Musikere

Allan Rasmussen

Allan Rasmussen, Danish organist and harpsichordist, was born in 1968 and studied with Hans Fagius and Lars Ulrik Mortensen at The Royal Danish Academy of Music. He took his soloist diploma in 1993 and made his public debut with the highest critical acclaims.
As a soloist on both harpsichord and organ, Allan Rasmussen has an extensive concert activity and performs a wide range of repertoire from renaissance to contemperary music. He performs regulary with several European early music groups such as Arte dei Suonatori, Les Ambassadeurs, Concerto Copenhagen, Theatre of Voices, and Elephant House Quartet. He has been featured as soloist with leading symphony orchestras in Scandinavia with a.o. the virtuosic harpsichord concerti from the 20th century by Francis Poulenc and Manuel de Falla. In 1999 he recieved the prestigious Danish Music Critic’s Award. He has participated in numerous recordings for the European Broadcasting Union as well as for record labels such as EMI, Erato, Alpha, Channel Classics, and DaCapo.
Since 2003 he is the chief organist and cantor at Frederiksberg Church in Copenhagen.

Bolette Roed

Bolette Roed graduated from the advanced solo performance class of the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, March 2004, and since then, her solo career has brought her to festivals and concert scenes all over Europe, Asia and the US. Parallel to the studies in Copenhagen, she also studied at Conservatoire National Superieur Musique et Danse de Lyon, and she graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Copenhagen.
She studied the recorder with Dan Laurin and Pierre Hamon and before that Nikolaj Ronimus and Kirsten Rehling, who all created a fertile ground for her love of the recorder and of music. In addition to this naturally she did masterclasses with Kees Boeke, Pedro Memelsdorf, Peter Holtslag, Marion Verbruggen and Gerd Lünenburger – collecting experience and superior knowledge about recorder playing.
Soon after her debut, Bolette was appointed Artist-in-Residence of the Danish National Radio and in 2011 she was nominated for the Nordic Council’s Music Prize. Furthermore she received the Grand Prize of Jacob Gade Foundation in 2003 and the highly esteemed “The Danish Music Critics Prize 2014”. And she was elected for The Danish State Art Council’s “Young Elite” program.
Bolette is an all-embracing musician, working not only with the classical repertoire for recorder, but also with improvisation, folk and world music. Her repertoire ranges from medieval through renaissance and baroque to contemporary music and she has world premiered a large number of works. As part of her innate curiosity Bolette is constantly striving to expand the musical playground of the recorder.
Since 2004, Bolette has toured as a soloist with Arte dei Suonatori – one of Europe’s most outstanding baroque orchestras. Additionally, she has performed as a soloist with Concerto Copenhagen, the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Holland Baroque and the Royal Danish Orchestra.
Besides persuing her solo career, Bolette often performs in smaller or larger chamber music settings – including her own ensembles Alpha, Concert Pastoral and Elephant House Quartet.
She has released a large number of CD’s – most recently as the first ever Brüggens complete arrangements for recorder of selected J. S. Bach solo repertoire from the solo cello suites and violin partitas and sonatas. Of future releases can be mentioned “Telemanns Garden” on Pentatone with Elephant House Quartet, to be released in the fall of 2019.

Reiko Ichise

Reiko er født i Tokyo og begyndte sin musikalske løbebane som pianist. Hun studerede musik på Kunitachi College of Music, hvor hun fattede interesse for gamben, og begyndte at tage timer hos Yukimi Kanbe og Tetsuya Nakano.
I 1991 rejste hun til England for at studere gambe hos Richard Boothby ved Royal College of Music. Under uddannelsen vandt hun desuden den prestigefyldte “Concerto Prize” og afsluttede sine master studier med udmærkelse. Efter at have færdiggjort sine studier ved RCM, har hun etableret sig som en af de førende gambister i England, og optræder på scener som Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall og the Royal Opera House som kammermusiker, orkestermusiker og solist. Hun har arbejdet med mange af de førende barokdirigenter og orkestre, deriblandt Sir John Eliot Gardiner og English Baroque Soloists, Sir David Willcocks og English Chamber Orchestra, Paul McCreesh og Gabrieli Consort, Kurt Masur og London Philharmonic Orchestra samt Richard Egarr og Academy of Ancient Music.

