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New Year's concert

Arsis Trio invites you to a New Year’s concert with musical favorites from the ensemble’s repertoire. The audience can look forward to a concert that will usher in the new year with both elegance and exuberant musical energy.

The program brings together some of the trio’s most beloved works and moves between Nordic gems, French sophistication, virtuoso organ works and warm jazz interpretations. With virtuosity and fervor, the ensemble presents a concert that contains both great moments and intimate closeness, and we will of course end together when we sing into the new year together.

Winter meditation

A meditative winter concert embeded in deep, heartfelt and melodious music where the halls of the church can be sensed in the reverberation. We have tried to create a concert experience where the listener can indulge in a meditative, musical contemplation, carried by cello, vocal, organ and piano in changing constellations and bringing to life tranquil and moving music by composers like Fauré, Massenet, Pärt and Messiaen. The concept of this concert derives from the Christian periode of Lent from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday. Therefore it is composed with consideration for the tradition of active renunciation of the abundance of the world in order to get at the essence of life and create space for spiritual inspiration.

SENSING MUSIC - a meditative yoga and concert experience

As a new extension of our meditative concert format, Arsis Trio now presents Sensing Music: a sensual and immersive experience, where Yin Yoga and live classical music are united in one coherent sequence. In the first hour, participants are guided through a calm Yin Yoga practice, accompanied by minimalist instrumental music, carefully selected to support the introverted and present space. After the yoga, Arsis Trio gives a full meditation concert – in the same spirit as Winter Meditation – where the audience, now relaxed, lying on their mats, wrapped in blankets and open to sensing, is invited to receive the music in deeper presence – awake, dreaming or somewhere in between.

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with guest soloist Maria Marstal

Stabat Mater was the last work that the Italian Baroque composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi composed just a few weeks before his death. This dramatic and moving 40-minute work is based on the text Stabat mater dolorosa and depicts the pain of the Virgin Mary as she mourns the suffering and death of her son at the foot of the cross. The work is particularly suitable for the Lenten season leading up to Good Friday. Stabat Mater is performed by the Arsis Trio and mezzo-soprano, Maria Marstal.

Spanish temperament and Brazilian warmth

Manuel de Fallas’ Siete canciones populares españolas forms the classical starting point of the concert. The seven songs – originally folk melodies – are arranged with De Fallas’s special flair for drama, sound and rhythmic intensity. The result is an iconic work where Spanish folk soul and classical form merge into a strong and sensual whole.
From here the music moves on to Brazil, where the listener encounters everything from elegant choros to pulsating samba and dreamy bossa nova. The music is characterized by both virtuosity and melancholy and is inspired by the encounter with Brazilian musicians and traditions during the trio’s tour of Brazil in 2023.

Influences - Arsis Trio and Bilal Irshed

In a new, exciting collaboration, Arsis Trio can be experienced at a concert with the Danish-Palestinian oud virtuoso and composer Bilal Irshed. Bilal is known for his interpretations of Middle Eastern music as well as his equilibrist oud playing.

European and Middle Eastern music have had a great mutual influence over time, and with the oud as a musical narrator, Arsis Trio and Bilal Irshed take the audience on a journey of discovery. All four musicians have versatility and curiosity at the core of their musicianship, and this will be reflected in a magnificent program with both baroque carias, traditional Middle Eastern music and completely new compositions.

Christmas concert

Arsis invites you to an atmospheric Christmas concert, where we mix the familiar with the new. The program includes both Nordic winter songs, classic English carols and movements from Handel’s Messiah, which add a solemn depth to the concert’s soundscape. We sing Danish Christmas songs together with the audience along the way – and towards the end we round off with warm, jazzy Christmas classics, which bring both smiles and nostalgia. Along the way, we also give space for contemplation with the atmospheric, instrumental work Christmas Dawn by Raymond H. Haan – a quiet musical morning hour in the middle of the December light. It is a concert with both Christmas spirit and peace, presence and joy – as well as a much-needed break in the middle of December.

Spring – a Tribute to the Light

In spring we celebrate the return of the light after the dark embrace of the winter night. The spring light with its honest silver tinge exposes the streets stained with sleet, the heavy morning haze over the fields and the glistening beads of dew on the buds of the trees. The concert is a tribute to Nordic spring, accentuated by the joy of anticipation and the dialectic of light and darkness. In this programme the audience is invited to a musical trip from classical, Nordic composers like Grieg, Sibelius og Nielsen to Nordic jazz, represented by Jan Johansson and Lars Jansson among others.

Autumn - an Explosion of Emotion and Colour

Autumn abounds with sweetness and colours of a golden harvest, heralding at the same time the growing embrace of the darkness of winter. We feel a longing for the summer that has passed, and we are confronted with the realization of the inevitable impermanence of life. Passion and longing are the themes of this concert which ranges from a classical Spanish repertoire by Enrique Granadas and Manuel De Falla to Argentine tangos and selected jazz pieces, including some of our own compositions. The Spanish language runs like a common thread throughout the programme, accompanied by selected autumnal and late summer songs from the Danish treasure trove of folk songs.