ISCM World New Music Days
The Association of Faroese Composers / Felagið Føroysk Tónaskøld will proudly host the ISCM World New Music Days in the Faroe Islands 22nd to 30th of June 2024.
The festival will include concerts by Faroese and Nordic ensembles, informal ensembles and collaborations and soloists.
The music featured throughout this festival will include new and innovative works from across the international membership of the ISCM. The musician in The church in Funning will be Kári Sverrisson, Alvi Joensen and Flute trio with Andrea Hendriksdóttir, Elsa Maria Dam Kongslíð and Marta Torkilsdóttir.
Kári Sverrisson, born 1971, is a Faroese singer, song-writer and instrumentalist. He has been a part of the Faroese music scene since 1990. As a soloist, together with Hans Jacob Kollslíð and as a member of the bands Enekk, Yggdrasil and Orka he has released a number of CDs and has been touring abroad quite a few times. Apart from releasing his own songs, Kári has produced and edited four CDs with traditional Faroese folk singing, and for a number of years he hosted a radio programme on traditional music from all over the world on Faroese National radio, KvF. Kári has written the music for two films by Teitur Árnason (Burturhugur, 2001, and Zacharias, 2018).
Alvi Joensen
Alvi Joensen is a guitarist and composer with a fascination for the unknown, the macabre and humor. As a performer he commissions new pieces on regular basis and plays pieces on the verge of oblivion. As a composer he balances on the edge between tonality and atonality, constantly seeking new sounds, timbres and expressions.
Flute Trio
Andrea Heindriksdóttir is one of the strongest pillars in the faroese classical music scene – both as a performer, as a teacher, as an orchestra leader and recently as the head of Tórshavnar Musikkskúla – where she for many years has inspired and helped people find and follow their own musical careers. She will be playing with two of her former pupils, ElsaMaria Dam Kongslíð and Marta Torkilsdóttir, both of whom later went on to study abroad at Malmö Academy of Music under prof. Anders Ljungar-Chapelon, and are now passing on the love of music to the next generation as flute-teachers.