Ten years have passed since Nordisk Music Days was last held in Copenhagen. In the music world, as in the "real" world, the past decade has witnessed stunning changes.

It can often be really exciting to go on a voyage of discovery.

Nature as Stimulus in the Music of the North

by Wolfgang Sandner

Thomas Jennefelt

Notes on a Chamber Opera

by Thomas Jennefelt

One might expect the soul of this work to be melancholy and resigned. Instead, we discover something completely different: a frenzy, a desire to laugh, a determination to change

by Magnus Florin

Svend Nielsen

Atli Kárason Petersen

Atli Kárason Petersen has written for symphony orchestra and brass band. Most of his work, however, has been short chamber pieces.

Musical Renaissance in the North Atlantic - Eighteen specks in the ocean, between Iceland and the Shetland Islands, are home to the 45.000 Faroese.

The Royal Danish Orchestra, Tuesday, September the 6.th - Anders Hultquist

'The profuse spectrum of overtones of the metal bell shines like a rainbow high over the strings' heavy prime tones that lie deep in the lower resonances. The bells peal from on high.'

by Björn Billing

Who'd ever dream of a concerto for timpani? The Oslo Philharmonic. Rolf Wallin tells how he bridged a gap from silence to hurricane

By Rolf Wallin

Mixed Concert I Tuesday, September the 6th - Lasse Thoresen

Siegfried Naumann

Notes on the Triptykon Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra

by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

Bent Sørensen on his Violin Concerto Sterbende Giirten

by Bent Sørensen

For a long time, Iceland was a small, remote and isolated country.

Marilyn Mazur

Looking at Marilyn Mazur's work as a musician and composer, "breaking with traditions" pops to mind. Her personal approaches testify to her eagerness to tamper with the rule book.

Pierre Dørge Shakes the New Jungle Orchestra

by Jan Andersen