Take the chance to hear some of Sweden's and Europe's most promising young musicians perform the pieces they have been working on during our festival and academy week.

Take the chance to hear some of Sweden's and Europe's most promising young musicians perform the pieces they have been working on during our festival and academy week.

Welcome to the opening concert of this year's Fairplay Chamber Music Festival! This year's festival theme is "Roots" and explores how heritage and environment shape us as individuals and influence our lives. Through music, we will experience these influences and how they are reflected in the works of different composers, as well as get an insight into the personal musicianship of our festival leaders! It will be a festival with a personal touch and where music is at the center!

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The evening and the festival will begin with Marcelle de Manziarly's "Dialogue". De Manziarly, a composer as brilliant as he is overlooked, offers us a kind of musical conversation in which the instruments alternately speak and answer each other. There is a kind of mystery about the whole work, from the high sparkle of the piano in the opening to the long, somber melodies of the cello. This fascinating work serves as an excellent example of how music reflects human interaction and communication.

After some short solo piano works by the phantom pianist Konstantin Bogino, Ernst von Dohnanyi's 'Serenade' for string trio follows. The five-movement serenade is an enormously charming piece of music that constantly captivates and surprises. There are beautiful melodies and catchy dance rhythms, all clearly rooted in Dohnanyi's Hungarian heritage, giving the music a unique character and charm.

Known for his minimalist and meditative style, Arvo Pärt 's 'Mozart Adagio' looks both forward and backward. By using ancient musical elements, Pärt managed to create a groundbreaking style and is today considered the most performed living composer. In Mozart Adagio, Pärt combines his own musical voice with fragments of Mozart's works, creating an atmosphere of stillness and reflection that invites us to think about how the music of previous generations affects us today.

In Robert Schumann's magnificent Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, the composer is in his most personal mood, and the music offers many abrupt shifts between different emotions and moods. The music is strongly influenced by Schumann's personal experiences and feelings, his stormy and not uncomplicated relationship with his wife Clara, and a foreshadowing of the madness that follows Schumann through life and which a few years later will lead to his death. But although the music is searching and very serious, in the last movement it moves ever more towards a complete and heavenly triumph!

Welcome to a relaxed concert in the foyer with some of our fantastic festival artists. The program is Amanda Maier-Röntgen's violin sonata, performed by Ulf Wallin and Peter Friis Johansson.

Amanda Maier-Röntgen wrote her Violin Sonata during her time in Leipzig, where she went after graduating as a music director in Sweden. In a letter dated July 13, 1874, she describes the sonata as "a little wild" but at the same time points out that if it is performed well it sounds "not bad, I have both heard and done that in Leipzig".

In recent years, the work has become one of the most performed works by a Swedish female composer, and this is easy to understand, because the music offers drama, loveliness, lyricism and a distinctive tonal language.

A unique combination of two profound and spiritual arts - the timeless music of J.S. Bachand yoga.

Here you get the opportunity to explore your body and mind through movement and music. The yoga is adapted for both beginners and experienced and is led by an experienced yoga teacher from Trosa Hot Yoga. In each deep pose you get to listen to a piece of music by the great master Johann Sebastian Bach performed on cello or violin.Experience a magical and enriching moment together with our musicians and experienced yoga instructor.PRACTICAL INFORMATION:No prior knowledge of yoga is necessary. The event is partly individualized and suitable for everyone aged 15-99 years.Please bring your own yoga mat (if possible) and comfortable clothes.

Take the chance to hear some of Sweden's and Europe's most promising young musicians perform the pieces they have been working on during our festival and academy week.

Dmitri Shostakovich'sPiano Quintet is set against a dark backdrop - the war years of 1940 - and in the music, which is full of contrasts and surprising whimsy, he paints tragicomic scenes, musical flashbacks and hopeful gestures. It is also one of his best-known and most popular chamber works. Significantly, the work constantly looks backwards, as can be heard, for example, in the opening movements, which correspond to a Prelude and Fugue by J.S. Bach.

The work has previously appeared at the festival, then during a concert in 2019 called Drawing Lines 2019. When the work is performed again, it is in a different setting. 

Russian pianist Konstantin Bogino grew up in the community where Shostakovich worked, and Shostakovich's music has followed him throughout his life. There is a closeness between Bogino and Shostakovich that is irreplaceable and deeply fascinating. For this particular performance, Bogino is collaborating with eight of our Academy students, creating a truly intergenerational and unforgettable performance.

The Fairplay Chamber Music Festival concert "Sing in the Darkness of Sadness" will feature a world premiere and radio recording by Swedish Radio P2! 

