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16.05.2019
AUGUSTINE ARTIST

Jakob Bangsø is proud to be welcomed into the family of Augustine Artists as they launch their brand new PARAGON string line which delivers a bright crisp tone along with a powerful projection. 

By developing the first nylon guitar strings in collaboration with guitar maestro Andrés Segovia in the mid 1940’s, Albert Augustine invented a new standard for classical guitarists that has stood the test of time for over seven decades.

Augustine Paragon strings epitomise Augustine’s continued dedication to delivering excellence while representing a modern fusion of timelessness and authenticity.

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Jakob Bangsø uses a mixture of Paragon High Tension trebles, Augustine Blue basses and Regal Red (1st string)

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20.07.2018
NEW SOLO ALBUM CONNECT (DACAPO RECORDS) NOW RELEASED AND AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE AND ON STREAMING SERVICES!

The five composers behind these world premiere recordings, written for Jakob Bangsø, all share a keen interest in the field of electroacoustic music. Through live electronics, sound-transforming algorithms and interactive systems, CONNECT explores captivating soundscapes in the borderlands between the acoustic and the digital, the raw and the processed, the heard and the reheard – guitar and electronics are equal partners.

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Tine Surel Lange

Periferi (2016) for guitar and live electronics

 

Andreja Andric

Streams (2015) for guitar and computer

- I. Introduction

- II. Dance #1

- III. Intermission

- IV. Dance #2

- V. Night Walk

Klavs Kehlet Hansen

Feed (2016) for prepared guitar and transducer

Wayne Siegel

Dive (2016) for guitar and computer

Kaj Duncan David

451 (2015) for guitar and electronics

- A

- B

- C

Teaser video:

18.07.2018
PREMIERE OF NEW WORK FOR SOLO GUITAR BY ANDREJA ANDRIC

Effervescence (2018) for guitar was premiered at The House Festival in Aarhus, Denmark, on July 18th 2018.

Program note:
"With an abundance of music recordings of every genre and from every time period in the past 1000 years and beyond, available on a click, and with frequent copyright lawsuits among the most beloved pop music creators, often a question gets asked: haven't all the possibilities for ordering music notes been already exhausted?

 

The question seems difficult, so let's try answering an easier one: have we exhausted all the possibilities for ordering notes that belong to only one chord? Say, the preferred one on guitar, the e-minor?

 

This work contains 165 possibilities out of 6561 selections and orderings of 4 out of 9 notes of e-minor chord. It is evident on the face of it that many of them have never occurred to anyone, so the answer to the above question is a resolute no. We haven't explored the possibility of music even within a single chord, let alone in the whole area of possible elements of music expression.

 

Accidentally the result of the above procedure turned out to be quite difficult to play, so it turned out to be a fulfillment of my long time wish: to write a truly virtuoso piece that would be at least something of a challenge for my dear friend Jakob Bangsø.

 

Being entirely created from notes of a single chord, Effervescence is also something of an ultimate mood piece, an eternal presence of shimmering sound in perpetual flux."

- Andreja Andric

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For interest in the score, please contact the composer here.

19.05.2018
WORLD PREMIERE: SAUDADE (2018) - CONCERTO FOR GUITAR BY GREEK-CANADIAN COMPOSER CONSTANTINE CARAVASSILIS IN TALLINN, ESTONIA

Jakob Bangsø, guitar

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra

Kaisa Roose, conductor

08.03.2018
AUGUSTINUS FONDENS 75 ÅRS JUBILÆUMSLEGAT

A big thank you to the Augustinus Fonden for artistic support through their 75 års Jubilæumslegat awarded to Jakob Bangsø in 2018.

23.11.2017
Two Estonian premieres of John Corigliano and Wayne Siegel guitar concertos performed with the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra!

Jakob's performance with the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and conductor Kaisa Roose on November 23rd 2017 featured two Estonian premieres of the guitar concertos by John Corigliano (Troubadours, 1993) and Wayne Siegel (Chaconne, 2017).

The concert Diplomatic Notes. Denmark presented a programme with music by Siegel, Corigliano, Tobias Hume/Per Nørgård and Shostakovich, also featuing the Danish cellist Jakob Kullberg.

A live broadcast by Klassika Raadio from the Mustpeade Maja concert hall can by found here:

Jakob Bangsø and Kaisa Roose | photo: Anu Hammer

21.09.2017
World premiere of Danish/American composer Wayne Siegel's guitar concerto with DiamantEnsemblet at the Royal Library in Copenhagen.

Dedicated to Jakob Bangsø, Chaconne (2017) for guitar and chamber orchestra was commissioned with support from the Danish Arts Foundation and premiered by Jakob and the DiamantEnsemblet at the Royal Library, Copenhagen, on Feb. 21st 2017.

An excerpt from the composer's program note reads:

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My guitar concerto is composed in single movement and, except in the very beginning, the piece is constructed as a strict chaconne. The piece opens with the soloist searching his memory, trying to recall a forgotten melody. Once he has “remembered” the 10-bar melody, it is repeated consistently and regularly as a ground bass with changing instrumentation and varying textures during the entire piece. I found it both challenging and inspiring to compose a work with only one simple melody, recalling the words of Igor Stravinsky: 
“My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned to myself for each one of my undertakings.”

 

The world premiere performance was broadcast by the Danish Broadcast Corporation (DR P2) and can be found here.

Jakob Bangsø in rehearsal with DiamantEnsemblet, Feb. 19th | photo: Jens Juul

14.08.2016
Rebild Musikpris 2016

As part of the annual Opera in Rebild festival, the Rebild Musikpris (Rebild Music Prize) is awarded to a young musician from Northern Jutland who has made a strong mark with their talent. At the award ceremony, Jakob performed with the Aalborg Symphony Orhcestra conducted by Giuliani Carella in Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez.

Receiving diploma (painted by Synnøve Carlsson) from director Søren Steen Nielsen

04.03.2016
Debutkoncert (Advanced Postgraduate Diploma recital)
Jakob Bangsø - Debutkoncert 2016

Jakob Bangsøs official debut recital (Debutkoncert) marks the end of more than 7 years of studies at the Royal Academy of Music Aarhus and will take place at the Symphonic Hall in Musikhuset Aarhus on April 23, 2016.

 

The programme consists of both old and brand new music for the guitar, all of which have played - or still play - a significant and very personal role in Jakob's musical life and career.

Program:

W. Siegel - Dive (2016) for guitar and computer (W.P.)

D. Buxtehude - Ciacona in e minor, BuxWV 160 & Passacaglia in d minor, BuxWV 161. With Mikael Christensen (lute)

J. Rodrigo - Tres Piezas Españolas

A. Ginastera - Sonata for guitar, Op. 47

K. Duncan David - 451 (2015) for guitar and electronics 

Official poster

design: Thomas Bangsø

photo: Nikolaj Lund

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