CIKADA:
Anne-Karine Hauge flute
Rolf Borch clarinet
Bjørn Rabben percussion
Kenneth Karlsson piano
Karin Hellqvist violin
Emilie Heldal Lidsheim violin
Bendik Bjørnstad Foss viola
Inga Byrkjeland cello
Magnus Söderberg double bass 
Christian Eggen conductor
Francis Alÿs director of the movies Children’s Games
Félix Blume sound projection in the movies
 
Aleksandra Gryka music for the films (2025)* for ensemble (Cikada and Warsaw Autumn commission)
Video: Children’s Game #10: Papalote 4’13’’
Children’s Game #23: Step on a Crack 4’57’’
Children’s Game #28: Jump Rope 5’41’’
Children’s Game #30: Imbu 4’58’’
Kim Myhr new work (2025)* for ensemble (Cikada and Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival commission)
Video: Children’s Game #31: Slakken 5’01’’
Children’s Game #39: Parol 8’02’’
Children’s Game #34: Appelsindans 4’06’’
Children’s Game #5: Revolver 2’49’’
Children’s Game #1: Caracoles 4’34’’
Angélica Castelló Juglariceando (2025)* for flute, string quartet, percussion and electronics (Cikada and Wien Modern commission)
Pierre Slinckx CG#29 (2025)* for ensemble (Cikada and Concertgebouw Brugge commission)
Video: Children’s Game #29: La Roue 8’43’’  

The following films will be shown before and after the concert:
Children’s Game #7: Stick and Wheels 5’22’’
Children’s Game #8: Marbles 2’37’’
Children’s Game #10: Papalote 4’13’’
Children’s Game #15: Espejos 4’53’’
Children’s Game #18: Knucklebones 6’08’’
Children’s Game #23: Step on a Crack 4’57’’
Children’s Game #28: Jump Rope 5’23’’
Children’s Game #30: Imbu 4’58’’
Children’s Game #29: La Roue 8’43’’
Children’s Game #31: Slakken 5’01’’
Children’s Game #39: Parol 8’02’’
Children’s Game #34: Appelsindans 4’06’’
Children’s Game #5: Revolver 2’49’’
Children’s Game #1: Caracoles 4’34’’

Composers from countries with different cultural traditions respond to Francis Alÿs’s films depicting children playing in places affected by conflict and destruction. This concert-installation a cooperation between four European new music festivals, with a guest appearance by the Ultima Festival and the Cikada ensemble, one of the leading groups on the Scandinavian contemporary music scene since its inception in 1989.


Production: Cikada und Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Coproduction: Warsaw Autumn, Wien Modern, Concertgebouw Brugge and Musea Brugge – BRUSK
Cooperation: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, MAK – Museum für Angewandte Kunst Wien
With kind support of Music Norway, Arts Council Norway, Foundation Thomas Fearnley, Heddy and Nils Astrup and Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
Partner of the concert: Polish Creative Industries Development Center

* first Polish performance