Lars Greve

New video – listen, look and read below video.

My vinyl “En verden, der melder sig” has been nominated a Danish Music Award

My latest work “UNDERTIDEN” [Sometimes] will be a part of Ingvar Cronhammars next exhibition af Herning Museum for Contemporary Art. Running from 08.10.2022 – 18.08.2023.

For more info visit www.heartmus.dk/

These days I am composing music for documentarist Peter Hammers coming film “Revir”. The sound design is comprehensive, as I am transforming the physical scenography into a speaker. Trees, grass, walls, stones and humans are sounding!

Nordisk Panorama Film Festival premiered it for best work-in-progress-documentary. The film will premiere in spring 2023.

The weekend, Resonating Rooms will be hosting a festival in the former halls of the slaugtherhouse in Holstebro.

The old blood tubs will be transformed into sounding wells that amplifies the music from four performances. Fragments from all of these will be in the tubs, as a sounding memory. An uncontrollable interplay between the very diverse performers will arise.  The concerts are

June 16th 20:00 Lars Greve solo
June 17th 12:00 The choir from Holstebro’s Industry and Craftsmen’s Association
June 17th 20:00 MGK (Music Talent School)
June 18th 12:00 Ensemble MidtVest (professional classical ensemble)

During the concerts the audience can move around to feel, hear and see the music unfold.

New exhibition at kv_leipzig located in the heart of Leipzig.

I performed tree times; at sunrise, sun noon and sunset. The music was amplified through the windows – and the concerts could be heard at the exact same time the following 7 days. A way to access time – “Zugang Zur Zeit”.

Just moved to Holstebro from Copenhagen with my family. Excited to see what future holds for us.

Proud to be nominated for best film score for the Swedish Guldbaggen

New audio-visual work.

Clarinet improvisation, amplified by sounding pontons and recorded under and above water.

Sounds crazy? Yes – go look:-)

Proud to be a part of the record “Tifold” released by Aar&Dag which is nominated in three categories for three Danish Music Awards. The show will be held on the 6th of december.

New work for GRASP-festival – Roskilde Festivals new event for social and ecological sustainability.

Pilgrim is a sounding sculpture. It will be ignited with my improvised concerts as the festival opens, mid-point and ending. The concerts will loop and be embedded into the sculpture, which will sound night and day. Inviting the audience to listen, feel and move with sound – as a Pilgrim.

BLUNDER – ny udgivelse fra selskabet “Aar&Dag” med Mads Forsby, Kristian Poulsen og jeg.

Most of my whereabouts will be made on a new platform, which I named Resonating Rooms / Resonerende Rum.  This site will be (even more) quite from now – so please visit www.resonatingrooms.com for more.

Copenhagen Contemporary will be presenting my next solo exhibition the next weeks.

14 solo improvisation in a room, where the walls are ignited with the music.

Visit copenhagencontemporary.org/en/lars-greve/ for more info

I have been appointed to start a special ensemble by the Danish Art Foundation. It is a great honor as it is the first time a soloist and non-classical musician has received this support. Over the next three years, I have thus received support to realize my vision of developing and realizing innovative and people-pertinent music. Stay tuned to www.resonatingrooms.com for more info.

Working on new formats in this corona-era. This is a underwater picture from a recording in a swimming hall – sounds, moving pictures and info to come…

Only a few things happening this july:

06: Solo at Koncertkirken – Copenhagen

06: Kaja Draksler Quartet  – Copenhagen

12: Solo at The Community  – Aarhus

You can now see and listen to “Solhverv” in its entirety on Passive/Agressives website by clicking here.

Danevirke was premiered at Copenhagen Contemporary for the opening of “Gong Tomorrow Festival”.

Information, Kristeligt Dagblad and Politiken all made great reviews, and gave us 5 out of 6 stars.Here are a few quotes:

Information:
Åbningen af årets Gong Tomorrow-festival foregår i Københavns urbane udkant. I den store sal i Copenhagen Contemporarys nye residens på Refshaleøen er der højt til loftet, og langs væggene løber flere lag af grandiose ventilationsrør. Publikum anvises en plads på gulvet, og her sidder vi så og føler os små, fordi vi er omringet af et abnormt antal saxofoner, trompeter og tromboner i forskellige nuancer af sølv og messing.

Kristeligt Dagblad (af Sune Anderberg):
Den nuværende regering har ambitioner om at opprioritere befolkningens praktiske musikudøvelse, og ” Danevirke” er et slående eksempel på, at dette ikke nødvendigvis står i kontrast til ambitiøse kunstneriske visioner. Et værk, der så tydeligt arbejder med autoritetskritik, taber ikke i værdi, blot fordi musikerne rammer lidt ved siden af eller udviser volumenmæssig ustabilitet. Tværtimod bliver amatørismen en forstærkning af det æstetiske indhold.

