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The Quartet's diverse recitals open up a world of impressions when old music is reflected in contemporary
music, across national and cultural barriers.
One of the specific aims of the Quartet is to cultivate a contemporary repertoire in close co-operation with Danish and foreign composers. The desire to stimulate the expansion of, in particular, Scandinavian and Baltic - but also non-European as well as European - contemporary music for guitar quartet through concerts and workshops, defines the heartbeat of the ensemble.
Against this background the Corona Guitar Kvartet enjoys a close and fruitful collaboration with with composers from Denmark, the Faroes, Norway, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Italy and the USA as well as arrangers from i.a. Argentina in the creation of new works for guitar quartet.
In addition to its current concert activities, the Corona Guitar Kvartet has, over the recent years, participated in numerous international festivals focusing either on the guitar or contemporary music, and it has done several concert trips and projects.
Highlights:
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Tour of the North Atlantic Faroes, workshop for composers in co-operation with the Faroese Composers' Association. |
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13th International Sønderho Guitar Festival, Denmark. |
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8th International Guitar Festival at Næstved, Denmark. |
| 1999: |
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Tour of Latvia as part of the 10th International New Music Festival including recitals at the Richard Wagner Hall in Riga; master classes for guitar players and production for Latvian television |
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Tour of Lithuania for the Danish Cultural Institute, master classes for students and teachers at the Vilnius Academy of Music; production for the Lithuanian National Television; broadcasting of the concluding recital featuring a performance of Jonas Tamulionis' new work "Per Suonare a Quattro" by the Lithuanian National Radio. |
| 2000: |
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Recital at the NUMUS Contemporary Music Festival "Gamle Og Nye Fremtidsdrømme" (Dreams Old and New of the Future) at Musikhuset in Århus, Denmark including first performances of new works by Hannu Pohjannoro and Østen Mikal Ore. Performance of Axel Borup-Jörgensen's work "Poésies pour la dame á la Licorne" for two guitars. |
| 2001: |
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Tour of Lithuania as part of the 2nd International Classical Guitar Festival "Guitar Spring '01"; broadcasting of the final concert by the Lithuanian National Television and Radio. |
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Copenhagen International Guitar Festival 2001: composer portrait of John Frandsen. |
| 2002: |
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Participated in the cultural project
Discover Denmark in connection with the Danish EU
Presidency: |
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Tour of Lithuania, including i.a. the first performance of Østen Mikal Ores's piece "Neon Reflections" for guitar quartet and sinfonietta (fl., cl, guit. 1-2-3-4, perc. 1-2-3, vln 1-2, vla, vlc, db), plus a performance of Joaquin Rodrigo's "Concierto Andaluz" for guitar quartet and orchestra, featuring
St. Christopher's Chamber Orchestra of Vilnius
and conducted by Donatas Katkus. The concert with the orchestra in Vilnius Congress Hall was broadcast on the radio. |
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Tour of
Latvia; radio recording of the concert at the Richard Wagner Sal in Riga. |
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Tour of Estonia including recitals at the
'Fiesta de la
Guitarra' Festival; master class at the Academy of Music of Estonia in Tallinn. |
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The CGK received the Wilhelm Hansen Foundation Award for its dedicated work in the Baltic
countries. |
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Recitals in Vienna in Austria at the Bösendorfer Hall and the Altes
Rathaus. |
| 2003: |
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Experience CGK live!
The Corona Guitar Kvartet will be performing at, among other venues, the Sønderho International Guitar Festival, the Copenhagen International Guitar Festival, the Sommertonar Festival in the Faroes and the 3rd Classical Guitar Festival 'Northern Light' in Lithuania, the latter focusing primarily on Icelandic and Faroese music as well as Nordic musicians and composers. Also planned are first performances of works by the composers Thuridur Jonsdottir (IS), Edvard Nyholm Debess, Kristian Blak (FO) and Hsueh Yung-Shen (USA). |
CGK on CD
February 2001:
Just Before The Dawn
(Tutl FKT 17), CGK and Dan Marmorstein. www.tutl.com
NEW CD OUT June 1, 2003:
"NORTHPOINTS"
5 contemporary Danish works for guitar quartet by John Frandsen, Østen Mikal Ore, Wayne Siegel, Hans-Henrik Nordstrøm and Svend Hedegaard IRISCD 0301
PREORDER TODAY AT: post@coronaguitarkvartet.dk
www.irismusic.dk
CGK
Revisited
" …the main event here is a 22-minute acoustic guitar piece called "Foreplay"…
…"Foreplay" turns out to be pretty damn good, an aleatory jam spread over a rock-solid cantus firmus, with traces of dodecaphony, Federico Mompou and the Grateful Dead's "Dark Star." Played by the Corona Guitar Kvartet, the sound is spacy, spare and Nordically uncluttered. Now more than ever, the classical guitar needs some avant-garde vitality; this disc is a salubrious shot in the arm."
- Chase Madar on "Just Before The Dawn" in
TimeOut
Magazine, New York, USA, issue no.300, June 21-28, 2001
'One of the greatest recitals of the Festival was played here. The Corona Guitar Kvartet proved themselves as excellent chamber musicians and interpreters…'
- Daily "Diena", Riga, Latvia, 1999
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