“A Chapel – new music inspired by a medieval space” – in collaboration with Malmo Music Academy, Lund University, University of Wisconsin and Vanderbilt University, Nashville.

‘A Chapel’ Music for Krämarekapellet’ at Skt Petri kyrka Malmö 2024

Over the summer of 2024, an extraordinary group of composers collaborated with violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved to respond to the ‘Merchant’s Chapel’ in the Petri-Kyrka, Malmö. This is one of very few elaborately decorated religious spaces in Scandinavia not to have been destroyed in the Reformation and iconoclasm of the mid 1500s. Each composer crafted an original answer to riotous decoration and extraordinary acoustics of Krämarekapellet’.

At the beginning of October, the resulting ‘A Chapel’ was premiered in Sweden, and then filmed in the space. Two weeks later, the project, complete with projections of the space, was seen and heard for the first time in the USA, first in Wisconsin, and then in Tennessee.

This will be the first time that ‘A Chapel’ is heard in London.

LINK to film from the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etrujlXNQsc

Program:

Bent Sørensen (Denmark): Magdalena
Evis Sammoutis (Cyprus): Ἁγία Σοφία
Nigel Clarke (Belgium/UK): Pastoral
Robert Saxton (UK): Miniatures
Daniel Hjorth (Sweden): Insight (Insikt/Inblick)
Rolf Martinsson (Sweden): Three Chapel Miniatures
Sadie Harrison (Australia/UK): Ballare una passacaglia di ombre
Staffan Storm (Sweden): Eroded Memories of Heaven and Beyond
Dafina Zeqiri Nushi (Kosova): Sankta Catharina
David Riebe (Sweden): Horror Vacui
Michael Alec Rose (USA): St Anthony’s
Anon (ca 1680): Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern