The history of the ensemble

An exciting development, with many changes both marked and at times dramatic have taken place over the years.

See, read and listen through
more than 30 years of Ensemble history.
Storstrøms Chamber Ensemble in 1991 Photo: Julia Severinsen
Job posting 1990
Autumn 1990
Musicians wanted!
A total of six musician positions were advertised in the dailies, but the instruments were not specified - everyone could apply, including harpists.
The 1st round of the competition was held solo, divided into instrument groups, and the 2nd round was reserved for chamber music.

  • Read "Now they must learn to play together",
    Berlingske Tidende, February 1991
  • Autumn 1990
    Job posting 1990
    Storstrøms Chamber Ensemble in front of Liselund 1991
    May 1991
    The ensemble is created
    On 1 May 1991, the "Basic Ensemble in Storstrøms County" was established. The composer and conductor Svend Aaquist had been hired as artistic and administrative director of the ensemble, and had already begun this work some time before the musicians started.
    Immediately after some intense introductory meetings in private with Svend Aaquist, the actual musical rehearsal work began. The ensemble was so privileged to have a rehearsal room available downstairs at the Music School in Nykøbing Falster.
    The central library in the city also had a small office space in surplus, which served as the administration room for the ensemble for the first six years.
    The first public concert took place in the hall of the library a few weeks later.

  • Read "The local basic ensemble has an international touch",
    Folketidende, June 1991
  • May 1991
    Storstrøms Chamber Ensemble in front of Liselund 1991
    Actors from the regional play "Dreamed me a dream"
    summer 1992
    Regional game "Dreamed me a dream"
    In the summer of 1992, Storstrøm's Chamber Ensemble (which was now the official name) began a collaboration - which was to prove to be unusually long-lasting - with Egnsteatret Masken.
    The local play / folk opera "Dreamed me a dream" became a great success not least thanks to a large group of tireless volunteers both on and behind the stage.
    Kim Helweg had composed the music.
    There was a very special atmosphere during the performance that night, when Denmark played the final of the European Football Championship ...!.

  • Read "Fate stories in dream pictures",
    Foketidende, June 1992
  • summer 1992
    Actors from the regional play "Dreamed me a dream"
    A violin and a viola
    Autumn 1992
    2 more musicians
    In the original constellation, the ensemble consisted of 6 musicians, but it was planned from the beginning that two expansions of 2 musicians would be needed in the coming years.
    The first expansion took place in the autumn of 1992, when violin and viola were added. The ensemble's repertoire possibilities were thus quite significantly increased.

  • See small note from Folketidende
  • Autumn 1992
    A violin and a viola
    Storstrøms Kammerensemble and Lyndon Terracini
    May 1993
    Tour to Australia
    Thanks to good contacts to the Australian music scene through the ensemble's trumpeter Paul Terracini, an almost spectacular tour to Australia (with Paul's brother, singer Lyndon Terracini as soloist) was set up in the early summer of 1993.
    The ensemble first played in the Church of Denmark in Singapore, and then gave concerts in Brisbane and along the east coast of Australia. The tour ended with a concert at the Sydney Opera House.

  • Read "The chamber ensemble is very successful in Australia",
    Folketidende, June 1993

  • Read "Bragging success in the kangaroo country",
    New Day, June 1993

  • Read "Danish delicacy in Sydney's Opera House",
    Folketidende, June 1993
  • May 1993
    Storstrøms Kammerensemble and Lyndon Terracini
    Article in Folketidende 1994
    summer 1994
    The bassoon is coming!
    This second expansion of the ensemble should have originally meant two more musketeers.
    But an agreement was reached with the granting authorities on a model in which a bassoonist was now employed,
    and the remaining funds would then have to be used for changing guest musicians.

  • Read "Concert in the Cathedral",
    August 1994
  • summer 1994
    Article in Folketidende 1994
    summer 1995
    "Venderne på Lolland" in Ravnsborg Bakker - and collaboration with Ole Buck
    With "Venderne på Lolland", another regional play became a reality, evocatively placed in the beautiful Ravnsborg Hills on Nordlolland and in collaboration with the Nørregade Theater in Maribo and the composer Ole Buck.
    The ensemble had 3 years before it initiated a well-functioning, and long lasting collaboration with Ole Buck who over a number of years composed his "Landscapes" for the ensemble.
    summer 1995
    Notice in Berlingske Tidende
    1996
    Music Critics' Artist Award
    In 1996, the ensemble was awarded the prestigious "Music Critics' Artist Prize".
    The reception took place at a concert in Tivoli's concert hall, where a newly composed work by the composer Niels Marthinsen had his premiere with the ensemble as soloists in front of the Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

  • Read "Nine Soloists",
    Berlingske Tidende, Aug. 1996

  • Read "Honors for local musicians",
    Folketidende, Aug. 1996
  • 1996
    Notice in Berlingske Tidende
    Fuglsang Manor house, photo: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    1997
    New domicile: Fuglsang Manor house
    In 1997, the ensemble's then leader, Finn Hansen, succeeded in negotiating an agreement in place with the Classenske Fideicommis that Storstrøm's Chamber Ensemble could establish itself in the historic Fuglsang Herregaard - it was with all due respect something of an upgrade from the previous basement rooms at Nykøbing Falster Music School ...
    The ensemble's administration was housed in Herregaarden's east wing and the ensemble and its musicians received joy and artistic inspiration from trying and holding concerts in the recently renovated and very beautiful music hall.
    A new era had begun.

  • Read "With home spirit",
    Folketidende, Apr. 1997
  • 1997
    Fuglsang Manor house, photo: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    Alicia Petronelli who the ensemble played with.
    May 1999
    Tour to Argentina
    Another large-scale and overseas tour took place in 1999. The newly founded "Association for Danish-Argentine Cultural Exchange" was one of the main forces behind the project. New Danish works by i.a. Niels Rosing-Schow and Peter Bruun were presented at a number of concerts in the great country - not least in the famous "Teatro Colon" in Buenos Aires.
    Tango music was explored and several significant and close ties between the ensemble and Argentine musicians and composers were forged.

