Concerts
Unheard Sounds
Venue
Vor Frelsers Kirke, Sankt Annæ Gade 29, 1416 København
Date & Time
Jan 17 2026 15:00-16:00
Tickets available at the door
About the Concert
New festival at Vor Frelsers Kirke.
Christine Pryn has been invited to curate two concerts at the new contemporary-music festival Unheard Sounds.
The first concert presents solo works for violin, viola, and cello by Firsova, Smirnov, Schnittke, Nørgård, and Saariaho.
Unheard Sounds
Venue
Vor Frelsers Kirke, Sankt Annæ Gade 29, 1416 København
Date & Time
Jan 17 2026 17:00-18:00
Tickets available at the door
About the Concert
Chamber concert at the new festival, Unheard Sounds.
Rudersdal Chamber Players present a programme featuring some of their favourites. The concert includes Poul Ruders’ Piano Quartet, released on a critically acclaimed album in 2022, Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen’s beautiful piano trio Glasperlenspiel, and the world premiere of Traffic by the Polish composer Rafal Augustyn.
Young Composers’ Swan Song
Venue
Vor Frelsers Kirke, Sankt Annæ Gade 29, 1416 København
Date & Time
Feb 1 2026 15:00-17:00
Tickets
About the Concert
Program:
Dick Kattenburg (1919-1944): Sonata for viola and piano
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918): D’un matin de printemps and D’un soir triste
Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894): Piano Quartet
Young Composers’ Swan Song
They died before their 25th birthday, and their names never became household names. Yet they left behind masterpieces that already pointed toward a place in the front rank among the greatest composers—had it not all ended almost before it began.
Dick Kattenburg (1919–1944) from Amsterdam ended his days in Auschwitz, while the Parisian Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) died of tuberculosis. Guillaume Lekeu (1870–1894) from Belgium lost his life after contracting typhoid from eating ice cream.
Experience Dick Kattenburg’s Sonata for Viola and Piano, of which he only lived to complete the first movement, as well as Lili Boulanger’s A Spring Morning and A Sad Evening, among her final works. By Guillaume Lekeu, you can hear his unfinished Piano Quartet, which concludes with the strikingly beautiful slow second movement.
Rudersdal Chamber Players have assembled the programme as a classical counterpart to “Club 27” in popular music—the almost mythical group of great rock and pop artists who died at the age of 27.
It is hard not to speculate about what we have missed because the three composers died so young. At the same time, one cannot help but be impressed by the level and maturity their works reveal.
Historian and PhD Rasmus Rosenørn will speak about youth culture during their short lifetimes, which was markedly different from today.
Young Composers’ Swan Song
Venue
Birkerød Sognegård, Kirkevej 2, 3460 Birkerød
Date & Time
Feb 8 2026 15:00-17:00
Tickets
About the Concert
Program:
Dick Kattenburg (1919-1944): Sonata for viola and piano
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918): D’un matin de printemps and D’un soir triste
Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894): Piano Quartet
Young Composers’ Swan Song
They died before their 25th birthday, and their names never became household names. Yet they left behind masterpieces that already pointed toward a place in the front rank among the greatest composers—had it not all ended almost before it began.
Dick Kattenburg (1919–1944) from Amsterdam ended his days in Auschwitz, while the Parisian Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) died of tuberculosis. Guillaume Lekeu (1870–1894) from Belgium lost his life after contracting typhoid from eating ice cream.
Experience Dick Kattenburg’s Sonata for Viola and Piano, of which he only lived to complete the first movement, as well as Lili Boulanger’s A Spring Morning and A Sad Evening, among her final works. By Guillaume Lekeu, you can hear his unfinished Piano Quartet, which concludes with the strikingly beautiful slow second movement.
Rudersdal Chamber Players have assembled the programme as a classical counterpart to “Club 27” in popular music—the almost mythical group of great rock and pop artists who died at the age of 27.
It is hard not to speculate about what we have missed because the three composers died so young. At the same time, one cannot help but be impressed by the level and maturity their works reveal.
Historian and PhD Rasmus Rosenørn will speak about youth culture during their short lifetimes, which was markedly different from today.