International Carl Nielsen Conference
The world’s leading Carl Nielsen scholars are coming together in Odense from 22 to 24 October for a conference to mark the official opening of the Carl Nielsen Centre.
- How do the creative processes unfold when works are created?
- How does the music of the past influence that of the present?
- How does the narrative change when female composers are included in music history?
- Where is Carl Nielsen research heading?
The conference will take place at the H.C. Andersen Centre, at the Danish National Academy of Music and at Museum Odense.
Anyone interested is welcome to register for the conference as an audience member (see below).
On Friday at 5.00 pm, there will be a free concert in the concert hall of the Academy of Music featuring works by Nielsen and female composers of his time, see more.
Note: the conference is held in English.
Register for the conference
To register for the conference, please fill out the following form:
If you have not been invited to the conference as a speaker, you are required to pay a conference fee. If you wish to attend the conference dinner, a separate ticket must be purchased. Please note that the conference dinner is not included in the conference fee. Payment can be completed via the following link:
If you wish to attend the concert with the Odense Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, tickets can be purchased directly from the orchestra here:
Programme day 1
Thursday, 22 October
Venue:
H.C. Andersen Centre, SDU, Odense Adelige Jomfrukloster, Albani Torv 6
- 12.00-12.40
- Arrival, lunch, registration
- 12.40-12.45
- Welcome (Michael Fjeldsøe, head of Carl Nielsen Centre)
- 12.45-17.00
- Conference Theme 1. CREATIVE PROCESSES AND PERFORMATIVE PRACTICES: The creation of musical works and beyond. What can we learn from studying the creative processes from sketches and drafts to practice-based feedback from rehearsals and performances?
- Invited speakers: Karol J. Borowiecki, Ane Grum-Schwensen; papers: Michael Fjeldsøe, Mikkel Vad, Jonas Faurholt Høegh
- 16.00-17.00
- Conducting Nielsen: Talk on Performative Practices with conductors Helen Harrison, Christian Øland and Christopher Tarrant with Michael Fjeldsøe: How to conduct Nielsen – in past and future
- 17.30
- Official opening of the Carl Nielsen Centre, reception.
- Venue: TID – Museum for Odense, Møntestræde 1, Odense
- Official opening of the Carl Nielsen Centre, reception.
- 19.00
- Concert, Odense Symphony Orchestra in Carl Nielsen Symphony Hall, Claus Bergs Gade 9, Odense. See more about the concert.
Programme day 2
Friday, 23 October
Venue:
Danish National Academy of Music/Syddansk Musikkonservatorium (inside Odeon), Odeons Kvarter 1, Odense, Room 3.1. (on third floor)
- 9.00-12.00
- Conference Theme 2. INCORPORATING THE PAST: Counterpoints. ‘The Culture of the Line’
How did Nielsen’s interest in counterpoint and music from the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries influence aesthetic ideals and stylistic developments in his music and beyond?
Invited speakers: Steven Vande Moortele, Robert Rival, papers: Christopher Tarrant, Thomas Husted Kirkegaard
- Conference Theme 2. INCORPORATING THE PAST: Counterpoints. ‘The Culture of the Line’
- 13.00-14.00
- Keynote speaker: Julian Horton, Nielsen as Symphonist.
- 14.00-17.00
- Conference Theme 3: RE-CREATING HISTORIOGRAPHY: Marginalized composers in musical cultures of Nielsen’s time.How does the current interest in female and marginalised composers reshape the contexts and concepts of musical cultures in Nielsen’s time and beyond? Papers: Elise Ligaard, Laura Nørholt, Maria Claustad, Sanne Lorenzen, Nanna Staugaard Villagomez.
- Venue: National Academy of Music Concert Hall, Odeon, lower floor.
- Conference Theme 3: RE-CREATING HISTORIOGRAPHY: Marginalized composers in musical cultures of Nielsen’s time.How does the current interest in female and marginalised composers reshape the contexts and concepts of musical cultures in Nielsen’s time and beyond? Papers: Elise Ligaard, Laura Nørholt, Maria Claustad, Sanne Lorenzen, Nanna Staugaard Villagomez.
- 17.00-19.00
- Concert with Christina Bjørkøe and friends performing female contemporaries of Nielsen – and more. Admission free concert Hall of the Academy of Music – See more about the concert.
- Venue: National Academy of Music Concert Hall, Odeon, lower floor.
- Concert with Christina Bjørkøe and friends performing female contemporaries of Nielsen – and more. Admission free concert Hall of the Academy of Music – See more about the concert.
- 20.00-22.00
- Conference dinner for participants.
Programme day 3
Saturday, 24 October
Venue:
Kirkesalen, Museum Odense, Overgade 48, Odense, entrance through the courtyard of the old red building.
- 10.00-13.00
- Conference Theme 4: FUTURE (of) NIELSEN STUDIES: How do we imagine and shape the future of Nielsen scholarship?
- State of the art of Nielsen studies and where to go from here. Opening statements from ‘insiders’ David Fanning, Michelle Assay, and Daniel Grimley.
- Perspectives on Nielsen Studies from ‘outside’ Nielsen scholarship – what is needed and how to achieve it.
- Panel discussion: Trine Boje Mortensen (artistic director of Odense Symphony Orchestra), Anne Gry Haugland (PhD, head of Artistic Research, Royal Danish Academy of Music), Eva Havshøj Orth (CEO of Edition S), Pia Quist (prof., head of Centre of Excellence TRANSITION, University of Copenhagen)
- Open discussion: Future Nielsen Studies – Strategies for the Carl Nielsen Centre.
- Opening remarks by Michael Fjeldsøe: The Carl Nielsen Centre.
- Conference Theme 4: FUTURE (of) NIELSEN STUDIES: How do we imagine and shape the future of Nielsen scholarship?
- 14.00
- Guided tour of the Exhibition of Sealed Letters, TID, Museum Odense
Partners & Collaborators:
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H.C. Andersen Centret/University of Southern Denmark
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Danish National Academy of Music/Syddansk Musikkonservatorium
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Odense Symphony Orchestra
The conference is supported by:
