ProfileDanish born Anne Aaen has a reputation for excellent musicianship and has been acclaimed as the ..soprano with the golden voice.. in both new music and the standard repertoire. After attending specialist music schools from the age of nine she went on to study for five years at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. She is still a part time member of the Danish National Radio Choir but solo work now plays an increasingly large role in her performing life. She is a member of the Danish Opera Quartet and a leading member of a new baroque quartet featuring Monica Westheimer (cembalo) and Mogens Rasmussen (viola da gamba) and performs frequently as a concert soloist all over Denmark.
In 2007 she took the initiative to form her own Trio featuring some of Denmark’s leading specialist in Baroque music , they will be performing both the old repertoire and new written compositions commissioned for this constellation of Soprano , Cembalo and oboe , some of the most hauntingly beautiful music is written for this constellation by composers such as Bach , Vivaldi and Telemann , the group aim to spice up the repertoire with contemporary composers from all over the world contributing to this repertoire with new impute especially written for ..The Baroque Trio .. . For more info go under contact and send an Email .
Recently she commissioned works from overseas composers, most notably Fabrizio Festa (Italy), Clive Cockburn (New Zealand). An hour-long opera “Psyche and Aphrodite†is being written for her by the Danish composer Bo Lundby Jaeger. In January 2005 she gave a solo concert at the main hall of Danish Radio in Copenhagen which featured the world premiere of MY ICON, a piece written for her by Fabrizio Festa. The press wrote:
“ Festa knows how to write melodic phrases which in the finest way accentuate Anne’s rare quality of sound. Her unique presence and pure, truthful interpretation of the texts gave the audience a rare, beautiful and intimate experience.â€
Anne Aaen’s wide-ranging repertoire includes the music of Bach, Couperin, Humfrey, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Britten, Strauss and Wagner; her opera repertoire includes Purcell, Verdi, Bellini, Puccini and Mozart.
News 2007
Ensemble Magnificat
Anne features as a member of the newly gathered ensemble Magnificat , a plain song ensemble singing Gregorian Chant
The ensemble offers 4 different programmes for various occasions such as All saints Concert Programme, and songs from the Requiem Mass sung for All souls Day, A Saint Mary Programme and a Passion Concert with readings..
Gregorian Chant is plain song with no accompaniment, mostly sung in Latin with text’s mainly from the old and new testament. The Chant also called romano-frankisk song was developed in the early 700- 800 centuries in the area between Loire and the Rhine; it was then spread to Western Europe. Gregorian Chant has it’s name from the famous Benedict the Great ( pope 590 – 406 ) is still to day being used in some catholic churches and in many Benedictine monasteries
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