This year’s Kalv Festival will start soon | Read the program book online!
The Kalv Festival 2023 begins on Tuesday, August 8. It ends on Sunday, August 13. An almost whole week filled with, what we call this year, the sounding houses in Kalv. The week starts with “house concerts” (don’t forget to pre-book tickets for these concerts in the Kalv locals living rooms!), continues into the church room, on to the School House, rushes along the road to Kalvsjöholmbolaget. Then out into the forest to traditionally finish in Kalv’s Church.
We welcome the ensemble Lipparella, who perform music from the Renaissance to the newly written in three different concerts (Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday). The Hamburg-based toy piano quartet Non-Piano Ensemble also performs 3 concerts during the festival (Wednesday, Friday and Sunday), where, from the just mentioned, toy pianos, balloons, rear parts and melodicas sound forth.
German ensemble mosaik comes with two diverse programs (Wednesday and Saturday) which also converse with the historical mirrored through the very present.
The flute quartet 40F gives sound (on Thursday) to artist Peter Gustavsson’s already resonant painting, and 40F also makes an entire mechanical workshop (Saturday) to both rotate and vibrate…
Inside the school building, we can take part in audiovisual art via the loudspeaker orchestra Audiorama (Friday), which is also part of this year’s children’s initiative with both a sound art saga and a rhythm lesson for the little ones (during Saturday).
Saturday also magange to host (believe it or not!) a concert with ensemble Gageego! where not least one of the festival’s focal composers, the recently deceased Kaija Saariaho, is celebrated.
At night (Thursday – Saturday), the audience is invited to Liv Kristin Holmberg’s arresting performance in the dark hour (even for this, tickets must be pre-booked, as each performance is made unique for one participant at a time). The performance comes to a joint end at midnight on Saturday (for which no advance booking is required – come!)
The festival ends (on Sunday) with a sonorous walk through Kalvskogen together with the Non-Piano Ensemble and 40F, leading up to the closing concert where Lipparella shines with conductor and harpsichordist Mark Tatlow and singer Emily Pahlawan where a Handel cantata from the early 18th century is given relief in music from the last century.
Here you can read this year’s program as PDF! (swedish only)
A warm welcome!
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