Mpiri participated in the cultural night 10'th of october

Mpiri participated at the cultural night in the faroese house in Copenhagen.

EXPO2008 i Zaragoza - july 2008

Mpiri visited this years Expo2008 (World Fair) in spanish Zaragoza. The reason was to perform at the Danish National Day at Expo - 2. july. We were asked to be the cultural item a the official part of the ceremony. So in coorporation with the modern dance ensemble, we made a first performance of the piece Barbara, set to newly composed music by Tróndur Bogason with choreography by Ingrid Thranum-Jensen and dancers from Saga Dance Company. The performance was shown directly in spanish television.

Music video - Upp gleðist

Our new music video, is now available on the media page, along with some small excerpts of the CD.

Release koncert in Denmark - 5 december 2007 at 1930

Mpiri will be holding release concert in Samuels Church in Thorsgade, Copenhagen N, to mark the release of our brand new chirstmas CD - Upp Gleðist. The CD consists of all new compositions of well known christmas carols and songs, and we will ofcourse be performing some of these. Please join us in a relaxed christmas like moment. We will serve gløgg and something sweet.

Christmas and release concert in the Nordic House - 1 desember 2007 12 o'clock

Mpiri will be holding a christmas and release concert in the Nordic House in Thorshavn. The brand new chirstmas CD - Upp Gleðist with new compositions of well known christmas carols and songs, will be presented. Please join us in a relaxed christmas like moment. We will serve gløgg and something sweet.
Entrance: 100 kr.

Koncert at the North Atlantic Bridge - 16 november 2007

At the presentation of three childrens books being released in the the north atlantic languages, Mpiri will be perforing some nordic songs. The reception will be at 2 o'clock.
You can read more about this on the site of the North Atlantic Bridge.

Cultural Night in Copenhagen - 12 oktober 2007

Mpiri will be holding a small concert in the Faroese House on Vesterbrogade 17, at 1900 o'clock. We will show a little bit of what faroese contemporary choir music is, as well as singing a few more traditional ones.

The Christmas CD is coming together well - september 2007

The recordings in may went well, and we got 10 songs in the box and these are now mixed and finished. In september we well record the last 5 songs. The material is good with a good diversity. All the songs are new compositions of classics, and most of them are composed by faroese composers. The singers of Mpiri perform many soloes, but one solo is sung by the famous faroese winner of "star for one evening" contest in TV - Guðrun Sólja.
The CD will be available at the faroese release concert in the Nordic House in Thorshavn 1. december at 12 o'clock or at the danish release concert 5. december at 1930 o'clock in Samuels Church, Thorsgade, Copenhagen N.

Koncert in Round Tower - april 2007

Wednesday 2. maj kl. 20 Mpiri will perform a concert in Round Tower in Copenhagen town center. The concert will be in the library in the tower itself.
Concerts in the Round Tower, is a reoccuring event for Mpiri. Mpiri has performed concerts there for several years, since this room is near perfect for a choir the size of Mpiri.
This will be the only hear Mpiri live this spring, because Mpiri will start recording a christmas CD shortly.
At the concert, Mpiri will perform works by Thomas Tallis, Per Nørgaard, Einojuhani Rautavaara and Jean Sibelius as well as the faroese composers Kárei Bæk, Bjarni Restorff, Sunleif Rasmussen and Pauli í Sandagerði

New singers - februar 2007

Mpiri has the great pleasure of welcoming 4 new members. They are: Agnar Lamhauge (tenor), Mass Hoydal (tenor), Katrin Næss Hansen (soprano) and Eva Klemensen (soprano). You can read about these singers as well as the others, by clicking Singers.

Concert cancellation - may 2005

Due to sickness in the choir, Mpiri has had to cancel the concerts due 28'th of May. However, we are looking forward to having the concerts in October instead.

Succes in Finland - october 2004

The tour to Finland and the three concerts there were a great succes. In Turku/Åbo we performed for about 200 invited Nordic guests at the 80th anniversary of the Pohjola-Norden Association, and both guests and hosts were very enthusiastic afterwards. The concert in Sibbo was also a great experience where we had a very good audience from the local community. The final concert was in the fantastic chuch in Berghäll/Kallion in Helsinki. This was perhaps the best concert, where we had a different programme than in the other two concerts. We received a lot of very positive remarks from the audience after the concert.

