User:Bogimouritsen

Me

I am a faroese man living in Copenhagen, Denmark. I was born in Denmark but keep close connection with my faroese heritage.

Mpiri

Mpiri is a choir I founded together with my faroese friends Marjun Hoydal and Bogi Nielsen. They found that a faroese student choir was needed, in Copenhagen, and asked if I would be interested in starting a new faroese choir in Denmark. Thus Mpiri was founded in 1998 with me as the conductor for the first 2,5 years. At that point the choir had outgrown my capabilities as a conductor and since then I have been a singer in Mpiri.

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Tróndur Bogason in Copenhagen, 2007

Tróndur Bogason (born 1976; is a faroese classical composer with a talent spanning many other genres of music.

Tróndur grew up on the Faroe Islands in the 80's. Second half of the 20'th century in the faroes, had a vibrant music scene with music being present in many walks of life. In this environment Tróndur started playing rythmic music, forming several rock bands drawing on his formal piano lessons from childhood. in his early teens. In his mid teens Tróndur started taking lessons in musical theory and composition from the faroese composer Sunleif Rasmussen.

Musical development

Tróndur moved to Copenhagen and started studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Music where he studied under Ib Nørholm, Hans Abrahamsen and Bent Sørensen. During a stay at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in 2003, Tróndur sturied electro accustics under Louis Andriessen and Martijn Padding.

Tróndur had his debut soloist concert in april 2008. The concert was held at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. The concert "BABEL - Sound installation in two rooms with a connecting passage" with the ensemble Aldubáran was a concert in several movements in the different rooms and the spectators were asked to move around in the sound creating their own experience.

Musical oeuvre

Tróndur has composed a large number of works. Amongst many others are "Aliens" (trombone, piano and pauke), "Kugellampen" (piano and electro accustics), "Exchanges" (piano and percussion), "Crash" (cymbal and orchestre) and the multimedia work "Investigations of a dog" (trombone, electro accustics, video, dancing and light) inspired by a short story by Kafka.

In Tróndur has composed several Tróndur Bogasons musik er blevet opført i alle de skandinaviske lande samt Tyskland, Frankrig, Holland og England. Blandt udøverne kan nævnes: Aldubáran (FO), Athelas Sinfonietta (DK), Sjællands Symfoniorkester (DK), Wärme kvartetten (DK), Rilke Ensemble (SV), MIN-ensemble (NO), Caput (IS), Daniel Kientzky (FR).

The spirit of early European polyphony informed the composition of Pärt's transitional Third Symphony (1971); and thereafter, he immersed himself in early music, re-investigating the roots of Western music. He studied plainsong, Gregorian chant, and the emergence of polyphony in the European Renaissance.

The music that began to emerge after this period was radically different. This period of new compositions included Fratres, Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten, and Tabula Rasa. Pärt describes the music of this period as tintinnabuli — like the ringing of bells. Spiegel im Spiegel (1978) is a well-known example which has been used in many films. The music is characterised by simple harmonies, often single unadorned notes, or triads, which form the basis of Western harmony. These are reminiscent of ringing bells. Tintinnabuli works are rhythmically simple and do not change tempo. Another characteristic of Pärt's later works is that they are frequently settings for sacred texts, although he mostly chooses Latin or the Church Slavonic language used in Orthodox liturgy instead of his native Estonian language. Large-scale works inspired by religious texts include St. John Passion, Te Deum, and Litany. Choral works from this period include Magnificat and The Beatitudes.

Of his popularity, Steve Reich has written:"Even in Estonia, Arvo was getting the same feeling that we were all getting. [...] I love his music, and I love the fact that he is such a brave, talented man. [...] He's completely out of step with the zeitgeist and yet he's enormously popular, which is so inspiring. His music fulfills a deep human need that has nothing to do with fashion." Pärt's music came to public attention in the West, largely thanks to Manfred Eicher who recorded several of Pärt's compositions for ECM Records starting in 1984.

