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Dato/tid
25.11.2022
20:00 – 21:00

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COPENHAGEN RENAISSANCE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2022

MEDIEVALE!

Christensen/Gaver/Stuttard (SE/DK/UK/US/NO)

“Änglarim“


Agnethe Christensen – voice, kankles (Lithuanian lyre), gusli (the Novgorod lyre), bell
Elizabeth Gaver – medieval fiddle, rebec, voice
Leah Stuttard – bray harp, voice, bell

The harvest is ready so the feasts with songs and dances for Saint Michael and All Angels are resounded in the church. He defeats dragons, takes his scales to weigh the sinful soul of Olaf Aakneson and stands triumphant at the altar. The Holy Virgin survives a fire in Mont St Michel and in Italy you hear laudas that praise the mighty prince, the gleaming archangel, Saint Michael.
Music from Cantus Sororum (Saint Bridget), anonymous motets, Italian laudas, sequences, Lithuanian folky sutartines, gånglåtar, halling, and polskas, Swedish traditional hymns & medieval ballads that mirror the autumn time and the story of Saint Michael. His feast day, the 29 September, coincides with the end of the harvest season, meaning the celebration is of feats overcoming adversity as well as autumn itself.
The trio has played together since 2016 and promoted several programs presenting early Scandinavian folk music in an eclectic mix of songs and tunes on the theme of popular saints, performing midsummer and Christmas ballads together with European medieval music.
The instruments reflect the melding of medieval and folk music. Elizabeth’s fiddle and rebec are modelled after 13th century French sculptures. Agnethe’s instruments are current folk instruments with medieval roots but the lyre-shaped gusli is reconstructed from excavations in Novgorod from the13th century. Leah’s bray harp is based on a depiction in a painting from the 15th century by Hans Memling, where it is being played alongside many other instruments by a chorus of life size angels.

Agnethe Christensen, mezzo-soprano comes from Uppsala (Sweden) but lives since many years in Copenhagen. She studied solo voice at the Royal Danish Conservatory and renaissance and medieval singing with Andrea von Ramm in Basel and furthermore in Rome and Paris. Well known for her unconventional interpretations of modern and classical works, folk and early vocal music. Her expertise is within the field of early music and historically informed folk music but she has also worked with modern composers Luca Lombardi, Palle Mikkelborg, Wolfgang Rihm, Luciano Berio and John Cage, with opera, folk and film music. Together with Ida Bach Jensen she is embarking on a voyage with medieval music combined with double bass, electronics in a voyage through time and space with old Danish medieval ballads, traditional Swedish folk music and poetry. She explores early folk music from Sweden and Denmark and performs and records regularly all over the world with early music ensembles such as Sequentia, ULV, Alba and others.

Elizabeth Gaver has been a core member of the medieval ensemble Sequentia (Cologne/Paris), performing concerts throughout Europe, the US, Israel, Morocco, Japan and Australia. She has participated in over a dozen recordings with the ensemble as well as several theater productions. She has also performed and recorded with the Scandinavian medieval ensembles Modus Ensemble, Pro Musica Antiqua Oslo, Laude Illustre and Ulv.
Elizabeth has performed and recorded on baroque violin with leading ensembles in Norway and the US. She is a member of the Cherry Trio in California and participated in the project, “Nodebog” performing music documented in fiddlers’ notebooks from the 18th century in Norway.
In addition, she plays hardingfele and violin with the traditional music ensemble Feleboga, performing both Norwegian traditional music and American old-time music. The band has performed concerts and taught dance workshops in Germany, Iceland, Poland, Thailand and the US. Elizabeth Gaver has earned degrees from Stanford University, The Juilliard School, and has studied medieval performance practice with Thomas Binkley at Indiana University. She has written her University of Oslo hovedfag thesis, “The (Re)construction of music for bowed stringed instruments in Norway in the Middle Ages”.

Leah Stuttard comes from an industrial town in a particularly wet part of the North West of England. She has played the medieval harp for around 25 years and sung for a lot longer. After studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland, she has worked with many major names including Jordi Savall and Ensemble Unicorn. She is incredibly grateful that her career has taken her around the world, from Mexico to Russia. She first started working with the Italian ensemble Micrologus in 2002 and continues to add a certain Anglo-Saxon je-ne-sais-quoi to their performances. As a soloist, she performs English medieval music, with Vivien Ellis (Sinfonye, Dufay Collective) she plays English ballads and sings Gregorian chant, and with Danish/Swedish singer Agnethe Christensen (Sequentia) she explores more Northern repertoires like Scandinavian folk hymns. Currently she is working on a doctorate, investigating the creative input of musicians working with medieval music today. She’s completed six different pilgrimages to Canterbury, Norwich and Walsingham via Bury St Edmunds, twice to Monte Sant’Angelo and twice to Santiago de Compostela.


TICKETS: 100 DKK/ Stud: 50 DKK (sælges i døren fra kl 19.30)


COPENHAGEN RENAISSANCE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2022 støttes af Statens Kunstfond, Københavns Kommune, Knud Højgaards Fond, William Demant Fonden, Augustinus Fonden, Toyota Fonden.
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