Danish Music
Information about Danish sheet music and musical works: Danish music publishers, The Composer Base and Art Music Denmark’s Works Database
Music Associations in Denmark
In 2023, there were approximately 72 Danish chamber music associations evenly distributed throughout the country from Bornholm to Hjørring. The associations constitute an important labor market for Danish and foreign musicians and ensembles.
Danish New Music Academy
Danish New Music Academy (DNMA) is a course that aims to create and promote new music through close collaboration between composers and musicians. The course, held in Aarhus, is designed to strengthen both the Danish and international environment within contemporary music. DNMA differs from the traditional teaching situation, as participants learn through joint creation of music rather than through formal teaching.
GENSTART
With the GENSTART project, musicians, ensembles and composers have had the opportunity to apply for funds to develop new concert formats with a focus on re-performances of already existing works. The vast majority of new music/sound art works experience only one or a few performances. This means that neither the musicians nor the composers get the opportunity to work on and optimize the works, whose potential is therefore never fully unfolded. The consequence is a loss of quality for all parties involved – including for the audience.
ASK: Artists Share Knowledge
What insights and perspectives can art give us when it comes to the climate and a sustainable transition? This is what we are looking to answer through the project ”ASK: Artists Share Knowledge”. ”ASK” started in 2023 and is an international platform for professional artists in the field of sound to develop and share new ideas on the role and possibilities of culture to participate in a positive ecological change of the international societies.
LYDSKATTEN
A pilot project about communicating music that must not be forgotten.
Denmark is about to lose a unique treasure – a significant part of Danish cultural heritage.
Ever since the composers Gunner Møller Pedersen (1943) and Fuzzy (1939-2022) made avant-garde electronic music popular and relevant to a wide audience 50 years ago with the legendary “MUSICZAG” concerts with live electronic music in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, they have both worked with spatial sound and music as an essential part of their artistic métier.
PARIS CALLING: Residency for classical musicians in Paris
Art Music Denmark hereby announces an open call for the residency program of the Institut français at the Cité internationale des Arts, where we will have the possibility of proposing Danish, classical musicians for periods of 3 months between April 2023 and April 2024.
ISCM – International Society for Contemporary Music
ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) is a global organisation and network for new music with more than 50 member countries. The organisation held its first ISCM World New Music Days in 1923 in the city of Salzburg, and since then has held an annual festival in diverse cities around the world. As a global event, the festival creates opportunities to connect composers with new audiences, new peers and musicians, as well as event organisers from around the world.
Lydens Landskab
LYDENS LANDSKAB seeks to develop a fixed, sound-based art work in a specific public space and is currently accepting idea submissions. The project emerged out of a close dialogue between Art Music Denmark, the design agency Urgent.Agency, Roskilde local council, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde.
Kunst & Kultur i Balance
“The reason I said what I said, was to show that you can also say no and things will work out anyway” – TV host Sofie Linde to Danish broadcaster DR, after a speech during a comedy gala in 2020 where she shared her experience of harassment as an intern at DR.