ensemble neo celebrated 17 years at the forefront for contemporary chamber music in 2023. The internationally acclaimed ensemble has since the start aimed to be a distinctive voice on the Swedish contemporary music scene. Today the ensemble is the only one of its kind in Sweden, being charged with promoting contemporary art music on a national basis. ensemble neo continuously commissions new works and collaborates with both younger and more established composers, nationally as well as internationally and has premiered over 400 works. ensemble neo performs contemporary music at the highest international level, in a manner which is both exciting and which reaches out to newcomers as well as to experienced listeners. The ensemble has quickly become an essential force in Swedish music life, always stirring and challenging.

06/05/22 interview  - BOMB magazine: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/andrea-parkins-interviewed/

28/02/19 Interview - The Quietus
https://www.mixcloud.com/the_Quietus/nuts-and-bolts-s2-e1-andrea-parkins/

Events, 2025

28 March - AP/Frank Gratkowski/Devin Gray. Sowieso, Berlin.

12 March - Andrea Parkins/Marius Wankel. Future Bash Series, Neue Zukunft, Berlin.

19 February - Andrea Parkins/Yorgos DImitradis. Kunstfabrik Schlot, Berlin.

12 February - Liz Kosack/Andrea Parkins/Ute Wassermann. Kunstfabrik Schlot, Berlin


Events, 2024
19 December - Grapheme journal #4 launch: Magda Mayas/Tony Buck/Ute Wassermann with guests Andrea Parkins and Mike Majkowsi. KM28, Berlin.

7 December - Parkins/Wagner/Yassin: Graphic Scores by Grgur Savic, Night #3. Rchtn 25, Berlin

23 November - Matsuno/Parkins/Fillipou/Black. Ausland, Berlin.

6 November - Koole/Parkins/Müller. ACUD, Berlin.

1 November - SUMM, Supermolly, Berlin.

23 October - AP. with Lina Allemano's Ohrenschmaus. Panda, Berlin.

11 October - Sentimental Punk: Andrea Parkins/Liz Kosack w/ films by Marie Menken. Kotti Shop, Berlin.

4 October  - w. Splitter Orchester.Musik Protokoll Festival, Graz. 

7 September - Andrea Parkins/Eliad Wagner. Rchtn 25, Berlin.

16-17 August - Nebbia/Mattrey/Parkins/Togander. Visual Sound Outdoor Festival, Parzelle, Dortmund.

15 August - Nebbia/Mattrey/Parkins/Togander/ Kollektiv Rabbazzz Festival, Dresden. 

12 July - Parkins/Wagner, 90mil, Berlin.

7 July - w/ Splitter Orchester. Paretzer Field Music, Paretz, DE.

21 June - Being5 (Freedman/Parkins/Dörner/Dimitriadis/Williams), Something Else Festival, Hamilton, ONT.

19 June - Being5. Suoni Festival, Montreal.

16 June - Being5. Rimouski, QC.

13 June - Nebbia/Parkins, Jazzexcess. Kantine am Berghain, Berlin.

29 May -- Wagner/Erel/Parkins. Panda, Berlin.

21 April -- Mayas/Parkins. Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz.

17 April - Kidambi/Banner/Parkins. KM28, Berlin.

6 April - Parkins/Wagner. Ausland, Berlin.

23 March - Voutchkova/Parkins/Edwards/Kessler (Chuchepati Orchestra), 100vor100- Palace. St. Gallen.

22 March - w. Splitter Orchester. MaerMusik, AdK, Berlin.

13 March - Elieh/Parkins/Wagner/Dimitriadis. PAS, Berln.

9 March - Nebbia/Mattrey/Parkins/Togander. Artacts Festival, St. Johan, AUT.

8 March - Nebbia/Mattrey/Parkins/Togander. Echoraum, Vienna.

20 February - Yassin/Prins/Parkins. Morphine Raum, Berlin.

9 February - Nebbia/Parkins. Panda, Berlin.

1 February- Venitucci/Voutchkova/Parkins/Mayas/Cyrino/Marino. Sowieso, Berlin.

29 January - Parkins/Dimitriadis. Panda, Berlin.

24 January - Matthias Koole/Andrea Parkins. Cafe Plume, Berlin.






Events, 2023
13 December - w. Lina Allemano's Ohrenschmaus. Panda, Berlin.

6 December - Parkins/Wassermann w. "A" Trio, KM28, Berlin.

18 November - Forde/Nebbia/Parkins/Merlo. Spektralraumohr, Berlin.

1 November - Matsuno/Cajado/Parkins/Hertenstein. Donau 115, Berlin.

26 October - Parkins/Ostrowski w. Liz Albee. Morphine Raum, Berlin.

20 October - Nebbia/Parkiins. Achter 53, Wiesbaden.

18 October  -- Andrea Parkins/Matthew Ostrowski. Splendor, Amsterdam.

23 September - Gratkowski/Parkins/Coudoux. The Loft, Köln.

31 August-10 September  - Parkins/Dimitriadis, Soundtrips tour, NRW, DE.





Andrea Parkins on Bandcamp:
"Two Rooms from the Memory Palace" (infrequent seams, 2021)
https://andreaparkins.bandcamp.com/album/two-rooms-from-the-memory-palace

"The Third Room" (infrequent seams, 2021)
https://andreaparkins.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-room

"Faulty (broken orbit)" (important records, re-release 2021)(https://imprec.bandcamp.com/album/faulty-broken-orbit

"Avalanche of Routes: Brian Chase & Andrea Parkins" (Confront Recordings, 2020)
https://confrontrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/avalanche-of-routes

Elective Affinities: Andrea Parkins & Matthew Ostrowski. (infrequent seams, 2019)
https://andreaparkinsmatthewostrowski.bandcamp.com/album/elective-affinities








BIO
Andrea Parkins is a Berlin-based sound artist, composer, and electroacoustic instrumentalist engaging with interactive electronics as compositional/performative process. She is known for her pioneering approach on her electronically processed accordion, and investigation of embodiment and chance with her custom-designed software instruments.

Parkins' projects encompass sound and intermedia installations, electroacoustic compositions and performances,  and  scores for dance, film and intermedia performance. Her work has been presented at the Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, Experimental Intermedia, Kunsthalle Basel, NEXT Bratislava and many more. She records/performs as a solo artist and with artists such as Magda Mayas, Tony Buck, Ute Wassermann, Nels Cline, among others. Parkins' recordings have been published by Important Records, Confront Recordings, Atavistic, Infrequent Seams and Creative Sources. Her work has received support from American Composers Forum, NYSCA, French-American Cultural Exchange, Q-02, MAAF, Harvestworks. Hamburg Kulturbehoerde, the Norwegian Academy of Music/Norwegian Artistic Research Programm, and the Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme.  She has been an invited resident artist at Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida and EMS in Stockholm. In 2022-2023, she was a fellow of  the Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung / Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme.

Contact:  andreamparkins@gmail.com

Robert Ek has, as a clarinetist, specialised in contemporary music as a chamber musician and soloist. With great curiosity and dedication, he works together with composers to develop the repertoire for his instrument. He has recorded around 20 records and premiered a large number of works as soloist and chamber musician.

Since 2007 he is a member of the acclaimed ensemble Norrbotten NEO, the country's only ensemble with a national mission to work with contemporary music. Norrbotten NEO premieres a number of works by Swedish and international composers every year. In 2012, the ensemble received fst’s. interpretation award for their work with contemporary music.

Robert has performed and collaborated with musicians, composers and conductors from different parts of the world. He likes to work in the border country between arts and has worked closely not only with composers but also with writers, choreographers and filmmakers. Robert has toured Europe, North America, Asia and Australia and played at festivals such as Warsaw autumn, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, June in Buffalo, Faithful (Berlin), ISCM world music days in Stockholm and Tallinn, Musica Viva (Lisbon), Beijing Contemporary Music Festival.

In recent years, his work on developing the repertoire has focused on live electronics and developing the clarinet as an augmented instrument. Robert is also a PhD candidate at LTU since 2019. At the core of this doctoral project lies the iterative process where new electro-acoustic instrumental systems are designed and then used and tested in collaborative processes and in artistic practice. This oscillation is well described by Per Anders Nilsson (2011) as “design time” and “play time”. Where “design time deals with conception, representation, and articulation of ideas and knowledge outside time ... and play time deals with embodied knowledge, bodily activity, and interaction in real time” (Nilsson, 2011). Adding to this framework is the reflective process of observing and analysing how the systems behave and interact with the performer. Performing with these systems requires a close relationship and intimate understanding of the system and the relationship between body and technology. This embodied knowledge that artistic research strives for is a felt knowledge.

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