{"id":9831,"date":"2017-04-24T15:34:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/event\/nordlyd-quartet-okeypis-tonleikar\/"},"modified":"2017-04-26T10:24:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T10:24:35","slug":"nordlyd-quartet-okeypis-tonleikar","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/nordlyd-quartet-okeypis-tonleikar\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordlyd quartet &#8211; Free concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Nordlyd quartet &#8211; A Finnish celebration from a Nordic quartet.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>1<sup>st<\/sup> of June \/ 20:00-21:00 \/ For free and open for all<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In 2017 it is 100 years since Finland gained its independence. This is celebrated by the newly formed Nordlyd Quartet with a tour of all the Nordic countries with music by Jean Sibelius og Kaija Saariaho.<\/p>\n<p>The quartet consists of four students from the Norwegian Academy of Music, and collaborates with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summeracademy.no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Voksen\u00e5sen Summer Academy<\/a>.\u00a0The quartet&#8217;s name<em>\u00a0Nordlyd<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Northern Sound \u2013 plays on the phenomenon of\u00a0<em>Nordlys<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 the Northern Lights, and reflects the origin of its members \u2013 Norway, Sweden and Finland.<\/p>\n<p>The quartet explains: &#8216;The Northern Lights are a symbol for all the Nordic countries, and represent the quartet&#8217;s desire to combine traditional and newly composed music from those countries.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Kaija Saariaho is currently guest professor in Oslo and instructs the quartet in rehearsals of Terra Memoria.<\/p>\n<p>The project is a musical national gift by Voksen\u00e5sen to Finland in the event of the 100 years of independence, in cooperation with the Finnish-Norwegian culture institute in Oslo.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Nordlyd Quartet:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Aliisa Neige Barri\u00e8re<\/strong> violin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexandra Peral<\/strong> violin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ester Forsberg<\/strong> viola<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andreas \u00d8hrn <\/strong>cello<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Program:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Kaija Saariaho (1952- ) Terra Memoria for string quartet<\/p>\n<p>Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Voces Intim\u00e6 for string quartet op. 56<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nordlyd quartet &#8211; A Finnish celebration from a Nordic quartet. 1st of June \/ 20:00-21:00 \/ For free and open for all In 2017 it is 100 years since Finland gained its independence. This is celebrated by the newly formed Nordlyd Quartet with a tour of all the Nordic countries with music by Jean Sibelius [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9829,"template":"","event-categories":[5],"class_list":["post-9831","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-concert","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/9831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=9831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}