KIMI Ensemble
They will work closely with the composers in residence on their new piece which will premiere on the Summer Concerts last day July 12. They will also play their own concert Friday July 10 with a varied program of pieces written for them.
KIMI ensemble consist of singer Þórgunnur Anna Örnólfsdóttir, percussionist Katerina Anagnostidou and accordionist Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson. The musicians come from Iceland and Greece but met during their studies at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. They have played together since 2018 and have given official concerts both in Iceland and Denmark. The trio mainly focuses on performing contemporary music along with making their own arrangements of folk music. This often entails close cooperation with composers who have written for the group’s unusual instrumentation. They have premiered pieces by e.g. composers Finnur Karlsson, Nick Martin and Christos Farmakis, as well as rediscovering seldom performed pieces by Peter Bruun, Atli Heimir Sveinsson and Einar Torfi Einarsson. Their arrangements are quite varied; both re-arrangements of composed pieces like Manuel de Falla’s Siete canciones populares españolas and Jónasarlög by Atla Heimir Sveinsson, as well as own arrangements of Icelandic and Greek folksongs.
KIMI ensemble consist of singer Þórgunnur Anna Örnólfsdóttir, percussionist Katerina Anagnostidou and accordionist Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson. The musicians come from Iceland and Greece but met during their studies at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. They have played together since 2018 and have given official concerts both in Iceland and Denmark. The trio mainly focuses on performing contemporary music along with making their own arrangements of folk music. This often entails close cooperation with composers who have written for the group’s unusual instrumentation. They have premiered pieces by e.g. composers Finnur Karlsson, Nick Martin and Christos Farmakis, as well as rediscovering seldom performed pieces by Peter Bruun, Atli Heimir Sveinsson and Einar Torfi Einarsson. Their arrangements are quite varied; both re-arrangements of composed pieces like Manuel de Falla’s Siete canciones populares españolas and Jónasarlög by Atla Heimir Sveinsson, as well as own arrangements of Icelandic and Greek folksongs.
Photo: Efi Anagnostidou
In this concert KIMI will perform music specially composed for the trio, through their collaboration with composers based in Copenhagen: Óratoría (2018) by Finnur Karlsson, Bittersweet (2019) by Nick Martin and the premiere of Like dreams of the dawn and scarecrows of the night (2020) by Christos Farmakis. The trio will also perform Piece for the middle seat (2019) by the American composer Jessie Marino and Lieder und Intermezzi by Atli Heimir Sveinsson. Jessie Marino often comprises visual arts and theater with methods of music, which is usually full of humor and absurdity, like in this particular piece. Lieder und Intermezzi is representative of Atli’s expressionist style; it was written in 1996 and has no record of performance to date.