Resonance

With the concert project RESONANS, Rostamo-Borregaard Duo wants to convey a collection of musical testimonies from different religious, spiritual or otherwise human existential standpoints. In addition to Sofia Gubaidulina’s “In Croce”, which both conceptually and compositionally illustrates the crucifixion of Jesus, and Jouni Kaipainen’s pantheistically based “Elemental Chanting”, RESONANS presents a brand new commissioned work by Swedish composer Britta Byström, “Epiphanies” referring to sudden revelations of God´s presence in our everyday lives.

The modern compositions are joined in the concert program with meditations by the medieval icon Hildegard von Bingen. In this interaction between both belief systems and centuries, the audience is invited to both enter into resonance with the often powerful expression of the music and to reason about the potential meaning of the compositions in the contemporary society that changes us.

Resonance had its premiere at the Frederiksværk Music Festival in June 2023.

BORREGAARD-ROSTAMO DUO

Rostamo and Borregaard already met as students in the mid-00s in the vibrant Scandinavian environment for classical music. Later, together with Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble (S) and Ensemble Allegria (NO), they initiated a project with the performance of Sofia Gubaidulina’s double concert “Sieben Worte” in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Connected to the project they had the privilege to collaborate with the composer herself. During this process thoughts of a further duo project were conceived. RESONANS is the first concert program the two musicians present together.

Andreas Borregaard Danish Andreas Borregaard is a classically trained accordionist. He started playing the accordion as a 5-year-old at Allerød Music School and made his debut from the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music’s soloist class in 2010. However, he already had his international solo debut in 2007 with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Since then, he has received a number of awards and rave reviews for his work in both contemporary music, baroque music and tango. Borregaard regularly collaborates with internationally leading composers such as Jennifer Walshe, Bent Sørensen, Simon Steen-Andersen, Louise Alenius, Marcela Lucatelli, Jessie Marino, Philip Venables and Niels Rønsholdt, and he has a great influence on the accordion’s use and repertoire. Borregaard is a PhD scholar in artistic research at the Norwegian Academy of Music (2018-2023) and in 2022 was appointed accordion professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.