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Here you can find almost anything about all the concerts Gothenburg Symphony has played over the years, both in the Concert Hall and on tour. Search for conductors, soloists and other artists that has played together with us. Or search for composers and music that we have played. And filter on specific seasons. Guesting orchestras and ensembles are also included in the archive. The result is presented by season.
87 concerts
87 concerts
2025-02-09 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Pierre Boulez (1925-2016)
Dérive 1
The piece Dérive 1, or Dérive as it was called before the sequel Dérive 2 was added, was first performed by the London Sinfonietta in 1984. The history of the piece goes back to 1976 when Boulez, Lutoslawski, Dutilleux, Pousseur, Blacher and other composers wrote music for the celebration of patron and conductor Paul Sachers 70th birthday. While most of the works became solo pieces for cello, Boulez composed a work for solo cello and six violoncellos, Messagesquisse. The tonal material in all works were musical interpretations or paraphrases of the name Sacher – ess, a, c, h, e, re (d).
Six chords are formed from the six notes. Through small and continuous shifts, a feeling of extended time is created which contrasts with melodic ornamentation at a fast pace. This polarity is also expressed in the contrast between the two parts that can be distinguished in the piece. Through increasingly clear pulsating elements, an ambivalence between harmony and melody arises, chords become fragments of melody, figures are swallowed by harmony.
Carola Bauckholt (b 1959)
Luftwurzeln for flute, clarinet, viola and cello
During the 2000s, Carola Bauckholt became one of the big names as well as a composer and teacher with guest laureates from Oslo to Chile and with several composition prizes on the shelf. The music explores the borderland between musical theatre, performance art and concert music. In Luftwurzeln, the noise-derived, sound-associating music carries a strong visual mark, not through what happens on stage, but in the listening. The music explores various tremolating, vibrating and air-like sounds and the ear slowly begins to hear the gestures almost as choreographic elements. A repetitive gesture is imitated in instrument after instrument, slowly transforming until suddenly, as if by chance, it changes direction - like a sudden gust of wind, the music is carried from place to place in an imaginary landscape.
Madeleine Isaksson Rooms
12 min
Stuart Saunders Smith (1948–2024)
In Common
In common (1991) by the recently deceased composer Saunders Smith was performed by Gageego! at their very first concert, 23 March 1995 at Kronhuset. Since then, his music has periodically sounded in Gothenburg and the surrounding area during Gageego!'s concerts. Saunders Smith's music often has the percussion at the center, so also in In Common. His music is characterized by an eclectic and esoteric vein with often surprising elements. About the short and dense work In Common, Saunders Smith quotes two complementary sentences: "Music is one of our little dances with death in which we lead.” and "Music is one of our little dances with life where we follow."
Anders Jonhäll
Intermission
25 min
Esaias Järnegard (b. 1983)
Tunnlar. Diken. Gravar (premiere)
“Tunnels. Ditches. Graves is a composition that is as much mine as the memory of Gageego! A collection of phrases from meetings with these musicians since 2014. In the center moves a viola solo that carries excerpts and concert memories from the time when Johanna Persson in several of my works and other composers' music taught me how strings can sound. In the periphery, the woodwind parts of Ragnar Arnberg and Anders Jonhäll move like elusive shadows of both voices and lines. The hands mark the constant presence of the percussion. The rasping, down-tuned string is Johan Stern's thoughtful string movement. Surrounding all this is an echo of the past year's life.
Nothing in Tunnlar. Diken. Gravar is really a homage, but the way I built the 7 interwoven sets bears traces that point in several directions. In a note quite late in the composition process it says 23, 29, 21, 7 and 41. The numbers mean little to the listening, but also mean everything. Thank you Gageego!”
Esaias Järnegard
Per Mårtensson (b. 1967)
Quartet
The precision, virtuosity and sensitivity of Per Mårtensson's writing have always gone hand in hand with the ensemble's diligent exploration. The composer Hans Gefors has said the following about Mårtensson's quartet: "How do you create musical characters? Just like when assessing people - it is important to have a sharp eye. It is important to listen carefully! Concentration. Listen to both foreground and background; listen to both the individual instrument and the overall result; both be curious about the detail and keep the big picture in mind...
Quartet has four movements, presents four characters. It is very quiet - then you get more details in the listening. And it is short, very short. Like seeing a person on the platform when the subway is leaving the station and seem to be facing someone's fate.”
Anders Jonhäll
Djuro Zivkovic (b. 1975)
Night Music
In 2019, Gageego performed! Djuro Zivkovics On the guarding of the heart under the direction of Peter Eötvös. A memorable concert where every millimeter of Stenhammarsalen's podium was used. Tonight, the music is more chamber music where we get to hear a peculiar conversation between the tonal worlds of Zivkovic and Scriabin (1872–1915). Zivkovic says himself: "Night Music is inspired by one of the most beautiful short piano compositions, written by Alexander Scriabin after 1900. As I understand that all genius music can have new layers, I have used six pieces by Scriabin as background to a newly composed music and thus added to Scriabin an absurd imagination, alien passion and exotic illusions...The piano, however, should not be considered a solo instrument, but a distant sound, which comes from far away in the universe.”
Anders Jonhäll
Sandgren endroits susceptibles
16 min
Participants
Anders Jonhäll flute
Ragnar Arnberg clarinet
Jonas Larsson percussion
Martin Ödlund percussion
Daniel Norberg percussion
Mårten Landström piano
Helena Frankmar Violin
Tuula Fleivik Nurmo viola
Cellist Johan Stern is principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and teaches cello, chamber music and orchestral playing at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and at the Juilliard School in New York. As a member of Gageego!, the Gothenburg Ensemble for New Music, he has premiered several solo works by our leading Nordic composers. Johan Stern has participated in a number of international festivals and as a soloist and chamber musician has performed with figures such as Bobby McFerrin, Edward Gardner, Petri Sakari, Kristjan Järvi, Daniel Müller-Schott and Levon Chilingirian. During his studies at Juilliard, he had the privilege of collaborating with several internationally renowned musical figures, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma and composers Elliott Carter and John Cage.
Fredrik Burstedt conductor
Linus Andersson electronics
2023-03-18 19:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Participants
2022-10-21 22:00 Stora salen
Gageego!Programme
Participants
2022-10-15 19:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Participants
2022-04-02 19:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Participants
2021-12-04 19:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Participants
2020-10-10 19:00 Endast GSOPlay
Gageego!Participants
Anders Jonhäll flute
Ragnar Arnberg clarinet
Johan Ullén piano
Øyvor Volle Violin
Cellist Johan Stern is principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and teaches cello, chamber music and orchestral playing at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and at the Juilliard School in New York. As a member of Gageego!, the Gothenburg Ensemble for New Music, he has premiered several solo works by our leading Nordic composers. Johan Stern has participated in a number of international festivals and as a soloist and chamber musician has performed with figures such as Bobby McFerrin, Edward Gardner, Petri Sakari, Kristjan Järvi, Daniel Müller-Schott and Levon Chilingirian. During his studies at Juilliard, he had the privilege of collaborating with several internationally renowned musical figures, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma and composers Elliott Carter and John Cage.
Sofia Nyblom Presenter
Britta Byström composer
Henrik Denerin composer
Leilei Tian composer
Anci Hjulström director
2020-04-18 09:00 Endast GSOPlay
Gageego!Programme
Participants
2020-02-16 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Participants
2019-11-03 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Participants
2019-09-29 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Grime Piano Concerto
11 min
Feldman Between Categories
12 min
Intermission
25 min
Cattaneo Giano, Repainted
22 min
Cage Concerto for Piano
14 min
Participants
2019-04-07 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Thorvaldsdottir Reflections
8 min
Denerin fluchtlinien
11 min
Kurtág Bagatellen, op. 14
9 min
Penderecki Clarinet Quartet
16 min
Intermission
25 min
Thorvaldsdottir Ró
11 min
Participants
2019-01-27 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Participants
2018-11-18 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Billone Mani. Matta
20 min
Stockhausen Harmonien from Klang
14 min
Muntendorf shivers on speed
10 min
Intermission
25 min
Lachenmann Guero
4 min
Movio Di fragili incanti
15 min
Participants
2018-09-30 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Participants
2018-04-08 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Henze Adagio adagio
3 min
Stockhausen Zungenspitzentanz
10 min
Saunders Stirrings Still
11 min
Cage Solo for Sliding Trombone
10 min
Fure Something to Hunt
10 min
Intermission
25 min
Participants
