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Composer Weekend with Lisa Streich
Discover Lisa Streich at this year’s composer weekend.
Swedish composer Lisa Streich, born in 1985 in Värmland, has garnered more and more international acclaim in recent years. Her orchestral works have been performed by elite orchestras in Germany, including the Berliner Philharmoniker. At Composer Weekend 2024, she will finally have a major presentation in Sweden. Her music is bold and deeply original; it is often as if she were “directing” the sound, instruments and music, generating an experience that is visual and musical in equal measure. She sculpts her works into being and the orchestra is like a beating heart, like something with wings. Meanwhile, the instruments are sometimes motorized – and what does a violin or piano sound like then?
Concerts
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Music with wings and the world premiere of a new trumpet concerto. Executive and Artistic Director Stefan Forsberg hosts and introduces the concert.
Thursday 11 April 2024 19.00Lisa Streich. Photo: Harald Hoffmann
Lucas Lipari-Mayer
Ilan Volkov
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraComposer Weekend – Opening
Music with wings and the world premiere of a new trumpet concerto. Executive and Artistic Director Stefan Forsberg hosts and introduces the concert.
Thursday 11 April 2024 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
235-450 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating planThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/composer-weekend-opening/20240411-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Lisa Streich’s original scores are like maps of sound. The music is sometimes reminiscent of the aural worlds of nature or the city, and the composition emerges as a “sound conductor”. She sees this as sculpting with an orchestra or ensemble, and a sort of choreography emerges from the sound, inviting not only listeners, but viewers as well. She has gained more and more international attention.
In Segel (Sail), the music surges forth, whispering and breathing, occasionally whipping about – are these lines hitting a mast? In Flügel (Wings), Streich imagined the orchestra as a being with bodies in the middle and wings at the sides. How does she make it float and fly? Ishjärta (Ice Heart) paints a picture of the blood-filled warmth of a heart on one side, and its insulation within a shroud on the other.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov and the festival opening also features a world premiere: a newly composed trumpet concerto with Italian-Hungarian Lucas Lipari-Mayer performing the solo part. Among others, he studied under Håkan Hardenberger and has been a member of French contemporary music specialists Ensemble Intercontemporain since 2018.
“I feel that music has the ability to capture the truth. And I can experience the truth with Gustav Mahler,” says Lisa Streich who also included Blumine by Mahler – this beautiful andante movement is from the final version of his Symphony No. 1. “Music is the only thing that allows me to feel the truth of another human being,” says Streich.
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The music
Approximate times -
Lisa Streich Segel14 min
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Gustav Mahler Blumine – Symphonic Movement8 min
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Lisa Streich Flügel13 min
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Intermission25 min
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Lisa Streich Ice Heart15 min
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Lisa Streich Trumpet Concerto (World Premiere)20 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ilan Volkov conductor
- Lucas Lipari-Mayer trumpet
- Stefan Forsberg host
Thursday 11 April 2024 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
235-450 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating plan
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Genre: Orchestral performance
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra performs at the festival dedicated to Lisa Streich.
Friday 12 April 2024 19.00Lisa Streich. Photo: Harald Hoffmann
Jacob Kellermann. Photo: Karl Gabor och Annica Zion
Elena Schwarz. Photo: Axel Saxe
Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
Genre: Orchestral performanceComposer Weekend – Eyelids
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra performs at the festival dedicated to Lisa Streich.
Friday 12 April 2024 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
235-450 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating planThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/composer-weekend-mantel/20240412-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Norrköping Symphony Orchestra traditionally participates in the festivals held at Konserthuset. The orchestra is led by Swiss-Austrian Elena Schwartz and the highly acclaimed Jacob Kellerman is the guitar soloist. The guitar concerto Kellermann tackles is certainly not conventional. Augenlider, Eyelids, is composed for arranged guitar and orchestra, and this music is a low-key, whispering and sparsely snapping. It includes a hairclip, an egg slicer and water.
Lisa Streich’s imagination revolves around visual and physical elements. When she composed Mantel (Cloak) for two percussionists and strings, she imagined the ensemble like a body: the strings as the head, the percussionists as the skeleton. The piece Himmel (Heaven) is like a musical painting of the changing skies overhead. She paints a world with light brush strokes, in which tones and sounds add colour.
In Händeküssen (Hand Kisses), Streich was inspired by a passage in a conversation book by Beethoven, who was deaf. “Kissing a hand is not a good thing,” he wrote. The music is a dreamt dance, and it is offered with kisses on the hand. But how does dancing look if one is deaf? The orchestra is split in two, representing the right and left foot, while the listener is inside the deaf ear canal.
Lisa Streich’s original scores are like maps of sound. The music is sometimes reminiscent of the aural worlds of nature or the city, and the composition emerges as a “sound conductor”. She sees this as sculpting with an orchestra or ensemble, and a sort of choreography emerges from the sound, inviting not only listeners, but viewers as well. She has gained more and more international attention.
