Niels Rønsholdt

With an insistence on aesthetic and technical precision, Rønsholdt has been whittling consistently and mercilessly for many years upon the genres of instrumental music, chamber opera and installation, often in co-operation with the media artist Signe Klejs. With works such as 'Triumph' (2007) and 'Honeymoon' (2009), Rønsholdt and Klejs have created new electronic music formats in which Rønsholdt's musical stringency has been maintained in a media platform that presents and develops the thematic work on all levels. Rønsholdt's music is characterised by an extreme tenderness that entices the listener to enter difficult universes, where the aesthetics and composition are so powerful that you can feel the door slam shut behind you. - Danish Arts Foundation's Committee for Classical Music

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Så selv Birgitte Possing forstår det

31. October 2025 – Er det muligt at kritisere tidens indsatser for kønsbalance i det klassiske musikliv uden at lyde som et reaktionært røvhul? Ikke ifølge den seneste udgave af et radioprogram på P2.
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  • Sune Anderberg
kritik

Operaen skal dø, for at operaen kan leve

Opførelsen af operaen »Hopscotch«. Billede fra bogen.
27. January 2025 – Den rebelske amerikanske operainstruktør Yuval Sharon kalder i ny bog til kamp imod at tækkes et elitært publikum, der kun går i operaen for at blive bekræftet. Kunstarten kan så meget mere.
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  • Sune Anderberg
kritik

Alle uhyrer forsvinder i mørket

© David Stjernholm
29. February 2024 – Mads Emil Dreyers debutalbum, »Disappearer«, er en mesterlig opvisning i ydmygt angreb. Bag musikkens lette, lokkende ydre gemmer sig et besættende mørke, som fortærer lytteren, næsten uden man opdager det. 
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  • Sune Anderberg