Sofia Jernberg

Stor takk til Sofia Jernberg og Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø som holdt to fantastiske solo-sett for oss i Emanuel Vigelands Mausoleum. @sofiajernberg @hmnorstebo Fotoraf: @jamesmlayton

Sofia Jernberg debut LP Voice out now on @boomkatonline - link in bio. Produced by Mats Gustafsson, mastered by Lasse Marhaug, artwork by Kim Hiorthøy, released on our Le Jazz Non Series. «Fully next level un-easy listening from veteran «anti-singer» and improviser Sofia Jerberg, a solo debut celebration of the voice in its rawest, most malleable form - tipped to fans of Audrey Chen, Maja Ratkje, Meredith Monk, Elaine Mitchener.» (Boomkat) Digital out 24. April @sofiajernberg // @lassemarhaug

European Premier of NO! Composer: @chayaczernowin7 Conductors: @maxime.pascal and Othman Louati Singers: Keren Motseri and me Orchestra: WDR Sinfonieorchester @wdrso_freunde

World Premier of NO! Composer: @chayaczernowin7 Conductors: @daniel.bjarnason @luis.castillobriceno Singers: @lisel.jpeg and me Orchestra: @laphil A Statement from the Composer: NO! originated in 2017/8 when the Trump administration forcibly separated babies and children from their mothers. This became for me a constant visceral pain. I am a mother. I am a human being. I had to say NO! in my work. In the years since, this pain has only expanded. Screaming NO! has become increasingly urgent—against Israel’s US-funded crimes against humanity in Gaza and the West Bank, its abandonment of our own Israeli hostages, the mass imprisonment of Palestinian children, and, here in the US, the abduction of immigrants, students, and protesters. Families are torn apart as rulers scapegoat the vulnerable for power and profit. We are all children, many of us are mothers. Can we remember this? NO! is an antiphonal call that happens inside a body. The two orchestras, each with its own singer, are like two limbs of the same mental being—working together toward the scream.The piece is about rage. A rage that gathers and slowly, relentlessly, struggles to come to the surface. It starts deep inside the body and pushes outward—antiphonally—as if the scream is a creature made of pain, using its limbs to swim upward, from the caves of the body into the open air. Only at the very end do the words emerge: Don’t take my child away Don’t take my child Don’t No —Chaya czernowin pictures by :Jon Hepfer

Listen to an ethereal preview of @sofiajernberg rehearsing “Quand La Mer Furieuse” by Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru and improvising with @cellisita before tonight’s set of #ArtistsStudio performances at 7pm & 9pm in the Veterans Room! For more info, head to the link in our profile. This program is supported in part by @swedennewyork .

New album out! After a long wait – finally the release of Chaya Czernowin’s incredible work ATARA with poetry by Zohar Eitan. With the wonderful ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien and soloist Sofia Jernberg and Holger Falk. World premiere at the Claudio Abbado Concert at Wien Modern. “This piece was to be a lament, a lament to the hubris of us thinking that we can control all the forces around us, and a reminder of these unknown forces which move us and our environment.” Chaya Czernowin Indulge yourself in her unique sound world! @chayaczernowin7 @rso.wien @sofiajernberg @holgerfalk_baritone @schottnyc @schottmusic @schottmusiclondon @wienmodern

Juliet & Romeo by @omarsdottirerna , Halla Ólafsdóttir, @shalaladance , @putridsapphire , @chrisander_brun & @hannakisch with @ballettbasel at @theaterbasel 📷Ingolf Hoehn

Juliet & Romeo by @omarsdottirerna , Halla Ólafsdóttir, @shalaladance , @putridsapphire , @chrisander_brun & @hannakisch with @ballettbasel at @theaterbasel 📷Ingolf Hoehn

Juliet & Romeo by @omarsdottirerna , Halla Ólafsdóttir, @shalaladance , @putridsapphire , @chrisander_brun & @hannakisch with @ballettbasel at @theaterbasel 📷Ingolf Hoehn

Possible to listen to the world premier of my first Symphony Orchestra piece “The Murals in Quinta del Sordo” commissioned by London Contemporary Music Festival @lcmf__ tonight at BBC’s New music show. Will be available 28 Dec-Jan 28 2025. Performed by London Contemporary Music Orchestra conducted by Jack Sheen @jackfrsheen World Premier 13/12 2024 Broadcasted by BBC New Music Show 28 Dec - 29 Dec 2025 “The composition is divided in 14 segments, sonic tableaus that bounces off Francisco Goya’s works, “The Black Paintings”. In the beginning and end “tableau vivant” is used as a means to emphasize the connection with the paintings adding a pinch of satire so strongly connected with Francisco Goya. The order in which they appear has been determined following the way the murals were painted on the walls in his house. In the score each part has a subtitle referencing an earlier work of music using the exact same title as the mural. […]”

From the world premier of my first Symphony Orchestra piece “The Murals in Quinta del Sordo” commissioned by London Contemporary Music Festival @lcmf__ Performed by London Contemporary Music Orchestra conducted by Jack Sheen @jackfrshee 13/12 2024 “[…] Questions that have been in motion during the creation of this piece touches authorship, referencing, sociology and history. In literature and visual art there is a long tradition of referencing other people’s work. In music there is a bizarre protectionism that often is unreasonable. Supposedly it has to do with the invention of copyright? That in itself is a good thing. In our time the idea of copyright is very much in motion as it’s continually violated by big tech companies. And maybe it’s time to reevaluate the concept ones more and narrow it down to its core? Did Verdi invent the G-minor chord, the first bars in his Requiem, Dies Irae? Did Berlioz invent the “Dies Irae” melody that he uses in "Songe d'une nuit du sabbat", in Symphony Fantastique, clearly not.[…]” Photo: @dawid.laskowski.photography

From the world premier of my first Symphony Orchestra piece “The Murals in Quinta del Sordo” commissioned by London Contemporary Music Festival @lcmf__ Performed by London Contemporary Music Orchestra conducted by Jack Sheen @jackfrsheen World Premier 13/12 2024 “[…] What makes a composers voice unique, is it the basics in music theory or something else? It’s very difficult to prove whom invented what but it’s much more easy to hear who was an artist or not. One can never copy or steal from a real artist and achieve art. If that wasn’t the case it would be very easy to make art. Humans are connected, no one creates anything in a vacuum. Everything is in dialogue with the past, present and future, especially art. The choice of Francisco Goya was natural because he was a humanist and a truly empathetic visual artist who understood the human condition inside out and was able to show how we are connected. His art is about yesterday, today and tomorrow, just like art should be right?” Photo: @dawid.laskowski.photography Last picture is of a painting by Francisco Goya “Men fighting with cudgels”