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The evening begins with Karl Birger Blomdahl's "Suite for cello and piano". Blomdahl was not only one of Sweden's most prominent composers, but also one of the leading figures in the avant-garde music of the 1950s and 1960s. However, the suite for cello and piano was written before Blomdahl became a serialist and shows the intuitive feeling Blomdahl had for writing both beautiful and dramatic music before he distanced himself from these more traditional expressions.

This year's premiere is signed Hans Gefors in the great work "Sjung i bedrövelsens mörker", based on texts by Erik Johan Stagnelius. With this year's P2 artist David Risberg as soloist, accompanied by a full-scale piano quintet, the work gives voice to the dark feelings that Stagnelius so masterfully describes. Gefors' music enhances the emotional depth of the text and creates a powerful and moving experience.

After a short break, we continue with selected romances performed by David Risberg and Peter Friis Johansson.

Ludwigvan Beethoven's "Kreutzer Sonata" was originally written for violin and piano but is performed here in a version for string quintet. The sonata is one of Beethoven's most dramatic and intense works and set a new standard for what a violin sonata could be in its time. In this quintet version, we experience the full power and complexity of the sonata, with each instrument contributing to a rich and dynamic musical fabric. Interestingly, there is also a Swedish connection to the work: it was in the Bernadotte family that Beethoven met and played with violinist Rodolphe Kreuzer. Beethoven admired Kreutzer because he was a true musician who stood out from the empty-handed virtuosos of the time. Proof of this was the dedication of the Violin Sonata to Kreutzer. Whether Beethoven's admiration was reciprocated is less likely, as Kreutzer never played this masterpiece in public.

Tanja Tetzlaff and Florian Donderer offer a program based on the timelessly beautiful music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach broke new ground with his Suites and Partitas for both violin and cello, and many of his Inventions and other piano works are arranged for string duo. With these works as a starting point, Tetzlaff and Donderer spin a concert program that takes us to both expected and unexpected musical places.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

Skyspace is a partly outdoor experience, we recommend to wear or bring warm clothes. Unlike our other concerts, the Skyspace concert is not wheelchair accessible.

The audience will meet in the foyer of the Kulturhuset at 21:15 (or 10 minutes after the end of the concert at 19:00) to walk together to Skyspace.

 Skyspace is an exclusive experience with room for only 20 people listening, hence the increased ticket price.

Start your morning with great music and food when Konstantin Bogino and Miomira Vitas, in collaboration with some of our Academy students, invite you to brunch in Vita Villan!

With over 40 years as a duo, Vitas and Bogino have built up an extensive repertoire. Here they perform a program of music by Erik Satie as well as more folk-inspired classical music from different cultures and contexts.

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

The concert will be held in the White House, the showcase villa where Bruno Liljefors painted many of his most captivating paintings.

For those who buy a ticket, food and drinks are included in the entrance ticket.

For those who have booked a festival pass, only the concert ticket is included, food and drinks can be purchased for a cost of SEK 150, pre-booked separately in the booking system when purchasing a festival pass or by emailing us at contact@jarnafestivalacademy.com no later than 24 hours before the start of the concert.

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Take the chance to hear some of Sweden's and Europe's most promising young musicians perform the pieces they have been working on during our festival and academy week.

Melting glaciers, desert landscapes, flooded communities: climate change is having an alarming impact even in Europe. What are we humans doing to this wonderful planet?

Appalled by the destruction and degradation of our unique ecosystems, renowned German cellist Tanja Tetzlaff wants to ask nature for forgiveness with this film project. She has traveled with her instrument to places in Europe where climate change has already become a reality and visibly inflicted severe wounds. Surrounded by sometimes bizarre natural scenery, she performs Johann Sebastian Bach'sCello Suites Nos. 4 to 6, contrasting them with works specially composed for her by Thorsten Encke. She accuses, resists and moves us with her virtuoso playing.

The beauty of the music contrasts sharply with the often dramatic images of damaged nature, fighting the finality of destruction.

A moving musical and visual appeal for greater care and humility towards the beauty of our planet - at once breathtaking and moving.

Chamber music evenings, or Soriéas, were traditionally a format for the small room where newly written music was performed in the company of good friends and sometimes even outside audiences. In this concert, we highlight works that were created for such contexts or that capture the unique musical qualities that benefit from the smaller format. In the final work of the concert, it is instead the encounter between two giants, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky, which took place in the salons and which ultimately led to the creation of the work.