Mpiri wishes to thank the Pohjola-Norden Association and all our sponsors for the help and support we received for the tour to Finland.

Finland - october 2004

Ahead of us now is the final and longest part of The Nordic Tour 2004, Finland. We look very much forward to perform in this Nordic country that is so different from the other. Most of us have never been there before. We will perform in Åbo/Turku, Helsinki/Helsingfors and Sibbo in the south of Finland. Read more about the concerts in the Calendar section and see the tour poster in the our Media section.

Two Cultural Nights - september 2004

The Cultural Night in Liberiet in Lund, Sweden, ont the 18th of September went very well. Mpiri performed in a full house (more than a hundred spectators) and got a nice review in a local Swedish newspaper.

Our next performance is on The Cultural Night in Copenhagen on the 8th of October in The Faroese House. This evening is going to be something out of the ordinary. Jensina Olsen, our vice chairman has organized the event in cooperation with The Faroe House, the Faroese chain dance group, Fótatraðk and the exiting group Virelai performing medieval music. The atmosphere is going to be damp and dark with torches and candle lights to give a feeling reminiscent of the old Faroese houses.

The concerts in Germany a succes - june 2004

After succesful concerts in The Round Tower in April and secondly in the North Atlantic House in Copenhagen in May in connection with The North Atlantic Choir Festival, Mpiri went to Flensborg in Germany to participate in The Danish Annual Meetings for the danish minority in Germany. We performed three times there and received good publicity and a response from the audiences and organizers.

Touring and performing new works - march 2004

28th of april Mpiri will perform the annual spring concert in The Round Tower in Copenhagen.
This concert will be the starting point of our 2004 tour including Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Finland (read more in our Calendar section).

On the concert we will perform for the first time two pieces that we commissioned last year. They are '4 elements' by Kristian Blak and 'Sonurin' (the son) by Tróndur Bogason.

Hard work with training - march 2004

Mpiri has been working real hard this fall and spring and is now looking forward to showing off all that we have been studying. Look in the calendar elsewhere on this site to find out when the choir has concerts.

Concerts this fall - october 2003

Mpiri will perform at several occations this fall. Here are the dates and places:
10/10: Cultural Nicght in Copenhagen. We will sing at the The North Atlantic Pier at 19:00 and 23:00. At 20:00 on Christiansborg and 21:15 in The Faroese House.
30/10: Café evening with The Icelandic Female Voice Choir in Jóns Hús, the Icelandic Cultural House in Copenhagen. The evening starts at 20:00
02/11: Short concert in conjunction with an exhibition of the faroese painter Sámal Mikines-Joensen at Kastrupgårdsamlingen in Tårnby. The concert will be preceeded by a lecture on the arts of Mikines by his son Kári Mikines-Joensen.
27/11: Performance at the official opening of the North Atlantic Bridge. We will perform in the time frame 16:00 to 18:00.
29/11: Concert in Dansk Centralbibliotek in Flensborg in Germany. This is part of the North Atlantic Litterature event where the Icelandic writer Einar Már Guðmundsson and the Norwegian writer Lars Saabye Christiansen will lecture on their writing.
13/12:The annual North Atlantic Christmas Concert held in Helligåndskirken in central Copenhagen. The faroese, Icelandic and Greenlandic choirs in Copenhagen will all participate. The concert begins at 17:00

New alto - september 2003

Due to personal circumstances, Fía has had to stop in the choir. Sigriður Eythórsdóttir has taken her place among the altos. Sigriður has many years experience singing at the highest level in Denmark. Sigga is from Iceland.

New singers in Mpiri- may 2003

Luckily we were able to accept three new singers, and two of them are former memebers, so we are happy to welcome them back. They are: Benjamin Gaasedal and Anna Maria Olsen. The third new singer is Niclas Thorsteinsson who we know as a qualified bass singer.

Asbest video - may 2003

The video of Asbest is out now, and you can get it here.

The two files are the same apart from the quality. They are rather large, but will not give you poor quality, so we recommend that you download the larger file.

