Bozar’s upcoming season has been announced! Really honoured to be Composer in Residence next season - an extensive portrait is programmed, including performances of Before we fall, AERIALITY, METACOSMOS, CATAMORPHOSIS, and METAXIS 🌸 Looking forward to visiting a number of times over the season… - with @bozarbrussels , @belgiannationalorchestra , @antwerpsymphonyorchestra , @matthewhallsconductor , Eva Ollikainen, Osmo Vänskä, Michael Schønwandt, Tom De Cock, & @juliansteckel @wisemusicclassical , @jensenartists

Quite a week! CATAMORPHOSIS in London and Turku, ARCHORA in Köln, and METACOSMOS in London, Köln, and São Paulo 🌸 further info on the website performance calendar - link in bio ⁃ with @rohorchestra , @koen_kessels , @turkuphilharmonic , John Storgårds, @baselsinfonietta , @titus.engel.dirigent , @guerzenichorchester , Andrés Orozco-Estrada, @oerftm , @leo.labrada

Happy to ~ finally ~ share that the chamber opera UR_ will be presented at the Royal Opera House next season in a new production by the brilliant Netia Jones ✨ - her work is incredible, if you don’t know it I recommend checking it out! Also, these current weeks at the ROH, METACOSMOS and CATAMORPHOSIS are featured in Wayne McGregor’s wonderful choreography “Untitled” with a few shows remaining * The cast and crew for the new UR_ production will be announced later so I will excitedly share that info when the time comes 🦋 with @royalballetandopera * @studiowaynemcgregor *

moments from a great rehearsal of CATAMORPHOSIS yesterday with @londonphilharmonicorchestra and @kirillkarabits - concert tonight at Royal Festival Hall 🎶 #newmusic #icelandicmusic

From a really great photoshoot with @edwinsfreyer for @5elevenmag for a feature in the Music Issue which is out now ✨ wearing some of my favorite @rickowensonline pieces 🖤 link in bio with @boramleekim , @soundandmusicuk , @studio_will_dutta , @goodwoodartfoundation , @jensenartists & @felt_seen

Lovely words about AION in Helsingin Sanomat, after the performance in Helsinki with the @helsinkiphilharmonic and Eva Ollinainen 🌸 “AION is not a traditional tone poem depicting nature - it is an abstract modern work that proceeds according to the music’s own internal logic. At the same time, it is a concrete, sensory ecosystem. … The work conjured an atmospheric sound-world that enveloped the listener, drawing them into its depths. … AION’s tectonic shifts were in constant motion, often layered and pulling in opposing directions. The work has a taut, distinctive architecture, which Ollikainen commanded with complete authority. … Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring pairs perfectly with AION. The element of earth also rules The Rite, and both works transport the listener to a mythical realm.” - Hannu-Ilari Lampinen, Helsingin Sanomat

What a magnificent tour of the @icelandsymphony in Switzerland and Germany! Such a pleasure to join them along with Eva Ollikainen and @kian.soltani_cellist 🫶🏼 We have arrived in Hamburg and are all very excited for tonight’s concert! Wonderful to be back in this fabulous hall @elbphilharmonie with ARCHORA #icelandicmusic #newmusic

Very grateful for receiving the Iceland Music Awards last night for the cello concerto, Before we fall — I wasn’t able to be there in person so @gydnid from the Iceland Symphony received it on my behalf, takk Guðni! 🫶 Warmest thanks to @cellistjohannesmoser for his virtuosity, his deep insight and powerful determination in carrying the piece - and bottomless thanks to the commissioning orchestras, the @sfsymphony , @helsinkiphilharmonic , @odensesymfoniorkester , @icelandsymphony and BBC Proms / @bbcsymphonyorchestra - and to Justus for the support ❤️ #iston #newmusic

I will be on tour with the wonderful @icelandsymphony in Switzerland and Germany, starting in Geneva this Friday and ending in Hamburg on March 26 - ARCHORA will be on the program and I will be giving pre- or post-concert talks at each venue 20/3 in Geneva 21/3 in Bern 22/3 in Zürich 24/3 in Heidelberg 26/3 in Hamburg Come say hi if you will be there! Also on the program, Sibelius 2 and the remarkable @kian.soltani_cellist playing the Elgar concerto and the Lutosławski concerto in Hamburg which will also feature Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite - with conductor Eva Ollikainen 🫶 #icelandicmusic #ontour

a short stop in Iceland - always love being back here at the roots 🙆🏻‍♀️

METACOSMOS

February 14, 2019

The Iceland Symphony has posted a full recording of METACOSMOS, for orchestra, from the performance on January 31st 2019, conducted by Daníel Bjarnason.

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The Berlin Philharmonic gave the European premiere of the work the week before, conducted by Alan Gilbert, and below is an excerpt from that performance. The full performance is available in the Digital Concert Hall of the Berliner Philharmoniker here.