Nicolas Sublet & Henrik Brendstrup
“Chamber Music for Tomorrow: Collaboration, Diversity and Excellence” is a two-year pedagogical development project designed to address a key question: how can a closer collaboration between teachers and students, combined with a rebalancing of the repertoire to include more works by female composers, improve chamber music education at the conservatory and contribute to the artistic excellence and evolution of the Danish musical landscape?
The project combines collaborative rehearsals, public performances, reflective activities and evaluations on the impact of the project itself.
The project
In the first year, Prof. Henrik Brendstrup, Ass. Prof. Nicolas Sublet, the new French association dedicated to promoting female composers HE(A)R and Aarhus Musikforening design chamber music programmes for three concerts. The project reintroduces a side-by-side teaching model in which students and teachers rehearse, reflect and perform together. This approach bridges academic training and professional practice, encourage dialogue, and deepens ensemble awareness.
Rehearsals are accompanied by student-produced videos reflecting on the artistic and emotional impact of the repertoire.
In the second year, students take greater responsibility for repertoire research, programme design, and concert organisation in collaboration with teachers and the association HE(A)R. Three additional concerts are presented, supported by reflective videos and theory workshops.
The project concludes with an evaluation and a final report assessing its artistic and pedagogical impact.
Concerts
29/11/2025, 13:00 Symfonisk Sal, Musikhuset Aarhus
Mendelssohn, string Symphony No. 10 in B minor
Bacewicz, Concerto for string orchestra
Shostakovich, Chamber Symphony Op. 110A
Price, arr. Fine, Adoration
Hear students’ perspectives on the emotional impact of the pieces here:
28/02/2026, 15:00, Lille Sal, Musikhuset Aarhus
An intimate dialogue: Gabriel Fauré & Adela Maddison
Faure, piano quartet No. 1 in C minor,
Maddison, piano quintet
Hear students’ perspectives on the emotional impact of the pieces:
19/04/2026, 15:00, Lille Sal, Musikhuset Aarhus
Richard strauss (1864-1949): Prelude to the opera Capriccio for string sextet (Op. 85)
Songs for soprano and piano:
- Ständchen Op. 17 No. 2 (text by Adolf Freidrich von Shack)
- Cäcilie Op. 27 No. 2 (text by Heinrich Hart)
- Morgen Op. 27 No.4, with violin (text by John Henry Mackay)
Simone Blanchard (1893-…?): Inner voice (Vox intereure) (piano trio, c. 1920)
Nancy delberg (1881-1949): The evening clouds (Aftenskyerne) (text by H. V. Kaalund)
Jules Massenet (1843-1912)
Elegie for soprano, cello and piano.
Jessi Montomgery (b. 1981)
Duo for violin and cello (2015)
- Meandering – 2. Dirge – 3. Presto
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
2 Pieces for string octet, Op. 11 (1925)
- Prelude: Adagio – 2. Scherzo: allegro molto