Invited by Walter Fink, he was the 15th composer featured in the annual Komponistenporträt of the Rheingau Musik Festival in 2005 in four concerts. Chamber music included Für Alina for piano, played by himself, Spiegel im Spiegel and Psalom for string quartet. The chamber orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra played his Trisagion, Fratres and Cantus along with works of Bach. The Windsbach Boys Choir and soloists Sibylla Rubens, Ingeborg Danz, Markus Schäfer and Klaus Mertens performed Magnificat and Collage über B-A-C-H together with two cantatas of Bach and one of Mendelssohn. The Hilliard Ensemble, organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, the Rostocker Motettenchor and the Hilliard instrumental ensemble, conducted by Markus Johannes Langer, performed a program of Pärt's organ music and works for voices (some a cappella), including Pari Intervallo, De profundis and Miserere.

A new composition, Für Lennart, written for the memory of the Estonian President Lennart Meri, was played at his funeral service on 2 April 2006.

In response to the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow on 7 October 2006, Pärt declared that all his works performed in 2006–2007 would be in honour of her death:

"Anna Politkovskaya staked her entire talent, energy and—in the end—even her life on saving people who had become victims of the abuses prevailing in Russia."— Arvo Pärt

Pärt was honoured as the featured composer of the 2008 RTÉ Living Music Festival in Dublin, Ireland. He was also commissioned by Louth Contemporary Music Society to compose a new choral work based on St. Patricks Breastplate, which premiered in 2008 in Louth, Ireland. The new work is called The Deers Cry. This is the composer's first Irish commission, having its debut in Drogheda and Dundalk in February 2008.

His recent (2008) Symphony No. 4 is named “Los Angeles” and was dedicated to Mikhail Khodorkovsky. It is Pärt's first symphony written in over 37 years, since 1971's Symphony No. 3. It premiered in Los Angeles, California, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on January 10, 2009, and has been nominated for a GRAMMY for Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

Selected works

Works for voices and orchestra

• Our Garden, Cantata for children's chorus and orchestra (1959/2003)
• Credo for chorus, orchestra, and piano solo (1968)
• Wallfahrtslied for tenor or baritone and string orchestra (1984/2000)
• Te Deum for chorus, string orchestra and tape (1984–5, rev 1992)
• Berlin Mass for chorus and organ or string orchestra (1992)
• Litany for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1994)
• I am the true vine for choir a cappella (1996)
• Como cierva sedienta for soprano, chorus and orchestra (1998)
• Cantiques des degrés for chorus and orchestra (1999/2002)
• Cecilia, vergine romana for chorus and orchestra (1999/2002)
• In Principio for chorus and orchestra (2003)

Works for voices and ensemble (or piano)

• An den Wassern zu Babel saßen wir und weinten for voices or choir and organ or ensemble (1976/1984)
• Sarah Was Ninety Years Old for three voices, percussion and organ (1977/1990)
• De profundis for chorus, percussion and organ (1980)
• Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem for soloists, vocal ensemble, choir and instrumental ensemble (1982)
• Es sang vor langen Jahren for alto, violin and viola (1984)
• Wallfahrtslied for tenor or baritone and string quartet (1984)
• Stabat Mater for 3 voices and string trio (1985)
• Miserere for solosts, choir, ensemble and organ (1989/1992)
• My Heart is in the Highlands for countertenor and organ (2000)
• Zwei Wiegenlieder for two women’s voices and piano (2002)
• L'Abbé Agathon for soprano, four violas and four celli (2004/2005)

Works for chorus (and organ)

• An den Wassern Babylons saßen wir und weinten for voices and organ (1976/1984)
• Missa syllabica for chorus and organ (1977)
• Summa for chorus (1977)
• De profundis for mens voices, percussion (ad lib.) and organ (1980)
• Magnificat for chorus (1989)
• Bogoróditse Djévo for chorus (1990)
• Hildegard Curth gewidmet – The Beatitudes (1990)
• And One of the Pharisees for three voices (1992)
• Dopo la Vittoria for chorus (1996)
• I Am the True Vine (1996)
• Kanon Pokajanen for chorus (1997)
• Triodion for chorus (1998)
• Which Was the Son of... (2000)
• Littlemore Tractus for chorus and organ (2001)
• Nunc Dimittis for chorus (2001)
• Salve Regina for chorus and organ (2001)
• Peace upon you, Jerusalem for female chorus (2002)
• Most Holy Mother of God for four voices (2003)
• Da Pacem Domine for four voices (2004)
• Anthem written for St John's College, Oxford (2005)
• The Deer's Cry written for chorus for Louth Contemporary Music Society, Ireland (2008)

