TILL ROM - February 2014
ARTIST TALK - MEET THE ARTISTS
For more than 150 years, Nordic artists have been able to live, work and be inspired by Rome through the founding of Circolo Scandinavo. The tradition continues, and this year another 50 Nordic artists have been awarded with the opportunity to stay at Circolo Scandinavo and present their work in 11 unique events.
You are kindly invited to the February
'Till Rom 2014' Event.
Date: Thursday february 13th at 20:30.
Free entrance (the house opens at 20:00)
via della Lungara 231
00165 Roma (Villa Farnesina)
KERSTIN JEPPSSON Composer | SE
The general assembly 2014
Tuesday February 4th, 2014 20:00
Here you can find the agenda for the General Assembly and the Annual Meeting in February, the Annual report 2013 in english and swedish, the accounts for 2013 and the budget for 2014.
Annual Report 2013
Ecconomia
TILL ROM - NORDIC ARTISTS IN ROME
Thursday December 12th, 2013
Doors open 20.30. Free entry.
Presentations by:
Sirpa Jokinen, sound and visual artist (FI)
Alexander Nordström, director (SE)
Petri Kaivanto, composer/singer-songwriter (FI)
Take the opportunity to meet all the artists after the event when we will serve some appetizers.
For more than 150 years, Nordic artists have been able to live, work and be inspired by Rome through the founding of Circolo Scandinavo. The tradition continues, and this year another 50 Nordic artists have been awarded with the opportunity to stay at Circolo Scandinavo and they will present their work in 11 unique events.
24th november at 18:00
ANNA-LENA LAURIN SWEDISH COMPOSER OF THE YEAR 2013
"ControCanto: Donne in Jazz 2013",
November 24th at 18:00, l'Auditorium delle scuderie Aldobrandini di Frascati at 18.00 (piazza Giuglielmo Marconi 6, 00044 Frascati - RM)
FONDAZIONE ADKINS CHITI: DONNE IN MUSICA
ANNA-LENA LAURIN SWEDISH COMPOSER OF THE YEAR 2013 OUR GUEST
November 24th, the Festival "ControCanto: Donne in Jazz 2013", organized by the Foundation in Frascati at the Aldobrandini Cultural Centre.
l'Auditorium delle scuderie Aldobrandini di Frascati at 18.00 (piazza Giuglielmo Marconi 6, 00044 Frascati - RM)
Anna-Lena will present "Swedish sound - From mother to daughter", where she will perform with her daughter Iris Bergcrantz, and with Marcello Allulli (clarinet) and Ermanno Baron (drums). Among the music performed, there will be two compositions by Anna-Lena , Mrs. Hope and The Fairy Queen, and one from each of her daughters, Iris and Rebecca.
– Anna-Lena Laurin has won the highest national award assigned by the Swedish Radio to successful national and international artists. From September 2013, she is a resident scholar at the Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica, under the direction of President Patricia Adkins Chiti. For the Foundation, Anna-Lena is carrying out research on Swedish women composers as part of the European project WIMUST (Women in Music Uniting Strategies for Talent), launched in 2011 by the Foundation to promote equal opportunities for women who compose and create music. Therefore Anna-Lena’s research will help the promotion of European women musicians and composers and her work will go towards the realization of an online Encyclopedia of living European women composers, songwriters and creators of music.
Wednesday 30 october, 2013 20:00 – 22:00
You Killed Me - an open studio exhibition
The Danish visual artist Peter Brandt (DK 1966), has been artist in residence at Circolo Scandinavo for the last two months. For several years, Brandt has worked with violence and trauma, based on his own personal experience with a near fatal assault in Rome, in 2002. In his new body of work Brandt explores the relationship between the victim and the assaulter; touching on both cultural and individual aspects of being assaulted.
You are kindly invited to attend an evening in Brandt's studio at Circolo Scandinavo, offering an opportunity to explore the works-in-progress and meet the artist.
Wednesday 30 october
20:00 – 22:00
Circolo Scandinavo
Via della Lungara 231(Villa Farnese)
00165 Roma
www.peter-brandt.com
Thursday October 17th , 2013 at: 20.30
Artists presentation
TILL ROM - NORDIC ARTISTS IN ROME
OCTOBER 2013
the visual artists
Peter Brandt - Denmark
and
Signe Marie Andersen - Norway
will present their work
Thursday October 17th , 2013 at: 20.30
(the house opens at 20:30 the event starts at 21:00)
Take the opportunity to meet all the artists after the event when we will serve some appetizers.
For more than 150 years, Nordic artists have been able to live, work and be inspired by Rome through the founding of Circolo Scandinavo. The tradition continues, and this year another 50 Nordic
artists have been awarded with the opportunity to stay at Circolo Scandinavo and they will present their work in 11 unique events.
September 18, 21:00 (doors open 20:30)
MEDIEVALE ILLUSTRE: A musical salotto with Agnethe Christensen and Björn Ross
The Swedish artists Björn Ross (in-residence) and early music specialist Agnethe Christensen presents two of their collaborational projects with semi-staged medieval music in a visual setting. Both artists live in Copenhagen and work extensively with early music projects in a Nordic and European context.
