(I Love You) For Instrumental Reasons
“a silence has descended over Rosenørns Allé”
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Michael Hope: (I Love You) For Instrumental Reasons (2024)
Michael Hope’s Debutkoncert from Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium.
Featuring Current Resonance and Antonios Akrivopoulos [flute]
Mathilde Schelin [bass clarinet]
Katerina Anagnostidou [percussion]
Christoffer Breman [percussion]
Nikolaus von Bemberg [piano/celeste]
Sólrún Ylfa Ingimarsdóttir [violin]
Symeon Seraphim [cello]
Dylan Richards, Joss Smith, Matthew Grouse [Livestock]
Gustav Bjerre [Riddare]
Mikkel Schou [Döden]
Michael Hope [Himself]
︎︎︎ Konservatoriets Koncertsal [Julius Thomsens Gade 1]
︎︎︎ 27.11.2024 19.30
︎︎︎ Free Entrance
Presented in collaboration with Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium. “A silence has descended over Rosenørns Allé”. How is it that new music today maintains such an acute and persistent shortage of creative geniuses?
Is it time that composers took a break from engaging in large-scale artistic projects with radical concepts, denouncing society and its institutions, and instead entertained a gentler, more humble focus on self-expression, craft, and the transcendent potential of art?
And how does the role of the artist function within a culture and continent increasingly characterised by moribundity and irrelevance?
In his debut concert from The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Michael Hope grapples with the burgeoning threats to his ego, masculinity, legacy, and his ultimate mission to single-handedly save new music, through the prism of, among other things, mythology, metaphysics, music lessons, capital investment, chess, and podcasts.
