Meet musician and composer Andreas Borregaard in our podcast getting to know the people behind the music at Borealis 2021.
 
Andreas Borregaard is a Danish musician, who plays the classical accordion, an instrument that few people link to classical music. Besides being a performer, he is working on his phD, “Just Do It! – Exploring the Musician’s Use of Bodily Performance”, he is a composer and a teacher of the accordion, and is actively influencing the development of this young instrument’s use and repertoire. 

In this episode presenter Christiane Meldgaard speaks to Andreas Borregaard at his home in Copenhagen, Denmark, and hears his story of how he uses the classical accordion together with voice and body in his performances. Andreas will present digital versions of the commissioned works by Philip Venables and Marcela Lucatelli at Borealis 2021. 

Read more about the artist at Borealis 2021: https://www.borealisfestival.no/en/artists2021/andreas-borregaard-2/ 
 
The music in this episode is: 
- Bent Sørensen: “Looking on Darkness”
- Sofia Gubaidulina: “De Profundis”
- Excerpt from Niels Rønsholdt’s “Until nothing left”, from the premiere at Borealis 2017
- Eblis Alvarez: “Tango Yo Nunca He Estado In Buenos Aires” (with the group MTQ)
- J.S. Bach: “Aria” (Goldberg Variations, BWV 988) (Arr. for accordion)
- Marcella Lucatelli, “To Be Free - Drift”

 
Presented and produced by Christiane Meldgaard
Executive Producer, Peter Meanwell

Talking Experiments with Andreas Borregaard

Corrado Rojac, solo accordion
Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana
April 28th, 2011

Corde di recita (2012), for solo accordion

"Verano Porteno" by Astor Piazzolla recorded live by Duo Aspera (Valentina Vargiu and Ghenadie Rotari) at the "Festival di Portogruaro" in Concordia Sagittaria, 8th September 2015.

"Verano Porteno" di Astor Piazzolla, registrato dal vivo dal Duo Aspera (Valentina Vargiu e Ghenadie Rotari) nell'ambito del "Festival di Portogruaro" a Concordia Sagittaria, 8 settembre 2015.

"Verano Porteno" by Astor Piazzolla performed by Duo Aspera

Dennis Sobolev - e-guitar
Ghenadie Rotari - accordion
Live performance

Chaya Czernowin - Knights Of The Strange for e-guitar & accordion

Festival Mixtur 2018
Olga Morral Bisbal: solo Accordion
Institut Français, Barcelona 
April 2018

WOLF, Mark - Miniature Structure No. 7 (2018)

Omri Abram - Terrain (2016) for Accordion Trio

Matti Pulkki, Ghenadie Rotari, Mirko Jevtović - Accordions

Recorded in the Basel Music Academy, February 2018

Sound by Jan Gubser

Watch video of the performance here: https://youtu.be/Aw8EY9PG5BY

Score available here:
http://www.israelcomposers.org/CompositionDetails.aspx?lang=English&id=39267

Omri Abram - Terrain for Accordion trio

Holograma is a piece for solo Accordion written at the request of Ghenadie Rotari, who premiered it at InnerSound New Arts Festival 2016.
The work is dedicated to the memory of Odette Leoveanu, whose light and delicate spirit is guiding us from above. 
The main goal of the music was to express the developing of the human  breath, from the birth to its dissolution  into the abyss.
Photo: Sabina Ulubeanu, july 2014.

Holograma

for solo Accordion and String Orchestra

Performed at INK - Gradsko kazaliste Pula, Croatia
Ghenadie Rotari, Solo Accordion
String orchestra of the Academy of Music of Ljubljana

Elegia (2017)

Pauline, for solo accordion. Live performance, Ghenadie Rotari, 1 June 2019, Risuonanze Festival, Udine

Pauline (2017, Ghenadie Rotari)

Concerto for Orchestra

PT
· na interpretação de Ghenadie Rotari (acordeão)
· edição de autor
"we were two till we melted down" no MIC.PT: www.mic.pt/dispatcher?where=2&what=2&show=1&obra_id=11608&lang=PT

EN
· performed by Ghenadie Rotari (accordion)
· author's edition
"we were two till we melted down" on the MIC.PT: www.mic.pt/dispatcher?where=2&what=2&show=1&obra_id=11608&lang=EN

"Verano Porteno" by Astor Piazzolla performed by Duo Aspera

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