  • Read "From Lolland to Argentina",
    Folketidende, Apr. 1999

  • See poster from Argentina
  • May 1999
    Alicia Petronelli who the ensemble played with.
    Rehearsal in the music hall, photo: Finn Hansen
    summer 2000
    Wind Academy on Fuglsang
    In the summer of 2000, the ensemble tried their hand at an international summer academy for young woodwind players and horn players. Under the direction of the ensemble's artistic advisor, the clarinetist Murray Khouri, they managed to create an intense process that utilized Fuglsangs opportunities for immersion and artistic inspiration.
    English oboist Gordon Hunt was enrolled as an assistant director alongside the ensemble's musicians. The success was repeated the following year, where the process also ended with a concert in Tivoli's Concert Hall.

  • Read "Musical workshop",
    Folketidende, June 2000
  • summer 2000
    Rehearsal in the music hall, photo: Finn Hansen
    CD cover
    Spring 2001
    2001 "The time when we did not know each other"
    A significant musical-dramatic performance in collaboration with the local theater Cantabile 2 in Vordingborg took place in the spring of 2001.
    The ensemble played Marco Spallanzani's evocative music live to all the otherwise wordless performances.

  • Read short quotes from the reviews,
    Folketidende, 2001
  • Spring 2001
    CD cover
    Gordon Hunt, photo: Chris Fower
    summer 2001
    Star oboist Gordon Hunt visiting
    Internationally acclaimed oboist Gordon Hunt is associated with the ensemble as an artistic advisor.
    It was to prove to be the beginning of a very long and very rewarding collaboration, in which Gordon Hunt was particularly important for the ensemble's annual summer festivals.
    But the years that followed also featured two marked ones
    CD recordings with music by WA Mozart respectively
    and J. Ibert.

  • Read "The ensemble gets English advisor",
    Folketidende, June 2001

  • Listen to the Ibert CD on Spotify
  • summer 2001
    Gordon Hunt, photo: Chris Fower
    Estonia and Latvia - with Fuglsang in the background
    September 2001
    Tour to the Baltics
    Most adults who were born at that time can remember where they were on September 11, 2001 ...
    Storstrøm's Chamber Ensemble was in Riga, Latvia on a small tour. The dramatic day began in front of the television in the hotel lobby, before the bus transported the musicians to rehearsal before tonight's concert.
    The next day they flew (...) on to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, where several concerts were to take place.
    During the Danish cultural promotion in the Baltics, e.g. played works by Ole Buck and Vagn Holmboe.

  • Read "Danish chamber music and ballet in the Baltics",
    Folketidende, Sept. 2001
  • September 2001
    Estonia and Latvia - with Fuglsang in the background
    Excerpt from festival poster 2003
    August 2002
    First "Summer music on Fuglsang"
    Following a presentation by the ensemble's artistic advisor, Gordon Hunt, the festival "Summer Music on FuglsangIt should become an annual tradition that lives on to this day.
    Intense days (in the beginning it was actually a whole week) with many concerts - some with guest soloists / ensembles - and other events related to the festival's current theme or Fuglsang as a locality. The public has the opportunity to spend the night at Herregaarden or other places nearby and thus be a part of the busy, creative time. The musicians are here and there and everywhere, and there is ample opportunity to talk "back stage".

  • Read "Summer music for a week on Fuglsang",
    Folketidende, Aug. 2002
  • August 2002
    Excerpt from festival poster 2003
    Barbara hendricks
    2005
    Concert with Barbara Hendricks - in Nakskov!
    Local enthusiasts in and around Nakskov Gymnasium made an absolutely fantastic event in Sankt Nikolaj Kirke in February 2005. A concert with Storstrøm's Chamber Ensemble, Ensemble Domino, Nakskov Gymnasium's Choir and not least the world star, soprano Barbara Hendricks.
    It was all conducted by Frans Rasmussen and was a very great experience for both the audience, the participating high school students, the musicians and Nakskov cultural life in general.

  • Read "Good Sound for a Big 13",
    Folketidende, February 2005

  • Read review "Joyful star moment ..."
    Folketidende, February 2005
  • 2005
    Barbara hendricks
    "HC Andersen and Jenny Lind" poster
    2005
    HC Andersen 200 years
    The ensemble was very active in the celebration of Hans Christian Andersen's 200th birthday.
    Partly as a participating orchestra in a large-scale dramatic performance "HC Andersen and Jenny Lind" touring the region, and partly in a more intimate theater concert "The Wild Swans" with music by Gunner Møller Pedersen, with whom the ensemble had collaborated for several years.

  • Read "Birthday Party for HCA at Fuglsang",
    Nysted Newspaper, Mar. 2005
  • 2005
    "HC Andersen and Jenny Lind" poster
    Naji Hakim: Sakskøbing Preludes, dedication
    2006
    Sakskøbing Preludes
    It succeeded in persuading the French-Lebanese composer and organist Naji Hakim to instrument his "Sakskøbing Preludes" for the ensemble. He had originally composed these preludes to well-known Danish hymns for organ, and performed them in Sakskøbing Church, where he had inaugurated the church's new digital organ.
    The work was the start of a long collaboration with Naji Hakim, and also filled a large place in the otherwise very modest repertoire for chamber music with real church content.
    The ensemble has performed the work many times since and recorded it on CD.

  • Read "Sakskøbing on the world map",
    Folketidende, Sept. 2006
  • 2006
    Naji Hakim: Sakskøbing Preludes, dedication
    Municipal card
    2007
    Municipal reform!
    As is well known, Denmark's counties were closed down in connection with the local government reform in 2007.
    As a result, the very significant part of the ensemble's operating subsidy that had hitherto come from Storstrøm County disappeared.
    However, a 2-year transitional arrangement ensured some peace of mind - but ahead, uncertainty awaited both economically, politically and culturally ...
    The ensemble's close friend, the composer Niels Rosing-Schow, wrote a supportive portrait of the ensemble and its situation - read it below.

  • Read portrait of the ensemble, part 1,
    Danish Music Journal, 2007

  • Read portrait of the ensemble, part 2,
    Danish Music Journal, 2007
  • 2007
    Municipal card
    Instrument set-up, photo: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    2007
    The trumpet stops
    In 2007, trumpeter Paul Terracini chose to leave his position in the ensemble and move back to his native Australia. The ensemble's finances were not enough to re-occupy the position, which is why the remaining 8 instruments then made up the ensemble - which in turn fortunately still exists to this day.
    2007
    Instrument set-up, photo: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    The ensemble's viola player conducts the Talent Academy
    2008
    The Talent Academy is established
    The ensemble established "Talentakademi Storstrøm" in 2008. The purpose was to create a link in the food chain between music school and the local conservatory preparation course MGK, which the ensemble had been involved in from the beginning in 1991. Talents from the five music schools in the new grant municipalities were admitted to the academy after the entrance exam and could look forward to a fruitful 2-year course.
    Unfortunately, it was politically decided to close the Talent Academy in 2016. And with the closure of MGK in Nykøbing Falster in 2017, it has become much more difficult to develop the musical talents in southeastern Denmark.

  • Read article about local talents,
    Folketidende, Mar. 2013

  • Read touching letters from the young talents
  • 2008
    The ensemble's viola player conducts the Talent Academy
    Friends' association event in KUMUS
    2008
    The Friends' Association sees the light of day
    A circle of dedicated and loyal audiences will be established by the Friends' Association in 2008. It will prove to be of great importance to the ensemble and its musicians in the years to come. Numerous times the members of the association perform voluntary work, and the modest contingent of the association enables valuable gifts for the ensemble (such as new musician chairs). Come and join!

  • Read article from one of the friends,
    Folketidende, Jan. 2012
  • 2008
    Friends' association event in KUMUS
    Fuglsang Kunstmuseum
    2009
    New Exhibition Pictures
    The ensemble's program committee got a brilliant idea: 7 Danish composers are invited to visit the newly opened Fuglsang Art Museum to choose each one image that can inspire them to a new composition for the ensemble - "New exhibition images".
    The idea was that the works should be recorded and released on CD together with Jakob Westh's fine instrumentation of Mussorgsky's well-known and beloved "Exhibition Pictures".
    The works were composed and performed several times, and have also been recorded - but the CD is unfortunately still on the drawing board for financial reasons ...

  • Read "Unique picturesque concert ...",
    Folketidende, May, 2011
  • 2009
    Fuglsang Kunstmuseum
    The ensemble's new car
    2009
    The ensemble buys a car!
    In the first years, Svend Aaquist's private vehicle was used. This was followed by a period in which the ensemble was partly dependent on being able to borrow the Central Library's van after opening hours and partly diligent customers at "Avis" in Nykøbing F. But in 2009 they finally managed to acquire a "real company car" to handle the transport of the much equipment and the large instruments that are necessary for a concert to be carried out.
    The car (an Iveco with lift) is driving just yet ...
    2009
    The ensemble's new car
    Article in Folketidende
    Autumn 2009
    Deep crisis - and survival!
    The ensemble's supporting economy has been somewhat strained for several periods, but never has its existence been as directly threatened as was the case in 2009.
    At the end of the transition period after the municipal reform in 2007, agreements had to be negotiated in place with the new municipalities that now constituted the area and population of the late Storstrøms County. It was not easy...
    But thanks to far-sighted politicians and a strong offensive from both the ensemble's leader, Maria Frej, the ensemble's musicians on their own and great support from the local and national cultural and music life, they managed at the last minute to reach the first framework agreement between the municipalities Guldborgsund, Næstved , Vordingborg, Lolland, Faxe and the Statens Musikudvalg. This framework agreement is continuously renewed and is valid for 4 years at a time and continues to form the formal foundation for the ensemble's work.

  • Read "Musical success is threatened by closure",
    Folketidende, Sept. 2009

  • Read "State and regional subsidies may lapse",
    Folketidende, Nov. 2009

  • Read "The musicians fight for their survival",
    Berlingske Tidende, February 1991

  • Read "An enrichment for the region",
    Folketidende, Nov. 2009

  • Read "The chamber ensemble gets peace of mind",
    Folketidende, February 2010
  • Autumn 2009
    Article in Folketidende
    Toke Lund Christiansen
    2010
    Toke Lund Christiansen
    The now former solo flutist in DRSO, Toke Lund Christiansen, joins the ensemble as a new artistic advisor. It turned out to be an extraordinarily good match and Toke is still here! His enormous knowledge and repertoire knowledge especially benefits the ensemble in the planning of the annual festival or festivals. And the audience regularly enjoys his always extremely well-placed concert introductions.

  • Read "The chamber ensemble gets a new adviser",
    Folketidende, July 2010
  • 2010
    Toke Lund Christiansen
    Josephine Franyo as soloist with Danish Chamber Players, 2020, photo: Bjørn Meldgaard
    2011 (photo from 2020)
    Young Player Classic
    Starting in 2011, the main prize at the annual "Young Player Classical" competition for talented children and young people is to be a soloist with the ensemble at a number of concerts around the region.
    The ensemble is represented in the jury and the competition and the subsequent winning concerts are a great experience for both the young people, the ensemble and the large audience.

  • Read "125 young people compete in classical music",
    Zealand, Jan. 2012
  • 2011 (photo from 2020)
    Josephine Franyo as soloist with Danish Chamber Players, 2020, photo: Bjørn Meldgaard
    Carl and Marie poster
    2015
    Carl Nielsen 150 years
    Like everyone else, the ensemble also celebrated Carl Nielsen's 150th birthday - all year round!
    Not least the performance "Carl and Marie" was a big bet. Based on the handed down exchange of letters between Carl Nielsen and his wife Marie, a very artistic and sometimes stormy marriage is described. Actress, author and director Lotte Andersen was the creative force behind the production and composer Jesper Nordin had composed the music. The singers Signe Asmussen and Joachim Knopp performed the vocal parts with great empathy and the result was a deeply moving performance, in which the musicians also participated quite dramatically.

