I am extremely grateful to Christien Pryn, for having invited me to play Roxanna Panufnik’s Wild Ways for shakuhachi and choir at Rudersdal Sommerkoncerter on 22 August 2024. It is not easy to perform with a whole choir, and it needs to be a good choir, as it is a difficult piece for both the choir and shakuhachi. So I practiced a lot! I was nervous about how it will go with the choir (the Chamber choir Hymnia) and also how the conductor would be. In my experience choir conductors often conduct the phrasing for the choir and forget that the instrumentalist perhaps needs to know where we are. So I was excited about it all when I went to the first rehearsal on 19 August. But I didn’t need to worry at all. The Chamber Choir Hymnia was WONDERFUL! So good! And the conductor Flemming Windekilde was also soooooo good. It was a very comfortable situation to be playing under his conducting. We played at Nørum Kirke (church) on 25 August and we repeated the concert in Musikhuset København. I was veery happy finally to be able to play there. It was a hard process but what a great one! If you want to hear a good chamber choir in Denmark, then Hymnia is a good choice!
Here some photos from Nærum Kirke, Rudersdal Sommerkoncerter:
And here some photos from Musikhuset København:
Afterwards I had vegan sushi at my sister’s home