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Elephant House Quartet Bio

Elephant House Quartet is the fruit of a mutual admiration of four masterful soloist with strong personalities. Recorder player Bolette Roed, Japanese gambist Reiko Ichise, harpsichordist Allan Rasmussen and violinist Aureliusz Goliński unify, creating a baroque ensemble with virtuosis on each instrument in wonderful interaction.

A graduate of the Royal College of music in London, Reiko Ichise now teaches there herself. She is in great demand both as​ ​a​ ​chamber musician and as a soloist, regularly​ ​performing with​ ​many​ ​of the leading orchestras​. Aureliusz Goliński is the founder and leader of the award winning Polish baroque orchestra, Arte dei Suonatori, based in Poznan, and he is a sought-after leader with many of the major historically informed orchestras within Europe. Bolette Roed and Allan Rasmussen, the two Danish members of the ensemble are both alumni of the soloist class of The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, where Bolette Roed herself is now teaching besides her extensive concert career. Allan Rasmussen is the organist of the renowned Frederiksberg Church as well as enjoying a great concert career as organist and harpsichordist. All of the ensemble members are featured on numerous releases. This fall the quartets first CD together “Telemann’s Garden” will be released on Pentatone.

The four well-established soloists have combined to create highly specialized baroque repertoire featuring an exhaustive selection of the Baroque era. G. Ph. Telemann’s Paris Quartets, J. S. Bach’s Trio sonatas, French and Italian High Baroque and the beautifully seductive English melodies as well as the intriguing works of the Bach sons. An inexhaustible treasure chest of beauty.

Helen Davies

Helen Davies´s career as a harpist is diverse and eclectic. Her wide-ranging musical life has seen her combine a distinguished orchestral solo-harpist career in Ireland and Scandinavia with scholarly research in 18th and 19th century harp music, arranging and performing Irish traditional harp music and the harp music of her native Wales, and since 1989, working in the field of contemporary improvised music and electronics with her husband, trumpet player and composer Palle Mikkelborg, with whom she has performed throughout Scandinavia, Australia, the Far East , China and the US. She has also worked closely with the renowned Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir and has toured extensively with them.

Helen studied harp in Wales with Ann Griffiths and read music at Birmingham University (UK). In latter years, apart from her professional career with Palle Mikkelborg, her interest in early music and the northern european folk tradition has inspired her to establish a duo with Poul Høxbro (flutes and percussion). Helen has published several books of harp music and has featured on numerous recordings. Her solo CD Open the Door Softly was nominated for a Danish Music Award, and her most recent solo CD Chasing the Breeze was nominated for a Danish Radio Listener´s Prize.

Helen Davies er som harpenist særdeles vidtfavnende. I hendes omfattende musikalske karriere har hun kombineret orkesterstillinger som soloharpenist i både Irland og Skandinavien med forskning i harpemusik fra 17- og 1800-tallet, arrangeret og spillet såvel traditionel irsk musik samt folketoner fra hendes hjemegn, Wales. Siden 1989 har hun desuden arbejdet med improviseret og elektronisk musik sammen med hendes mand, trompetisten og komponisten Palle Mikkelborg, med hvem hun har turnéret i Skandinavien, Australien, Det Fjerne Østen og USA. Hun har også arbejdet tæt sammen med Københavns Drengekor og været på omfattende turnéer med dem.

