Celebrating their 20 year anniversary, Skogen perform the world premiere of Magnus Granberg’s Trouble, Had it All My Days (scored for 13 musicians) in the rarefied acoustics of Konserthuset's Grünewaldsalen. This new work takes an aria (Seufzer, Tränen, ängstlich sehnen) from Bachs’s cantata BWV 21, Ich hatte viel Bekümmerniß as its point of departure but borrows its title from the lyrics of a song by American blues singer and guitarist Mississippi John Hurt.
Skogen
Anna Lindal, violin
Eva Lindal, violin
Angharad Davies, violin
Leo Svensson Sander, cello
Heather Roche, clarinet
Finn Loxbo, guitar
Stina Hellberg Agback, harp
Magnus Granberg, prepared piano
Simon Allen, vibraphone and percussion
Erik Carlsson, percussion
Henrik Olsson, amplified objects
Petter Wästberg, contact microphone, mixer, loudspeaker
Toshimaru Nakamura, no-input mixing board
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Discounted 200 SEK tickets available for pensioners, students, etc. Free tickets for children under 16.
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This concert is made possible with support from STIM Forward Fund, Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse, Stiftelsen Längmanska Kulturfonden, Kulturrådet and Stockholm City.
Magnus Granberg is a composer and performer working at an intersection between contemporary chamber music and improvisation. He is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Born in Umeå in 1974, he studied saxophone and improvisation at the University of Gothenburg and in New York in his late teens and early twenties. Self-taught as a composer, he formed his own ensemble Skogen in 2005 trying to integrate experiences, methods and materials from various traditions of improvised and composed musics into a new modus operandi.
His music has been performed in Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, England, Austria, Hungary and Slovenia, broadcast by public radio channels in England (BBC Radio 3 and 6), Germany (SWR 2), Sweden (SR P2), Estonia, Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary and the United States, and has been published by the renowned British record label Another Timbre.
Led by pianist Magnus Granberg, Skogen is a Swedish ensemble working at an intersection between contemporary chamber music and improvisation. The music, which originates from the interplay between composition and improvisation and between individual and collective processes, is a poetical practice which in subtle and seemingly paradoxical ways unifies order with chaos, unity with diversity and the past with the present.
The ensemble has released seven CDs on the renowned British record label Another Timbre and has performed at festivals such as Ultima (NO), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Splitter Music Festival (DE) and Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon (AT).