The video is encoded using DivX 5.0.5. It can be viewed using BSPlayer or Windows Media Player if you have DirectX 7.0 or better (which is standard nowadays).

High Quality (400*240) - 25 MB AVI

High Quality (320*192) - 18 MB AVI

Plans for the future - october 2002

Having just acquired a new conductor as well as a couple of new singers, Mpiri will not be performing as frequently as it has been the case for the past few months. There lies a great job ahead of us rehearsing new material and in general to restore the sonority of the choir after changing the composition of the voice-groups. The only performances until Christmas will be on Saturday the 14th of December. At one o'clock pm we will sing on the 'Strøget' and afterwards we will be singing at the Christmas-concert at the 'Helligåndskirken' church in Copenhagen, where you can hear faroese, greenlandic and icelandic choirs singing parts of their christmas repertoire. This concert starts at five o'clock pm.

New conductor - october 2002

Mpiri has reached an agreement with the danish conductor Gorm Larsen to conduct the choir. Gorm is 35 years old and educated as a conductor at the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen. He has also studied at the Royal College of Music in London, as well as studying musical science at the University of Århus. Gorm is specialized in renaissance- and baroque music, but is also very interested in modern music. Within a short period of time there will be a profile on him on the homepage.

New singers - october 2002

We have long been planning to admit a new tenor into the choir, after Uni moved back to the Faroes in the spring. Benjamin has also made it clear that he will not be able to continue in the choir. Thus we suddenly needed no less than two new tenors. The preceding week we therefore arranged entrance examinations, and the new tenors in Mpiri are: Rókur Jákupsson and Theodor Erling Johannesen. In addition Marjun Hoydal is now readmitted to the choir after having studied in Vienna for the last year. We welcome them and will put their profiles on the homepage as soon as possible.

On tour to Gothenburg - october 2002

The last part of the 2002 nordic tour of Mpiri can be experienced during the days of 11th and 13th october in Gothenburg. This is also our last tour with our conductor during the past two years, Sunleif Rasmussen - at least for the time being. The choir has attained a lot of interest from other qualified conductors as the rumour of Sunleifs resignation has spread, and we´ll probably soon be settled with a new one.

CD recordings - august 2002

For a long time, Mpiri has been planning a cd-release, and the huge amount of new and original musical material in the current repertoire should leave plenty of possibilities to realize these plans. The cd has also been one of the projects of our conductor Sunleif Rasmussen. This summer he informed that he unfortunately would have to finish his collaboration with the choir because of his heavy commitments to musical composition. Besides it has been to much stress travelling frequently between Denmark and the Faroe Islands, in order of conduction and rehearsal. Thus it was clear that the cd-project would have to be realized now - or never. During the days og 13th to 15th september we recorded the material to put on the cd. We have exclusively chosen modern faroese compositions to make it possible to label our cd as "contemporary faroese vocal music". We're yet to decide exactly when to release the cd.

Concerts in Iceland - august 2002

Mpiri was on tour in Iceland during this summer from the 4th to the 12th of august. We gave three concerts in Reykjavík and it's proximity. 7th of august in the newly built Musikkháskólinn in Hafnarfirði, 9th of august in the famous Langholtskirkjan in Reykjavík and 10th of august in the beautiful and sonorous church of Skálholt - the ancient episcopal residence of Iceland, situated in the northeast of Reykjavík. There was a fairly large audience for all of the concerts, and they were in other ways very succesful - especially those in Hafnarfjørður and Skálholt. Generally it was a splendid and amusing tour to the "land of the sagas".

Singing for the faroese parliament - july 2002

We have been asked to sing at the reception when the 150 year of the faroese parliament is honoured. This will take place in the faroes on the 29'th of July.

The concerts in Gjógv - july 2002

The concerts in Gjógv were very good. The first concert - in the church - gathered around 100 spectators. This meant that the church was filled to the last seat. Eventhough we were a bit nervous, the concert was good.
Second part was the concert in the towns "meeting house". This concert was sold out as well - 80 spectators. The percussionists Trygvi Restorff í Brekkunum and Rúni Mouritsen accompanied us on "Nú Rísur" by Kári Bæk and "Asbest" by our own Tróndur Bogason, and that gave a special feeling that worked very well.
After the latter concert we performed to extra songs outside by the sea. Competing with the birds and the waves we had to give it our best, and we did. Wie Liegt die Stadt has never sounded better - by us.

