Vivaldi for Two Trumpets - Encounters Chamber Music Series x DUEN

Name: Vivaldi for Two Trumpets - Encounters Chamber Music Series x DUEN
Start: 2026-12-13T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-12-13T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Vor Frelsers Kirke

Sun, 13 Dec 2026 · 15:00 — 17:00

Vor Frelsers Kirke, Copenhagen · 100–150 kr. · ≈ 13–20 €

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Vivaldi for Two Trumpets - Encounters Chamber Music Series x DUEN · Vor Frelsers Kirke, Copenhagen

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Vivaldi for Two Trumpets - Møller and Berwaerts: Sunday 13 December 2026, 15:00–17:00, Vor Frelsers Kirke, Copenhagen. Tickets cost 100–150 kr.

On Sunday, December 13 at 3 p.m., the Encounters Chamber Music Series presents a Christmas concert at Vor Frelsers Kirke on Christianshavn in collaboration with DUEN - The Danish Youth Ensemble.

Solo trumpetist Michael Frank Møller and Belgian trumpetist Jeroen Berwaerts perform as soloists under the direction of conductor Morten Ryelund. The programme features music for two trumpets by Antonio Vivaldi and Petronio Franceschini, Sibelius' Andante Festivo, Bernhard Krols Magnificat Variations for piccolo trumpet and string orchestra, Pēteris Vasks' Epifania, and community singing.

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About: Michael Frank Møller

Michael Frank Møller is a Danish trumpet player and principal trumpet of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra (DR SymfoniOrkestret) since 2005. He received his early musical training in the Tivoli Youth Guard and later played with the Royal Danish Orchestra and as principal trumpet of the Odense Symphony Orchestra. He frequently appears as a soloist and has guested with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra.

About: Jeroen Berwaerts

Jeroen Berwaerts holds the principal trumpet chair at the NDR Radio Symphony Hamburg and teaches at conservatoires in Hanover and London - one of the rare soloists who pairs a classical career with jazz vocals and a deep commitment to new music. Composers including Toshio Hosokawa and Britta Byström have written concertos for him.

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1997

winner of Concours Maurice André (2nd prize and Prix Feeling)

1999

solo trumpeter at NDR Radio Symphony Hamburg since

2008

professor at Hochschule für Musik Hannover since

What's new

2025-10
Berwaerts will premiere a new trumpet concerto written for him by Britta Byström with Camerata Bern in October 2025.
2025-26
In the 2025/26 season, he will perform Shostakovich's opus 35 with Alexander Melnikov and Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Vienna, Hamburg and Berlin.
2024-06
In June 2024, a CD recording of Hosokawa's trumpet concerto Im Nebel with Residentie Orkest under Jun Märkl was released on the Naxos label.

Tracks

Toshio Hosokawa: Im Nebel (trompetconcert)World premiere by Berwaerts; recorded with Residentie Orkest/Märkl, Naxos 2024

Signals from HeavenAlbum from 2017 with Salaputia Brass - Berwaerts as trumpeter, jazz singer and ensemble leader

Hindemith: Sonatas for Trumpet and PianoRecording with Alexander Melnikov, Harmonia Mundi 2015

In the LimelightFirst solo CD with romantic trumpet repertoire

Tobias Broström: Nigredo - The Dark Night of the SoulWorld premiere 2019 with Håkan Hardenberger, double concerto for two trumpets

About: Morten Ryelund

Morten Ryelund is a Danish conductor and violinist, born in 1970. Trained as a violinist at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, he also studied conducting in St. Petersburg under Alexander Polischuk. Since his professional conducting debut with the Symphony Orchestra of Southern Jutland in 1996, he has led most of Denmark's regional orchestras and several Scandinavian ensembles, and he serves as artistic director and principal conductor of DUEN, the Danish Youth Ensemble.

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