Klang – Copenhagen Avantgarde Music Festival

To conclude its season, the Basel Sinfonietta presents a program of impressive music by five female composers, a program the orchestra performed just a few days earlier at the avant-garde music festival "Klang" in Copenhagen.
In her orchestral work "Endless Sediments," German composer Isabel Mundry explores the traces of music from distant times and spaces. Her nuanced musical language incorporates a multifaceted reflection on the relationships between time, space, and perception.

The young composer Gemma Ragués Pujol, from Barcelona, ​​is writing a new work for the Basel Sinfonietta in which the orchestra allows the words of a narrator to echo or color, in order to create a cubist piece in which rhythm and text play a major role.

The young Swedish-Danish composer Ylva Lund Bergner has written a work for orchestra called «dOWN» for the Basel Sinfonietta, commissioned by the Copenhagen Klang Festival and inspired by the interplay between wind and trees.

In «Considering Icarus», the concerto for trombone and orchestra by Norwegian singer and composer Maja SK Ratkje, the soloist is encouraged to follow his high ambitions and thereby make the music fly.

And Australian composer Cathy Milliken drew inspiration for "Ediacaran Fields" from 500-million-year-old fossils found at a South Australian site. In her music, she not only evokes the magic of a world where animal and plant organisms peacefully coexist in a marine environment, but also assigns the audience an active role!