Fleurs

TERJUNGENSEMBLE I Jan Erik Mikalsen I Raven Chacon I Jon Øivind Ness

Friday, 20 September, at 17:30–18:30

225–330 kr

In a world where so much in nature is threatened by extinction, the imagination is filled with possibilities of new species, or routes of escape. In this programme performed by the TERJUNGENSEMBLE, conducted by Lars-Erik ter Jung and featuring the delicate, virtuoso clarinet of Pierre Xhonneux, nature, myth, science fiction and meditations on time, merge and flow together.

Jon Øivind Ness’s Vóren evokes new lifeforms emerging from the darkness of an imaginary cave. Jan Erik Mikalsen’s Fleurs draws attention to vulnerable rare flowers growing on Jeløya island.The piece earned Mikalsen the 2023 ‘Composition of the Year’ award from the Norwegian Society of Composers.

Reflecting on the Navajo people’s struggles across territory taken by white North American settlers, Raven Chacon’s Journey of the Horizontal Peopleuses dissonances and temporal counterpointsto tell the story about a group of travellers on a quest for survival. ‘With their bows,’ Chacon says, ‘these wanderers sought out others like them, knowing that they could survive by finding these other clans who resided in the east, others who shared their linear cosmologies.’

Programme

Jon Øivind Ness: Vóren for ensemble (2021)

Raven Chacon: The Journey of the Horizontal People for string quartet (2016)

Jan Erik Mikalsen: Fleurs for ensemble (2022)

Violin

Johannes Sciacco Schantz
Inga Mathilde Gorset
Baard Winther Andersen
Marit Egenes
Emil Huckle-Kleve
Hanna Marie Thiesen

Viola

Anders Rensvik
Pål Solbakk

Cello

Ingvild Nesdal Sandnes
Ulrikke Henninen

Double bass

Kjetil Sandum

Conductor

Lars-Erik ter Jung

Clarinet (soloist)

Pierre Xhonneux

Commissioner

Journey of the Horizontal People was commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire, a project of the Kronos Performing Arts Association. The score and parts are available for free online. kronosquartet.org.