MEMORYHOUSE
Friday 14 June, 19:00
Queen Silvia Concert Hall
Artists
SOUMIK DATTA sarod|composer
CHRISTIAN IHLE HADLAND piano
GURDAIN RAYATT tabla
FRASER TRAINER composer
O/MODERNT CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Programme
Max Richter Memoryhouse
Interwoven with
Franz Schubert Impromptu No. 3 in G-Flat Major, Allegretto
Franz Schubert Moments musicaux D 780 No. 6 in A Flat Major
Franz Schubert Impromptu No. 1 in C Minor D 899, Allegro molto moderato
INTERMISSION
New works by Soumik Datta
Interwoven with
Max Richter On the Nature of Daylight
The Beatles ‘Blackbird’ from The Whilte Album
/arr. Johannes Marmén
The Beatles ‘Within You Without You’ from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
/arr. Johannes Marmén
The Beatles ‘Across the Universe’ from Let It Be
/arr. Johannes Marmén
Pink Floyd Paranoid Eyes
The starting point for this concert is Max Richter’s Memoryhouse (2002), an innovative album of remembered and imagined narratives, rendered as musical dreamscapes. Since memory (Mnemosyne) was the mother of the muses, it is no surprise that Richter’s hallowed ground has been broken before, not least by Schubert, whose intimately expansive piano works exploit previously unheard harmonic and tonal freedoms. After the interval the O/Modernt players are joined by the composer and sarod player Soumik Datta, whose ‘Mone Rekho’ (‘Remember’ in Bengali) embeds Indian music in a wide-ranging sonic landscape describing universal human experiences of memory, identity and creativity.
Directed by violinist Hugo Ticciati, the O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra is an integral part of O/Modernt. Comprised of top players from all over Europe, the orchestra performs eclectic and adventurous programmes, with anything from arrangements of medieval motets to Bach, Webern and Metallica. The orchestra regularly collaborates with world-renowned soloists such as Evelyn Glennie, Steven Isserlis, Anne Sofie von Otter and Nils Landgren, as well as jazz artists, rappers, choreographers, rock-balancers and more!
Over the last decade, the orchestra has gained an international reputation, with critically-acclaimed performances at the Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Wiener Musikverein and Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam. Recent and upcoming highlights include concerts in Kölner Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie, Berwaldhallen, Kings Place and Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall. The O/Modernt players enjoy a wide range of outreach and educational projects in Sweden, the UK and further afield in India.
Festival 2022
Violins
CLARA BJERHAG
LUCA BOGNÁR
LAIA BRAUN
GABRIEL CORNET
XENIA GEUGELIN
JULIJA IVANOVAITÉ
ISKANDAR KOMILOV
SOFIA KORTELAINEN
MIRIAM LILJIFORS
LAURA LUNANSKY
JOHANNES MARMÉN
VICKY SAYLES
LIANA SVENSSON
HUGO TICCIATI
OSCAR TREITLER
Violas
JENNY AUGUSTINSSON
BRYONY GIBSON-CORNISH
FLORIAN HUBER
PRZEMYSŁAW PUJANEK
FRAUKE STEICHERT
HUGO SVENSSON
Cellos
JULIAN ARP
HEDVIG BENGSTON
REBECKA ERICSSON
CLAUDE FROCHAUX
EDWARD KING
SINÉAD O’HALLORAN
Double Basses
JORDI CARRASCO HJELM
JAKUB BECERRA PIETRYKA
BENJAMIN ZIAI
Oboe
HANNES HEINEMANN
INKEN MENCK
SIOBHAN PARKER
Bassoon
JONATHAN BAUER
ANDERS ENGSTRÖM
Horn
ANNA FERRIOL DE CIURANA
BJÖRN OLSSON
EELIS MALMIVIRTAV
Theorb
KARL NYHLIN
Christian Ihle Hadland has established himself as a true craftsman of the piano, a musician whose delicate, refined playing and individual touch have led him to the most prestigious stages in the world. Christian came to international attention in 2011 as a BBC New Generation Artist, performing with all four of the BBC’s symphony orchestras and broadcasting solo and chamber recitals for the corporation in London. At his debut at the BBC Proms in London, he was praised by critics for his ‘pearly’ and ‘otherworldly’ sound. Christian made his professional concerto debut at the age of 15 with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and has since performed with all the major orchestras in Scandinavia. In the UK he has appeared as a concerto soloist with several major orchestras in addition to his work with the BBC orchestras. He has been Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Festival in Stavanger, his hometown, since 2010.
