Upcoming events 2024
Dear all, I know I know...I am not very good at updating my website due to extensive travel and concert schedule...I need an assistant soon! Other than my website, please check out my Instagram @yinghsuehchen and my Facebook page (Ying-Hsueh Chen / Ancestral Modernism) for the most updated info about my concert activities ⭐️
Thank you so much!
-FEB 20, 19:00 ILK Vinter Jazz Sessions @ H15 STUDIO
CHOBOTER/BUILDER/CHEN
Matt Choboter (CA), piano
Calum Builder (AU), organ & saxophone
Ying-Hsueh Chen (TW), percussion
More info
-FEB 23, 20:00 Vinterjazz @ Koncertkirken
Danish premiere of "ITA"
Vica has created the fantastic animation "ITA"("flower" in Mexican). Maria Bertel, Vica and me composed music together during our residency in Inkonst, Malmø and premiered in Intonal Festival in 2023.
LIne up:
Vica Pacheco, video artist and multi-instrumentalist,
Maria Bertel, trombone & electronic
Ying-Hsueh Chen, percussion.
-March 7, 19: 00-20:30 Sound Bath @ Herlev Bibliotek with sounds of water as theme. The ticket is already sold out, but I will make an event "Ancestral Modernism: Water" later on Bådehuset. Please stay in tune!
-April 10, 16:30 @ Garnison Kirke. Mini-concert with clarinetist Jonas Frølund for the reception of Thomas Michaelsen's new book "Man skal høre så meget". The concert is free, but requires registration here: [email protected]
-April 11, 19:30 @ Grundtvigskirken. World premiere of Toke Odin's piece "WOOD" written for me. Free entrance.
Facebook Event
Dear all, I know I know...I am not very good at updating my website due to extensive travel and concert schedule...I need an assistant soon! Other than my website, please check out my Instagram @yinghsuehchen and my Facebook page (Ying-Hsueh Chen / Ancestral Modernism) for the most updated info about my concert activities ⭐️
Thank you so much!
-FEB 20, 19:00 ILK Vinter Jazz Sessions @ H15 STUDIO
CHOBOTER/BUILDER/CHEN
Matt Choboter (CA), piano
Calum Builder (AU), organ & saxophone
Ying-Hsueh Chen (TW), percussion
More info
-FEB 23, 20:00 Vinterjazz @ Koncertkirken
Danish premiere of "ITA"
Vica has created the fantastic animation "ITA"("flower" in Mexican). Maria Bertel, Vica and me composed music together during our residency in Inkonst, Malmø and premiered in Intonal Festival in 2023.
LIne up:
Vica Pacheco, video artist and multi-instrumentalist,
Maria Bertel, trombone & electronic
Ying-Hsueh Chen, percussion.
-March 7, 19: 00-20:30 Sound Bath @ Herlev Bibliotek with sounds of water as theme. The ticket is already sold out, but I will make an event "Ancestral Modernism: Water" later on Bådehuset. Please stay in tune!
-April 10, 16:30 @ Garnison Kirke. Mini-concert with clarinetist Jonas Frølund for the reception of Thomas Michaelsen's new book "Man skal høre så meget". The concert is free, but requires registration here: [email protected]
-April 11, 19:30 @ Grundtvigskirken. World premiere of Toke Odin's piece "WOOD" written for me. Free entrance.
Facebook Event
-April 27, 13-18:00. Ancestral Modernism Weekend: CAFE FUGA @ Bådehuset + Lydatelier / Info & ticket
Join us for Ancestral Modernism's first community event of the year - a cozy and quality afternoon with listening sessions, hang-outs, mini-concerts and mini-art exhibitions in "Bådehuset" and "Lydatelier" in Refshaleøen.
Our invitation:
Playlists of known and unknown, short and long, simple and advanced, serious and silly fugues from ancient times to modern day, curated by Danish composer Jexper Holmen; art works by Argentinian artist Gonzalo Duport which interplays with the principle of fugues; live fugue music played by excellent musicians; coffee experience by Boulevard Coffee. All this weaves into a beautiful afternoon of sharing the love of music, art, coffee and quality time together.
-May 6, 12:15 -12:50 "Lyden af Oldtid" (Sounds of Antiquity) - Lydvandring i Kongesklide Naturacenter. Projektet af Eva Fock.
www.lydenafoldtiden.dk
-May 22, 12:00 Store Legedag @ Hjerl Hede Open Air Museum
Children's theatre concert with the fantastik actress Mia Theil Have.
- June 13, 19:30 @ Trinitatis Kirke & June 14, 19:30 @ Roskilde Domkirke /Info & ticket
I will be the percussion soloist for Theatre of Voices Festival's program, "1200 - Perotin & Pärt - 2000", in which I will be playing Morton Feldman's iconic percussion solo-work"The King of Denmark" and Arvo Pärt’s “Sarah was 90 Years Old”. I am very much looking forward!