Helen Davies studerede harpe i Wales hos Ann Griffiths og læste musikvidenskab på universitetet i Birmingham. Udover hendes professionelle karriere med Palle Mikkelborg har hendes interesse i tidlig og traditionel nordisk musik inspireret hende til at danne en duo med fløjtenisten og slagtøjsspilleren, Poul Høxbro. Helen Davies har stået bag flere udgivelser af harpemusik og deltaget et en lang række CDindspilninger. Hendes solo CD Open the Door Softly var nomineret i Danish Music Award og hendes seneste CD , Chasing the Breeze var nomineret til P2- Lytterprisen

Jonas Lyskjær

Klarinettist Jonas Lyskjær Frølund

Studier
● Studerer på første år af en kandidat (2me cycle supérieur de Clarinette) ved
Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris hos
professor Philippe Berrod, soloklarinettist i Orchestre de Paris.
● Studerede på Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium 2015-2017 hos Lee Morgan,
soloklarinettist i Det Kongelige Kapel.
● 2011-2015 elev ved John Kruse, soloklarinettist i Det Kongelige Kapel. 2012-2015 på Sankt
Annæ MGK.

Orkester
● Medlem af og soloklarinettist i Danmarks Underholdningsorkester.
● Siden juli 2019 på trial som soloklarinettist i orkestret ved Royal Opera House, London.
● Siden september 2018 på kontrakt som alternerende soloklarinettist i Malmö

Konkurrencer
● 1. prisen ved 5th Lisbon International Clarinet Competition 2019.
● 3. prisen med V Coloris i Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition 2019.
● Specialprisen ved Jacques Lancelot International Clarinet Competition 2016.

Ny og anden musik
● Har fået skrevet/får skrevet solo- og kammermusikværker til sig af Birgitte Alsted, Mette
Nielsen, Matias Vestergård Hansen, Doina Rotaru, Sabin Pautza, Nimrod Borenstein, Navid
Bargrizan og Tom Brennan.
● CD-indspillede Rune Glerups klarinetkvintet i efteråret 2019 med Quatuor Diotima.
● Samarbejder med Hans Abrahamsen, Per Nørgård og Poul Ruders i forbindelse med nye
eller eksisterende værker.
● Skal under sommeren 2021 indspille et album med nyskrevne danske og enkelte
udenlandske soloværker for klarinet.
● Er meget optaget af improvisation, herunder den helt frie af slagsen.
● Er på trods af klassisk skoling glad for at bevæge sig rundt i forskellige andre genrer.

Instrumenter
● Ejer og spiller på basklarinet og bassetklarinet foruden de almindelige A- og Bb-klarinetter.

Personligt
● Sport er en stor interesse og atleters disciplinerede livsstil en inspirationskilde.
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Poul Høxbro

Poul Høxbro er en sand kunstnerisk og musikalsk pionér. Han er mest kendt og anerkendt for sit banebrydende arbejde med middelalderens fløjte-&-trommetradition, som han har været medvirkende til at løfte frem af glemslen, præsentere og integrere i alle mulige musikalske gener på scener overalt i verden. For år tilbage blev han udvalgt som én af blot ni fløjtenister fra hele verden til at lave projektet “Magic Flutes” ved Tysklands største folk- og world music festival i Rudolstadt. Poul Høxbro mestrer også fløjter som low whistle, seljefløjte og xun; og altid forsøger han at presse instrumenterne til deres yderste grænser og forny både deres repertoire og musikalske roller. Hans repertoire omfatter musik fra vikingetid til eksperimenterende samtidsmusik samt historiefortælling på 4 sprog.

Poul Høxbro is a true pioneer in the field of music. He was also chosen as one of 9 flautists from all around the world to take part in the “Magical Flutes” project at Germany’s biggest Folk and World Music Festival in Rudolstadt. He has been called ”the great man of small instruments” and it is true that he is quite unique in the way he has taken the medieval instrument of pipe and tabor – played simultaneously by one person – out of the shadows and into the full glare of concert platforms all over the world. Furthermore he masters instruments as low whistle, xun and traditional Scandinavian horn and willow flute. Always trying to push the instruments to their limits and to renew their repertoire.
Poul Høxbro is also a much sought-after storyteller. He has received outstanding reviews for his dramatic and utterly magic way of drawing an audience into the world of myth and legend – be it in Danish, Swedish, German or English!