Sunleif Rasmussen is honoured - june 2002

It is now official - our conductor Sunleif Rasmussen will receive the Nordic Councils Music Prize. The prize is given for his first symphony - Oceanic Days. Along with the honours he will receive a payment of 350.000 DDK

Concerts to come - may 2002

Next things on our schedule is the North Atlantic Cultural Festival in Copenhagen which is ultimo May. We have been asked to sing at the reception after the opening of the festival and at the big concert with many faroese, icalandic and greenlandic choirs.
After this our next event will be the concert in Gjógv 14.07 as mentioned below.
In august we will travel to Iceland. Our tour there will be from 4'th to 12'th. We will perform three official concerts in the vicinity of Reykjavík - maybe will sing a song or two somewhere else too.

Concerts this summer - february 2002

Mpiri will perform a concert in Rundetårn (round tower) in Copenhagen 4'th of may

As part of Mpiris tour of the North Atlantic regions, Mpiri will hold a concert as part of "Summer Sounds" in the faroes. The concert will be on the 14'th of July in Gjógv - a small village in the north of the faroes.

Art Festival in the faroes - august 2001

The choir has been asked to participate in the Art Festival. This is a festival arranged by the Nordic House in Thorshavn, Faroe Islands.
This year is the first in what is supposed to be an annual event in the faroes, and we are to perform three concerts around the islands. One in Húsavíkar Church on Sandoy, one in Fuglafjørður Church in Eysturoy and one in the capitol - Thorshavn.

Later ...

In Húsavík we performed in front of a filled church eventhough is was in the middle of haying season and everyone was occupied around that. In Fuglafjørður there were around 70 spectators and the concert was recorded by the faroese national radio. The best performance was in Thorshavn where we performed a full programme in front of more than 120 entusiastic spectators.

New works ordered

Mpiri has placed an order for three new choir works to be composed for us. The composers asked for these works are: Kári Bæk, Tróndur Bogason and Pauli í Sandagerði - all are faroese. The works are to be handed over in september 2001, and will be part of our new repertoire.

North Atlantic Choir Festival - may 2001

Mpiri will participate in the annual North Atlantic Choir Festival which is held for faroese, icelandic and Greenlandic choirs located in Denmark. This year the faroese Húsakórið arranged the festival.
On this years festival, the main work to be performed is "ÐQ" composed by our own Tróndur Bogason to the words of Niels Uni Dam. This is a world premiere.

Concert in The Round Tower, Copenhagen - 28 apríl 2001

On the 28. of april the main concert of ours this spring is going to be in The Round Tower in the very center of Copenhagen. We have since november last year been working on our new concert programme, which is to be used at this concert.
As good as all of the material on the repertoire has been replaced since the concerts in autumn, and we are now working on a lot of exciting compositions such as the impressive work of Rudolf Mauersberger: Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst and the renaissance piece The Lamentations of Jeremiah by Thomas Tallis.

Tour to the Faroe Islands - october 2000

At the moment we are preparing a tour to the Faroe Islands, which is going to be during the period of the 27. to the 31. of october. It was already decided early this spring that the choir’s main project in the fall should be to go on a tour to the islands. It is of course very exciting for a faroese choir living in Denmark to go ’back home’ for the first time to show our worth - the ultimate challenge, so to speak. This idea, Sunleif Rasmussen supported completely, when he took over the choir, so we have worked very focused on this ever since the summer vacations.

First half:
Føroyar mín móðir
Skip á Havnini
Haldiðún gróa hafi
Sig mær hví er foldin føgur
Rura barnið
Pater Noster
Ikke blot hende


Second half:
Úr øllum ættum koma vindar
Ég að øllum
Hún var Það alt
Apokalypsa
Asbest
Goodbye

New conductor - august 2000

The most exciting thing that has happened to Mpiri recently is that the famous faroese composer and conductor Sunleif Rasmusse in august 2000 agreed to lead the choir. We are very happy to have such a great opportunity and look forward to work undir his skilled guidance.