News
Premiere: Giovanni Verrando
Kroumata will perform Hi-Hat Xpres at the Malopolska Garden Of Arts in Kraków, the 17th of November. The concert is part of Audio Art 2013.
http://www.audio.art.pl/?utm_campaign=cmp_241959&utm_source=getanewsletter
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From Bach to Reich
Saturday 9 November at 19:30 Kroumata will perform Tehillim by Steve Reich at the Stockholm Stora Synagoga.
http://www.jfst.se/verksamhet/kalendarium/kalendarium.php?newsid=2575
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Gaida Festival
Kroumata will perform at the Gaida Contemporary Music Festival in Vilnius. Concert 20th October. Music by: Hanna Hartman, Thierry De Mey, John Eriksson, Steve Reich.
http://www.vilniusfestivals.lt/EN/programme-20/item/716/
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Café Budapest
Kroumata will perform at the Café Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival. Concert the 19th of October. Music by: Arne Mellnäs, Thierry De Mey, Steve Reich.
http://www.cafebudapestfest.hu/2013/program.php?id=4860&l=en
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Gothenburg
Göteborgs kulturkalas - Hi-Hat Xpres with Kroumata, Spinn and Share Music. 16th of August, Götaplatsen at 18:00
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Northern Ireland
15 June at 19:30 - Performance of Hi-Hat Xpres at the School of Creative Arts, Ulster University, Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Concert at the Convention Centre in Motala, 12th of May at 17:00
At the ISCM festival in Gothenburg 2009 Kroumata performed "Memorial Art Show" by the Italien composer Giovanni Verrando. We were fascinated by Verrandos unique world of sounds!
Together with NorrlandsOperan`s Symphony Orchestra we made a commission of a piece for percussion quartet and orchestra. The result is "Multiplicity" and will be premiered Thursday 5th December at NorrlandsOperan in Umeå, Sweden.
Conductor: Rumon Gamba
Substitute for Pontus: Magdalena Meitzner
For this commission Kroumata has received fundings from Helge Ax:som Johnsons Stiftelse.
Kroumata to Kraków
The thrilling journey through different eras and countries tracing the development of the instrument Hi-Hat. From the alchemist through to Led Zeppelin. Hi-Hat Xpres is where you meet Share Music Sweden, the percussion ensemble Kroumata and the dance company Spinn. Together with composer Nigel Osborne and choreographer Veera Suvalo Grimberg they created a piece full of dance and music with powerful styles and expressions.
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Videos
Four new Kroumata videos. Directed and produced by Rooster Films. Sound editing by Roger Bergström at GroBe Music:
Teaser 2013:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6UzQG0JUkE&list=UUtdJ3EjXkjZ3wklg2ymrKNw&index=1
Table Music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzZs-dd_57Q
Scratch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecbw0n6R9NY
Shadow Box:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flOCbGHaXPE&list=UUtdJ3EjXkjZ3wklg2ymrKNw&index=3
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News 8 April:
Sorry Spanisg friends: The concert in Madrid the 6th of June has been postponed till 2014.
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Nordic Cool 2013
Kroumata will perform during the Nordic Cool Festival at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, Saturday the 23rd of February at 18:00 (Millennium stage). We will also make two school concerts (on Friday). After the concerts at the Kennedy Center we will travel to Kutztown University and the University of Maryland School of Music to have workshops with the students.
Bo Lofvendahl writes about in i SvD today (in Swedish): http://www.svd.se/kultur/blagult-pa-nordic-cool-festival-i-usa_7918260.svd
Motala
Hi-Hat Xpres - Riksteaterns Teaterdagar, Saturday 27 April 14:00
http://teaterdagarna.riksteatern.se/
The thrilling journey through different eras and countries tracing the development of the instrument Hi-Hat. From the alchemist through to Led Zeppelin. Hi-Hat Xpres is where you meet Share Music Sweden, the percussion ensemble Kroumata and the dance company Spinn. Together with composer Nigel Osborne and choreographer Veera Suvalo Grimberg they created a piece full of dance and music with powerful styles and expressions.
Hi-Hat Xpres is staged by Share Music Sweden with support from Svenska Postkodlotteriet. The tour is produced in collaboration with Riksteatern.
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New videos
http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=89281&source_type=B
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Hi-Hat Xpres to Norrland
The thrilling journey through different eras and countries tracing the development of the instrument Hi-Hat. From the alchemists through tp Led Zeppelin. Hi-Hat Xpres is where you meet Share Music Sweden, Kroumata and the dance company Spinn. Together with composer Nigel Osbourne and choreographer Veere Suvalo Grimberg they created a piece full of dance and music with powerful styles and expressions.
21/1 Örnsköldsvik, Nolaskolan 19:00
22/1 School concert 10:00
24/1 Luleå, Kulturens Hus, school concert 10:00
25/1 Piteå Acusticum 19:00
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2013
Welcome to 2013. Some Kroumata highlights:
21 January: Hi-hat Xpres at Nolan in Örnsköldsvik.
24 January: Hi-hat Xpres at Kulturens Hus in Luleå.
25 January: Hi-hat Xpres at Acusticum in Piteå.
23 February: Nordic Cool Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, USA.
25-28 February: Master classes in Kutztown and Maryland, USA.
6 June: Teatro del Canal in Madrid, Spain.
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Merry Christmas
We don`t want to brag - well actually we do ;) 2012 has been a very prosperous year for Kroumata. 74 concerts and workshops in 7 countries, The Netherlands, Australia, Finland, Lithuania, Uruguay, Argentina. 15.313 children in Stockholm went to a Kroumata concert this year. Damn proud!!! Now it`s time for vacation. A huge thanks to our fans. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!