bside.dk : ART - MUSIC - MEDIA

This site belongs to Björn Ross - artist, musician, curator, producer, promoter - based in Copenhagen

UPCOMING PROJECTS & EVENTS

March 3
2012
Masterclass with Leah Stuttard (uk) - medieval harp
Arranged by Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival @ Koncertkirken, Copenhagen
March 4
2012
Concert with Leah Stuttard (uk) - medieval harp
Arranged by Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival @ Koncertkirken, Copenhagen
March 5
2012
Early Monday with Elisabeth Holmertz & Fredrik Bock (no/se)
@ Literaturhaus, Copenhagen
March 5
2012
French Baroque with Christian Damsgaard, Kristin Mulders, Gunnhild Tønder a.o.
@ Koncertkirken, Copenhagen
March 9-10
2012
NORDEM Meetings
@ Grieg Academy, Bergen, Norway
April 13-15
2012
REMA Meeting & General Assembly
@ Ribeauvillé, France
April 21-22
2012
Masterclass with Lise-Lotte Nielsen & Magnus Tessing Schneider (dk)
Arranged by Nordic Network for Early Opera @ Koncertkirken, Copenhagen
May 31
2012

Leonie Sonning Price Concert 2012 - Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI performs in connection with Savall's reception of the Leonie Sonning Music Price Award 2012.
@ Trinitatis Kirke, Copenhagen
June 8
2012

Conference: "Cavalli on Stage" with Ellen Rosand, Dinko Fabris, Jette Barnholdt Hansen, Magnus Tessing Schneider, Mark Tatlow, Deda Cristina Colonna.
@
Drottningholms Slottsteater, Stockholm
June 24-26
2012
NORDEM Meeting & EAR-ly competition
@ Vestfold Festspillene, Tønsberg, Norway
June 29-30
2012
REMA Meetings & Conference
@ Riga, Latvia
July 7
2012
Laude Illustre - a visual concert with Agnethe Christensen, Gro Siri Johansen & Elisabeth Gaver.
@ Skalholt Summer Concerts, Iceland
Sep 7-9
2012
REMA Meetings & Conference
@ Estella, Spain
Sep 9-11
2012
Conference: "Re-inventions of Early-European Performing Arts and the Creative City, Civic Regeneration and Cultural Tourism" @ The Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Oct 20-
Nov 18
2012
Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival 2012
"The Birth of the Renaissance - Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Music 1200-1400" - with Tetraktys, Micrologus, Decameron, Musica Ficta a.o.
Nov 16-18
2012
REMA Meetings & Conferences
@ Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival
October
2013
Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival 2013
"Gesualdo 1566-1613 - 400 years commemoration of the composer's death"

RECENT PROJECTS & EVENTS

Feb 9-10
2012
REMA Board Meeting
@ SEMF, Stockholm
Feb 5
2012
Masterclass with Mireille Delunsch (fr)
Arranged by Nordic Network for Early Opera @ Koncertkirken, Copenhagen
Feb 2-4-5
2012

Vice & Virtue - a baroque opera collage production in collaboration with Malmö Musikhögskola and Musik i Syd. Stage director: Deda Cristina Colonna, musical director: Peter Spissky, stage design: Björn Ross.
@ Palladium Baroque, Malmö, Koncertkirken, Copenhagen, Lundabarock. Lund
Dec 9-11
2011
Masterclass with Deda Cristina Colonna (it)
Arranged by Nordic Network for Early Opera @ DKDM and Koncertkirken, Copenhagen
Dec 5
2011
Laude Illustre Yule Edition - a visual concert w. Agnethe Christensen (dk), Gro Siri Johansen (no).
@ Early Monday, Literaturhaus, Copenhagen N
Nov 7-20
2011

Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival 2011 - "From Schütz to Geist - Early German Baroque Music 1600-1700" - With Concerto Copenhagen, Musica Ficta, Theatre of Voices, Göteborg Baroque, Ensemble Mare Balticum, DKDM Barokensemble, Trinitatis Barokensemble, Holmens Barokensemble a.o.
Nov 4-6
2011
REMA Meetings & Show Case
@ Casa da Musica, Porto
Oct 5-9
2011
Nordic/Baltic Music Festival Conference & NORDEM Meetings
@ Reykjavik, Iceland
Oct 1
2011
Gesualdo - a visual concert - with Bo Holten and Musica Ficta (dk)
@ Koncertkirken Blågård, Copenhagen
Sep 5
2011

Early Monday: POPPEA - a sounding seminar with Magnus Tessing Schneider, Benjamin Bayl, Mark Tatlow, Deda Cristina Colonna, Felicity Baker, Elisabeth Belgrano, Eva Nässén, Xenia Lach-Nielsen a.o.
@ Literaturhaus, Copenhagen N
Aug 27-Sep 6
2011

Poppæas Kroning - stage production of Monteverdi's opera from 1643 (in danish).
Stage director & Translation: Magnus Tessing Schneider, Musical director: Benjamin Bayl, Stage design: Signe Beckman, Producer: Björn Ross.

