KLAR!festival

KLAR!festival has a clear mission: presenting some of the best ensembles, programs and music from Scandinavia and Austria to a wide audience. KLAR!festival stands for exchange between music scenes, people and cultures. We invite outstanding national and international soloists, present a unique diversity of classical music as well engage with local teenagers through workshops and concerts. In 2024 KLAR!festival takes place at Ledreborg Castle, Denmark.

Artistic Directors

Clara Guldberg Ravn │ Kai Johannes Polzhofer

Prize-winning Danish recorder soloist Clara Guldberg Ravn wants to bring the best Early Music ensembles to Denmark. Recently accepted into the Danish National Career Program (The Elite of Young Artists), she has been engaged as soloist by Bremer Barockorchester and Concerto Copenhagen, and works as a sought-after chamber musician and soloist throughout Europe. Clara rediscovered and released the complete flute sonatas by the forgotten Danish composer Martinus Ræhs (1702-1766) with the label Arcantus, for which she was nominated for the acclaimed International Classical Music Awards 2023, and she is an avid performer of contemporary music. Besides premiering and artistic collaborations with composers, she is busy in bringing baroque music not only to the big stages, but through uniquely curated formats and collaborations to the next generations throughout Scandinavia. With her artistic collaborator, conductor and composer Kai Johannes Polzhofer, she additionally engages in discovering and bringing rare and not yet heard repertoire to the symphonic realm.

Internationally awarded Austrian symphony conductor and composer Kai Johannes Polzhofer burns for bringing high arts to all. He graduated from St. Petersburg State Conservatory and the National Soloist Class Copenhagen, was engaged by State Opera Munich, the New Music Ensemble by Gothenborg Symphony, Ensemble gageego!, and has worked with all regional orchestras in Denmark, as well as soloists of Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Symphony Orchestra of the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg Opera and Ballet Theatre among others. Kai is founder of the DuBois Orchestra (advocating for racial and social justice), the Kandinsky Orchestra Petersburg as well as formaLeipzig. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and his compositions are published by Edition Gravis (Berlin). Kai developed a special profile in conducting and curating diverse programs intertwining canonic and marginalized music. With his artistic collaborator Clara Guldberg Ravn he believes in bringing people and the very best of Danish and Austrian music into meaningful dialogue.