The new piece, scored for a mixed ensemble of seven players and lasting around nine minutes, has been commissioned by New European Ensemble as part of a two-concert composer portrait taking place over the weekend, featuring a wide range of the composer’s chamber output and culminating in a performance of one of her signature works, In the Light of Air
Programme
Concert I
March 7, 8.30pm
Nieuwe Kerk, The Hague
New European Ensemble
Programme includes: Ró, Spectra, Fields, Spectra and Entropic Arrows (world premiere)
Concert II
March 8, 3.00pm Korzo, The Hague
New European Ensemble; Carlo Boccadoro, conductor
Programme includes: In the Light of Air
Other performances of Thorvaldsdottir’s music in the coming months include METACOSMOS with the Boston Symphony under Hannu Lintu and LA Phil under Karina Canellakis, her most recent orchestral work AIŌN in Reykjavik and at the Arctic Arts Festival, and multiple performances of Enigma by Spektral Quartet, including at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium.
Photo: © Haraldur Jónasson
