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"[...] With an as poetic as playful touch, an intimate soundscape that felt at once familiar and alien was conjured. The mixture of everyday objects and musical instruments created an evocative mood. [...]"

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"With this, Swedish chamber music has been given a work that the jury is already daring to proclaim a classic [...]"

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“[...] Sounds of glass and metal picked up where the electronics left oft, and the effervescence was picked up by the voice in repeated, ultrarapid “Praise the Lord”. The attention was heightened by subtle playing on flower pots and gongs, as if in an alchemist’s laboratorium [...]”

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”(...) The night image is particularly apt for Jenny Hettne's exquisite While she was dreaming, scored for violin and tape.”

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”…both surrealistic and groovy…”

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”An orchestra piece with a subtle sonorous poetry that adjoins the fascinating world of electroacoustic music.”

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Photo: Ia Neumüller

Jenny Hettne is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music, with the exploration of sound and timbre as her most important focus. She writes mainly chamber music, sometimes mixed with electronics and always in a close and innovative collaboration with the musicians.

Jennys music has been selected to festivals such as Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Purpur Festival (Cape Town), MATA festival (New York), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, ISCM World Music Days Tallinn 2019 (Estonia), Two days and two nights of new music (Odessa, Ukraine), Festival Archipel (Geneva), St Petersburg International New Music Festival reMusik, Dark Music Days (Reykjavik), Nordic Music Days, Klang and Sonic Festival (Copenhagen) and the Swedish festivals Kalv, Sound of Stockholm and Svensk Musikvår.

Jenny finished her master degree in music composition at the Academy of Music and Drama, Göteborg University, in 2008. Jenny is a board member of The Swedish Society of Composers and vice president of Samtida Musik. She was one of the curators of Nordic Music Days in London 2017.

  • Solo with electronics
    • Rop, böljande
      for horn and tape
    • While the heart’s heartbeat beats its old song
      for amplified saxophone and tape
    • While she was dreaming
      for amplified violin and electronics
    • Ytor, böljande
      for percussion and loudspeaker
    • Reed, chanting
      for oboe and electronics
  • Duo
    • Sweet Thursday
      for guitar duo
    • Ting and Twine
      for harp and percussion
    • Bells and Tides
      for cello and percussion
    • Gesång
      for mezzo soprano, percussion and electronics
    • Wavering wood, whirling metal
      for harp, percussion and music boxes
  • Ensemble
    • Trio
      for traditional Korean percussion, piano and violin
    • A swarm came in from the dark
      for violin and ensemble
    • Tinkles, clinks and heavenly metal
      for violin, Paetzold, objects and electronics
    • Reed, undulating
      for ensemble
    • Backdrifting
      for ensemble
  • Orchestra
    • Whirli(gigue)
      for large symphony orchestra
    • Krusning Skiktning
      for piano and orchestra
  • Music for young musicians
    • Thawing, undulating
      for saxophone, trombone and any six instruments
    • Musik för strängar
      for piano four hands
    • For Ashley
      for prepared piano and tape
Concerts
  1. Susurrant metal, singing rocks – premiere

    Karin Hellqvist

    Ålborg
    August 1, 2021
  2. Stimme aus der Ferne – premiere

    Norrbotten Neo

    Svensk Musikvår, Folkoperan, Stockholm (streaming)
    March 22, 2021 @ 20:30
  3. Paths of wood and pearl

    Ensemble MA!

    Svensk Musikvår, Konstakademien, Stockholm (streaming)
    March 20, 2021 @ 19:30
  4. Thawing, undulating

    Ivo Nilsson and students from Södra Latins Musikgymnasium

    Södra Latins aula, Stockholm
    March 11, 2021 @ 19:00
  5. Backdrifting

    Gageego!

    Älvsborgs kyrka (streaming)
    March 7, 2021 @ 19:00

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