June 21, 19:00 @ Bådehuset
Tofu Collective & Don't Look Back Records presents Ying-Hsueh Chen & Angela Wai Nok Hui. The entrance is free! / Facebook event
June 26, 13:00 "URTID" Sound Walks @ Klosterlund Museum, free entrance.
The project is run by Ethnomusicologist Eva Fock.
www.lydenafoldtiden.dk
July 4, 20:00 Sonic Architecture @ Esbønderup Kirke with Chrisitan Rønn. Free Entrance.
Stedsspecifikke Improvisationer inspireret af naturfænomener / Site- specific improvisations inspired by natural phenomenon. Info
July 9, 20:00 Copenhagen Jazz Festival / Ying-Hsueh Chen & Christian Rønn @ Chrisitanshavns Beboerhuset. 100 dkk Info
July 19, 16:30, solo percussion @ Øhavet Festival, Ærø
I will be the percussion soloist for Theatre of Voices Festival's program, "1200 - Perotin & Pärt - 2000", in which I will be playing Morton Feldman's iconic percussion solo-work"The King of Denmark" and Arvo Pärt’s “Sarah was 90 Years Old”. I am very much looking forward!
June 21, 19:00 @ Bådehuset
Tofu Collective & Don't Look Back Records presents Ying-Hsueh Chen & Angela Wai Nok Hui. The entrance is free! / Facebook event
June 26, 13:00 "URTID" Sound Walks @ Klosterlund Museum, free entrance.
The project is run by Ethnomusicologist Eva Fock.
www.lydenafoldtiden.dk
July 4, 20:00 Sonic Architecture @ Esbønderup Kirke with Chrisitan Rønn. Free Entrance.
Stedsspecifikke Improvisationer inspireret af naturfænomener / Site- specific improvisations inspired by natural phenomenon. Info
July 9, 20:00 Copenhagen Jazz Festival / Ying-Hsueh Chen & Christian Rønn @ Chrisitanshavns Beboerhuset. 100 dkk Info
July 19, 16:30, solo percussion @ Øhavet Festival, Ærø
July 10, Bådehuset Sommerfest / Facebook Event / Ticket
Join us for a beautiful evening of adventurous music in Refshaleøen’s cozy Bådehuset. The mini festival is curated by Ancestral Modernism & Matt Choboter.
Our invitation:
- A celebration of summer and quality music with friends and new friends in the last “Wild West” of Copenhagen.
- Triple-bill including: Ying-Hsueh Chen Solo; trio Hémâ and the release of “Unburying, From Liminals, Emerging” (Matt Choboter)
- Snacks and drink and optional listening sessions between concerts
- Sunset in Refshaleøen and the possibility for a late night swim and walks in the harbour
Program:
19:00 Doors
19:30 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 / 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐡
21:00 𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 (𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓)
22:30 𝐇é𝐦â
Mirage - An Architectural Sonic Experience
@Danish Pavillion under Olympic Games
The excerpt of my new audio-visual work "Mirage" is selected to be exhibited in Danish Pavillon under Olympic Games. The 3 screen version has been made for the exhibition.
About "Mirage" -
"Mirage: The Architectural Experience" recalls man's close relationship with buildings and the lost instinct to play with sound and materials and their surroundings. Inspired by the French composer Erik Satie, the piece was recorded in Brønshøj Water Tower in Copenhagen, known for its breathtaking architecture and magical reverberations. Here, percussionist and composer Ying-Hsueh Chen bridges the gap between sound, buildings and material. As a kind of “sound medium”, Ying-Hsueh Chen evokes and reveals the characteristics of the buildings with the marimba. The water tower breathes and sings under Ying-Hsueh's sound architecture"
Here are a few difference stage/versions of the exhibitions:
July 20, 18:00 pre-premiere (one screen version) @ Foundation Danoise, registration required
July 20 - August 11, one-screen version will part of online exhibition "Plantery Sound" @ Le Bicolore
July 25, solo performance for the inauguration of Danish Pavilion.
July 26 - August 11, the 3 screen version will be shown in Danish Pavilion (just off the Champs Élysées metro) daily from 11am to 10 pm under the Olympic Game. Free admission. Find more info here.
The production team:
Ying-Hsueh Chen, performer & composer
Rikke Benborg, directing and editing
Jacob Kirkegaard, sound
Christian Houge Laursen, camera & light design
Produced by Ancestral Modernism / Ying-Hsueh Chen
With generous support from Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden & Koda Kultur
@Danish Pavillion under Olympic Games
The excerpt of my new audio-visual work "Mirage" is selected to be exhibited in Danish Pavillon under Olympic Games. The 3 screen version has been made for the exhibition.