Politiken (af Henrik Friis):
Greve & Zeebergs værk fungerede overraskende godt. Den sprøde klang af messingblæsere i let slingrende forening skabte et virtuelt rum med fire vægge – en for hvert bigband – der lagde sig rundt om os som stemmer fra hver sin verden. Til at begynde med i form af glad og optimistisk jazz, men lidt efter lidt mere og mere kaotisk, indtil verden faldt fuldstædig fra hinanden i orgier af messingklang. Fra midten fik vi de to professionelle og deres poetiske udskejelser, der på samme måde byggede op fra stille kerner til voldsomme kulminationer.
De smeltede smukt sammen, amatørerne og de professionelle, i en meget menneskelig musik med alle de fejl og skævheder, den slags nu engang har.

Proud to be nominated as “Danish jazz composer of the year” for Danish Music Awards for “Solhverv”.

Farum Big Band, Big Band Ribe, Night Train Bigband, Svendborg Gymnasiums bigband, Jeppe Zeeberg and I will be opening Gong Tomorrow at Copenhagen Contemporary November 1st.
The music is called “Danevirke” and is about nationalism. I think it will be somewhere in between wayward, chaotic and beautiful…It will definitely be the only live performance – ever😅!
We will also celebrate the new 10″ vinyl record “Danevirke”, released by Pladeselskabet Centrifuga supported by JazzDanmark, DJBFA / Komponister og Sangskrivere and Statens Kunstfond.

Girls in Airports has been playing together for almost ten years, and this year we got the honour to open Copenhagen Jazz Festival + a sold out concert at Alice.

Politiken was at the opening in Kings Garden and gave us this 5-star review – thanks!

I am beyond proud to announce that “solhverv” – an audio-visual portrait of Denmark largest and most deserted municipality is out!

It is made with my childhood friend and photographer “Fryd Frydendahl”. The portrait was made during the period from summer to winter-solstice (solhverv in Danish), from the lightest to the darkest day of the year.

A big part of this project was to meet and involve people living in Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune. So side A on the vinyl is a collage-like composition where you hear local ensembles such as Videbæk Harmonikaklub, Ringkøbing Big Band, Stok og Steen Koret, Vedersø Friskoles Guitar-ensemble and many many other. On Side-B I am playing the same three tracks as you hear on SIDE A, but this time it is only me playing together in a church, the moor and in a lighthouse.

Fryd has also collaborated with locals on the visual side, as well as adding her own portraits. You need to see it! I am a huge admire of her, and it has been rewarding on many levels to make this project together.

“solhverv” is only available in physical version. The book is released on Roulette Russe Publishing. You can see + buy it here: https://rouletterusse.dk/product/fryd-frydendahl-lars-greve-solhverv/

Composing, recording and mixing music with Mads Forsby, for Recoil Performance Group / Tina Tarpgaards next piece.

It is a choreographed performance that engages the citizen and takes place at several of the country’s local town halls. The performance puts the citizen in focus and tells the story of the things that divide us into boxes and the things that join us together as people.

Else Marie Pade was a musical pioneer, who was among the very first to work with electronic music in Denmark. Her life and works is unbelievable and has been a huge source of inspiration to me. I had the honor to talk with her before she passed away in 2016. In one of our meetings she asked me to do an interpretation of my favorite piece; “Faust”. She was significantly proud of this score, because as she said: “It balances perfect between being a graphic composition and a painting”.

I tried to record it many times on saxophone, but always felt the actual sound was a deduction of the written composition – I heard a richer music looking at the score. So after many years of trying and thinking I decided to release it as public post card through “go-card”, who distributes free post cards all over Denmark. Back in the days composers would send each other scores to exchange inspiration – this release was my attempt to do the same.

The past weeks quite a few records where I play have been released. I recommend them all:

Horn section and solos on: IceAge – Beyondless

Feature on Belgian trio: Donder – Sss

With trumpet virtuoso: Mads La Cour – Hule

Feature on Polish duo: Wood Organization

Mathias Holms album: Øya – Dreams Rewind

“Lysets Engel” is a new piece written for eight church organs premiering in Høsterkøb Kirke april 22nd.  You can hear it every half hour, everyday from 18 in the evening until 08 in the morning until may 22nd. It will play from two speakers located inside the organ, which makes it sound like the organs is playing.

Høsterkøb Kirke is located 15 km north of Copenhagen. The acoustics, the light and whole atmosphere is amazing and hard to describe. Painter Alexander Tovborg made this work, that gives a great impression.

Here are two articles written in Danish by Kristeligt Dagblad and Frederiksborg Amts Avis.