Orchestral works

• Nekrolog for orchestra op.5 (1960)
• Symphony No. 1 Polyphonic op.9 (1963)
• Perpetuum mobile for orchestra op.10 (1963)
• Symphony No. 2 for orchestra (1966)
• Symphony No. 3 for orchestra (1971)
• Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet hätte ... for piano, wind quintet, string orchestra and percussion (1976)
• Fratres for chamber ensemble (1976 and on, many versions)
• Arbos for brass and percussion (1977/1986)
• Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten for string orchestra and bell (1977)
• Psalom for string orchestra (1985/1995/1997)
• Festina Lente for string orchestra and harp (1988)
• Summa for string orchestra (1991)
• Silouans Song for string orchestra (1991)
• Trisagion for string orchestra (1992)
• Mein Weg for 14 string players and percussion (1999)
• Orient & Occident for string orchestra (2000)
• Lennartile / Für Lennart for string orchestra (2006)
• La Sindone for orchestra and percussion (2006)
• Symphony No. 4 Los Angeles (2008)

Works for solo instruments and orchestra

• Collage sur B-A-C-H, for oboe, string orchestra, harpsichord, and piano (1964)
• Pro et Contra, concerto for cello and orchestra (1966, for Mstislav Rostropovich)
• Credo for chorus, orchestra, and piano solo (1968)
• Tabula Rasa, double concerto for two violins, string orchestra, and prepared piano (1977)
• Fratres for violin, string orchestra and percussion (1992)
• Concerto piccolo über B-A-C-H for trumpet, string orchestra, harpsichord and piano (1994)
• Darf ich ... for violin, bells and string orchestra (1995/1999)
• Lamentate for piano and orchestra (2002)
• Passacaglia for violin, string orchestra and vibraphone (2003/2007, for Gidon Kremer's 60th birthday)

Instrumental works

• Music for a Children's Theatre, Four Dances: Puss in Boots, Red-Riding-Hood and Wolf, Butterfly, Dance of the Ducklings, for piano (1956/1957)
• 2 Sonatinen op.1, for piano (1958/1959)
• Quintettino op.13, for wind quintet (1964)
• Collage über B-A-C-H for oboe and strings (1964)
• Für Alina for piano (1976)
• Pari Intervallo for organ (1976/1981)
• Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka for piano (1977)
• Spiegel im Spiegel for violin or cello and piano (1978)
• Fratres (1977–1992)
  • Fratres for violin and piano
  • Fratres for strings and percussion
  • Fratres for violin, strings and percussion
  • Fratres for string quartet
  • Fratres for cello and piano
  • Fratres for eight cellos
  • Fratres for wind octet and percussion
• Annum per annum for organ (1980)
• Pari intervallo for organ (1981)
• Hymn to a Great City for two pianos (1984/2000)
• Trivium for organ (1988)
• Summa for string quartet (1990)
• Berliner Messe for SATB soloists and organ (1990)
• Psalom for string quartet (1991/1993)
• Mozart-Adagio for violin, cello and piano (1992/1997, from Mozart's Piano Sonata in F major (K 280))
• Passacaglia for violin and piano (2003)

Selected discography

• Tabula Rasa (ECM New Series, CD/LP 1984)
• Arbos (ECM New Series, CD/LP 1987)
• The Passio (ECM New Series, CD/LP 1988)
• Miserere (ECM New Series, CD/LP 1991)

Awards

• 1996 — American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Music

"Honorary Awards: University of Sydney". Retrieved 2009-01-12.</ref>

• 1998 — Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Tartu
• 2003 — Honorary Doctor of Music, University of Durham
• 2008 — Léonie Sonning Music Prize
• 2010 — Honorary Doctor of Music, University of St Andrews

Sources

• Hillier, Paul. (1997). Arvo Pärt. Oxford : Oxford University Press. 10-ISBN 0-198-16616-8; 13-ISBN 978-0-198-16616-0 (paper)

External links

• Presentation of Tróndur as nominee to Nordic Council Music Prize. Danish text
• Tróndur Bogason page at the faroese composers society