DCV 013 – Klas Torstensson: Triptych Licks & Brains

There are people who climb the highest mountains or dive into the deepest sea caves. Adolescents who sail solo around the world. And then there are composers who explore pristine soundscapes. Klas Torstensson is such a composer. He dangles from cliffs, wanders over tranquil plains, weathers gusts of winds ... while working in his loft at home. The result is an amazingly strong and rich oeuvre which has been performed, praised, and admired all over the world.”
(Saskia Törnqvist)

Klas Torstensson (January 16, 1951, Sweden) studied composition at the Ingesunds Musikhögskola, musicology at the University of Gothenburg and electronic music at the Institute of Sonology, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Torstensson’s compositions are performed by orchestras, ensembles and soloists worldwide and presented on most major European new music festivals: Huddersfield, Ultima (Oslo), Steirischer Herbst (Graz), Wien Modern, Stockholm New Music, Nordic Music Days (Reykjavik/Malmö/Berlin), Gaudeamus (Amsterdam), Warsaw, Gaida (Vilnius), Festival van Vlaanderen (Belgium), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), GAS (Gothenburg), NYYD (Tallinn), Darmstadt, to name only a few.

DCV 032 Klas Torstensson Stick on Stick / Urban Solo / Urban Songs Asko Ensemble, Charlotte Riedijk, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zoltán Peskó and Stefan Asbury

With a circle of acquaintances – Bas Wiegers (photo), Slagwerk Den Haag, Ensemble Klang and Katrien Baerts (photo) – Asko|Schönberg is working on the music of the future.

For Trio Fridman/Napolov/Sandee

Conductor Ingo Metzmacher returns to Amsterdam for, among other things, the postponed world premiere of City Imprints by Swedish composer Klas Torstensson, who lives in the Netherlands.

Celebrate the anniversary year with the Gothenburg Symphony! Our party offers futuristic tones, choral singing and video art.

Celebrate the anniversary year with the Gothenburg Symphony! Our party offers futuristic tones, choral singing and video art.

Klas Torstensson in the program of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Ireland.

After having been preoccupied with the ‘Far North’ for so many years – resulting in works like Barstend IJs (Cracking Ice, mixed media 1986), The Last Diary (reciting voice and ensemble, 1994) and The Expedition (opera, 1999) – I estimated that A Cycle of the North (2007-2012) for large orchestra would be the capstone of […]

Luc Brewaeys was born in 1959 in Mortsel (Belgium). He studied composition with André LAPORTE in Brussels, with Franco DONATONI in Siena (Italy) and with Brian FERNEYHOUGH in Darmstadt (Germany). From 1980 to 84 he had regular contacts with Iannis XENAKIS in Paris. He is also conductor, pianist and works since 1985 as recording producer at the VRT (Flemish Radio & Television).

Ville Raasakka’s works are performed by the Klangforum Wien (Vienna), the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, der/gelbe/klang (Munich), Mise-en Ensemble (New York), Dal Niente (Chicago), Ensemble Lemniscate (Basel) and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra at the most esteemed festivals such as Eclat (Stuttgart), June in Buffalo (Buffalo), Tage der Neuen Musik Bamberg (Bamberg), Festival Archipel (Geneva) and […]

Jakub Polaczyk (born in 1983 in Poland) is a Polish-American composer, pianist, and pedagogue interested in surreal and synthetic art. He graduated from the Penderecki Music Academy, Jagiellonian University and Carnegie Mellon University. He studied with: Krzysztof Penderecki, Marcel Chyrzyński, Marek Chołoniewski, Reza Vali, Jan van Landeghem.