Älvsborg & GIOA Quarantine Concerts - January 10, 2021 at 19:00 (GMT+1) - Schola Gothia & Landgren

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ÄLVSBORG & GIOA QUARANTINE CONCERTS
Sunday, January 10, 2020, 19:00, Älvsborg’s church, Gothenburg, SwedenAve Maris Stella – medieval song encounters the Queen of Instrument

Schola Gothia, internationally established vocal ensemble for Gregorian chant and medieval song, led by Ulrike Heider, encounters the well-known Swedish organist and improviser Johannes Landgren, in a varied, meditative and beautiful program. Welcome to join the performance!

Music in Älvsborg in collaboration with Göteborg International Organ Academy present the GIOA Quarantine Concerts series of live streamed concerts for all who are at home and longing for live music. Simultaneously, we offer an opportunity for freelance musicians to perform in this period when many concerts are cancelled.

PROGRAMME
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Antifon (1013-1054) from Liber Usualis

Annuncietur
Cantus Sororum (1300-talet)

Ave maris stella
Hymn (800-talet) from Liber Usualis

Improvisation
Organ

In nativitate Marie virginis
Sequence by Saint Birgitta

Benedictus
Cantus Sororum

Tota pulchra + Improvisation (organ)
Cantus Mariales (1903)

Sicut spinarum
Cantus Sororum

Suite 2 from Suita liturgica
Petr Eben (1929-2007)

Missus Gabriel
Sequence by Saint Birgitta

Improvisation
Organ

Caelestis erat
Cantus Sororum

MUSICIANS
Schola Gothia: Ulrike Heider, Sabina Nilsson, Yvonne Carlsson, and Helene Stensgård Larsson
Organ: Johannes Landgren

BIOS
Schola Gothia is a professional women’s vocal quartet. The group’s repertoire features sacred monophonic and early polyphonic medieval music. The singers study and perform all of their music from historical notation. In accordance with medieval practice, the group shares one large music stand, which is a great help since the unison music makes great demands on vocal cooperation and tuning. It also makes it easier to achieve uniform phrasing within the group in polyphonic music, with its harsh dissonances and open intervals. The group was founded by Ulrike Heider in Gothenburg in 1999. Ulrike Heider studied in the Netherlands, where her training included several years’ study of medieval song for Professor Dr. Rebecca Stewart. The members of the group are Helene Stensgård Larsson, Sabina Nilsson and Yvonne Carlsson who all studied in the program for church musicians at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg. The last twenty years Schola Gothia has performed throughout Europe giving concerts in cathedrals, monasteries and churches and taking part at different festivals. August 2005 the group made its debut in Asia with a tour to Japan. Highlight of the tour was a concert in the Kyoto Concert Hall. One year later the ensemble was invited to Central America to take part in the Sixth International Festival “Enlace Coral 06” in Guatamala City. After working for a long time with the music of Hildegard von Bingen the ensemble premiered in October 2020 the allegorical morality play “Ordo virtutum” in collaboration with the solo singers Anna Maria Friman, Amanda Flodin and Helena Ek at the Gothenburg International Organ Festival. In 2021 Schola Gothia is engaged to give several concerts with “Ordo virtutum” in Sweden. The group has also recorded four CD’s: Rubens rosa (Rosarium, 2002), Gaude Birgitta (Proprius, 2003), for which the group received a Grammy nomination in 2003, Gaudete in Domino (Gothic, 2006), The Divine Mystery (Musica Rediviva, 2011).

Johannes Landgren studied at the Academy of Music and Drama, where he achieved Church music exam in 1985, Soloist diploma 1987 and choir pedagogy exam in 1990. In the year of 1997 he defended his PhD thesis on the Czech composer Petr Eben (”Music - Moment - Message. Interpretive, Improvisational, and Ideological aspects of Petr Eben’s Organ Works”). As organist and choir conductor he has toured in most countries in Europe as well as in Russia and USA (with international recognition through competitions and festivals). He has made numerous recordings for radio and has presented more than 30 CD-recordings with a great variety of genres represented (from the renaissance, baroque, jazz, contemporary music etc). Johannes served as Professor of organ and improvisation at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg as well as Pro-Dean for the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing arts.
At present Johannes, besides being a freelance musician, holds a position as professor as well as Pro Vice Chancellor at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm.

PRESENTED BY
Musik i Älvsborg and the Göteborg International Organ Academy in collaboration with SENSUS

LIVE STREAM
LUMIÈRE LIINASON (video)
Anders Borgh (sound)