{"id":58765,"date":"2024-07-10T19:20:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&p=58765"},"modified":"2024-07-10T20:54:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T20:54:03","slug":"ojeblikket-og-evigheden-music-and-poetry","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/ojeblikket-og-evigheden-music-and-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d8jeblikket og evigheden: music and poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dorthe H\u00f8jland Group + Einar M\u00e1r Gu\u00f0mundsson<\/h2>\n
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Icelandic Author and Danish Composer in Musical Collaboration<\/p>\n

Ry, Denmark-based saxophonist Dorthe H\u00f8jland and Iceland’s renowned storyteller Einar Ma\u0301r Gu\u00f0mundsson have embarked on a unique joint musical venture entitled: “The Moment & Eternity.”<\/p>\n

In brief, this venture is a meeting of music and poetry, a Danish saxophonist and an Icelandic poet, who are mutually fascinated by each other’s forms of expression.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Einar M\u00e1r Gu\u00f0mundsson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Einar Ma\u0301r Gu\u00f0mundsson is among Iceland’s most renowned contemporary authors and poets. He has received numerous awards, including the Nordic Council Literature Prize, the Karen Blixen Medal, and the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, and he has previously collaborated with musicians in various contexts.<\/p>\n

Composer Dorthe H\u00f8jland has her MFA from the Royal Academy of Music in Aalborg. Her primary instrument is the saxophone, and she is the chief architect behind the Dorthe H\u00f8jland Group, which plays original Nordic jazz with an emphasis on the lyrical, melodic, and atmospheric. The group consists of Dorthe H\u00f8jland on saxophone, Jacob H\u00f8jland on piano, Thomas Sejthen on double bass, and Henrik Nielsen on drums.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Recent Dorthe H\u00f8jlund Group projects include “Nordic Stories”, a collaboration with Swedish photographer Fredrik Holm, whose lens captured spectacular images of Icelandic nature which served as inspiration for the group’s compositions and contributed as a visual mood creator for their concerts.<\/p>\n

Now, a new collaboration is underway\u2014this time with Einar Ma\u0301r Gu\u00f0mundsson’s poems from the collection “Til rette vedkommende” (To Whom It May Concern) set to music.<\/p>\n

The foundation for this collaboration was laid when Einar Ma\u0301r Gu\u00f0mundsson met the Dorthe H\u00f8jland Group for the first time during the Nordic Culture Week in Ro\u0308dding in the fall of 2021. Gu\u00f0mundsson and the group hit it off immediately, and Dorthe H\u00f8jland has been composing music that fleshes out the experience of the various worlds and meanings of the poems since that fateful meeting. “Til rette vedkommende” is a lyrical and highly praised poetry collection that explores beginnings and endings, love, the seasons, nature, and the universe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dorthe H\u00f8jland Group will be playing a series of concerts around Iceland in August\/ September 2024 together with Einar Ma\u0301r Gu\u00f0mundsson. All tour dates can be seen on this webpage here:<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/www.dorthehojland.dk\/ojeblikketogevigheden<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The tour has been made possible by support from: Clara Lachmanns Stiftelse, JazzDanmark, the Danish Art Foundation, the Danish-Icelandic Fund, Letterstedtska Fo\u0308reningen, and the Fund for Danish\/Icelandic Cooperation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Einar Ma\u0301r Gu\u00f0mundsson, photo: Hreinn Gudlaugsson
\nCover photo: Per Bille<\/p>\n

Contact info:<\/span><\/p>\n

Dorthe H\u00f8jland
\n+45 2670 7510
\ndorthehojland@me.com
\nwww.dorthehojland.dk
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