29 July 2010
The Whale Watching Tour is back for two Mini Tours to make up for the dates we had to drop in April. The first mini tour starting on the 12th of August is focusing on Germany with concerts in Hamburg, Rees-Haldern and Berlin, and the second starting September the 26 will see us in Dublin, London and Ghent.
The tour will feature Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurðsson accompanied by Helgi Jónsson (vocals and trombone), Borgar Magnason (double-bass), Una Sveinbjarnardóttir (violin) and Nadia Sirota (viola).
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28 June 2010
Ben Frost is among six exceptional young talents who have been chosen by some of the world’s most distinguished artists for a year of collaboration and inspiration in the international Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, it was announced today.
Frost, 30, an acclaimed composer, producer and musician originally from Melbourne, who has lived and worked in Iceland since 2005, is the music protégé for 2010-2011. He will be mentored by Brian Eno from the U.K. who made his name with Roxy Music in the 1970s and has become a visionary composer and producer, working with many leading artists.
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18 June 2010
Poland's Unsound Festival has commissioned Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason to create a new piece of music inspired by Andre Tarkovsky’s 1972 film and the original novel Solaris written by Polish author Stanislaw Lem. The music will be performed live by Frost, Bjarnason and Krakow’s 28-piece Sinfonietta Cracovia.
This work will be premiered at Unsound Festival in Krakow in October, and be performed at the second edition of Unsound Festival New York in April 2011.
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