How to Ruin Someone’s Ca­reer as a Vi­ol­ist / S. Gerup & Þórhildur Mag­nús­dót­tir

How to Ruin Someone’s Career as a Violist by Danish composer S. Gerup is the result of a collaboration between S. Gerup and violist Þórhildur Magnúsdóttir.

S. Gerup writes: “As a composer, I have set out to work with suffering that can generally be disabling for anyone — such as break up, miscarriage, and severe illness. In How to Ruin Someone's Career as a Violist we want to expose the lack of ability to perform, that these conditions bring, through a classically trained violist. The work revolves around those various forms of internalized pain. It’s inspiration comes from the German philosopher Hannah Arendt who writes that “in order to exist, some realities must be kept hidden, while others, on the contrary, must be made public.”

The work was commissioned by Dark Music Days and Klang Festival in Denmark and is part of the Nordic–Scottish collaborative project Northern Connection.

Admission is free.

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