Edition·S

25/11/2025

How can we ensure that performances of new music reach wider audiences, and that the works can unfold their full potential? This is precisely the question we have been exploring through the project GENSTART.

In 2024, together with Art Music Denmark and Dansk Komponistforening, we launched an open call for GENSTART, inviting applications for funding to develop new concert formats and to reperform existing works.

Most of the selected projects have now been realised, and Art Music Denmark therefore asked three of the participants what the project has meant for them. You can now read much more about their inspiring projects – as well as the purpose of GENSTART – in a new article on the Art Music Denmark website. You’ll find the link in the comments!

GENSTART is supported by the Augustinus Foundation, the William Demant Foundation, and the Hoffmann & Husmans Foundation.

20/11/2025

Listen to The HerStory of Danish Music – a playlist presenting recorded works by the composers featured in the DCM project💿

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17/11/2025

HVEM ER DET, VI LYTTER TIL?

Repertoirestatistikken for klassisk musik og kunstmusik i Danmark synliggør for fjerde gang i træk, hvilken musik der bliver spillet i de danske koncertsale, og hvad forholdet er mellem musik skabt af kvinder og mænd, ny og ældre musik samt dansk og udenlandsk musik.

Den fjerde statistik viser at 10,5% af det samlede nationale repertoire i 2022 – 2024 var skrevet af kvinder (op imod 9,5% i perioden 2020 – 2022). 0,2% var skrevet af non-binære komponister, mens ophavspersonens køn i 1,1% af repertoiret er ukendt. Musik skrevet af mænd udgjorde således 88,2%, hvor det i perioden 2020 – 2022 var 88,16%.

Ligesom den forrige Repertoirestatistik viser statistikken for sæson 2022 – 2024 med al tydelighed, at jo mere ny musik et orkester, en opera, et ensemble eller en festival har på programmet, desto bedre balance mellem køn i repertoiret. Det gavner ikke kun kønsbalancen; men sikrer samtidig udviklingen af vores tids musikhistorie og giver publikum nutidige perspektiver på den tid, vi lever i.

Ift. de første tre statistikker ser vi for første gang en bevægelse i det ældre repertoire, hvor andelen af musik af kvinder er steget fra 1% til 2,1%. Det er en meget lille del af det samlede repertoire, men det afspejler de initiativer, der har været for at finde og opføre glemte værker af kvinder. Disse initiativer er afgørende for, at den musik, der er blevet skrevet ud af historien, bliver skrevet ind igen.

På torsdag d. 20. november fejrer vi lanceringen af Repertoirestatistikken til Musikkens Vilkår - Tal, handling & fair practice. Vi har inviteret repræsentanter fra orkestre, ensembler, festivaler og fonde i Danmark til paneldebat om, hvilke metoder og overvejelser der ligger bag deres valg af repertoire, programlægning og tildeling af priser.

Det er gratis og alle er velkomne. Læs mere om Musikkens Vilkår - Tal, handling & fair practice her: https://fb.me/e/i57dYVY4h – tilmeldingsfrist i dag d. 17. november!

Repertoirestatistikken er skabt i et samarbejde mellem Dansk Komponistforening, Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Edition·S og Art Music Denmark med støtte fra Musikforlæggerne i Danmark. Grafik: Malene Henssel.

13/11/2025

Lorenzo Colombo’s performances of Mads Emil Dreyer ’s Repeater Quietus are among the projects included in the Genstart initiative, and now the final event in an extensive performance-cycle is coming up.

The piece was premiered at SPOR festival in May 2024. With the support from GENSTART the piece has since been performed at FOKU Festival, Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium, Fondation Danoise - Det danske Studenterhus i Paris , Cité Universitaire, Paris, SIGNAL OFF , Trento (IT) and Conservatorio G. Verdi, Milan (IT). The final performance takes place in Stuttgart on Friday 14 November at Digital Kunst Festival, Stuttgart (DE)

Repeater, quietus is an audiovisual piece in which the performer controls and manipulates the sounds of eight small percussion instruments—four singing bowls and four frame drums—each equipped with a contact microphone and an audio transducer. The vibrations captured by the microphones are projected through the transducers, creating eight independent feedback loops.

Genstart is initiated by Art Music Denmark, Dansk Komponistforening and Edition·S and is supported by the Augustinus Foundation, the William Demant Foundation and Hoffmann & Husman's Foundation.

Photo: Aaron Giordani

12/11/2025

On Friday, José Valente performs ABCDE, a solo accordion piece by Loïc Destremau.

We asked Loïc to share with us how the piece emerged as part of Valente’s doctoral project, the research-driven framework that shaped the composition, and the experiments with acoustics, polyphony, and bellows technique that form the foundation of the work’s distinctive sound world.
Read the interview here: https://edition-s.dk/news/exploring-the-accordion-interview-with-loic-destremau

The piece is performed in Hans Tausens kirke, Islands Brygges sogn at a concert featuring music by various contemporary composers.
Find more details about the concert here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2920367328148809

Photo: Per Rasmussen

11/11/2025

We are looking very much forward to Thursday when we open the doors to our Thursday bar and concert evening in collaboration with Second Sound and Dacapo Records 🥳

One of the pieces you can experience is Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki ’s Cover me, performed by guitarist Jonas Egholm.

“Cover me is based on a melody I wrote as a child,” says the composer. The piece explores the guitar’s “dark side,” and through alternative techniques, hidden sounds are made audible — like a recollection of memory.

Find more information about the event and join us on Thursday: https://www.facebook.com/events/1279202330670464

10/11/2025

On November 13, we invite you to a Thursday bar and concert evening in collaboration with Second Sound and Dacapo Records 🥳

Experience five powerful works in an intimate setting, including STOP by Nina Dragicevic, performed by percussionist and performer Katerina Anagnostidou.

In this piece, Nina Dragicevic explores our contemporary focus on productivity, acceleration, and the idea that "time is money" — and what this means for the individual, the body, and human relations.

👉 Read more about the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1279202330670464

Photo of Nina Dragicevic: Nada Žgank
Photo of Katerina Anagnostidou: Efi Anagnostido

07/11/2025

✨ On November 13, we open the doors to our offices at Dacapo Records and Edition·S for a Thursday bar and concert evening curated by Second Sound.

The performance programme features Greta Eacott ’s percussion piece Breathing Exercise - a composition driven by each performer’s breathing cycle, which determines when they play their percussion instrument.

The piece is performed by the staff of Dacapo Records and Edition·S, who step out of their usual roles as office workers to create a polyphonic meditation on the subtle balance between sound and silence.

Find more info about the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1279202330670464

07/11/2025

🪩 Premiere performances of Simon Steen-Andersen's Run Time Anomaly 8 & 9 November 🪩

05/11/2025

On November 13, we open the doors to our offices at Dacapo Records and Edition·S for a Thursday bar and concert evening curated by Second Sound. We present a programme featuring five powerful pieces including Sorte Negle by Sandra Boss performed by Jonas Egholm

🎸 Sorte Negle explores the essential role that the nails play for any guitarist. The role of the nails is magnified applying exaggeratedly long artificial and painted nails to the instrumentalist using it to create effects such as bowed sounds, crackling sounds, noisy attacks and sliding figures.

Read more about the event here: https://fb.me/e/a7NKfDamc

Second Sound has put together a program featuring five diverse and powerful works. For the occasion, we are opening our offices together with the record labels Dacapo Records and Naxos Denmark, for a very special evening where music and good company meet in an intimate and informal setting among des...