I. Laude Illustre - Italian lauda songs from Laudario de Cortona and Laudario Firenze - with traditional Swedish folkmusic
O Divina Virgo – Christo e nato – Gånglåt (instr) – Magdalena degna laudare – Voi c’amate - Sorgens makt (instr) – Jesu Cristo Glorioso
Laude Illustre is a visual concert with Italian Laude songs from the 13/14th c. and Nordic folk music, set with moving images of stucco paintings in Nordic churches from the
same period.
Laude Illustre is a platform where we can explore the medieval picture of heaven and earth. With the Nordic folkmusic tradition that “fills your soul and make you dance”, the laude songs in the Tuscans own tounge, with their trancelike patterns and the moving imaginary with the unique stucco paintings expressive imagery animating central biblical stories, we bring back the complex “dialogue” with God and man.
Laude Illustre is originally performed with three musicians – the other two being Gro Siri Johansen (voice) and Elizabeth Gaver (fidle), both living in Oslo.
II. Voluspao - The Prophecy of the Seeress
Völuspa, which opens the Old Norse Poetic Edda, was likely composed in Iceland shortly before AD 1000 during a period of transition when Christianity was replacing the traditional beliefs of the North. Völuspa's allusive and often elliptical style implies the poet's expectation that his audience would be intimately familiar with the tales and cosmology of Northern paganism.
We work with this complex poetry combining recreation of the 66 verses in a medieval music mode together with bringing the very essence of the room alive with projections, noises and children voices reading the poetry in Swedish translation. The idea is to make the verses in a homelike atmosphere; to dwell in the medieval music and texts in a new space, a new room.
There is no surviving music to these texts but we know that they also have been sung and performed. I have used my extensive knowledge of European medieval music together with archaic folkmusic of the north to re/create a medieval sound of the Sagas.
Björn Ross was born in Stockholm but live and work in Copenhagen since 1982.He is educated at The Royal Danish Art Academy and has has exhibited regularly in the Nordic countries, Europe and North America since 1982. Parallel with his art practice he organises and produces many festivals and other events ranging from sound art to early music, for instance Overgaden Sound Art Festival (2004) and Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival (annually since 2006). Lately he has focused on stage design. In 2008 he thus made the videographic setting for the dance performance Closer in Roskilde and since 2007 he makes baroque opera productions, such as Monteverdi’s L'Orfeo (2007), Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo (2010) and Monteverdi’s Poppea (2011). Upcoming in 2014 is Cavalli’s Gli Amore di Apollo et di Dafne in Copenhagen. He is also engaged as administrator and board member of several projects and networks, such as Nordic Network for Early Opera, NORDEM (Nordic Federation For Early Music), and REMA (European Early Music Network). http://bside.dk
Agnethe Christensen studied at the Royal Danish Conservatory and specialised in renaissance and medieval singing with Andrea von Ramm in Basel and furthermore in Rome and Paris. Well known for her unconventional interpretations of modern and classical works, folk and early vocal music. Agnethe's expertise is within the field of early music and historically informed folk music but she has also worked with modern composers Luca Lombardi, Palle Mikkelborg, Wolfgang Rihm, Luciano Berio and John Cage, with opera, folk and film music. She performs regularely all over the world with early music ensembles such as Sequentia, ULV, Alba, Laude Illustre and others. http://agnethechristensen.org
Welcome!
september 12, 21:00
Artists presentation 'TIL ROM' - NORDIC ARTISTS IN ROME SEPTEMBER 2013
For more than 150 years, Nordic artists have been able to live, work and be inspired by Rome through the founding of Circolo Scandinavo. The tradition continues, and this year another 50 Nordic artists have been awarded with the opportunity to stay at Circolo Scandinavo and they will present their work in 11 unique events.
You are kindly invited to the September 'Till Rom 2013 - 2014' Event.
Date: Thursday September 12th 2013
at 21:00
Via della Lungara 231, 00165 Rome
Artists that will present there work are:
ÁRNI KRISTJANSSON, Playwright | IS
PETER BRANDT, Visual artist | DK
The event will be held in English
Take the opportunity to meet all the artists after the event when we will serve some appetizers.
Welcome!
free entry
May 23, 7.30 pm
Salotto with Film director Mette Knudsen (DK)
screening of the film 'The Secret Pain'
From the age of 8, Kate Kendel (Kadiatu Suma) lives like a European with her Danish-Norwegian missionary foster parents. But at 16 she returns to her biological father and is genitally mutilated.
This horrifying experience haunts her for the rest of her life. Since 1978 she lives in Denmark with a formal education as a social worker. The film follows Kate back to her native Sierra Leone.
Here the secret and feared “Bundu Society” circumcises 90% of all girls. The film includes exceptional material of the rituals and with the women circumcisers.
'The Secret Pain'
Duration 75 min.
the film will be screened with English subtitles.
May 16, 8 pm
TILL ROM May event
Take the opportunity to listen to the presentation of the visual artists Eva Kun (NO), Cecilia Westerberg (DK) and Gudrun Kristjansdottir (IS). Afterwards there will be some wine and pizza, and the possibility to watch Norway, Finland and Iceland compete in the semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest.