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is a modern, Art Song ensemble, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded on two premises. Song is the most portable, elastic and enduring form of music composition, as complex as it is fun. Secondly, Copenhagen can be a prime incubator for art development. Danish life can provide artists the mental space to create and hone their work so that it can be born into the world.

We value the intimacy and immediacy of live performance. 

We are ambivalent regarding spectacle. It is useful and superfluously distracting.

We question whether recordings of music are actually music rather than media. It is unclear as to whether they can be both.

ensemble


  • soprano

    Julia Bielefeld has quickly established herself as a sought-after recitalist and oratorio soloist, performing works such as Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor and Requiem, as well as Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle. She has also been featured as a soloist in numerous New Year’s concerts with orchestras and chamber ensembles.

    She earned her Bachelor’s degree from the Danish National Academy of Music in 2024 under Lona Mohr Villadsen, graduating with top marks, and is now pursuing her Master’s studies under Henriette Bonde-Hansen.

    Julia made her professional opera debut in March 2023, stepping in as the Queen of the Night with Jyske Opera and Aalborg Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, she appeared as Flora in La Traviata with Opera North Zealand.

  • classical guitarist

    https://nichlasovergaard.com/

    Classical guitarist Nichlas Overgaard is an emerging soloist in the Danish classical music scene, known for his expressive and refined playing. Since picking up the guitar at just seven years old, he has since captivated audiences across Denmark, performing at major venues such as Tivoli, Musikkens Hus (Aalborg), and the Betty Nansen Theater.

    Nichlas studied at MGK-Hovedstaden under acclaimed guitarist Niklas Johansen and is currently pursuing his master’s degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Music under Professor Jesper Sivebæk. He has honed his craft in masterclasses with some of the world’s leading guitarists, including Marcin Dylla, Roberto Aussel, Judicäel Perroy, Carlo Marchione, Petra Poláčková, and David Russell.

    A prize-winning musician, Nichlas took first place at the Aalborg International Guitar Festival Youth Competition in 2018 and earned third prize in the adult category in 2024. In 2023, he won first prize in the Erik Satie Competition alongside flautist Sille Enevoldsen.

    Beyond his solo career, Nichlas thrives in collaboration, bringing his expressive playing to chamber music settings with a diverse range of vocalists and instrumentalists. He has also premiered contemporary works for solo guitar by composers such as Anton Lindström and Finn Mattingly. His repertoire bridges tradition and innovation, from deeply expressive classical pieces to jazz-infused arrangements of popular songs.

  • composer

    Sebastian Robin Craig is a composer whose works for small ensembles have been performed primarily in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he was influenced early on by his maternal uncle, esteemed jazz drummer Horacee Arnold.

    Craig initially studied modern dance at the University of California, Berkeley, under former Martha Graham soloist David Wood. It was Wood who introduced him to modular thinking—in this case, sequencing patterns of movement that reflect binary, ternary and rondo structures of music composition. Though structure continues to fascinate Craig, what draws him to song, again and again, is something less tangible.

    “A song lives in the mind as a virus lives in the body. It’s transmitted similarly, pneumatically. You can’t hum a symphony nor a string quartet, but the tune—the song—remains ingeniously simple and  contagious.” —SRC

    For Craig, songs are more than melodies; they are deeply emotional, unpredictable phenomena that live within us—witnesses to joy and suffering. Their range is boundless, from the raw and intimate to the expansive and intricate. This is what makes them his enduring focus. His current vehicle for this pursuit is > <, dedicated to modern art song.

    Craig’s work has been funded by the Fleischhacker Foundation, the LEF Foundation, Meet the Composer, the San Francisco Arts Commission, Theatre Bay Area, and the Zellerbach Family Fund. Institutional support has come from New Langton Arts, Intersection for the Arts, and others.

    Sebastian Robin Craig now resides in Copenhagen, Denmark.

sample scores

voice & guitar

voice & piano

recordings coming soon