  • Read review,
    Folketidende, July 2015

  • Read "Dazzlingly beautiful opening ...",
    Folketidende, Aug. 2015
  • 2015
    Carl and Marie poster
    Danish Chamber Players 25 years
    May 2016
    25th anniversary
    In 2016, the Danish Chamber Players were able to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
    New name - new logo - new domicile (see below) - and a string of concerts that were both retrospective and innovative in programming.
    4 new works were composed for the ensemble on the occasion of the anniversary, and a CD - which can still be acquired by contacting the ensemble - was recorded and distributed free of charge.
    The summer festival was also marked by the anniversary.
    The next 25 years will hopefully be at least as marked, significant, innovative, breathtaking and necessary.

  • Read "Anniversary party for five days",
    Folketidende, Aug. 2016

  • Read "Feast day on Fuglsang",
    Folketidende, Aug. 2016

  • Read review,
    Folketidende, Aug. 2016
  • May 2016
    Danish Chamber Players 25 years
    The KUMUS Concert Hall, photo: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    summer 2016
    New domicile: KUMUS
    The former tenant housing to Fuglsang After a thorough renovation and rebuilding in 1863, the manor house from 2016 was inaugurated as 'KUMUS' - a center for music and art on Lolland-Falster.
    The building is divided between the ensemble and Fuglsang Art Museum's dissemination department.
    The ensemble's then head, Claus Due, exerted his influence especially with a view to the design of the concert hall, which today stands as a distinguished and modern concert hall with excellent acoustics for chamber music.

  • Read "Kulturcenter takes shape",
    Folketidende, Sept. 2015

  • Read "Well-sound in a new historical setting",
    Folketidende, May 2016
  • summer 2016
    The KUMUS Concert Hall, photo: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    Storstrøm Symphony Orchestra plays concert
    2018
    Storstrøm Symphony Orchestra is closed down
    To the great regret of everyone in and around the orchestra and not least the audience, the "Storstrøm Symphony Orchestra" was closed down in 2018. Failing finances were the main reason for this, and the reason for this can be traced back to the municipal reform in 2007.
    The orchestra had existed since 1952 and had been a significant part of the ensemble's work since 1991. The musicians consisted of a discreet mix of local amateurs, traveling professionals, the ensemble's musicians, MGK students and even music school students.

  • Read "Local Symphony Orchestra has played last concert",
    Folketidende, Dec. 2018
  • 2018
    Storstrøm Symphony Orchestra plays concert
    The Nutcracker and the Mouse Queen, poster 2018
    2018
    "The Nutcracker and the Queen Mouse"
    The children's performance "The Nutcracker and the Mouse Queen" was created in a collaboration between Teatret Masken, NørregadeTeatret in Maribo and the ensemble.
    Hoffmann's fairy tales and Tchaikovsky's music formed the basis of playwright Camilla Hübbe's festive performance filled with good music.
    During the 44 performances that took place, it was experienced by no less than 5.500 lucky children from Lolland and Falster.

  • Read "Institutions rarely perform",
    Folketidende, Nov. 2018

  • Read review,
    Folketidende, Nov, 2018
  • 2018
    The Nutcracker and the Mouse Queen, poster 2018
    Coronavideo, "Tak", montage: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    2020
    Corona pandemic
    Like so many other institutions in Denmark, the ensemble also had to shut down its activities in the spring of 2020 due to the global Corona pandemic.
    But the musicians had to stay in shape and the audience missed signs of life.
    They therefore chose on their own initiative and in a very primitive way to produce some small videos that showed that the music was still alive and that you could well - to a certain extent - play chamber music from a great distance!
    2020
    Coronavideo, "Tak", montage: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    Little and the Lucky Cat, illustration: Simon Væth
    2020
    "Little and the Cat of Happiness" - education for the youngest
    Following an idea from the musicians in the ensemble, the performance "Little and the Lucky Cat" was launched.
    A musical adventure written by Camilla Hübbe and based on Maurice Ravel's beautiful music "Ma Mère l'Oye".
    The project is part of Guldborgsund and Lolland municipalities' "formation backpack", and will thus reach a very large number of children in first grade during the three years that have been set aside so far.
    2020
    Little and the Lucky Cat, illustration: Simon Væth
    Spring festival in Næstved, poster
    2021
    Corona and festival in Næstved
    The spring festival in Næstved 2021 became the first festival without the audience physically present.
    It therefore gave the ensemble an opportunity to experiment with other ways to reach out with the music.
    It turned into 3 live-recorded video productions that were distributed on social media.

  • Read "Classical music came out in a new way",
    Zealand, mar. 2021
  • 2021
    Spring festival in Næstved, poster
    2022
    New grand piano
    On the basis of extremely benevolent donations from the Augustinus Foundation, the Lolland-Falster and Langelands Brandsocietets Foundation, the AP Møller Foundation and the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation, we succeeded in being able to acquire a new grand piano.
    The choice fell on a really good-sounding and beautiful Steinway.
    The instrument will be a joy for both the audience, the ensemble and other actors in the concert hall in KUMUS.
    2022
    2022
    New grand piano
    On the basis of extremely benevolent donations from the Augustinus Foundation, the Lolland-Falster and Langelands Brandsocietets Foundation, the AP Møller Foundation and the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation, we succeeded in being able to acquire a new grand piano.
    The choice fell on a really good-sounding and beautiful Steinway.
    The instrument will be a joy for both the audience, the ensemble and other actors in the concert hall in KUMUS.
    2022
    Spring festival in Næstved, poster
    2021
    Corona and festival in Næstved
    The spring festival in Næstved 2021 became the first festival without the audience physically present.
    It therefore gave the ensemble an opportunity to experiment with other ways to reach out with the music.
    It turned into 3 live-recorded video productions that were distributed on social media.

