Statens Kunstfonds Legatudvalg har netop udpeget og belønnet 7 stærke værker fra 2014. Legatmodtagerne modtager 50.000,- for hvert værk.
Begrundelsen for udvælgelsen er, at værkerne har udmærket sig kunstnerisk. Legatet kan ikke søges, men gives frit ud fra de koncerter og forestillinger, som legatudvalget har set og hørt i løbet af året.
Blandt legatmodtagerne er:
Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen med ”Toccata for orgel og orkester”. Værket fremhæves blandt andet fordi det placerer orgelet i en særlig koncentrerende rolle, og fordi stykket er opfindsomt.. Legatudvalget beskriver værket som ”prægtigt og betagende”. ”Toccata for orgel og orkester”. Blev uropført med Aarhus Symfoniorkester d. 30. oktober 2014. Læs mere om Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen på Seismograf.
“It’s the most basic thing you can do on a boat” af Jeppe Zeeberg (Album, Barefoot Records) er komponistens første udgivelse i eget navn. Begrundelsen for legatet retter sig mod værkets ”generøse” og ”nutidige” karakter, der vidner om Zeebergs modenhed. Værket består af 7 ompositioner, der legende og improviserende blander genrekendetegn fra klassisk jazz, free jazz og 1900-tals avantgarde.
Broken Twin / Majke Voss Romme har med debutalbummet ”May” (Album, Anti) imponeret den internationale så vel som den nationale musikscene. Broken Twins univers fremhæves for kombinationen af sårbarhed og styrke. Især Majke Voss Rommes stemme er central og karakteristisk for etableringen af det univers og det udtryk.
Klarinetkoncerten ”Gemmer mig for Rosetta” skaber et billede på noget inderligt menneskeligt, der har ramt legatudvalget. Intimiteten skaber Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki gennem et sart musikalsk udtryk, hvor fagottistens manglende beherskelse af instrumentet bliver en del af intimiteten, fejlbarligheden og dermed det menneskelige element.
De samlede legatmodtagere er:
Broken Twin / Majke Voss Romme: ”May” (Album, Anti)
Minds of 99: Minds Of 99 (Album, No3)
Cancer: ”Ragazzi” (EP, Tambourhinoceros)
Alpha Trio / Peter Navarro-Alonso: ”Le Quattro Stagioni, Concerto grosso for Alpha and strings“
Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen: ”Toccata for orgel og orkester”
Jeppe Zeeberg: “It’s the most basic thing you can do on a boat” (Album, Barefoot Records)
Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki: ”Gemmer mig for Rosetta” (Clarinet Concerto)
Legatudvalget for musik
Legatudvalget, der har valgt modtagerne, består af Peter Bruun (komponist og formand for udvalget), Alberte Winding (sanger og sangskriver), Bo Gunge (komponist), Lotte Anker (komponist og saxofonist) samt Annette Bjergfeldt (sanger og sangskriver).
Læs mere om legatudvalget her.
»Music, to me, is … the silence that gropes – like yourself – across a black canvas.
In moments, a hissing emerges.
Nuts are cracked.«
Jørgen Teller has a long career as an electric guitarist, vocalist, electronic musician, and performer. He has released records solo as Static Teller and with Jørgen Teller & The Empty Stairs, Kaptajn Ørentvist … He frequently collaborates with local and international musicians.
»For me, music is a non-figurative process that cannot be definitively categorised.«
Kristoffer Raasted graduated as a visual artist from the Media School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2018 and is currently completing a PhD in practice-based and artistic research. Raasted has been an artist in residence at the Danish Institute in Rome and a visiting researcher at UdK Sound Studies in Berlin as part of his PhD.
»When I search for new music, I search for sound that evokes images in my mind. It is fuel, a gateway to emotion, and my most important writing companion. When inspiration lapses, music is the tool that always jumpstarts it.«
Iain Forbes is a Scottish/Norwegian film director based in Oslo. He has studied film directing at Nordland College of Art and Film and the Norwegian Film School. His graduation film Revisited won a Student Academy Award in 2023. He has previously directed short films such as Snowman (2015) and Semper Fi (2017). His latest short After Dark won Best International Short Film at the Oscar-qualifying Foyle Film Festival in 2024
»Music, to me, is a companion through life, a premise, an excuse, a mystery, an explanation, a point of departure. It is old ideas, overlooked treasure chests, new angles, long concerts, doubt and conviction. It is words, tones, cracked voices, different points of departure, bass in the diaphragm, falsetto in the hair, challenges, rewards, and love.«
Nikolaj Nørlund made his solo debut with Navnløs (1996), an interpretation of poems by Michael Strunge, and released Nye Optagelser (1997) the following year, his first Danish-language singer-songwriter album. He has since worked broadly across music and poetry and is behind around 20 releases, both solo and in various band constellations. Nørlund’s projects range from collaborations with Copenhagen Phil on two orchestral albums, created together with author Naja Marie Aidt. His most recent release is the single »Englenes Park (nu ikke saa dark)«, the forerunner to the album Himlen skiftet ud, due for release at the end of November. In addition to his own work, Nørlund has, through the record label Auditorium, produced and released a number of Danish artists, including Niels Skousen, Ulige Numre, Jens Unmack, I Got You On Tape, and Martin Ryum. He was previously a member of Trains And Boats And Planes and periodically works with the English-language project Rhonda Harris. Nørlund has received a Danish Music Award (2003) and a Steppeulv (2006), both as Producer of the Year, as well as the Niels Mathiassen Cultural Award (2012).
»Music and sound for me is a language, the most present and fleeting one. It’s something that passes through your heart and becomes the past in a second. Music amplifies every emotion, love, happiness, anger, sadness a thousand times over, making me feel everything more deeply and sensitively.«
Sophia Sagaradze is a sound artist, composer, and performer from Georgia, based in Denmark. She experiments with space, multichannel electronics and audio-visual installations. Sagaradze is interested in creating works that explore the boundary between external and internal experiences of space. She holds a bachelor’s degree in classical composition from Tbilisi State Conservatory and a master’s degree in electronic composition from DIEM Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg. In 2022, she received the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Foundation’s Talent Award in Composition. Sagaradze has performed in several countries, received commissioned works for ensembles, performed live and created audio-visual installations. She is a founder and artistic director of Aarhus Sound Association (Aarhus Lydforening), Project leader at ROSA and a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg.