Athelas has a strong tradition of performing new works and premieres – we have played over 600 works over the last 20 years! Here, you can find our current tour productions both as Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen and Athelas Chamber Players. If you have enquiries as to our repertoire, please contact our Artistic Director, Anders Beyer.
You can also find a list over the many works we have performed (alphabetical, by composer) in the right hand column.
By David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon
TOUR PRODUCTION: Sinfonietta concert with choir
WATER is a lover’s tears, an unquenchable thirst, a fight for survival, a prayer for rain. WATER is a meditation on the poetry of water: what it means to have it, how we misuse it, and how we struggle for it. Rain falls. Tears flow. A skull is found in a river. A man thirsts.
Works by Poul Ruders and György Ligeti
TOUR PRODUCTION: Sinfonietta concert with choir
Ligeti and Ruders meet each other in the secret spaces of music’s architecture. The artists talk to each other with their ruinous voices, macarbre apocalyptic visions, absurd beings and percussive attacks on the audience.
A young Afrikan actor, an ensemble, video-projection and surround sound
TOUR PRODUCTION: Sinfonietta concert with choir
Strange News is Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin’s & Belgian writer/director Josse de Paauw’s moving testament to the plight of child soldiers. This compelling multi-media work features narrator, young Ugandan actor Arthur Kisenyi, a virtuoso chamber ensemble, and projections. It explores the healing power of music in some of the darkest corners of the world.
Works by Charles Ives, Hugo Wolf, Lennon & McCartney, Sebastian Gottschick and Peter Bruun
TOUR PRODUCTION: Sinfonietta concert
The American composer Charles Ives viewed his music as a grand experiment in which he orchestrated concrete experiences. Travel along on a journey through Ives’ salon-pieces, spirituals, hymns and aphoristic genre images.
Works by Ligeti, Mahler and Carl Nielsen
TOUR PRODUCTION: Sinfonietta koncert
György Ligeti, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Carl Nielsen and Hans Abrahamsen do not upon first glance appear to share an obvious musical heritage. As composers they are indeed completely different, however, they converge in a shared will to see the past reflected in contemporary constructions.
Ten canons for nine instruments
TOUR PRODUCTION: Sinfonietta concert
“Snow was always a big inspiration for me. When it falls it can be very quiet, but also very fast. And when it’s on the ground it can be fresh and white and soft, but also icy and hard. Then of cause like Debussy you can see foot prints in the snow … There is the silence, the way snow transforms landscapes, the unique atmosphere. So Schnee has become a series of meditions on snow in different aspects.” (Hans Abrahamsen in The Full Score, Spring 2008)