  • Read "Classical music came out in a new way",
    Zealand, mar. 2021
  • 2021
    Spring festival in Næstved, poster
    Little and the Lucky Cat, illustration: Simon Væth
    2020
    "Little and the Cat of Happiness" - education for the youngest
    Following an idea from the musicians in the ensemble, the performance "Little and the Lucky Cat" was launched.
    A musical adventure written by Camilla Hübbe and based on Maurice Ravel's beautiful music "Ma Mère l'Oye".
    The project is part of Guldborgsund and Lolland municipalities' "formation backpack", and will thus reach a very large number of children in first grade during the three years that have been set aside so far.
    2020
    Little and the Lucky Cat, illustration: Simon Væth
    Coronavideo, "Tak", montage: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    2020
    Corona pandemic
    Like so many other institutions in Denmark, the ensemble also had to shut down its activities in the spring of 2020 due to the global Corona pandemic.
    But the musicians had to stay in shape and the audience missed signs of life.
    They therefore chose on their own initiative and in a very primitive way to produce some small videos that showed that the music was still alive and that you could well - to a certain extent - play chamber music from a great distance!
    2020
    Coronavideo, "Tak", montage: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    The Nutcracker and the Mouse Queen, poster 2018
    2018
    "The Nutcracker and the Queen Mouse"
    The children's performance "The Nutcracker and the Mouse Queen" was created in a collaboration between Teatret Masken, NørregadeTeatret in Maribo and the ensemble.
    Hoffmann's fairy tales and Tchaikovsky's music formed the basis of playwright Camilla Hübbe's festive performance filled with good music.
    During the 44 performances that took place, it was experienced by no less than 5.500 lucky children from Lolland and Falster.

  • Read "Institutions rarely perform",
    Folketidende, Nov. 2018

  • Read review,
    Folketidende, Nov, 2018
  • 2018
    The Nutcracker and the Mouse Queen, poster 2018
    Storstrøm Symphony Orchestra plays concert
    2018
    Storstrøm Symphony Orchestra is closed down
    To the great regret of everyone in and around the orchestra and not least the audience, the "Storstrøm Symphony Orchestra" was closed down in 2018. Failing finances were the main reason for this, and the reason for this can be traced back to the municipal reform in 2007.
    The orchestra had existed since 1952 and had been a significant part of the ensemble's work since 1991. The musicians consisted of a discreet mix of local amateurs, traveling professionals, the ensemble's musicians, MGK students and even music school students.

  • Read "Local Symphony Orchestra has played last concert",
    Folketidende, Dec. 2018
  • 2018
    Storstrøm Symphony Orchestra plays concert
    The KUMUS Concert Hall, photo: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    summer 2016
    New domicile: KUMUS
    The former tenant housing to Fuglsang After a thorough renovation and rebuilding in 1863, the manor house from 2016 was inaugurated as 'KUMUS' - a center for music and art on Lolland-Falster.
    The building is divided between the ensemble and Fuglsang Art Museum's dissemination department.
    The ensemble's then head, Claus Due, exerted his influence especially with a view to the design of the concert hall, which today stands as a distinguished and modern concert hall with excellent acoustics for chamber music.

  • Read "Kulturcenter takes shape",
    Folketidende, Sept. 2015

  • Read "Well-sound in a new historical setting",
    Folketidende, May 2016
  • summer 2016
    The KUMUS Concert Hall, photo: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    Danish Chamber Players 25 years
    May 2016
    25th anniversary
    In 2016, the Danish Chamber Players were able to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
    New name - new logo - new domicile (see below) - and a string of concerts that were both retrospective and innovative in programming.
    4 new works were composed for the ensemble on the occasion of the anniversary, and a CD - which can still be acquired by contacting the ensemble - was recorded and distributed free of charge.
    The summer festival was also marked by the anniversary.
    The next 25 years will hopefully be at least as marked, significant, innovative, breathtaking and necessary.

  • Read "Anniversary party for five days",
    Folketidende, Aug. 2016

  • Read "Feast day on Fuglsang",
    Folketidende, Aug. 2016

  • Read review,
    Folketidende, Aug. 2016
  • May 2016
    Danish Chamber Players 25 years
    Carl and Marie poster
    2015
    Carl Nielsen 150 years
    Like everyone else, the ensemble also celebrated Carl Nielsen's 150th birthday - all year round!
    Not least the performance "Carl and Marie" was a big bet. Based on the handed down exchange of letters between Carl Nielsen and his wife Marie, a very artistic and sometimes stormy marriage is described. Actress, author and director Lotte Andersen was the creative force behind the production and composer Jesper Nordin had composed the music. The singers Signe Asmussen and Joachim Knopp performed the vocal parts with great empathy and the result was a deeply moving performance, in which the musicians also participated quite dramatically.

  • Read review,
    Folketidende, July 2015

  • Read "Dazzlingly beautiful opening ...",
    Folketidende, Aug. 2015
  • 2015
    Carl and Marie poster
    Josephine Franyo as soloist with Danish Chamber Players, 2020, photo: Bjørn Meldgaard
    2011 (photo from 2020)
    Young Player Classic
    Starting in 2011, the main prize at the annual "Young Player Classical" competition for talented children and young people is to be a soloist with the ensemble at a number of concerts around the region.
    The ensemble is represented in the jury and the competition and the subsequent winning concerts are a great experience for both the young people, the ensemble and the large audience.

  • Read "125 young people compete in classical music",
    Zealand, Jan. 2012
  • 2011 (photo from 2020)
    Josephine Franyo as soloist with Danish Chamber Players, 2020, photo: Bjørn Meldgaard
    Toke Lund Christiansen
    2010
    Toke Lund Christiansen
    The now former solo flutist in DRSO, Toke Lund Christiansen, joins the ensemble as a new artistic advisor. It turned out to be an extraordinarily good match and Toke is still here! His enormous knowledge and repertoire knowledge especially benefits the ensemble in the planning of the annual festival or festivals. And the audience regularly enjoys his always extremely well-placed concert introductions.