Produced by Nordic Network for Early Opera @
Københavns Musikteater, Copenhagen
June 24-26
2011
REMA Meeting & Conference
@ Ancona, Italy
May 28-29
2011

Nordic Network For Early Opera meetings at Drottningholm - with Magnus Tessing Schneider, Mark Tatlow, Deda Cristina Colonna, Jette Barnholdt Hansen, Sigrid T'Hooft a.o.
@
Drottningholms Slottsteater, Stockholm
April 14-16
2011
REMA Meeting & Conference
@ Paris
April 3-5
2011
Concerts: Early Italian Baroque Music - with Aquilotto Sackbut Ensemble and Martin Petersen
@
Stege Kirke, Møn • Sankt Jakobs Kirke, Copenhagen
Feb 2-4
2011
NORDEM Meeting & Conference on Early Music & Education
@ Musik i Syd & Musikhögskolan i Malmö
Dec 16
2010
Laude Illustre - visual concert w. Agnethe Christensen (dk), Gro Siri Johansen (no), Elizabeth Gaver (us)
@ Gamle Aker Kirke, Oslo
Dec 3-5
2010
REMA Meeting & Conference
@ Hosted by EUBO, Echternach, Luxembourg
Oct 31
2010

Sacred Representation in Music - from Medieval Drama to Early Opera - international conference
With: Nils Holger Petersen, Jette Barnholdt Hansen, Hanne Roer, Eyolf Østrem a.o.
@
Copenhagen University, Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals
Oct 30-31
2010
Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo - Emilio de' Cavalieri, 1600
Director: Deda Cristina Colonna (it), musical directors: Jan Van Elsacker (be) and Benjamin Bayl (au/dk).
@ Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival 2010
Oct 13
2010
Laude Illustre - visual concert w. Agnethe Christensen (dk), Gro Siri Johansen (no), Elizabeth Gaver (us)
@ Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival 2010

Oct 8-31
2010

Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival 2010 - with Il Trionfo Del Tempo (be), Concerto Soave (fr), Sequentia (us/fr), Ars Nova & Concerto Copenhagen (dk), Musica Ficta (dk), Alba (dk), Laude Illustre a.o.
August 6-8
2010

Mozart's Don Giovanni - in its original context - international conference with Ian Woodfield (uk), Felicity Baker (uk), Mark Tatlow (se/uk), Magnus Tessing Schneider (dk)
Arranged by Nordic Network for Early Opera @
Drottningholms Slottsteater, Stockholm
July 8-10
2010
REMA Meeting & Conference
@ The National Centre For Early Music, York
July 5-6-7
2010
Concerts - Early German Baroque Music - with Anders Danman & Aquilotto Sackbut Ensemble
@
Sankt Johannes Kirke, Copenhagen • Stege Kirke, Møn • Sct Catharinae Kirke, Ribe
June 10
2010
EAR-ly - first nordic competition for young early music ensembles arranged by NORDEM
@ Stockholm Early Music Festival 2010
May 3-Jun 15
2010
Residency
@ Circolo Scandinavo/Skandinavisk Forenings Kunstnerhus, Rome
May 18
2010
Artist Talk
@ Circolo Scandinavo/Skandinavisk Forenings Kunstnerhus, Rome
April 23-24
2010
REMA meeting & Grand Audition
@ Centre de Musiqe Baroque de Versailles, Paris
April 17
2010

Conference: "Rhetoric in the Service of Artistic Expression - from Monteverdi to Mozart"
With: Eva Nässén (se), Jette Barnholdt Hansen (dk), Magnus Tessing Schneider (dk).
Place: Högskolan För Scen och Musik, Göteborgs Universitet, Göteborg
March 6
2010
Laude Illustre - visual concert w. Agnethe Christensen (dk), Gro Siri Johansen (no), Elizabeth Gaver (us)
@ Early Music LIVE - Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm
Dec 5-7
2009
Masterclass: Early Italian Baroque Opera - with Mark Tucker
@ Literaturhaus, Copenhagen
Nov 27-28
2009
REMA Meeting & Show Case
@
Festival Internacional de Música Antigua, Valencia & Tardor Cultural Vilafamés, Spain
Nov 23
2009
ULV - visual setting for concert with Agnethe Christensen and Elizabeth Gaver.
@ Koncertkirke Festival, Blågårds Kirke, Copenhagen