2018-02-25 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Halperin-Kaddari Kinky Kings
12 min
Cohen-Elias Air pressure
9 min
Intermission
25 min
Gilutz Beethoven Souvenirs
18 min
Participants
2017-10-29 18:00 Stora salen
Gageego!Programme
Intermission
25 min
Posadas Tres pinturas imaginarias
19 min
Sánchez-Verdú Giorno dopo giorno
20 min
Participants
2017-09-24 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Ustvolskaja Pianosonata No 6
7 min
Khubeev Dark Strings
10 min
Victoria Behind the Shadows
7 min
Gorlinsky Bramputapsel #2
10 min
Intermission
25 min
Rykova 101% mind uploading
10 min
Kourliandski Falsa Lectio
12 min
Gubajdulina Quasi hoquetus
14 min
Participants
2017-04-02 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Bång perpetual revival
4 min
Steen-Andersen Beside Besides
4 min
Intermission
25 min
Herrmann rondeau sauvage
16 min
Participants
2017-02-05 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Participants
2016-11-20 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Participants
2016-10-02 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Carola Bauckholt (b 1959)
Luftwurzeln for flute, clarinet, viola and cello
During the 2000s, Carola Bauckholt became one of the big names as well as a composer and teacher with guest laureates from Oslo to Chile and with several composition prizes on the shelf. The music explores the borderland between musical theatre, performance art and concert music. In Luftwurzeln, the noise-derived, sound-associating music carries a strong visual mark, not through what happens on stage, but in the listening. The music explores various tremolating, vibrating and air-like sounds and the ear slowly begins to hear the gestures almost as choreographic elements. A repetitive gesture is imitated in instrument after instrument, slowly transforming until suddenly, as if by chance, it changes direction - like a sudden gust of wind, the music is carried from place to place in an imaginary landscape.
Donatoni Fili för flöjt och piano
12 min
Intermission
25 min
Streich DER ZARTE FADEN DEN DIE SCHÖNHEIT SPINNT - performance installation for percussion quartet
14 min
Clara Iannotta Limun
8 min
Participants
2016-03-20 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Participants
2016-01-24 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Glass excerpts from Tissues
7 min
Crumb ELEVEN ECHOES OF AUTUMN
20 min
Higdon ur String Poetic
18 min
Intermission
25 min
Feldman Instruments 3
18 min
Participants
2015-11-22 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Steen-Andersen Amid
8 min
Intermission
25 min
David No news good news
12 min
Ore Praesens subitus
8 min
Participants
2015-09-20 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Participants
2015-09-20 18:00
Gageego!Participants
2012-12-02 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Intermission
25 min
Nordin Pendant II
7 min
Ambrosini Trompe l´oreille
7 min
Adamek Sinous Voices
15 min
Participants
2011-10-23 18:00 Stenhammarsalen
Gageego!Programme
Tan Dun Elegy: Snow in June
24 min
Varèse Density 21.5
4 min
Schnyder A Friday Night in August
10 min
Intermission
25 min
Reich Eight Lines
17 min
Participants
Kristjan Järvi Conductor
Vlad Stanculeasa soloist
Helena Frankmar soloist
Terje Skomedal soloist
Mattias Johansson soloist
Tuula Fleivik Nurmo soloist
Emilia Wareborn soloist
Cellist Johan Stern is principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and teaches cello, chamber music and orchestral playing at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and at the Juilliard School in New York. As a member of Gageego!, the Gothenburg Ensemble for New Music, he has premiered several solo works by our leading Nordic composers. Johan Stern has participated in a number of international festivals and as a soloist and chamber musician has performed with figures such as Bobby McFerrin, Edward Gardner, Petri Sakari, Kristjan Järvi, Daniel Müller-Schott and Levon Chilingirian. During his studies at Juilliard, he had the privilege of collaborating with several internationally renowned musical figures, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma and composers Elliott Carter and John Cage.
My Hellgren soloist
Håvard Lysebo soloist
Jill Widén soloist
Henrik Nordqvist soloist
Ola Persson soloist
Erik Risberg was employed as a pianist in the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 2023, also performing on organ, harpsichord and other keyboard instruments. He regularly performed as a chamber musician, including in a piano duo with Bengt Forsberg. Erik Risberg has also been a valued teacher of musical performance at the Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama for many years and also gives introductions at the Symphony Orchestra's concerts.
Mikael Kjellgren soloist
Jonas Larsson soloist
Johan Renman soloist
Daniel Berg soloist
Martin Ödlund soloist