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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.

While she was dreaming (2012), the first of numerous works resulting from Jennys close collaboration with violinist Karin Hellqvist is frequently performed by Hellqvist all over Europe. It was selected to renowned MATA festival, New York (performed by Pauline Kim Harris) and Nordic Music Days Farao Islands (performed by Sámal Petersen). A swarm came in from the dark (2014) for violin solo and ensemble has been performed by Karin Hellqvist and several different ensembles and was awarded the prestigious Järnåker Prize in 2018, the biggest chamber music prize in Sweden. Trio (2018) for violin, piano and traditional Korean percussion (Trio Hellqvist/Amaral/Choi) was awarded “Special Jury Award” of the 3rd Younghi Pagh-Paan  Composition Prize and performed in the chamber music hall of Berliner Philharmonie. In 2020 Jenny was the winner of UK based Riot Ensembles “Call for score 2020”, resulting in a commission, Whispering c(h)ords, quietly falling, premiered at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 2021.

  • Solo with electronics
    • Susurrant metal, singing rocks
      for violin, objects and 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
    • Whispering c(h)ords, quietly falling
      for ensemble
    • Stimme aus der Ferne
      for ensemble
    • Swirls and Shades
      for eight saxophones
    • 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
    • Paths of Wood and Pearl
      for ensemble
    • 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

    Karin Hellqvist

    Sound Spaces, Ungdomens Hus, Malmö
    October 8, 2022 @ 19:00
  2. Susurrant metal, singing rocks – Swedish premiere

    Karin Hellqvist

    Ny Musik i Sörmland, Musikens Hus, Katrineholm
    October 2, 2022 @ 16:00
  3. Rop, böljande

    Sören Hermansson

    Ny Musik i Sörmland, Musikens Hus, Katrineholm
    October 2, 2022 @ 16:00
  4. A swarm came in from the dark

    KammarensembleN

    St. Gallen Arts Museum, Switzerland
    September 11, 2022 @ 16:00
  5. A swarm came in from the dark

    KammarensembleN

    Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, Schwitzerland
    September 10, 2022 @ 19:00
  6. A swarm came in from the dark

    KammarensembleN

    Fylkingen, Stockholm
    September 8, 2022 @ 19:00
  7. Rop, böljande

    Sören Hermansson

    Festival Kontinent Dalsland, Dalslands Konstmuseum
    July 14, 2022 @ 18:00

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