KLAR!festival
KLAR!festival has a clear mission: presenting some of the best ensembles, programs and music from Scandinavia and Austria. 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 communities and young people through workshops and concerts.
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Artistic Directors
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 Guldberg Ravn 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. She is an also avid performer of contemporary music premiering and engaging in artistic collaborations with composers of our time. While she is busy in bringing baroque music to the big stages, she is furthermore the co-founder of SOL Musikteater, wich brings baroque music in uniquely curated formats to the next generations throughout Scandinavia.
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Internationally awarded Austrian conductor and composer Kai Johannes Polzhofer burns for bringing high arts to all. He has been engaged by Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, worked in the past with Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich (Vienna), Opera Hagen, Ensemble gageego!, the New Music Ensemble by Gothenborg Symphony, Gothenburg Opera, as well with leading ensembles of the contemporary music scene as Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Mosaik, Ensemble Recherche, and the JACK Quartet. Among other initiatives he is with Karen Cueva co-founder and former Director of the DuBois Orchestra Harvard, advocating for racial and social justice. He graduated from National Soloist Class under conductor Michael Schønwandt, and Saint Petersburg State Conservatory in Orchestra and Opera Conducting. He also holds a Doctorate from Harvard University, serves as board member of NEOS Music, and his compositions are published by Edition Gravis (Berlin).