Aurora
Records is pleased to present the upcoming double album Between Trees with selected works
by Kristine Tj ø gersen, one of the NorwayNorway’s most promising and sought after composers. The release
will be available as double vinyl CD and on streaming servic es xxxx in 2024, and is Tj ø gersen's first
album on Aurora Records. With a growing demand and international attention for this composer, the
time is right to release her first portrait album.
The forthcoming album is a comprehensive collection of award win ning works and some of Europe's
leading performers. The album opens with the title piece Between Trees performed by the Norwegian
Radio Orchestra, a piece that had its world premiere in October 2021 and that won the International
Rostrum of Composers in Pa lermo in 2022. Tj ø gersen calls the piece "chamber music for orchestra" and
takes listeners on a musical excursion into the forest. The album also features the leading German
contemporary music ensemble Recherche. They perform Seafloor Dawn Chorus ( a sonic
underwater environment inspired by field recordings of singing fish on the Great Barrier Reef. Other
tracks include ensembles where the composer herself is a member with T ø yen Fil and Klafferi and
Ensemble neoN, collaborations with Jenny Hval and and Marcus Weiss, and solo pieces with the
renowned violinist Marco Fusi.
Nature
in motion and process is often reflected in her works, and collaboration with researchers and
biologists is for her a source of new sound and scenic ideas that allows her to incorporat e organic forms
into the music.
As Tjøgersen puts it, “I like to magnify my ears enormously like a microscope looking for hidden sounds.
With this record I hope to create a unique space for listening and consideration; a miniature world,
where you can marvel at the proportions of nature. By giving nature a voice in the concert hall, I want
the audience to get to know valuable forms of life, and to raise awareness of what can be lost if humans
continue to change nature.”
Kristine Tj øgersen
"Kristine Tj ø gersen is this year's winner of the Arne Nordheim music prize, and the last concert at the
Ultima Festival was dedicated to her playful musical universe. There is a directness o f its own in
Tj ø gersen's music. The music is characterized by playful precision and a remarkable clarity, preferably
with nature and its sounds as a starting point... A remarkable wonder of nature"
Aksel Dalmo Toll å li Aftenposten (2020)