Venue: La Oficina, Suomisvej 4, 1927 Frederiksberg C
Time: 16.00-18.30
THE LAST DREAM RELEASE - with Henriette Bonde Hansen, Jonas Frølund, Katrine Gislinge and Hess is More
Frederiksberg Festival is a festival dedicated to the classical performing arts: music, dance, literature, theatre.
For many years, Artistic Director Katrine Gislinge has dreamed of creating a festival in Frederiksberg, where she lives. As a recognised concert pianist herself, she has participated in numerous festivals and pageants around the world and has enjoyed the uniquely inspiring experience of participating in a pageant - both as an audience member and performer.
This dream became a reality in 2020, when the first edition of Frederiksberg Festival saw the light of day. Prominent artists such as Teitur, Cæcilie Norby, Andreas Brantelid, Kirsten Hammann and Katrine Gislinge herself performed here.
For Katrine Gislinge, it is relevant and important to promote the classical arts and make room to enrich and touch people with music and poetry - especially now, in a world that has held its breath for so long. That's why we launched the second edition of Frederiksberg Festival on 15-19 September 2021 under the theme "Release The Breath".
The 2021 concerts could be experienced as a respiratory release, a poetic and musical exhalation in the light of the previous year and a half's simultaneously stagnant and chaotic state. It was an exploration of the inhalation that fills us with life and nourishes body and spirit. And of the exhalation, as devotion to both life and art - but also exhalation in the sense of the last sigh - the difficult, the sorrowful - towards death.
The performing classical musicians at Frederiksberg Festival 2021 were all internationally recognised profiles.
They were staged in exciting new encounters with prominent artists from other genres, so the concerts included dance, readings and performances.
In 2022, the theme was TIME. Time that passes, is lost, lost and renewed. Art can make time dissolve or stand still; put time, which is measured in seconds and minutes, out of action.
For Frederiksberg Festival 2023, the theme was Home. Where we belong, where we are private, safe, where we long to go or long for. We explored how belonging or longing for home has been and is expressed in art, music and language. We invited writers, musicians and theatre people to give their thoughts on this year's theme.
In 2024, the theme was Rituals. We explored what happens when our behaviour is ritualised in art and in life.
Visions
It is an essential part of the vision behind the Frederiksberg Festival to open up the world of classical music to new audiences beyond the traditional core audience. There are already a number of Danish music festivals, but no festival that breaks the traditional genre boundaries.
Frederiksberg Festival's desire is to let the arts reflect each other more - always based on classical music, which is Katrine Gislinge's lifeblood.
As the festival is based in Frederiksberg, we have chosen to involve various museums, cultural centres, theatres and venues throughout the municipality - both large halls such as at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and small intimate spaces such as the Frederiksberg Museum Bakkehuset. We want the whole city to buzz with life and culture during the days of the festival.
Our partners
A big and heartfelt thank you to the foundations and partners whose generous support makes Frederiksberg Festival 2025 possible:
Frederiksberg Municipality, Frederiksberg Foundation, Knud Højgaards Fond, Augustinus Fonden, William Demant Foundation and Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond.
Our business partners
We would also like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our indispensable partners:
Copenhagen Phil, La Oficina, Frederiksberg Museums (Cisternerne and Bakkehuset) and Frederiksberg Municipality.
