, who will give the premiere of a work that Lasse Thoresen has composed for Allioš and the Norwegian elite choir Nordic Voices. Besides works from the Renaissance, the choir also has a major work on the programme by Cecilie Ore: the work about a female pope, which in many ways is an important work of our time.
A special collaboration between the Swedish trio Kv. Arken, which for several years has been the audience's absolute favourite, and the composer Mats Eden adds an extra dimension to the festival, where Nordic klezmer and Swedish folk music are united in a higher unity. The festival's artistic directors, Anette and Helge Slaatto, take to the stage themselves together with, among others, the double bassist Frank Reinecke, the pianist Anne Mette Stæhr and the innovative diabolo juggler Moritz Salger. Their performance symbolises the core of the festival – a love of music and a striving to create creative and innovative musical experiences by the North Sea. Lasse Thoresen's new duo for violin and double bass, composed for the festival for Slaatto and Reinecke, is a brilliant example of this.
We look forward to welcoming you to a series of exciting concerts with this year's musicians and welcome you to refreshing musical experiences in Hvide Sande.
Anette & Helge Slaatto.
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Past concerts
- 16. Aug 2024Musikalsk jubilæumsfyrværkeriHelligåndskirken, Hvide Sande
- 15. Aug 2024Fra Bach til Nordisk KlezmerHvide Sande Sportsfisker Center, Hvide Sande
- 14. Aug 2024Tiderne mødes: gammelt og nytHaurvig Kirke, Hvide Sande
- 13. Aug 2024Kvinden som rystede vatikanetLyngvig Kirke, Hvide Sande
- 13. Aug 2024Fra nord til sydVestjysk Bank Hvide Sande, Hvide Sande
- 12. Aug 2024Under den nordiske himmelHelligåndskirken, Hvide Sande
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