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“Gathering people around a cause that is communicated through music is something that many can relate to” – Pauline Hogstrand, producer and violist of Damkapellet.

Phoebe Bognár from Women of Noise contacted us about publishing an article about Damkapellet, and here is the result! In the interview we get to hear Mika Persdotter, Pauline Hogstrand and Irene Bianco from Damkapellet.

Women of Noise (WoN) is a dynamic platform celebrating and featuring the work and stories of women and non-binary creatives in the global community. It aims to provide an all-inclusive space for the diverse and prolific work of female-identifying and non-binary creatives.

WoN began as a concert series (formerly ‘Noisy Women’) and has been enjoyed by many in Brisbane to celebrate International Women’s Day. This concert featured women in music throughout musical development to today. 

Check them out, and we hope you’ll enjoy!

Read the article

Our children performance “Glemte Stemmer” has a very exciting month ahead including a two weeks tour with Levende Musik i Skolen through Jutland, Denmark – 18 concerts in schools! Besides school touring, we will also perform an excerpt from our performance in YAM-Awards price ceremony the 1st of October.

Later in October we are invited by the General Consulate of Sweden and the Danish Cultural Institute in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to perform and talk about Damkapellets activities. We have also invited two female composers into this journey, to meet and tell us about how their lives as contemporary composers today look like – in their respective countries: meet Lovisa Duprat (SE) and Alina Petrova (RU)! Christina Amundsen will come along and film the whole experience so that we can bring it home to you!

Last, but not the least, we will finish off the tour with a concert on home base, in Koncertkirken, the 28th of October.

In Danish: Optakt – til den klassiske musik

“Damkapellet genopliver kvinders musik og nedbryder klassiske traditioner

20 unge kvinder der alle er uddannet på klassiske instrumenter, har fundet sammen i Damkapellet. De spiller kun musik af kvindelige komponister – fantastisk musik, mener de, som bare har stået i skyggen af de store mandlige komponister. Men de prøver også at spille sammen på en ny måde hvor ingen dirigerer, og alle bestemmer, og hvor idealet ikke er fuldkommen perfektion, men fuldkomment nærvær.

I kælderen under Det Kgl. Danske Musikkonservatoriums bibliotek ligger der en guldgrube af musik, skrevet af kvinder til mange forskellige tider. Foreningen Kvinder i Musik har været i gang med at samle og registrere musikken; nu fortsætter medlemmer af Damkapellet, ikke kun for at ordne den, men for at bringe det bedste af den frem i lyset.

De 20 kvinder har dog ikke kun fundet sammen for at spille både ældre og nutidig kvindemusik, men også for at finde ind til en ny måde at arbejde med den klassiske musik på.“

First viewing: A Room of One´s Own

 

Soon a whole working week has passed by in Københavns Musikteater, and we are so exited to finally invite you to the first viewing of our brand new performance concert A Room of One´s Own this Saturday at 15.00!

We have for sure been sweating, laughing, discussing, been frustrated, practised, and all what you can expect from working intensely on something you wanna get out. With the tutelage and guidance of Signe Høirup and Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, we feel that we are constantly learning about ways to perform and how to work as a group. All in all, we would love you to be there!

You can read more about the performance here, and the specific arrangement this Saturday here!

Don’t forget to send an email to info@kobenhavnsmusikteater.dk to reserve your spot.

Presenting “A Room of One´s Own”

 

In a couple of weeks time we will go into work mode in Københavns Musikteaters facilitates to create this brand new performance! This is gonna be the result of a cooperation between Københavns Musikteater, Dansk Komponistforening and Damkapellet and will for the first time be performed at the 14th of April.

We are looking so much forward, stay in tune!

A Room of One´s Own is a musical performance that portrait six female composers personal creative space and the inner life of her time. A space that is essential for any artist, but often not given or permitted to women. With music as the medium and female classical composers as examples, we take the audience on a journey from medieval times until today, recreating a room of their own in the contemporary world.

Coming from a selectively emphasised history, we wish to shed light on a more diverse view and increase our knowledge of female in arts. By creating windows into small rooms of each of the composers lives, we wish to give the audience an insight in their time, their quest and their passions. Using different elements of sound, we build an atmosphere which reflect on three aspects of existence – the physical body, mind and spirit.

We invite our audience into an experience of an inner life, to be a part of a room, to make our own history.

In the performance you will hear music by Hildegaard von Bingen, Isabella Leonarda, Elfrida Andrée, Kaija Saariaho, Maria Martine Jagd and Julija Morgan.

Creating a performance with Københavns Musikteater and Dansk Komponistforening

We are pleased to tell you that Damkapellet, together with Københavns Musikteater and Dansk Komponistforening, will during a week in April work to produce a musical performance that celebrates women in music, freedom of creation and diversity, and connection between human and art.

The production will have a viewing in Københavns Musikteater at the 14th of April, and the whole performance will finally be performed in Talk Town festival at the 5th of May.

We can’t wait to get started and hope to see you all there!