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The music
Approximate times -
Lisa Streich Mantel for string orchestra and percussion17 min
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Lisa Streich Himmel15 min
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Intermission25 min
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Lisa Streich Händeküssen12 min
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Johann Strauss Jr. Thunder and Lightning, polka schnell3 min
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Lisa Streich Augenlider for prepared guitar and orchestra20 min
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Participants
- Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
- Elena Schwarz conductor
- Jacob Kellermann guitar
Friday 12 April 2024 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
235-450 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating plan
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Powerfully visual orchestral music and a new trumpet concerto.
Saturday 13 April 2024 15.00Lisa Streich. Photo: Harald Hoffmann
Lucas Lipari-Mayer
Ilan Volkov
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraComposer Weekend – Ice Heart
Powerfully visual orchestral music and a new trumpet concerto.
Saturday 13 April 2024 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
235-450 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating planThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/volkov--tonsattarweekend-lisa-streich/20240413-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Swedish composer Lisa Streich has garnered more and more international acclaim in recent years. At Composer Weekend 2024, she finally gets a major presentation in Sweden. Lisa Streich’s original scores are like maps of sound, and it is often as if she is “directing” the sound. She sees this as sculpting with an orchestra or ensemble, and a sort of choreography emerges from the sound, inviting not only listeners, but viewers as well.
In Segel (Sail), the music surges forth, whispering and breathing, occasionally whipping about – are these lines hitting a mast? In Flügel (Wings), Streich imagined the orchestra as a being with bodies in the middle and wings at the sides. How does she make it float and fly? Ishjärta (Ice Heart) paints a picture of the blood-filled warmth of a heart on one side, and its insulation within a shroud on the other.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov and the festival opening also features a world premiere: a newly composed trumpet concerto with Italian-Hungarian Lucas Lipari-Mayer performing the solo part. Among others, he studied under Håkan Hardenberger and has been a member of French contemporary music specialists Ensemble Intercontemporain since 2018.
“I feel that music has the ability to capture the truth. And I can experience the truth with Gustav Mahler,” says Lisa Streich who also included Blumine by Mahler – this beautiful andante movement is from the final version of his Symphony No. 1. “Music is the only thing that allows me to feel the truth of another human being,” says Streich
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The music
Approximate times -
Lisa Streich Segel14 min
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Gustav Mahler Blumine – Symphonic Movement8 min
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Lisa Streich Flügel13 min
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Intermission25 min
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Lisa Streich Ice Heart15 min
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Lisa Streich Trumpet Concerto (World Premiere)20 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ilan Volkov conductor
- Lucas Lipari-Mayer trumpet
Saturday 13 April 2024 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
235-450 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating plan
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Genre: Chamber music
Concluding chamber concert with Lisa Streich.
Sunday 14 April 2024 15.00Lisa Streich. Photo: Harald Hoffmann
Kammarensemblen
Christian Karlsen
Karin Hellqvist
Genre: Chamber musicComposer Weekend – Francesca
Concluding chamber concert with Lisa Streich.
Sunday 14 April 2024 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
215 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/composer-weekend--francesca/20240414-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Lisa Streich’s fascination with motorized instruments manifests at Composer Weekend 2024. Here, we welcome KammarsensembleN, led by Christian Karlsen. However, the beginning is dream-like, quiet and cautious, with Klara Hellqvist’s solo violin in the piece Falter (Butterfly). Fingers dancing across the neck of the violin produce mainly fragile wisps of sound.
Zucker (Sugar) and Safran (Saffron) are both pieces with motorized components. “Motors have weight for me,” says Lisa Streich. “Just like other people go wild with sweets, I love to ‘consume’ a dose of motors. Man against machine. Contrary to conventional wisdom, especially in the twentieth century, one might now get the impression that machines are more human than humans,” says Streich. In both Zucker and Safran, little engines are mounted to the instruments, for example with strips that whip against the strings.
What passed through the ears of Frances of Rome in the fifteenth century? This was the starting point for Lisa Streich in Francesca. “Maybe we have an idea about how a choir of cherubs sounds. That might often be idealised, heavenly and beautiful. When I saw Antoniazzo Romano’s frescoes of Saint Francis in the Monastery of Tor de’ Specchi in Rome, I wanted to hear what he heard on his deathbed and beyond.” The result sounds angular, not quite heavenly per se, but with its own marvellous beauty.
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The music
Approximate times -
Lisa Streich Falter for violin solo8 min
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Lisa Streich Zucker for motorised ensemble12 min
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Intermission25 min
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Lisa Streich Safran for violin and motorised piano16 min
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Lisa Streich Francesca for ensemble15 min
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Participants
- KammarensembleN
- Christian Karlsen conductor
- Karin Hellqvist violin
- Heloisa Amaral piano
Sunday 14 April 2024 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
215 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
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