  • Read "The chamber ensemble gets a new adviser",
    Folketidende, July 2010
  • 2010
    Toke Lund Christiansen
    Article in Folketidende
    Autumn 2009
    Deep crisis - and survival!
    The ensemble's supporting economy has been somewhat strained for several periods, but never has its existence been as directly threatened as was the case in 2009.
    At the end of the transition period after the municipal reform in 2007, agreements had to be negotiated in place with the new municipalities that now constituted the area and population of the late Storstrøms County. It was not easy...
    But thanks to far-sighted politicians and a strong offensive from both the ensemble's leader, Maria Frej, the ensemble's musicians on their own and great support from the local and national cultural and music life, they managed at the last minute to reach the first framework agreement between the municipalities Guldborgsund, Næstved , Vordingborg, Lolland, Faxe and the Statens Musikudvalg. This framework agreement is continuously renewed and is valid for 4 years at a time and continues to form the formal foundation for the ensemble's work.

  • Read "Musical success is threatened by closure",
    Folketidende, Sept. 2009

  • Read "State and regional subsidies may lapse",
    Folketidende, Nov. 2009

  • Read "The musicians fight for their survival",
    Berlingske Tidende, February 1991

  • Read "An enrichment for the region",
    Folketidende, Nov. 2009

  • Read "The chamber ensemble gets peace of mind",
    Folketidende, February 2010
  • Autumn 2009
    Article in Folketidende
    The ensemble's new car
    2009
    The ensemble buys a car!
    In the first years, Svend Aaquist's private vehicle was used. This was followed by a period in which the ensemble was partly dependent on being able to borrow the Central Library's van after opening hours and partly diligent customers at "Avis" in Nykøbing F. But in 2009 they finally managed to acquire a "real company car" to handle the transport of the much equipment and the large instruments that are necessary for a concert to be carried out.
    The car (an Iveco with lift) is driving just yet ...
    2009
    The ensemble's new car
    Fuglsang Kunstmuseum
    2009
    New Exhibition Pictures
    The ensemble's program committee got a brilliant idea: 7 Danish composers are invited to visit the newly opened Fuglsang Art Museum to choose each one image that can inspire them to a new composition for the ensemble - "New exhibition images".
    The idea was that the works should be recorded and released on CD together with Jakob Westh's fine instrumentation of Mussorgsky's well-known and beloved "Exhibition Pictures".
    The works were composed and performed several times, and have also been recorded - but the CD is unfortunately still on the drawing board for financial reasons ...

  • Read "Unique picturesque concert ...",
    Folketidende, May, 2011
  • 2009
    Fuglsang Kunstmuseum
    Friends' association event in KUMUS
    2008
    The Friends' Association sees the light of day
    A circle of dedicated and loyal audiences will be established by the Friends' Association in 2008. It will prove to be of great importance to the ensemble and its musicians in the years to come. Numerous times the members of the association perform voluntary work, and the modest contingent of the association enables valuable gifts for the ensemble (such as new musician chairs). Come and join!

  • Read article from one of the friends,
    Folketidende, Jan. 2012
  • 2008
    Friends' association event in KUMUS
    The ensemble's viola player conducts the Talent Academy
    2008
    The Talent Academy is established
    The ensemble established "Talentakademi Storstrøm" in 2008. The purpose was to create a link in the food chain between music school and the local conservatory preparation course MGK, which the ensemble had been involved in from the beginning in 1991. Talents from the five music schools in the new grant municipalities were admitted to the academy after the entrance exam and could look forward to a fruitful 2-year course.
    Unfortunately, it was politically decided to close the Talent Academy in 2016. And with the closure of MGK in Nykøbing Falster in 2017, it has become much more difficult to develop the musical talents in southeastern Denmark.

  • Read article about local talents,
    Folketidende, Mar. 2013

  • Read touching letters from the young talents
  • 2008
    The ensemble's viola player conducts the Talent Academy
    Instrument set-up, photo: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    2007
    The trumpet stops
    In 2007, trumpeter Paul Terracini chose to leave his position in the ensemble and move back to his native Australia. The ensemble's finances were not enough to re-occupy the position, which is why the remaining 8 instruments then made up the ensemble - which in turn fortunately still exists to this day.
    2007
    Instrument set-up, photo: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    Municipal card
    2007
    Municipal reform!
    As is well known, Denmark's counties were closed down in connection with the local government reform in 2007.
    As a result, the very significant part of the ensemble's operating subsidy that had hitherto come from Storstrøm County disappeared.
    However, a 2-year transitional arrangement ensured some peace of mind - but ahead, uncertainty awaited both economically, politically and culturally ...
    The ensemble's close friend, the composer Niels Rosing-Schow, wrote a supportive portrait of the ensemble and its situation - read it below.

  • Read portrait of the ensemble, part 1,
    Danish Music Journal, 2007

  • Read portrait of the ensemble, part 2,
    Danish Music Journal, 2007
  • 2007
    Municipal card
    Naji Hakim: Sakskøbing Preludes, dedication
    2006
    Sakskøbing Preludes
    It succeeded in persuading the French-Lebanese composer and organist Naji Hakim to instrument his "Sakskøbing Preludes" for the ensemble. He had originally composed these preludes to well-known Danish hymns for organ, and performed them in Sakskøbing Church, where he had inaugurated the church's new digital organ.
    The work was the start of a long collaboration with Naji Hakim, and also filled a large place in the otherwise very modest repertoire for chamber music with real church content.
    The ensemble has performed the work many times since and recorded it on CD.

  • Read "Sakskøbing on the world map",
    Folketidende, Sept. 2006
  • 2006
    Naji Hakim: Sakskøbing Preludes, dedication
    "HC Andersen and Jenny Lind" poster
    2005
    HC Andersen 200 years
    The ensemble was very active in the celebration of Hans Christian Andersen's 200th birthday.
    Partly as a participating orchestra in a large-scale dramatic performance "HC Andersen and Jenny Lind" touring the region, and partly in a more intimate theater concert "The Wild Swans" with music by Gunner Møller Pedersen, with whom the ensemble had collaborated for several years.