Preparing for the exhibition of Solhverv in Ringkøbing Rådhus on solstice december 21st. There will be videos, photos printed on foil and pasted on the grand windows, sound installations and photo portraits.

There will be to two official openings, on at sunrise (09.00) and the next at sunset (15)

Here is a link to one the music pieces. It’s called “efterår”, and is a portrait of the fall in Vestjylland. The musicians playing are Stadil-Vedersø Friskole on guitars, Fjordvang Efterskole playing noiserock, Ringkøbing Big Band and field recordings send in by students from Ringkøbing Gymnasium.

28th of november the dance piece “X-Mythologies” will premiere on Aveny-Theater in Copenhagen.

It is made by choegrapher Tina Tarpgaard (Recoil) together with Black Box Dance Theater.

The music is made by Aske Zidore and I, and features Annisette Koppel on voice.

Here is a teaser here (click)

“dødedans” can now be bought on presale. Please contact cronhammargreve(at)gmail.com or click here for more info.

Playing solo concerts and collaborations with Girls in Airports, Peter Friis-Nielsen, Torben Snekkestad, Simon Toldam, Jonas Westergaard, Ole Mofjell, Natalie Sandtorv, Dan Peter Sundland, Liz Kosack, Wolter Wiebos, Eric Boeren and many many other. Check the entire program at www.jazz.dk

just returned from Germany, where we recorded our next album. It will be a live album with old and new tunes.  Thanks to Resonanzraum, Ostpol and Berghain for great concerts. Click here for more info

During the last week I have been making a sonic portrait of the city of Aalborg together with Aske Zidore.

We have made field recording by inlets, distillery plant, road tunnels, cement plant, sub-marine, soccer stadium as well as making recordings with kindergarten kids,  school choir, copacetic-choir, classical orchestra of retired musicians, local impro-musicians etc.

It ended up with a improvised concert at Huset i Hasserisgade with local features. In the weeks to come Aske and I will make an audio-work out all the recordings. This page will keep you posted about when and how it will premiere.

New tape out on Insula Jazz and Hiatus.

Proud to be the composer for the theater piece “3 to midnight” by Teatret OM.

The piece is inspired by the “Doomsday Clock” – a picture of how close we are to the end of the world. It was introduced by scientists and Nobel laureates in Chicago in 1947, and in 2015 has been brought forward to three minutes to twelve.

This is the piece excerpt of the song for the two sisters, who in piece are illustrating time through dance.

Performing at Glyptotekets Winter Garden at the event called “SLOW” tonight. The theme of the evening is “longing”.

Come by a enjoy an evening with many other great artist features.

New collaboration between the classical Ensemble Midt-Vest, pianist Carsten Dahl and I.

Recordings are just finished for a new album, consisting of improvisations and a new graphic score I made.

Can’t wait to mix, master and share it with you.

For the last months I have been composing music for a dance theater piece “3 to midnight” for Teatret OM.

The piece is inspired by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The scientists behind it uses the clock as a symbolic way to measure  the countdown to armageddon. In 2015 the they placed the clock at 3 till midnight, which is the closest we have been in many years.

So this is a piece is about time, and  will premiere in may 2016 where I will be uploading a bite of the music.

Writing new music in Rio for Ensemble Midt Vest and Carsten Dahl.

Sound check at the Martinelli building in SP.

Girls in Airports just dropped a new album ‘Fables’.

This is an excerpt of my solo album “Breidablik”, consisting of site-specific saxophone and clarinet improvisations recorded in my homeland. Like Breidablik, these images were captured in the western part of Denmark, rediscovering a vast landscape of lit dunes and moor on the shortest night of the year.

A billion thanks to the guys behind this film, hours and hours of dedicated work is behind this film, so please check the credits after the movie or under the screening.

The film was shot in a very high resolution, and should actually be watched with two HD-projectors combined on a BIG screen. We hope that will happen, and will invite you all if it does.

Picture wise, Youtube is not as good as Vimeo. So if you have a big screen, please visit www.vimeo.com/larsgreve/breidablik.

working on new sounds for future solo concerts.

Picture from Hiatus label night at Jazzhouse

Sven-Åke Johansson :: drums

August Rosenbaum :: piano

Lars Greve :: reeds

The 04.01.2015 I performed a site specific solo concert at Katuaq in Nuuk. It was a great to spend New Years Eve in Greenland, where I had the chance to dive into some of Greenlands many amazing traditional tunes.

One of them is their adaption of the funeral song “Nearer My God To Thee” named “Guutiga, illimmi qallilgit” on Greenlandish. Here is a short improvisation over the theme on double clarinet.

Breidablik has been selected as one of the top ten releases in 2014 by Jazznyt.

The record is has also just been given a great review by Berlingske Tidende.