Phonetix by Lars Lien

Various composers

Lars Lien

Phonetix

Price: € 19.95
Format: SACD
Label: Lawo Classics
UPC: 7090020181073
Catnr: LWC 1095
Release date: 04 March 2016
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Label
Lawo Classics

UPC
7090020181073

Catalogue number
LWC 1095

Release date
04 March 2016

""Performances all seem to be very good, although it was difficult for me to judge, given the odd noises, to which sopranos were sometimes allotted.""

HR Audio, 01-7-2016

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About the album

“Phonetix” is Lars Lien’s first solo release on the LAWO Classics label. The driving force behind the project is Lien’s interest in exploring the saxophone’s vocal capacity, with music and texts touching on universal and existential questions. Fifteen years ago saxophonist Lars Lien and soprano Siri Torjesen began their collaboration with a performance of the work “Sister Song.” The music was composed by Hakon Berge and the text written by Paal-Helge Haugen. This first performance of the work took place in a forest setting in Olavsdalen outside of Kristiansand. In Lien’s words: “Already at that time I understood the many similarities between the saxophone and the human voice. Timbre, vibrato, dynamic tension and flexibility are all qualities shared by a singer and a saxophonist.” Soprano Berit Norbakken Solset and Lien are both enthusiastic about the music of Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist. The unpolished, almost naked quality of her musical expressi

Lars Lien erkundet auf dieser Einspielung die sangliche Qualität des Saxophons und die Möglichkeiten der Gestaltung von Klangbildern.

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Lars Lien (saxophone)

Lars Lien is a graduate of the Norwegian Academy of Music where he studied with Harald Bergersen. He has been active with several ensembles such as Saxofon Concentus, Affinis Ensemble, and the Oslo Sinfonietta and has performed as soloist with the Oslo Philharmonic, Oslo Sinfonietta, BIT20 Ensemble, and the Arctic Philharmonic, among others. Lien is the founder of the saxophone quartet NoXaS, which recently released a new CD recording. He has twice been named “Performer of the Year” by the Norwegian Society of Composers, once with Saxofon Concentus, and again with Affinis Ensemble. He has participated in a number of CD recordings with various chamber ensembles such as Saxofon Concentus, NoXaS saxophone quartet, Affinis Ensemble, Asamisimasa, BIT20 Ensemble, and Oslo Sinfonietta. His recording Phonetix was released on the LAWO Classics label in 2016. Lien has performed concerts and held masterclasses in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Russia, USA, and in all of the Nordic countries. Dedicated to the development of new works for saxophone in various constellations, he has collaborated with a great number of Norwegian composers throughout his musical career. Lien is Associate Professor of Classical Saxophone at the Academy of Music, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway.

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Karin Rehnqvist

Håkon Berge

Håkon Berre (b. 1980) - Norwegian drummer and composer, currently living in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he works as a freelance musician and educator. Håkon is also an active member of the record label & musicians collective Barefoot Records, where Håkon is one of the co-founders, and has contributed on over 20 recordings. Håkon has degree in music science & music technology from Oslo University, and a rhythmical diploma exam from the Academy of Music in Esbjerg, Denmark. Håkons playing is characterized by an inventive and energetic drumming, using a rich palette of sounds from a wide diversity of trash and objects, and sometimes also incorporating real-time electronics into his playing. This has brought him to numerous clubs and venues in countries...

Håkons playing is characterized by an inventive and energetic drumming, using a rich palette of sounds from a wide diversity of trash and objects, and sometimes also incorporating real-time electronics into his playing. This has brought him to numerous clubs and venues in countries like Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, France, USA, Madagascar, Holland, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Bosnia Herzegovina, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Russia with musicians like Peter Brötzmann, Phil Minton, Axel Dörner, John Tchicai, Petter Wettre, Peter Friis-Nielsen, Kasper Tranberg, Simon Spang-Hanssen, Liudas Mockunas, Stephan Meinberg, Thommy Andersson, Hilmar Jensson, Michael Jefrey Stevens, Mikko Innanen, Tobias Delius, Roland Ramanan, Susana Santos Silva and Fred Lonberg-Holm.

Festival gigs include festivals such as Copenhagen Jazzfestival, Århus Jazzfestival, JazzKaar (Tallinn), JazzQ (St. Petersburg), Pori Jazz (Finland), Vilnius Jazzfestival, Kongsberg Jazzfestival, Sarajevo Winter Festival, Odense Summerjazz, Ribe Jazzfestival, VMU Jazz Connections (Kaunas), Sõru Jazz Festival (Hiumaa), BlowOut Festival (Oslo), Jazz im Lohmühle (Berlin), Creative Sources Festival (Lisbon), Nordischer Klang (Greifswald), Jazz and More Festival (Sibiu), Alandia Jazz Festival (Mariehamn) and Jazz by Volga (Yaroslavl). Håkon was invited as guest soloist at the international MadaJazzcar festival in Antananarivo, Madagascar, 2009.

He is also an active part of the Danish Arts Council's "house artist" system, with numerous concerts and workshops in Danish schools and educational institutes. Håkon has composed and arranged music for theater performances and art exhibitions, and has exhibited several interactive sound installations at art museums in both Denmark and Germany.

Håkon received the annual Art Scholarship from Nord-Trøndelag County in 2014.

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Mark Adderley

Bjørn Kruse

Bjørn Kruse (born 1946 in London, England) studied at UCLA, California, and the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, where he taught from 1976. He became Professor of Composition in 1997 and is today Professor Emeritus. His list of works numbers more than 150, from chamber and choral music to larger orchestral works and four operas. In addition to composing and lecturing on fine arts topics, he works with painting, having had his latest major exhibitions at Galleri Albin Upp in Oslo, in 2009 (Chaos and Order) and 2010 (Time and Space). His latest book is Thinking Art – An Interdisciplinary Approach to Applied Aesthetics, released in November 2016.

Bjørn Kruse (born 1946 in London, England) studied at UCLA, California, and the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, where he taught from 1976. He became Professor of Composition in 1997 and is today Professor Emeritus. His list of works numbers more than 150, from chamber and choral music to larger orchestral works and four operas. In addition to composing and lecturing on fine arts topics, he works with painting, having had his latest major exhibitions at Galleri Albin Upp in Oslo, in 2009 (Chaos and Order) and 2010 (Time and Space). His latest book is Thinking Art – An Interdisciplinary Approach to Applied Aesthetics, released in November 2016.

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Lars Skoglund

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"Performances all seem to be very good, although it was difficult for me to judge, given the odd noises, to which sopranos were sometimes allotted."
HR Audio, 01-7-2016