EKKO PARK – Day 1

19:00 - Film Screening: Where Music Grows
21:15 - Concert: Cæcilie Balling & Dybfølt (Mathæus Bech, Kirstine Elise Pedersen)

Ekko Park unfolds at Park Bio as part of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, bringing together film screening and concert in a curated, sensory program. The evening opens with the documentary Where Music Grows (dir. Katrine Philp), followed by a concert with Cæcilie Balling & Dybfølt (Mathæus Bech, Kirstine Elise Pedersen). Audiences can choose to attend each part separately or purchase a combined ticket for the full evening, where film and concert reflect and expand one another.

The concert with Cæcilie Balling & Dybfølt takes shape in the meeting between composition, improvisation, and classical repertoire. Voice, violin, cello, and double bass move in a close and attentive interplay, where sound is continuously shifting and re-emerging. Rooted in Balling’s song cycle Verbrannt, and wi...

EKKO PARK – Day 1

19:00 - Film Screening: Where Music Grows
21:15 - Concert: Cæcilie Balling & Dybfølt (Mathæus Bech, Kirstine Elise Pedersen)

Ekko Park unfolds at Park Bio as part of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, bringing together film screening and concert in a curated, sensory program. The evening opens with the documentary Where Music Grows (dir. Katrine Philp), followed by a concert with Cæcilie Balling & Dybfølt (Mathæus Bech, Kirstine Elise Pedersen). Audiences can choose to attend each part separately or purchase a combined ticket for the full evening, where film and concert reflect and expand one another.

The concert with Cæcilie Balling & Dybfølt takes shape in the meeting between composition, improvisation, and classical repertoire. Voice, violin, cello, and double bass move in a close and attentive interplay, where sound is continuously shifting and re-emerging. Rooted in Balling’s song cycle Verbrannt, and with works by J.S. Bach as a counterpart, the performance unfolds as a movement between tradition and the present. Live visuals by Kaspar Vig draw the space into the performance, transforming Park Bio into a unified audiovisual environment.

The film Where Music Grows offers an intimate insight into the Scandinavian Cello School—a farm south of Copenhagen where young elite musicians from around the world gather to immerse themselves in classical music. The film portrays a setting where discipline and artistic focus are balanced with community and an alternative way of life, and where music develops in close relation to its surroundings. Together, film and concert trace a shared trajectory, where music emerges between structure, intuition, and lived experience....

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