René Mogensen, composer, music, saxophonist, musician, sound artist, Rene Mogensen

René Mogensen: composer and saxophonist

Events 2005

René Mogensen is active as a composer, musician, and sound artist in several areas of music, please click a link button below to view an html page about his work in your special area of music interest:

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Recording Releases 2005:

René Mogensen Quintet: Jazz in Culture, on Wassard Jazz, NY (Wassard 2039, recorded in New York, 1994), now available digitally for the first time via download from the following internet music shops based in Denmark:
Look for Rene Mogensen in the web shops (samples of the music available there as well): musik.bilka.dk www.payload.dk musik.foetex.dk
Index of web music shops at: www.phonofile.dk

Jazz quintet consisting of trumpet, saxophone, guitar, bass, drums. Includes the tracks It's a Long Swim, Whatever, Just Minutes Away, On the Way to Brooklyn, Solitary Woman I & II, Mars, Stanley Brown.
"This combo delivers some solid tunes, adding fresh bop and West Coast touches. Excellent production." Musicians Exchange, New York City, USA.
"The music, composed by Mogensen, exhibits a real talent for writing." SOS Jazz, Ohio, USA.
"Honey for the ears" Ugeavisen for Varde, Denmark.

The Tivoli Promenade Orchestra: Contemporary Tivoli Tunes, on Focus Records (FPCD 2015), Copenhagen, now available in records stores.
Includes my work Den store karrusel (the third movement of my Promenade Symphony)

Live concert cd by the Tivoli Promenade Orchestra, which is a 16-piece chamber orchestra based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The group performs daily during the season in Tivoli Gardens.

New CD David Ullmann: Hidden now released on WetCash Records by the David Ullman jazz group based in New York City. The tracks include a recent recording of my jazz piece Where Do We Go? and I am also featured on saxophone on the Ullman original entitled Waterfall.

CD of sound- and radio-art and acousmatic music now available
René Mogensen : This is Not a Product

Den lille giraf, (The Little Giraffe) a new mini-chamber-opera intended for young audiences is in development with Danish librettist Mette Kappel, premieres to be announced.

My work Interaction Solo is now available in print-on-demand in Edition Text&Graphix from the music publishing house Samfundet for udgivelse af Dansk Musik The scores Explorations and Expressions Nos.1-3 will soon be available there as well.

A growing number of my scores for chamber groups, chamber orchestra, and jazz orchestra, are available on loan from the collection at hos Statsbiblioteket i Aarhus (The State Library in Aarhus), Denmark.

Performance Events 2005:

Friday evenings at 10pm (22:00) throughout December (i.e. Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30th) I perform some of my Art Lounge music on saxophones and electronics at the Bakú Bar in Ascea Marina (SA), Italy.

December 28 and 29: I was on the jury of the CantAscea Festival music competition.

December 11, and 18: Two Sunday morning "happy-hours," 11am to 1pm, I performed jazz originals and standards on saxophone in the Commune di Ascea Natale Ensieme celebrations in Ascea Marina (SA), Italy.

Sunday, November 13: Duo CorTo performed my work Thought in Five Parts for clarinet and percussion in the Pro Musica concert in Musikhuset (city concert hall), Sønderborg, Denmark.

Saturday, October 22, 10:00pm-1:30am: Official release party of the new cd David Ullmann: Hidden, $5 cover, featuring: David Ullmann-Guitar, Joe Ashlar-Piano, Vin Scialla-Drums, Pedro Giraurdo-Bass
at DETOUR, 349 E. 13th St. New York City (phone: 212-533-6212) See web pages: jazzatdetour.com and davidullmann.com

July 2 and 3, 2005, the Eonta Quartet performed Mogensen's string quartet Tal: 0-5 in Torhout, Belgium.

June 30, 2005, the Eonta Quartet performed Mogensen's string quartet Tal: 0-5 in a concert near Knesselare, Belgium.

May 14, 2005, the Esbjerg Ensemble performed Mogensen's string quartet Air and Marble in the Conservatory Concert Hall in Esbjerg, Denmark.

April 15 and 16, 2005, the Esbjerg Concert Hall (Musikhuset) in Esbjerg, Denmark, a new electroacoustic work entitled MoMAlyd with interactive dance was performed as part of a full-evening program entitled Zorg og den usynlige hund - en kunsthistorie by Kulturskolen Esbjerg.

February 3-24, 2005, performances at the Opera National de Paris France, of the new work Les Familiers du labyrinthe (in the series Ballet de l'opéra) by the Michele Noiret Dance Company, with music by Todor Todoroff, which Mogensen has assisted in the making of the music.

Lists of Mogensens concerts and other music events in: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.

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