Featuring Stine Benjaminsen, Louise Alenius and Magnus Plejdrup
Aarhus Kammerorkester (Aarhus Chamber Orchestra) is a professional, medium-sized ensemble based in Aarhus, made up almost entirely of the city's leading musicians aged 18-40. The orchestra's vision is to create sympathetic communities through classical music, and to be the city's ambassadors to spread classical music to new audiences.
Stine Benjaminsen (b. 1990) is a Danish composer and performer. Her compositions are often built around poetry, where text is included either directly as lyrics, or indirectly as inspiration to create the music. She investigates timbre in intuitive and sensuous compositions where the music insists on a slowness and openness, and illuminates the simple and fragile. Stine is inspired by human relationships, nature, and connections/contrasts. She has written music for choirs, classical ensembles, electronics, chamber music and vocal music and has collaborated with visual artists and art museums.
Composer, librettist, music producer and performer Louise Alenius (b. 1978) works interdisciplinarily with score music as a starting point and has created over 100 musical works, including two operas, three ballets, orchestral works, film music, 15 performance works, hybrid works based on e.g. augmented reality and 3D sound, several choral works, and a large number of songs, three album releases, and installation works/sound art. Alenius is concerned with ethical and society-related themes and has created award-winning dramatic musical works about e.g. euthanasia, modern rituals, power relations, incest, and life in a prison. She has received a number of awards, including Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl Nielsen's Honorary Award.
Magnus Plejdrup (b. 1995) is a Danish composer and conductor based in Aarhus. He is the artistic director of the Aarhus Chamber Orchestra and part of the artistic management behind the Aarhus Chamber Music Festival. He has studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music (2018-21) and conducting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Plejdrup has had works performed by a number of Danish ensembles and has received several awards, including Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie-Carl Nielsen’s Talent Prize 2023 and Leonie Sonning's Talent Prize 2022.
The concert is part of SPOT FLUX, a collaboration between the Danish Composers' Society and SPOT Festival, which presents new orchestral music in a new setting. SPOT FLUX is presented in collaboration with Art Music Denmark and is supported by the Augustinus Foundation.
