Concerts

I play piano, clarinet and organ, and regularly play concerts on these instruments, which I will share on this site. (I'm going to link to audio files of what we play with varying quality if they are available.)

3-12-2025 - Christmas Concert for the music students

Programme (first half in the Church, second half in the Parish house):

  1. (Me) Congregation + Ensemble: Blomstre som en rosengaard
  2. Choir + Organ: Rutter: The Lord bless you and keep you
  3. Soprano + Tenor + Strings + Organ: Bach: Er ist auf Erden kommen am (from the Christmas Oratorio)
  4. Tenor + Organ: Bach: Großer Herr, O starker König (from the Christmas Oratorio)
  5. Soprano + Organ: O Had I Jubals Lyre
  6. (Me) Choir + Ensemble: Befiel du deiner Wege (from the Christmas Oratorio) (arranged by Me and another student)
  7. (Me) Congregation + Ensemble: Skyerne Gråne
    8. Break
  8. (Me) Piano: Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 6 - 1st movement
  9. Piano (4 hands): Satie: Trois Morceaux en forme de Poire: I. & II.
  10. Violin + Piano: Price: Adoration
  11. Violin: Statkowski: Krakowiak
  12. Soprano + Piano: Schubert: Ave Maria
  13. Piano: Chopin: Nocturne op. 62 no. 1
  14. Violin: Kreisler: Prelude et Allegro
  15. Tenor: Williams: The Vagabond
  16. Piano: Chopin: Nocturne op. 9 no. 2
  17. Soprano: Nielsen: Æbleblomst
  18. Choir + Piano: Du som har tændt millioner af stjerner
  19. Congregation + Piano: Nu i den hellige time

I was sick up until the day of the concert as well as the days after, so the singing was tough for me, but piano was, of course, unaffected and the clarinet parts (ensemble) went well as well.

It was also interesting to have a composition being played at an actual concert. I enjoy writing small fugues, so I wrote a fitting fugue for the arrangement of Befiel du deiner Wege. The performance could have been better, but the composition is actually fine. I will link to the fugue part.

For my solo performance, I played Beethoven's 6th Piano Sonata, the 1st movement, which I have not played at a concert up until that point, despite playing it for 5 months. The performance went rather well, I did not make any serious mistakes at all, and while the first part of the exposition went okay ish, it went really great in the reprise of the exposition and the rest of the movement. I did not repeat the development and recapitulation, since we were on a tight schedule, and it quickly drags out.

I do want to repeat it at concerts in the future, I think. The recording, that I have of it also sounds really good, and while the actual piano was quite hard to properly play, the music production student, who often records our concerts did a quite good job with making it sound good.

The 2nd year violinist played Fritz Kreisler's Prelude et Allegro on a theme by Pugnani, which was surprisingly good in my opinion. He did a quite good rendition of it as well, and I love the blend between the baroque style theme of Pugnani (whom I have never heard of), and the romantic sound, that Kreisler has.

15-12-2025 - Christmas Concert with the Youth/Amateur Symphony Orchestra

Overall the concert went very well. I think I played well, and the other woodwinds were mostly great as well. Our 2nd clarinet is always very quiet, and we always look a bit stupid since we have 7 flutes, which participation is varying. Our oboe is getting increasingly better, having some great parts in Nielsen, our bassoon were amazing in especially Gade, where she had some prevelant parts, I was both relieved and amazed that I could actually play through the entire concert without problems. I normally have problems with my ambrochure after a while, but my solo in Suppe, the rather confusing themes in Gade and the solo parts in Heister. To be honest, I did let the trumpets carry Anderson, but overall I think I did surprisingly well.

Our concert master was unfortunately absent, so our conductor had to contact an old friend of her to stand in for him. Luckily, he was an experienced violinist (he has played in the local ensemble) so everything worked out. Even the acoustic in the church we played in were surprisingly decent.

18-12-2025 - Christmas Concert at my local church

Programme:

  1. Violins + Congregation: Nu tændes tusind julelys
  2. Voice + Organ: Mozart: Ave Verum
  3. Choir: Tusind stjerner glimter
  4. Choir: Gud, du er vor Herre og skaber
  5. Choir: Nu i den hellige time
  6. Violins: Christmas Potpourri
  7. Violins + Congregation: Silent Night
  8. Voice + Organ: En rose så jeg skyde
  9. Violin + Flute + Organ: Koppången
  10. (Me) Organ + Congregation: Barn Jesus i en Krybbe Lå
  11. (Me) Organ: Bach: Fugue in F Major from 5 Kleine Präludien und Fugen
  12. Flute + Organ: Fauré: Après un Rève
  13. Flute + Organ: Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Reed Flutes (from the Nutcracker)
  14. Organ + Congregation: Velkommen igen Guds Engle små
  15. Flute + Violin + Piano: Fauré: Sicillienne
  16. (Me) Hymn (Everyone): Dejlig er jorden

It was quite an interesting concert. Luckily for me, the requirements are not as big as many of my other concerts, so I can mostly do whatever I want, though it was a very weird version of the Bach Fugue I ended up playing, since I completely lost it at the last part. Definitely quite nervewrecking in the situation, but ultimately it ended up being an okay interpretation.

It has been quite a while since I last played to a congregation's singing, but I think everything went well. It is always quite confusing because of the latency between the organ and the singing, but I tried to ruthlessly keep on, which seemingly worked.

Other than playing to the two hymns and the fugue, I also had to turn pages for the organ/pianist at Ave Verum and Sicillienne.