ensemble

From 2009, Contemporánea has been extended with 3 musicians, which means that the ensemble is now made up of 9 musicians, including sound projection and conductor. The instruments of the ensemble are: flute, bass clarinet, percussion, violin, cello, double bass + one variable. The ensemble performs both as a group involving all instruments, and in smaller constellations involving only one or a few performers. Irina Kalina Goudeva (double bass), Fritz Gerhard Berthelsen (bass clarinet), Rune Glerup (conductor) and Ejnar Kanding (sound projection) is the artistic board for the ensemble.

Danish composer, born in 1965. At present he is working with Nes Lerpa in an audio-visual project I Sette Venti (Savona, Italy); with Signal ensemble, New York and Adapter Ensemble, Berlin. Recent compositions by Ejnar Kanding include auxiliary blue (2008) for Contemporánea, a 39 minute co-composition with Frank Bretschneider, Berlin; epicentre II (2008-09) for accordion & MaxMSP; three colors: white symmetry - black glissando - orange noise (2007) for string quartet & MaxMSP. Ejnar Kanding finished his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with debut-concert in 1996. For more information: www.myspace.com/ejnarkanding send email telephone: +45 2076 1179

Born in 1981. Rune Glerup studied conducting with Pierre-André Valade 2006-7, and participated in master classes with Jorma Panula and Mariusz Smolij. Rune Glerup has mainly made himself known as a composer, working with ensembles such as Esbjerg Ensemble, Ensemble Alternance and Ensemble TM+ among others. Already when he was only nineteen years old, he received a working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation, who has supported his work since then, and in 2003 he received the prestigious stipend for young musicians from the Léonie Sonning Music Foundation. As a composer he has participated in master classes with Rolf Wallin and Philippe Leroux, and from 2009 he has been studying composition and electroacoustics with Niels Rosing-Schow and Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjærg in the soloist class at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with expected debut-concert in 2010. For more information: www.runeglerup.dk send email
telephone: +45 2984 0821

Born 1963 in Copenhagen, educated as clarinettist and bass clarinettist by Haakon Vestly, Rogaland Music Conservatorium in Norway and by professor Thomas Friedli, Conservatoire de Musique de Genéve (Switzerland). Graduated from the latter in 1992 with highest distinction, I. Prix virtuosité, followed by two years intensive studies with solo clarinettist Aart Rozeboon (The Nederlands).
Throughout his studies from 1984 to 1995, Fritz G. Berthelsen worked as substitute in a number of classical symphony orchestras and ensembles for new music in and outside Scandinavia, among these: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Schweiz), orchestre Contre Champs (Switzerland) og Deutche Kammer Akademi Neuss (Germany).

The meeting with composer Ejnar Kanding in 1996 became a turning point, and since the establishment of Contemporánea, he has shaped his career in a different way braking new grounds. In 1997 he left the symphony orchestras and the traditional ensembles for new music and began in the new collaboration with Ejnar Kanding to play and develop performances which has its off-spring in classical score music with emphasis on bass clarinet and interactive electronic composition. So far this resulted in: first performances of works in Danish Radio (DR) and other places, issuing of 2 solo CD’s, establishment of several major exchange projects, solo concerts and education in Scandinavia, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, China and 7 South American Countries, and acting as musical visual performer in Theatre Kaleidoskop (Denmark), Epopeé de le Europe (Switzerland) and Forum Berlin (Germany).

The double bass player and singer, Irina-Kalina Goudeva, was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She studied double bass with prof. Todor Toshev at the Sofia State Conservatory (graduated in 1990) and Franco Petracchi at the Geneva Conservatory of Music (receiving the First Virtuoso Prize in 1993).

While pursuing her activities as a principal player in orchestras such as the Young World Orchestra, Ars Musica Chamber Orchrestra (Sofia, Bulgaria), Sinphonietta de Lausanne, Orchestre de Chambre de Neuchâtel (both in Switzerland), and the Orchestra of the Royal Danish Theatre (Copenhagen), she has always found great inspiration in chamber music and is collaborating with many ensembles world wide. Her passion for contemporary music connected her to ensembles such as “Contrechamps” (Switzerland), “Athelas Sinfonietta” (Denmark), ”Ars Nova” (Sweden), “Ensemble Modern” (Germany) and since 1998 she has been a solo double bass player in Contemporánea.

Eclectic, Irina-Kalina experiments with cross-over between different genres of music and has with equal intensity devoted herself to music from renaissance and baroque to modern tango, jazz and electroacoustic music. She also incorporates her contralto voice as an integral part of performances, thus adding a new dimension to the expressivities of her instrument.

A prize – winner of several international and national competitions (among others Special Prize of the Jury – at “Giovanni Botstein”, Parma, Italy; First Prize and Gold Medal at “Svetoslav Obretenov”, Provadia, Bulgaria and First Prize at “Stefan Gougarev”, Kjustendil, Bulgaria). Irina-Kalina has performed as a soloist and recitalist in Bulgaria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Spain, Scandinavia, Australia, South America, Cuba, USA. www.ikana.info