In this episode Henrik Knarborg talks with Evelyn Glennie about the role as a soloist, new commissions and advises for younger percussionists how to create a career. We also come closer to some of the mythical abilities to “listen” with the body and even how the vision is connected to this. Evelyn Glennie just received the renowned Danish Sonning Music Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in the world, and played an intense Galla-concert including no less than 3 percussion concertos in the same program. More than just an amazing soloist, Evelyn also has clear goals with her music and art ..read more

In this episode we dive into the historical 60’s and 70’s percussion scene in Northern Europe, Instrumental Theatre and aspects of teaching and interpretation:  Einar Nielsen is professor emeritus at The Academy of Music and Drama, Gothenburg University, now living in Copenhagen. Since the early seventies, he has toured Europe and North and South America together with some of the finest musicians and composers within classical avant-garde music, like the ensembles Trio Celeste (dk), Elsinore Players (dk), Studiegruppen (dk), Sub Rosa (dk), Transit Ensemble (de), Duo Kontarsky ..read more

Vanessa is a percussive artist dedicated to exploring how sound shapes our lives, awakening our ears to new sounds, in new spaces, with the hope that attentive listening will lead to attentive custodianship of place. With a long history in experimental music, Vanessa uses this body of knowledge to consider how we listen through site-specific explorations and collaborations. Trained as a percussionist in Australia, Germany and the USA, Vanessa relies on this sonic investigation of objects to build compositions, create contexts for improvisation, interpret the voices of other composers and colla ..read more

Andy Meyerson is a drummer and percussionist based in San Francisco, California. He is the Artistic Director, co-founder, and percussionist of The Living Earth Show, one of the premiere experimental classical ensembles in the United States. Named one of the “22 performers to watch in ‘22” by the Washington Post, The Living Earth Show has presented over a decade of “outstanding” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “transcendent” (Charleston City Paper) new music that pushes the boundaries of technical and artistic possibility while amplifying voices, perspectives, and bodies that the classical music ..read more

Leif Karlsson is a renowned Swedish conductor, chief conductor for the State Wind Symphony Trimitas in Lithuania and the Inspector of Music in the Swedish Armed Forces. He has worked with a great number of orchestras in Scandinavia over the last decades and has premiered more than 250 compositions. As a percussionist Leif Karlsson was one of the founding members of the world renowned percussion ensemble Kroumata, with which he recorded, toured and preformed for 30 years. With Kroumata, he was a soloist with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Berliner Symphoniker, WDR Rundfunkorchester, Singapore S ..read more

Vanessa Porter is a German percussionist based in Stuttgart. She is one of the most active percussionists in her generation internationally. Her performances often combine composed works with improvisation, also employing electronics and visual media.  In the 2033/23 season she will perform as a soloist of ECHO (European Concert Hall Organisation) in the most renowned European concert halls such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Barbican Centre London, Philharmonie Paris, L’Auditori Barcelona, and many more. She collaborates with many renowned composers and is ..read more

Christian Windfeld, b.1983, is a Danish improviser, composer, percussionist and educated soloist from The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark. Since the age of 19 he has build an international career touring all over Europe, North America and Australia and lived in Stockholm, New York and Berlin.Windfeld has a minimalist but highly expressive approach to the percussive instruments often reducing his set-up to focus on just one instrument e.g. the snare drum to explore its full potential aiming to transcend the general perception of its capabilities. As a composer he has created pieces an ..read more

Composer and percussionist Arnold Marinissen (*1966) Has been a principal subject teacher at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam since 2008. He was artistic leader of Slagwerk Den Haag, and enjoys the classic percussion works of John Cage etc, parallel to exploring and composing new music for percussion. Today his compositions are broadly recognised and performed at festivals internationally. Henrik Knarborg talks with him about being both a composer and percussionist, what motivates him, and what he finds important when managing his time.  Sound example are taken from: Arnold Marinissen ..read more

In this Episode Henrik talks with percussionist and performer Aiyun Huang. Aiyun enjoys a musical life as soloist, chamber musician, researcher, teacher, and producer, and is also the Head of the Percussion Program at the University of Toronto.An expert in Percussion Theatre, her work on the subject has been published in Cambridge Companion to Percussion (2016) and Save Percussion Theater (Mode 242). Aiyun is committed to creating a vibrant new music community for the next generation, and is artistic director of the soundSCAPE festival in Italy.  We talk about subjects as her b ..read more

This episode features LA-based musician Jonathan Hepfer, who runs the concert series Monday Evening Concerts. In the first part of our talk, Jonathan speaks about his studies at the SUNY Buffalo, the Oberlin Conservatory, UCSD, and Musikhochschule Freiburg, and what his different mentors have meant to him. In the second part, he talks about how he developed his thinking as a curator. The opening music is Jonathan performing Giacinto Sceli's Ko-Tha II; midway you'll hear an excerpt from Salvatore Sciarrino's Le Voci Sottovetro, and at the end a longer excerpt from the 1974 classic Femenine by ..read more