Nov 2-8
2009

Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival 2009 - ASCANIO MAYONE CELEBRATION WEEK
with Mara Galassi (it), Jean-Marc Aymes (fr), Christopher Stembridge (uk), Dinko Fabris (it) a.o.
Oct 23
2009
Koncertkirke Festival - video settings for Philip Schmidt-Madsen, Laude Illustre, Stephan Bomberg.
@ Blågårds Kirke, Copenhagen
Oct 12
2009
Early Monday - Premiere evening
@ Literaturhaus, Copenhagen
August 1
2009
New Perspectives on Poppea - international conference with Wendy Heller (us), Ellen Rosand (us), Mark Tatlow (se) and Magnus Tessing Schneider (dk).
Arranged by Nordic Network for Early Opera @
Drottningholms Slottsteater, Stockholm
June 20-21
2009
Laude Illustre - visual concerts with Agnethe Christensen, Gro Siri Johansen, Elizabeth Gaver (music)
@ MODUS - Center For Medieval Music, Oslo
May 25
2009
micro film festival
@ Undergrund Kino, Literaturhaus, Copenhagen
May 1
2009
Associazione Mayone - founding meeting
with Mara Galassi (it), Jean-Marc Aymes (fr), Christopher Stembridge (uk), Dinko Fabris (it)
April 28
2009
Art After Works: OPENING - a micro art festival
@
Galleri Rostrum, Malmö

October-Nov
2008

Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival 2008 - with Marco Horvat & Faenza, Micrologus, Christopher Stembridge, Mara Galassi, Musica Ficta, Ars Nova a.o.

Feb-March 2008

CLOSER - dance-music-video performance with Åben Dans, Simon Christensen and Kundi Bombo
@ Gimle, Roskilde
November 2007
L'Orfeo - Stage production of Monteverdi's opera. With Magnus Tessing Schneider, Peter Spissky a.o.
@ Hofteatret i Teatermuseet, Copenhagen
October-Nov
2006
Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival 2006 - with I Fagiolini, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Tetraktys, Ketil Haugsand, Tallis Scholars, Jauna Muzika, Ars Nova, Musica Ficta a.o.

February
2006

An incomplete map of everything - interdisciplinary art festival. Live video/sound performance
@ Links Hall, Chicago

November 2005

Konstruktion Menneske - a dance performance installation. With Åben Dans and Leonard Forslund.
@ Inter_Aktion, The Museum for Contemporary Art, Roskilde
PROJECTS by AREA
EARLY MUSIC
2010 -
REMA - European Early Music Network - Executive Board Member
2009 -
Associazione Mayone - Administrator
2009 -
NORDEM - Nordic Early Music Federation - General Secretary
2009 -
Musica Ficta - vocal ensemble - Administrator
2008 -
Early Sound - early music network in denmark and around - Administrator
2007 -
Nordic Network For Early Opera - Administrator, producer, stage designer
2006 -
Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival - international early music festival - Producer, director
2003 -
renaissancemusik.dk - early music webportal and production platform - Administrator
2000-07

Kantus København - vocal ensemble - singer, administrator

STAGE PRODUCTIONS
2012
Vice & Virtue - Baroque opera show collage with Handel a.o. - stage design and video
2011
Poppæas Kroning - Monteverdi, 1643 - producer
2010
Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo - Cavalieri, 1600 - producer and stage design
2008
Closer - dance performance - video stage design, live video installation and live video mix
2007
L'Orfeo - Monteverdi, 1607 - producer and stage design
SOUND ART
2006
An incomplete map of everything, Links Hall, Chicago - performer, curator and presentation
2005
Sound Facts, Bologna - curator, installation artist, conference speaker, live performer
2004
Overgaden Sound Art Festival, Copenhagen - curator and organizer
INSTALLATIONS & PERFORMANCES
2006
ORGAN [chicago requiem] - preformance @ Links Hall, Chicago
2005
Konstruktion Menneske - dance performance installation, collaboration w. L. Forslund and T. Eisenhardt
2005
ORGAN [museo] - installation @ Museo della Musica, Bologna
2002-04
PlayDead - site specific multimedia installations in collaboration with Leonard Forslund

NET ART

2000-02
s/z [mapping aarhus] - stedet3.dk, Statens Kunstfond, Copenhagen
PAINTINGS
1988-92
Selected paintings

CV

English
BIO/PROFILE
English
CONTACT
Björn Ross
Blegdamsvej 2, 2.th.
DK-2200 Copenhagen
bjornross [a] gmail.com
updated Feb. 14, 2012