Contemporary music can be political - Cecilia Damström’s Requiem is one of the key works at the Ung Nordisk Musik festival
Contemporary music can be political - Cecilia Damström’s Requiem is one of the key works at the Ung Nordisk Musik festival
The music of Cecilia Damström stems from expressiveness and the desire to make a difference. In music, the tiniest gestures can come across as political statements. At the Ung Nordisk Musik festival in Tampere in August 2020, Damström’s Requiem for our Earth puts the theme of this year’s event – Music Ecology – up front. “I was able to include an unusually large number of themes important for me in this Requiem,” says the composer.
