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OpenDays Festival 2026
30. okt. - 1. nov.
Nørresundby
Once again Waves up North is delighted to welcome you to OpenDays Festival - a 3-day festival of new compositional music and sound art, held this year for the 17th year in a row.
Welcome to a curious encounter with the boundary-pushing, the different, the very latest!
Over the three days OpenDays will present a beautiful bouquet of concerts with professional artists in new music and sound art - from artists who travel to Aalborg from abroad, to professional Danish and local musicians and composers - all specially selected from Waves up North's large international network of musicians and composers.
OpenDays takes place at the cultural centre Nørresundby Gl. Rådhus - with the fine acoustics of the Council Chamber, where the new music can unfold, as well as the beautiful staircase and the view of Nørresundby Torv, just steps from the Limfjord, which together invite musical experiments.
You are welcome to join this shared voyage of discovery into new music and sound art!
Waves up North is proud to have agreements in place with a string of top professional artists from the international, the Danish and the local music scene:
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME:
Friday 30 October 2026:
19.30: Opening concert: Rudersdal Kammersolister
Saturday 31 October 2026:
15.45: Festival fanfare on the Tribunen
16.00: Cikada String Quartet (Norway)
INTERVAL. From 18.00 the Festival Café on the 1st floor of the Town Hall will be open, where you can buy a bite to eat and perhaps meet the performing musicians.
19.15: Festival fanfare on the Tribunen
19.30: Open Night: Local performers
20.45: Festival fanfare on the Tribunen
21.00: Late Night: “Rådhuset synger”
Open Call: Sound works - “New paths in sound art.”
Prize sponsored by Gudrun & Palle Mørchs Mindefond.
Sunday 1 November 2026:
14.00: Cæcilia Kvartet - Nina Schmidt-Brewer, soprano, Maria Lundbak, oboe, Jesper Sivebæk, guitar & Malte Vendelby, percussion
15.00: MGK Nord together with Andras Olsen, trombone
16.00: Ensemble Abstraktion
17.00: Closing concert: Vor Frue Kirkes pigekor, conducted by Dorthe Græsborg Bruun
The programme is subject to change.
TICKETS:
Admission: 150 kr. per concert (festival pass for the whole festival 300 kr.)
Students: 75 kr. (festival pass 150 kr.)
Under 18: Free admission
Members: Free admission
Festival passes can be bought right now via Billetto, and tickets for individual concerts will also soon go on sale on Billetto.
Tickets can also, as always, be bought at the door.
Stay up to date by signing up for the event on Facebook, or via the Waves up North website, www.wavesupnorth.dk.
OpenDays is a project under Waves up North, an international forum for new music and sound art based in Aalborg.
OPENDAYS FESTIVAL 2026 IS SUPPORTED BY:
A. P. Møller Fonden
Augustinus Fonden
Dansk Tennis Fond
Gudrun & Palle Mørchs Mindefond
Kemp & Lauritzen Fonden
Knud Højgaards Fond
Music Norway
Nordea-fonden
Solistforeningen af 1921
Statens Kunstfond
Toyota-Fonden
William Demant Fonden
Aage & Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond
Aalborg Kommune
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