  • Read "Birthday Party for HCA at Fuglsang",
    Nysted Newspaper, Mar. 2005
  • 2005
    "HC Andersen and Jenny Lind" poster
    Barbara hendricks
    2005
    Concert with Barbara Hendricks - in Nakskov!
    Local enthusiasts in and around Nakskov Gymnasium made an absolutely fantastic event in Sankt Nikolaj Kirke in February 2005. A concert with Storstrøm's Chamber Ensemble, Ensemble Domino, Nakskov Gymnasium's Choir and not least the world star, soprano Barbara Hendricks.
    It was all conducted by Frans Rasmussen and was a very great experience for both the audience, the participating high school students, the musicians and Nakskov cultural life in general.

  • Read "Good Sound for a Big 13",
    Folketidende, February 2005

  • Read review "Joyful star moment ..."
    Folketidende, February 2005
  • 2005
    Barbara hendricks
    Excerpt from festival poster 2003
    August 2002
    First "Summer music on Fuglsang"
    Following a presentation by the ensemble's artistic advisor, Gordon Hunt, the festival "Summer Music on FuglsangIt should become an annual tradition that lives on to this day.
    Intense days (in the beginning it was actually a whole week) with many concerts - some with guest soloists / ensembles - and other events related to the festival's current theme or Fuglsang as a locality. The public has the opportunity to spend the night at Herregaarden or other places nearby and thus be a part of the busy, creative time. The musicians are here and there and everywhere, and there is ample opportunity to talk "back stage".

  • Read "Summer music for a week on Fuglsang",
    Folketidende, Aug. 2002
  • August 2002
    Excerpt from festival poster 2003
    Estonia and Latvia - with Fuglsang in the background
    September 2001
    Tour to the Baltics
    Most adults who were born at that time can remember where they were on September 11, 2001 ...
    Storstrøm's Chamber Ensemble was in Riga, Latvia on a small tour. The dramatic day began in front of the television in the hotel lobby, before the bus transported the musicians to rehearsal before tonight's concert.
    The next day they flew (...) on to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, where several concerts were to take place.
    During the Danish cultural promotion in the Baltics, e.g. played works by Ole Buck and Vagn Holmboe.

  • Read "Danish chamber music and ballet in the Baltics",
    Folketidende, Sept. 2001
  • September 2001
    Estonia and Latvia - with Fuglsang in the background
    Gordon Hunt, photo: Chris Fower
    summer 2001
    Star oboist Gordon Hunt visiting
    Internationally acclaimed oboist Gordon Hunt is associated with the ensemble as an artistic advisor.
    It was to prove to be the beginning of a very long and very rewarding collaboration, in which Gordon Hunt was particularly important for the ensemble's annual summer festivals.
    But the years that followed also featured two marked ones
    CD recordings with music by WA Mozart respectively
    and J. Ibert.

  • Read "The ensemble gets English advisor",
    Folketidende, June 2001

  • Listen to the Ibert CD on Spotify
  • summer 2001
    Gordon Hunt, photo: Chris Fower
    CD cover
    Spring 2001
    2001 "The time when we did not know each other"
    A significant musical-dramatic performance in collaboration with the local theater Cantabile 2 in Vordingborg took place in the spring of 2001.
    The ensemble played Marco Spallanzani's evocative music live to all the otherwise wordless performances.

  • Read short quotes from the reviews,
    Folketidende, 2001
  • Spring 2001
    CD cover
    Rehearsal in the music hall, photo: Finn Hansen
    summer 2000
    Wind Academy on Fuglsang
    In the summer of 2000, the ensemble tried their hand at an international summer academy for young woodwind players and horn players. Under the direction of the ensemble's artistic advisor, the clarinetist Murray Khouri, they managed to create an intense process that utilized Fuglsangs opportunities for immersion and artistic inspiration.
    English oboist Gordon Hunt was enrolled as an assistant director alongside the ensemble's musicians. The success was repeated the following year, where the process also ended with a concert in Tivoli's Concert Hall.

  • Read "Musical workshop",
    Folketidende, June 2000
  • summer 2000
    Rehearsal in the music hall, photo: Finn Hansen
    Alicia Petronelli who the ensemble played with.
    May 1999
    Tour to Argentina
    Another large-scale and overseas tour took place in 1999. The newly founded "Association for Danish-Argentine Cultural Exchange" was one of the main forces behind the project. New Danish works by i.a. Niels Rosing-Schow and Peter Bruun were presented at a number of concerts in the great country - not least in the famous "Teatro Colon" in Buenos Aires.
    Tango music was explored and several significant and close ties between the ensemble and Argentine musicians and composers were forged.

  • Read "From Lolland to Argentina",
    Folketidende, Apr. 1999

  • See poster from Argentina
  • May 1999
    Alicia Petronelli who the ensemble played with.
    Fuglsang Manor house, photo: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    1997
    New domicile: Fuglsang Manor house
    In 1997, the ensemble's then leader, Finn Hansen, succeeded in negotiating an agreement in place with the Classenske Fideicommis that Storstrøm's Chamber Ensemble could establish itself in the historic Fuglsang Herregaard - it was with all due respect something of an upgrade from the previous basement rooms at Nykøbing Falster Music School ...
    The ensemble's administration was housed in Herregaarden's east wing and the ensemble and its musicians received joy and artistic inspiration from trying and holding concerts in the recently renovated and very beautiful music hall.
    A new era had begun.

