Curious Chamber Players
Always curious, CCP has since its inception in 2003 explored a wide range of new music repertoire: from hard-core modernism to graphically notated chance music, from minimalism to noise music, and from electronics to improvisation. The ensemble has experimented with framing concerts and sound installations with a unique use of time and space, each different according to the venue and situation.
Experimentation is at the core of CCP’s work and past projects have included bringing other art forms such as video improvisation, theatre, Tarot meditation, dance, poetry, and fragrance. Other than conventional instrumentation (flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cello), CCP extends its sound world through integrating everyday objects into their projects such as balloons, kitchen tools, and the infamous ‘beckoning cat.’
CCP has performed in contemporary music festivals such as SPOR, Ung Nordisk Musik, Sirén, and Stockholm New Music to critical acclaim, bringing their own flavour of spontaneity and identity to every project they undertake.
With Malin Bång as the resident composer and co-artistic director, CCP specializes in collaborating with composers of the younger generation throughout Scandinavia: Simon Steen Andersen, Nicolai Worsaae, Christian Winther Christensen, Øyvind Torvund, Lars-Petter Hagen, Tomi Räisänen, Sami Klemola, to name but a few. As a result the group has formed a special place in Swedish culture which is cosmopolitan in its core membership and repertoire, but also dedicated to the development of art music in Northern Europe. This is exemplified by its determination to present works from composers outside of Sweden such as Pierre Boulez, Alvin Lucier, Terry Riley, John Cage, Luigi Nono, Rebecca Saunders, Brian Ferneyhough, Tristan Murail and Louis Andriessen.
New commissions for 2009 include works from Mika Pelo, Hannah Hartman, Dominik Karski, Joakim Sandgren, and Jonas Valfridsson. Curious Chamber Players gratefully acknowledges the support of Kulturrådet and Konstnärsnämden.
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