**CANCELLED** UTNMF: The Sound of Nordic Voices
80 Queens Park
80 Queens Park
*This event has been cancelled due to inclement weather
Norbert Palej, festival coordinator
PROGRAM
Nordic Voices: Tone Braaten, Ingrid Hanken, Ebba Rydh, Per Kristian Amundrød,
Bård Bratlie, Rolf Magne Asser
Solbøn
Lasse Thoresen (b.1949)
From The Bee Madrigals
Bjørn Skjelbred (b.1970)
Still in silence
I was no alien
Spring without voices
From Studies After Nature
Peter Ablinger (b. 1959)
No. 3
No. 6
No. 9
From Scar Tissue
Jeffrey Ryan (b.1962)
Debris
A Dismantled Ode to the Mortal Value of Art
Maja S. K. Ratkje (b.1973)
BIOGRAPHY
Nordic Voices is a Norwegian vocal ensemble known for its long-standing engagement with contemporary music and close collaboration with composers. The ensemble explores the voice as sound, space, and carrier of meaning, with a particular focus on collective listening, blend, and presence.
The program reflects this exploration through works by Lasse Thoresen, Bjørn Skjelbred, Peter Ablinger, Jeffrey Ryan, and Maja S. K. Ratkje—composers who approach sound from different perspectives, yet share an interest in nature, silence, text, and the physicality of the voice.
Together, the works form a poetic and attentive soundscape, inviting the listener into the fragile, the raw, and the deeply human aspects of vocal expression.