DAMKAPELLET SOLO

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Solo improvisation

Oda Mathilde Dyrnes, cello

Music for Piano (1989/1997) by Frangiz Ali-Zadeh (b.1947)

Nadia Okrusko, piano

(Title of the piece) (2020) by Ida Nørby

Ida Nørby, cello

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Nadia Okrusko (b.1989) is a pianist based in Copenhagen. She has studied in St Petesrburg Conservatory in Russia and in Royal Danish Music Academy in Copenhagen, and currently is

working as a freelance pianist. She has been a member of Damkapellet collective since 2016 and played in a number of projects together with the group. For Damkapellet’s concert on 10th June she has prepared “Music for Piano” (1989/1997) by Frangiz Ali-Zadeh (b.1947), a female composer from Azerbaijan.

“Music for Piano” is a work inspired by the Mugam musical traditions of Azerbaijan. A complex music involving both improvisation as well as a nuanced set of rules, Mugam uses seven principal modes and is traditionally inspired by poetry on love and mysticism. In Music for Piano, Ali-Zadeh

cyclically combines three different sections (a treatment typical of Mugam tradition), altering them at each appearance. A necklace is placed on the strings inside the piano and creates sounds of folk instruments associated with Mugam, like Caucasian tar / lute, and kamancheh. The piece was

composed for the first all-Ali-Zadeh concert, organized in 1989 by Leonard Stein and the Arnold Schoenberg Society of Los Angeles, to whom it is also dedicated.