Event info

Aulos Flute Ensemble will perform exciting new music by Nordic and Japanese female composers as a part of the project Innsýn / Insight.

The project revolves around the vision and voice of female composers from the past, through the present to the future. A world premiere of pieces by the Japanese composers Mari Takano and Tomoko Fukui accompany other premiere performances of works by Agnes Ida Pettersen, Birgit Djupedal and Ragnheiður Erla Björnsdóttir. The pieces are played on flutes from the whole flute family, from piccolo to the contrabass flute. A Nordic and Japanese kinship in perfect female harmony.

The programme

• This is not a political piece by Birgit Djupedal (World premiére)

• Dispersal for contrabass flute and loop station by Hafdís Bjarnadóttir, Pamela De Sensi, flute

• Triplet I by Tomoko Fukui (World premiére)

• Corridors of light II by Mari Takano (World premiere)

• Trio by Agnes Ida Pettersen (World premiére)

• There Are Forests by Ragnheiður Erla Björnsdóttir (World premiére)

The Performers

Pamela De Sensi, is an Italian-Icelandic flutist. She has been very active in Icelandic music life, both as a performer and as organizer of musical activities. She has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player at major halls and festivals throughout Italy and Iceland, as well as in numerous European countries, Mexico, America, China, Japan and Scandinavia. An advocate for new music for flute and low flutes, Pamela has premiered many new works written especially for her, introducing new Iceland music in Japan, Europe and the USA. Pamela is the first prize winner of various competitions, has toured extensively as a soloist in America, Mexico, Europe, Japan and Iceland, and has frequently appeared on radio and television. In addition to her musical activities as a performer, Pamela has held flute and chamber music master classes in America, Mexico and regularly in Italy at Umbria Classica.

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