Joachim Becerra Thomsen

Joachim Becerra Thomsen, solofløjtenist i Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra og tidligere anden solofløjtenist i DR Symfoniorkestret, har optrådt vidt og bredt i Europa og USA med en række orkestre og kammerensembler og er blevet rost for sin “distinkte og fortryllende smukke klang, fremragende musikerskab og gribende nærvær” (Jeffrey Kahane, Broadway World).

Igennem sin unge karriere har han ledt fløjtegrupper og optrådt under ledelse af højt anerkendte dirigenter, såsom Ádám Fischer, Iván Fischer, James Gaffigan, Valery Gergiev, Manfred Honeck, Marek Janowski, Bernard Labadie, Fabio Luisi, Kurt Masur, Juanjo Mena, Ludovic Morlot, Vasily Petrenko, Matthias Pintscher, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Jukka- Pekka Saraste, Leif Segerstam med flere.
Senest, er Joachim blevet inviteret som gæste-solofløjte i Philharmonia Orchestra i London og i 2016 fungerede han som solofløjtenist i det Finske Radiosymfoniorkester. Han har igennem mange år spillet regelmæssigt med og været gæste-solofløjte hos anerkendte ensembler, herunder DR Symfoniorkestret, Det Kongelige Kapel, Danmarks Underholdningsorkester, Copenhagen Phil, Malmö Symfoniorkester, Det Norske Radio-orkester (KORK) samt Turku Filharmonikerne.

Sideløbende med disse engagementer har hans passion for tidlig musik først ham til at samarbejde med store barokspecialister og ensembler, såsom dirigent og cembalist, Harry Bicket, dirigent og cembalist, Matthew Halls og leder af barokorkestret Arte Dei Suonatori, Aureliusz Golinski. Hans barokoptrædener er blevet omtalt som “aftenens højdepunkt” med “fremragende evne og kunstnerskab” og med “sprudlende livskraft” (Culture spot LA).
Joachim har bl.a. modtaget Harby Fondens legat, Betty og Valdemar van Hauens legat, Sonning talentpris, Jacob Gade’s store legat og talentpris. I USA modtog han Grand Prize hos Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts.

Joachim har studeret hos Julien Beaudiment, Dennis Bouriakov, Anna Dina Schick Bjørn-Larsen, Tim Day, Brit Halvorsen, Ulla Miilmann, Emmanuel Pahud, Jim Walker og Henrik Wiese, og har bachelor- og kandidatgrad fra Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium i København, kandidatgraden med special-studier i tidlig musik-opførselspraksis.

I 2018 afsluttede han en solistuddannelse, Artist Diploma, fra den prestigefulde Colburn School i Los Angles med Jim Walker som mentor.
Joachim Becerra Thomsen er Yamaha Performing Artist.

Arte dei Suonatori

Arte dei Suonatori, a Baroque orchestra formed in 1993 by violinists Ewa and Aureliusz Goliński, has become one the most recognisable Polish ensemble on the international music scene. Their repertoire exceeds 700 compositions, representing a wide-range of styles and forms from the 17th and 18th century as well as the contemporary era.

Since its formation, the orchestra has worked with major figures of the early music world. Fruitful and inspiring collaborations have developed with artists such as Martin Gester, Rachel Podger, Bolette Roed, Alexis Kossenko, Maria Keohane and Ruby Hughes. Alongside performances throughout Europe and the United States, they have co-created and co-organised five significant festival series in Poland. Their concert cycle “Early Music-Persona Grata” is the largest in Poland dedicated to historically-informed performance, having expanded rapidly from its beginnings in 1999.
For music lovers all over the world, their concerts have been broadcast by popular European radio stations including the BBC, NDR, Danish Radio DR, Polish Radio PR2, recorded by Polish Television and Mezzo and registered on fifteen albums for labels BIS, Alpha, Da Capo, and Dux. The orchestra’s approach and unique way of music-making have enjoyed great international interest testified by awards for their recordings such as Gramophone Award, Diapason d’Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique, Luister 10, 10 de Repertoire, Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Gramophone CD of the Month, Classics Today, and Prelude Orchestral CD of the Year.

www.artedeisuonatori.pl