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One of the emblematic features of the festival is the final pilgrimage in the surrounding forest of Kalv. Over the years, this walk has taken on many different forms. This year, we let the pilgrim’s key words: simplicity, freedom, sharing, spirituality, unhurriedness, quietness and lightheartedness permeate the festival every day. In both a musical and contemplative sense.
We asked pianist and conductor Mark Tatlow to stage and musically reflect on this in different places and in different ways during the festival. Over seven concerts, we will follow how Tatlow interprets these words through The Wandering Sounds of Kalv together with the musicians we have invited to this year’s festival.
The festival is framed by sound artist Åsa Stjerna who, with Mare Balticum and Lamento, an installation for a forest, makes Kalv and the festival constantly vibrate and become a place for reflection.
German ensemble mosaik, Italian flutist Elena Gabbrielli and pianist Jonas Olsson celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Luigi Nono in three different concerts. Perhaps more than any other composer of the 20th century, Nono is characterized by a music in which wandering sounds are central to both his thinking about his music and his actual composing.
The Gothenburg ensemble Gageego! and Austrian composer and organist Klaus Lang also run like a red thread through the festival. Not least in the world premiere of Lang’s 40-minute kaihogyo, where the Japanese Tendai Buddhist monks’ prayer walk has given the work its title.
Double bassist Nina De Heney’s evocative improvisations can be heard both in church and in the automobile workshop. Violinist Linda Jankowska switches between strings and cymbals during the festival, and saxophonist and electronic musician Per-Anders Nilsson joins organist Johannes Landgren in a night-time concert.
As usual, we also have several talks and concert introductions during the week and the recurring rhythm and singing exercises for children.
The festival will end on a grand note with a concert featuring a large number of the festival’s musicians under the direction of Mark Tatlow. A choir formed for the festival, the Kalv choir, also takes the stage and the festival comes to an end.
A warm welcome in August!
Föreningen Kalvfestivalen