The Song I'll Never Sing: Works for Accordion

Featuring

Bjarke Mogensen
Christina Åstrand
Rasmus Schjærff Kjøller
Toke Møldrup
MYTHOS
Kasper Rofelt

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Composer Biography

Kasper Rofelt, born in 1982, completed his first published work, Distruzione una sinfonia, at the age of 22 and studied with notable composers like Bent Sørensen, Niels Rosing-Schow, and Per Nørgård.

Performer Biography

Bjarke Mogensen, the accordionist on this album, debuted as a soloist with the Munich Symphony Orchestra at age 13 and won a national TV soloist competition in Denmark.

Performer Biography

Christina Åstrand, the violinist, became concertmaster of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in 1991 at a young age and plays a Stradivarius from 1705.

Performer Biography

MYTHOS, the accordion duo on this album, consists of Bjarke Mogensen and Rasmus Kjøller, who both grew up on Bornholm and play custom-made Pigini accordions, a model with only 33 copies.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Kasper Rofelt, the composer, believes that sonority and technique are so integral to his music that, in most cases, his works cannot be separated from the specific instruments for which they were written.

Composition History

The Concert Studies for classical accordion were written by Kasper Rofelt at the request of Bjarke Mogensen, aiming to explore the accordion's technical potential similar to Ligeti's piano études.

Performer Biography

Toke Møldrup, the cellist, is the solo cellist in the Copenhagen Philharmonic and won the main prize at the International Chamber Music Competition in Melbourne in 2003 with his quartet.