Kristine Tjøgersen - Between Trees - Vinyl Double LP

The album is a comprehensive collection of award-winning works and some of Europe’s leading performers. The album opens with the title piece Between Trees performed by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, a piece that had its world premiere in October 2021 and that won the International Rostrum of Composers in Palermo in 2022. Tjøgersen calls the piece ”chamber music for orchestra” and takes listeners on a musical excursion into the forest. The album also features the leading German contemporary music ensemble Recherche. They perform Seafloor Dawn Chorus (2018) - a sonic underwater environment inspired by field recordings of singing fish on the Great Barrier Reef. Other tracks include ensembles where the composer herself is a member, with Tøyen Fil and Klafferi and Ensemble neoN, collaborations with Jenny Hval and and Marcus Weiss, and solo pieces with the renowned violinist Marco Fusi.

Nature in motion and process is often reflected in her works, and collaboration with researchers and biologists is for her a source of new sound and scenic ideas that allows her to incorporate organic forms into the music. As Tjøgersen puts it, “I like to magnify my ears enormously – like a microscope looking for hidden sounds. With this record I hope to create a unique space for listening and consideration; a miniature world, where you can marvel at the proportions of nature. By giving nature a voice in the concert hall, I want the audience to get to know valuable forms of life, and to raise awareness of what can be lost if humans continue to change nature.”

- Kristine Tjøgersen

”Kristine Tjøgersen is this year’s winner of the Arne Nordheim music prize, and the last concert at the Ultima Festival was dedicated to her playful musical universe. There is a directness of its own in Tjøgersen’s music. The music is characterized by playful precision and a remarkable clarity, preferably with nature and its sounds as a starting point... A remarkable wonder of nature” 

- Aksel Dalmo Tollåli - Aftenposten (2020)