  • Read "With home spirit",
    Folketidende, Apr. 1997
  • 1997
    Fuglsang Manor house, photo: Stéphane Tran Ngoc
    Notice in Berlingske Tidende
    1996
    Music Critics' Artist Award
    In 1996, the ensemble was awarded the prestigious "Music Critics' Artist Prize".
    The reception took place at a concert in Tivoli's concert hall, where a newly composed work by the composer Niels Marthinsen had his premiere with the ensemble as soloists in front of the Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

  • Read "Nine Soloists",
    Berlingske Tidende, Aug. 1996

  • Read "Honors for local musicians",
    Folketidende, Aug. 1996
  • 1996
    Notice in Berlingske Tidende
    summer 1995
    "Venderne på Lolland" in Ravnsborg Bakker - and collaboration with Ole Buck
    With "Venderne på Lolland", another regional play became a reality, evocatively placed in the beautiful Ravnsborg Hills on Nordlolland and in collaboration with the Nørregade Theater in Maribo and the composer Ole Buck.
    The ensemble had 3 years before it initiated a well-functioning, and long lasting collaboration with Ole Buck who over a number of years composed his "Landscapes" for the ensemble.
    summer 1995
    Article in Folketidende 1994
    summer 1994
    The bassoon is coming!
    This second expansion of the ensemble should have originally meant two more musketeers.
    But an agreement was reached with the granting authorities on a model in which a bassoonist was now employed,
    and the remaining funds would then have to be used for changing guest musicians.

  • Read "Concert in the Cathedral",
    August 1994
  • summer 1994
    Article in Folketidende 1994
    Storstrøms Kammerensemble and Lyndon Terracini
    May 1993
    Tour to Australia
    Thanks to good contacts to the Australian music scene through the ensemble's trumpeter Paul Terracini, an almost spectacular tour to Australia (with Paul's brother, singer Lyndon Terracini as soloist) was set up in the early summer of 1993.
    The ensemble first played in the Church of Denmark in Singapore, and then gave concerts in Brisbane and along the east coast of Australia. The tour ended with a concert at the Sydney Opera House.

  • Read "The chamber ensemble is very successful in Australia",
    Folketidende, June 1993

  • Read "Bragging success in the kangaroo country",
    New Day, June 1993

  • Read "Danish delicacy in Sydney's Opera House",
    Folketidende, June 1993
  • May 1993
    Storstrøms Kammerensemble and Lyndon Terracini
    A violin and a viola
    Autumn 1992
    2 more musicians
    In the original constellation, the ensemble consisted of 6 musicians, but it was planned from the beginning that two expansions of 2 musicians would be needed in the coming years.
    The first expansion took place in the autumn of 1992, when violin and viola were added. The ensemble's repertoire possibilities were thus quite significantly increased.

  • See small note from Folketidende
  • Autumn 1992
    A violin and a viola
    Actors from the regional play "Dreamed me a dream"
    summer 1992
    Regional game "Dreamed me a dream"
    In the summer of 1992, Storstrøm's Chamber Ensemble (which was now the official name) began a collaboration - which was to prove to be unusually long-lasting - with Egnsteatret Masken.
    The local play / folk opera "Dreamed me a dream" became a great success not least thanks to a large group of tireless volunteers both on and behind the stage.
    Kim Helweg had composed the music.
    There was a very special atmosphere during the performance that night, when Denmark played the final of the European Football Championship ...!.

  • Read "Fate stories in dream pictures",
    Foketidende, June 1992
  • summer 1992
    Actors from the regional play "Dreamed me a dream"
    Storstrøms Chamber Ensemble in front of Liselund 1991
    May 1991
    The ensemble is created
    On 1 May 1991, the "Basic Ensemble in Storstrøms County" was established. The composer and conductor Svend Aaquist had been hired as artistic and administrative director of the ensemble, and had already begun this work some time before the musicians started.
    Immediately after some intense introductory meetings in private with Svend Aaquist, the actual musical rehearsal work began. The ensemble was so privileged to have a rehearsal room available downstairs at the Music School in Nykøbing Falster.
    The central library in the city also had a small office space in surplus, which served as the administration room for the ensemble for the first six years.
    The first public concert took place in the hall of the library a few weeks later.

  • Read "The local basic ensemble has an international touch",
    Folketidende, June 1991
  • May 1991
    Storstrøms Chamber Ensemble in front of Liselund 1991
    Job posting 1990
    Autumn 1990
    Musicians wanted!
    A total of six musician positions were advertised in the dailies, but the instruments were not specified - everyone could apply, including harpists.
    The 1st round of the competition was held solo, divided into instrument groups, and the 2nd round was reserved for chamber music.

  • Read "Now they must learn to play together",
    Berlingske Tidende, February 1991
  • Autumn 1990
    Job posting 1990
    DR introduction and M. Ravel: from "Ma Mère l'Oye", oct. 1992
    Niels Marthinsen: "A Bright Kind of High"
    - here with the ensemble and the SAS Orchestra, 2005
    Astor Piazolla: "History of the Tango"
    - with DR intro, Radiohusets Koncertsal, May 1999
    From a concert in Tivoli's Concert Hall, 2001
    - with DR intro
    Marco Spallanzani: Velizy Shuffle, 2001
    WA Mozart: The Quintet for Strings
    - with Storstrøm's Chamber Ensemble
    and oboist Gordon Hunt on the 1st violin voice
    Igor Stravinsky: Septet, 1st movement
    DR concert recording from the first "Summer music on Fuglsang"2002
    Gunner Møller Pedersen: "The wild swans"
    Reading: Joen Bille
    Naji Hakim: "Up all that stuff" from "Sakskøbing Preludes"
    Loïc Destremau: "Valebat"
    Talentakademiet and Danish Chamber Players, dir .: Martin Nagashima Toft
    - recorded live on Nyk. F. Theater.
    M. Mussorgsky: Promenade from "Exhibition pictures"
    arr. Jakob Westh
    Video about Young Players Classic 2012
    Video trailer, "Carl and Marie"
    L. van Beethoven: "Kong Stefan ouverture", op. 117
    arr. Jakob Westh
    WA Mozart: Overture to the Magic Flute
    Storstrøm Symphony Orchestra, Bohemian Hall, Stege 2015
    Conductor: Kai Grinde Myrann
    Edvard Grieg: "Thank you" from Lyrical Pieces
    arr. Jakob Westh
    "Little and the Cat of Happiness"
    M. Ravel: "Ma Mère l'Oye"
    arr. Jakob Westh
    Music by i.a. Astor Piazolla and Lil Lacy
    Recorded at Holmegaard Værk, Næstved
    Soloist: Bjarke Mogensen
    New grand piano
    Inauguration of new Steinway grand piano
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