About "Mirage" -
"Mirage: The Architectural Experience" recalls man's close relationship with buildings and the lost instinct to play with sound and materials and their surroundings. Inspired by the French composer Erik Satie, the piece was recorded in Brønshøj Water Tower in Copenhagen, known for its breathtaking architecture and magical reverberations. Here, percussionist and composer Ying-Hsueh Chen bridges the gap between sound, buildings and material. As a kind of “sound medium”, Ying-Hsueh Chen evokes and reveals the characteristics of the buildings with the marimba. The water tower breathes and sings under Ying-Hsueh's sound architecture"
Here are a few difference stage/versions of the exhibitions:
July 20, 18:00 pre-premiere (one screen version) @ Foundation Danoise, registration required
July 20 - August 11, one-screen version will part of online exhibition "Plantery Sound" @ Le Bicolore
July 25, solo performance for the inauguration of Danish Pavilion.
July 26 - August 11, the 3 screen version will be shown in Danish Pavilion (just off the Champs Élysées metro) daily from 11am to 10 pm under the Olympic Game. Free admission. Find more info here.
The production team:
Ying-Hsueh Chen, performer & composer
Rikke Benborg, directing and editing
Jacob Kirkegaard, sound
Christian Houge Laursen, camera & light design
Produced by Ancestral Modernism / Ying-Hsueh Chen
With generous support from Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden & Koda Kultur
August 15 - August 22 Ensemble Lydenskab premieres Laura Bowler's opera "The Girl with Hurricane Brain" @ Svaglegangen in Aarhus and @ S/H under Copenhagen Opera Festival. I am the percussionist for this wonderful production.
The opera is about the climate crisis. Read about this project by Lydenskab.
August 23, 19:00 "Lyden af Oldtid" ("Sounds of Antiquity") concert-walk in Halskov Vænge with archeologist Marie Brinch. A project by the ethnomusicologist Eva Fock. Read more.
August 30, 17:00 "Dark Radiance" solo concert in Musikhuset Copenahgen. Free Entrance. Part of "Musikhuset Sommerkoncerter" series.
August 31, 14:00 "Skovkoncert: Ying-Hsueh Chen, bålmad & træsnitworkshop" in Bisgaard Forte Fjorten, Samsø. An meditative and primitive outdoor event for families, organized by Samsø Bibbliotek and Agerupgård.
Schedule:
kl. 11 - træsnitworkshop
kl. 14 - koncert
kl. 15 - bålmad
Ticket and info
The opera is about the climate crisis. Read about this project by Lydenskab.
August 23, 19:00 "Lyden af Oldtid" ("Sounds of Antiquity") concert-walk in Halskov Vænge with archeologist Marie Brinch. A project by the ethnomusicologist Eva Fock. Read more.
August 30, 17:00 "Dark Radiance" solo concert in Musikhuset Copenahgen. Free Entrance. Part of "Musikhuset Sommerkoncerter" series.
August 31, 14:00 "Skovkoncert: Ying-Hsueh Chen, bålmad & træsnitworkshop" in Bisgaard Forte Fjorten, Samsø. An meditative and primitive outdoor event for families, organized by Samsø Bibbliotek and Agerupgård.
Schedule:
kl. 11 - træsnitworkshop
kl. 14 - koncert
kl. 15 - bålmad
Ticket and info
September 9, 20:00 @ Alice CPH
Nebula: Give The Drummer Some
Magnificent inauguration ritual for six drummers
With 6 percussionist: Anja Jacobsen, Frederik Bülow, Simin Ramezanali, Rune Kielsgaard, Siv Øyunn, and me.
Ticket & Info
September
September 14 & 15, 14:00
Solo concerts @Saftstationen i Damme, Møn, as part of Verdenslitteratur på Møn festsival.
September 19 & 21, 20:00 @LOFFT DAS Teater in Leipzig,
I will be playing Xenakis's two solo works "Rebonds" and "Psappha" in HIT production by Greta Granderath, as part of of Seanaps Festival.
October 6, 18:00, "Dark Radiance" solo concert in Museum of Modern Art André Malraux, Le Havre, France
I will be performing works by Iannis Xenakis, Toshi Ichiyanagi and my own works from "Dark Radiance" album, as part of Festival Pour Les Oiseaux.
October 19-25
"+1" concert performance by Greta Granderarth@ LICHTHOF Theater, Hamburg.
The performance schedule:
Sa 19.10.24, 20:15 | Premiere
So 20.10.24, 18:00 | + Publikumsgespräch
Do 24.10.24, 20:15
Fr 25.10.24, 20:15
Info & Ticket
"+1" concert performance by Greta Granderarth@ LICHTHOF Theater, Hamburg.
The performance schedule:
Sa 19.10.24, 20:15 | Premiere
So 20.10.24, 18:00 | + Publikumsgespräch
Do 24.10.24, 20:15
Fr 25.10.24, 20:15
Info & Ticket