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The evening begins with Mel Bonis ' Soir et Matin, whose two-part Soir evokes a calm and peaceful evening mood, while Matin depicts the restlessness and energy of the morning through the glittering runs of the piano. Bonis wrote Soir et Matin for piano, violin and cello in 1907. When Saint-Saëns heard it for the first time, he was deeply moved and exclaimed: "I didn't know a woman could write such music".

Caroline Shaw's'Entr'act' is available in both string quartet and string orchestra versions and is one of the most performed works of the 21st century. Shaw won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Partita for Eight Voices used in the Netflix series Dark. Her Entr'acte is directly inspired by Haydn's Quartet Opus 77 No. 2. "I love it when music, like the minuet in Haydn's string quartet, takes you in an almost cinematic transition to Alice's Mirrorland," says Caroline Shaw about the work.

Franz Schubert's'Divertissement á la Hongoise' is a work very much made for the small musical salons. Written in the setting that would later become Austria-Hungary, 'Divertissement Hongoise' is inspired by Hungarian folk music. The three-movement work offers a lively and energetic journey through melodies and rhythms typical of the Hungarian musical tradition. This performance is signed by Peter Friis Johansson and his former teacher, Konstantin Bogino.

Sergei Rachmaninov'sPiano Trio No. 2 was written as a tribute to Rachmaninov's friend and mentor Pyotr Tchaikovsky after his death. Subtitled 'Trio élégiaque', the work explores themes of mourning and memory and bears the inscription 'In memory of a great artist'. Known for its magnificent piano part, the work encompasses all the emotional registers of grief and life - from heavenly joy to deepest sorrow, and is today considered one of the greatest and most beloved pieces in the trio repertoire.

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Take the chance to hear some of Sweden's and Europe's most promising young musicians perform the pieces they have been working on during our festival and academy week.

Few can articulate as well as Amanda Ginsburg, with humor and sadness, the little things in everyday life that make up such a large part of our lives.

In just a few years, she has reached a wide audience and become one of Sweden's most beloved singers - twice Grammis awarded. In April 2024, Amanda released her third full-length album "Tur att jag kan skratta", an album that made both audiences and reviewers smile. In 2025, Amanda continues her release tour, "Tur att vi kan skratta" with concerts in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

- What is more disarming than a laugh? Whether it's with a friend or a stranger," says Amanda.

The audience is once again invited to her jazz in Swedish, where the well-turned lyrics seamlessly meet the swinging and melodious music. Amanda is accompanied by musicians of the highest Scandinavian caliber: her partner and co-composer Filip Ekestubbe (piano) and Danish musicians Snorre Kirk (drums) and Anders Fjeldsted (double bass). This may be light-hearted music, but it is not easy music to perform. The four of them, however, make it sound playfully light and you can hear and see that these musicians really enjoy playing together.

Take the chance to hear some of Sweden's and Europe's most promising young musicians perform the pieces they have been working on during our festival and academy week.

When it is time to tie the bag together and close Fairplay Chamber Music 2025, we do it in a concert where all artists and students participate in one and the same work! For us, it is a new type of concert that we are extremely proud to present.

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM

We begin the evening with Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata. Clarke, a pioneer in chamber music, has created a work that is both powerful and sensitive. The Viola Sonata is known for its rich harmonies and expressive melodies, which together create a deep and moving musical experience.

Frank Bridge's'Phantasy Quartet' for piano quartet is one of the composer's many works entitled fantasy, and in this work the English composer Bridge has succeeded in capturing a dreamlike and imaginative atmosphere. The quartet is filled with lyrical themes and intricate interplay between the instruments, giving a sense of both playfulness and seriousness. 

After a short break, we continue with Ludwig van Beethoven's'Overture to Egmont' in a unique version for piano eight hands. Originally written as a tribute to the hero Egmont, this dramatic and powerful work takes on a new dimension when performed by four pianists simultaneously. This unusual setting produces a rich and dynamic sound that is both impressive and captivating.

We end the evening and the festival with Terry Riley's'In C'. This iconic and somewhat minimalist work broke new ground when it was first performed in 1964. Performed by any number of musicians, it is known for its open structure and repetitive patterns that together form a deeply organic musical whole. Here, all students and performers contribute to the ever-changing soundscape of "In C". The work will serve as the perfect conclusion to a festival where community, collaboration across generations and interaction are at the center!

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We hope you enjoy this last concert and that it will be a memorable conclusion to the Fairplay Chamber Music Festival. Thank you for joining us on this musical journey and sharing these experiences. Let's celebrate together the power of music to unite and inspire!