Swedish tabloid Expressen gave out its annual Spelmannen culture award – Sweden’s oldest music prize – to Victoria Borisova-Ollas: congratulations!
The award ceremony took place at Nalen in Stockholm on 13 February.
Congratulations to Victoria Borisova-Ollas, whose work Vinden som ingenting minns has been nominated for this year’s Swedish Music Publishers Association Prize in the category “Classical Music Award of the Year – orchestra/opera”.
Victoria Borisova-Ollas has previously received Swedish MPA Awards for The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2008) and Golden Dances of Pharaohs (2010), her work Open Ground was nominated in 2007.
The award ceremony will take place on 11 November in Stockholm.
Victoria Borisova-Ollas’ latest orchestral work ... and time is running past midnight ...will be premièred tonight at the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Joana Carneiro.
Tickets are still available here.
Victoria Borisova-Ollas: ... and time is running past midnight ...
for orchestra | 9'
world prem. 22.10.2015, Berwaldhallen, Stockholm; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond. Joana Carneiro
“With her expressive and methaphysical attitude, Victoria Borisova-Ollas is absolutely unique in Sweden. In her Symphony No. 1, there is the same nervous touch, the same high tension and hot-temperedness, the same passion for an almost erotic game, with colliding harmonies and extended climaxes, as in Skriabin`s Le divine poème. The excitement lasts through the whole piece. Borisova-Ollas is able to create a charged atmosphere and she knows perfectly well how to use her weapons.” (Thomas Anderberg, Dagens Nyheter)
Tonight pianists Ludmila Berlinskaya and Nikolai Mazhara, conductor Nikolai Alexeev and the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia present the Russian premières of Victoria Borisova-Ollas’ Symphony No. 1 and her fantasia on the themes by Robert and Clara Schumann titled Wunderbare Leiden at the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia.
Some visual impressions from the very successful “Tonsättarweekend” at the Konserthuset in Stockholm, where Victoria Borisova-Ollas was honoured with a composer portrait from 18 – 21 April.
We
just caught sight of this poster in Stockholm. The first day of the
Tonsättarweekend with Victoria Borisova-Ollas at the Konserthuset went
well, tomorrow the composer portrait continues with performances of
Angelus, Open Ground and Wunderbare Leiden.
View the full programme of the portrait.