All posts by Marcus Davidson

A big night playing solo piano for Ballet Bernasconis performance in Amsterdam at Het Amsterdam Theaterhuis on Saturday 15th June 2019. Inspirational dancing and choreography made it easy to play for!

Boen/Fiskaaen Duo recorded 4 Balkan Dances at Loddefjord Kirke on 10/06/2019. We had a great recording session, ably engineered by Cem Arapkirlioglu.

The awesome Volve Vokal choir will be performing Marcus´s new piece Inside The Pyramid at the Avgarde concert on Wednesday, 15 May 2019 from 21:00-22:00 at Rosenkrantz Tårnet, Bergenhus 4, 5003 Bergen.

https://www.facebook.com/events/592877091208013/

Many great reviews already for ¨The Wave¨

From Amusio

¨When Marcus Davidson and Roger Huckle pulverize the boundaries between Wild West Saloon and Middle Eastern Divan, the wave announced in the album title could break. Out of sheer good humor. And the pleasure of your own stamina. . . Not exactly simple. But still nice.¨

https://www.amusio.com/…/kontinuitaet-faktor-ohne-groesse/2/

from Sonic Seducer, ¨Frog Chorus¨ is a secret highpoint!

 

Great review of ¨The Wave¨ by Musik an sich, 19 out of 20, contender for album of the year!

https://www.musikansich.de/review.php?id=19916

 

and from Chain D.L.K

http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=10818

. . . it’s carried by the polished composition, performance and production that give it an undeniable richness, vibrancy and class. It also has potential as a stepping stone for listeners of more traditional music who are intrigued by something that’s just a shade more experimental without being challenging.

¨The Wave¨is already receiving radio play early into its release!

https://www.facebook.com/events/357898804788775/

Standings Waves perform music from their newly released album “The Wave” and the Bøen/Fiskaaen flute and Guitar duo premier 4 Balkan Dances by Marcus Davidson at Østre, Bergen 21st. February 2019.

Standing Waves mixes music from the eastern and western hemispheres – with violin, percussion, keyboard, vocals, natural and space sounds and film, Standing Waves really is world music – east meets west, electroacoustic soundfest!

Violin – Roger Huckle
Vocals – Kat Kleve
Keyboards/sounds – Marcus Davidson
Percussion/drums – Anders Christian Jakobsen
Bass – Edvard Mjanger

Bøen/Fiskaaen duo (Knut Magnus Bøen, flute
Hallgeir Fiskaaen, guitar) were established in 2009 and are Bergen based. In 2017 they commissioned Marcus Davidson to write 4 Balkan Dances, this is its first performance. Funding was kindly provided by the Komponistenes vederlagsfond.

Some of Marcus´s past organ performances with Spire have been captured on Touch´s latest release, Semper Liber

The Players: Marcus Davidson Hildur Gudnadottir Mike Harding
Charles Matthews Clare M Singer Maia Urstad Anna von Hausswolff

Performed on the 1893 Schlag & Söhne organ at Johanneskirken, Bergen; the 1967 Karl Ludwig Schuke organ at Passionskirche, Berlin; the Peter Bares organ, inaugurated in 2004, at Kunststation St Peter, Cologne; the 1885 ‘Father’ Henry Willis organ at Lincoln Cathedral; the 1877 ‘Father’ Henry Willis organ at Union Chapel, London; the Rieger organ at St. Stephan’s Church, Mautern & the 1897 Johnson & Son organ at St. Saviour’s Anglican Church, Riga between 2009 and 2016

The Eternal Chord – Semper Liber