Sofia Jernberg.
Sofia Jernberg/Ariadne Greif/Cory Smythe: Dreams Of Our Future
Hope, rainbows and fear: The dream life of today’s children, magicked into song
Three pieces combining dreams, childhood memories and the rich imagination of children.
Sofia Jernberg Dreams of Our Future (2022, WP)
Cory Smythe Circulate Susanna (2018)
Ariadne Greif New work (2022, WP)
A fairytale ensemble of pan-American and Scandinavian genre-crossing contemporary musicians and improvisors collaborate in this unique concert experience in a special staging.
For Dreams Of Our Future, composer and vocalist Sofia Jernberg in collaboration with Ariadne Greif asked a cross-section of Oslo school children to draw, tell or write down the contents of their dreams. Then she took their recollections and turned them into music. In performance, the children themselves make up the choir that sing these extraordinary dream songs.
US contemporary pianist and composer Cory Smythe’s Circulate Susanna is based on the his nostalgic memories of family gatherings in the warm embrace of a bygone America. In those impromptu concert rituals, his father invented alien country melodies set on a distant fictional moon, inhabited by strange beings with music flowing in their veins instead of blood. Smythe’s piece is rooted in these mystic memories from his childhood.
Ariadne Greif is a soprano and performer acclaimed for her interpretations of contemporary vocal repertoire. In addition her own pieces have involved video, multimedia and the dazzling range of her versatile, expressive voice. She presents a brand new work for Ultima 2022 that plays with childhood fantasy, children’s literature and abstraction.
Sofia Jernberg
Ariadne Greif
Cory Smythe
Dreams of Our Future. Foto: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard/ Grafikk Ariadne Greif.
Vocal
- Sofia Jernberg
Soprano
- Ariadne Greif
Violin
- Anna Lindal
Viola
- Bendik Foss
Piano
- Cory Smythe
Pre-recorded samples
- Raymond Strid
Saxophone
- Amalie Dahl
- Espen Reinertsen
Trumpet
- Eivind Lønning
Guitar
- Dan Lippel
Bass
- Ole Morten Vågan
Children´s ensemble coordination
- Esther Gjermundnes
Direction/choreography
- Ingrid Cecilie Bertran de Lis
Costume for Ariadne Greif
- Johnny Vendiola
Childrens Ensemble:
- Marie Danbolt Brochard, Ane Boon-Grønseth, Sander Auger Halleraker, Amanda T. Helstad, Eskild Krogh Heramb, Johanne Hasle Iversen, Sarah N Johansen, Mathea Finset Johnstad, Ada Marie E. Kleven, Sara Lalande, Silje Elise Blix Langsrud, Else Lindby-Aas, Ida Sofie Monclair, Katarina Liavaag Orieta, Viktoria Repstad, Leona Perpeta Stronach
In collaboration with
- Den Norske Opera & Ballett
Supported by
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- Kulturrådet (The Grammar of Ornament)
