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2024 / REVIEW / SPOT festival with Århus Sinfonietta and the composers Thomas Agerfeldt and Lil Lacy by Peter Elmelund at bizoom.dk (in Danish)
2024 / REVIEW / PassiveAggressive / By Claus Haxholm: Improvisationens sammenhængskraft på Ny Lille Klub
2024 / REVIEW / Klassisk Bureau / by Rachel Einarsson: Morild kan også lyde smukt, about the premiere of Morild with Randers Kammerorkester
2024 / REVIEW / PassiveAggressive / by Mikkel Schou: Organ Sound Art Festival - adventurous organs in contemporary music
2023 / REVIEW / Information / I HAVEN, new record by frk. jacobsen
2023 / REVIEW / salt peanuts* / I HAVEN, new record by frk. jacobsen
“I Haven, like previous works of frk. Jacobsen, Lobsters and Thin Dry Sticks (Eget Værelse, 2013 and 2018), invites the listener into Jacobsen’s highly imaginative and colorful music world. She composed the music and the lyrics, now staged like a theatrical, cosmic-psychedelic experience in a magical garden where all things arise and transform, as in the natural seasons. From being on the forest floor, by the cherry tree to the field, where you can meet a heifer calf transformed into a stone, or a woman that ages suddenly, as all are interrupted by a few intermezzos into the future but incorporating ideas from the ancient world.” by Eyal Hareuveni
2023 / REVIEW / undertoner / I HAVEN, new record by frk. jacobsen
2022 / REVIEW / Sceneblog / CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL ****** (6 stjerner)
“Det er Jon R. Skulberg der overordnet står for det ultrastringente og ruminddragende koncept samt den billedmæssigt overlegne iscenesættelse, men Convoi Exceptionnel forestillingen ville ikke være den samme uden komponisten Lil Lacy og dramaturgen Astrid Hansen Holm, der sammen med Skulberg har skrevet den både overraskende og rørende libretto. Samt selvfølgelig føromtalte dirigent Mathias Skaarup Sørensen og ENSEMBLE EDGE, der fornemt eksekverer tonernes dans i bassinet.
For CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL er ikke blot lydligt smuk, bevægende og billedmæssigt overlegen, værket er i høj grad også et samfundskritisk værk, hvor librettoens ord og sætninger sætter spor, der breder sig som ringe i vandet.””Komponisten Lil Lacy rammer i plet med sine til tider sakrale toner, og er overbevisende i sin udnyttelse af bassinets Habeas Corpus, hvor vandets ret til at blive hørt opretholdes og udnyttes på fineste vis. De plask og dryppende lyde vi er vant til som udtryk for barnlig glæde eller kraftudfoldelse i forbindelse med svømmetag, er i CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL integreret i korets sang, og minder os konstant om – på trods af den alvorstunge libretto – hvilket rum vi befinder os i.
Svømmehallen insisterer på at blive hørt, og Convoi Exceptionnel har med CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL skabt en unik forestilling, der i en større sammenhæng er anden del af deres Trilogi for læringsrum, men også står frem som et selvstændigt værk der insisterer på at blive hørt.
Summen af verdens tårer er konstant.
Konserveret i klor.
I klor, tårer.
Exclusively for you!”
2022 / REVIEW / iscene / CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL at PASSAGE FESTIVAL
“Librettoen i ’CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL,’ der er skrevet af dramaturg Astrid Hansen Holm, instruktør Jon R. Skulberg og komponist Lil Lacy’ formår at skabe poesi ud af velfærds- og klassesamfundets skyggesider og dets velkendte paradokser. Som når de helt nøgternt minder os om at, ”ingen vælger, hvor de fødes”. Snedigt er det også at bruge svømmehallen som rammesætning. Et af de (få) tilbageværende mødesteder for alle segmenter og lag af samfundet. Værket af anden del af den trilogi for og i læringsrum, som Convoi Exceptionnel igennem de seneste år har været i færd med at skabe, og som alle præsenteres på Passage Festival. Aldrig havde jeg forestillet mig, at så smuk en oplevelse kunne finde sted i en kommunal svømmehal.”
2022 / REVIEW / Teateravisen.dk / CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL at PASSAGE FESTIVAL
2021 / REVIEW / Seismograf
Review of you’re somehow connected - a dream play performed August 27 and 28 in Store Sal, Musikhuset, Aarhus, as part of Aarhus Festuge 2021 gala concert opening and reprise.
2021 / REVIEW / Arbeterbladet (SE) and Gefle Dagblad (SE)
Reviews of premiere of Aliento del mar, 9’ (2020) for accordion soloist and symphony orchestra, performed by accordion soloist Bjarke Mogensen, Gävle Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Bancroft, March 26, 2021 in Gävle, SEArbeterbladet (SE) / review in Arbeterbladet by Lars Westin (jpg)
or in an English translation and Swedish text (pdf)Gefle Dagblad (SE) /review in Gefle Dagblad by Camilla Dal (jpg)
or in an Ensligsh translation and Swedish text (pdf)
2019 / REVIEW / Review of premiere of One world above, another below (5 out of 6 stars) by Peter Elmelund, 45’ chamber opera, performed by soprano soloist Katinka Fogh Vindelev, Århus Sinfonietta and conductor Rei Munakata, May 5, 2019, SPOT-festival, Århus, DK
2018 / REVIEW / PassiveAggressive / by Morten Hviid Melsen: Lange lyse tråde rækker ind i et scenerum of the record Thin Dry Sticks by Frk. Jacobsen
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2024 / ARTICLE / Lil Lacy will be artist in residence at the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra 2024-2027 (in English)
2024 / ARTICLE / Lil Lacy vil være huskunstner i Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester 2024-2027 (in Danish)
2024 / PROGRAM / Sønderjylland Symfoniorkester, program for the season 2024/2025 (in Danish)
2024 / ARTICLE / www.dr.dk / Representing Denmark and The Danish Radio, with the piece ‘Dreaming in Colors’ commissioned and premiered so beautifully by Marianna Shirinyan (pno) and Torleif Thedéen, in the international competition International Rostrum of Composers along amazing colleagues Signe Lykke (with the piece ‘Bell Jar’) and Allan Gravgaard Madsen (with the piece Silbertönen) in Vilnius, Lithuania from May 14-17, 2024.
2024 / ARTICLE / Bastard Blog / by Jonas Schnor: Et studie i følsomhedsanalyser (A study of sensitivity Analysis), about a.o. CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL
2023 / ARTICLE / Gefle Dagblad / Interview by Kerstin Monk about the premiere of ‘Aurōra’ for Gävle Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor Christian Reif
2023 / ARTICLE / Kapelmesterbladet /by Lil Lacy: 9 korte om kunst
2022 / ARTICLE / Seismograf / “Det summer af velfærd over Danmark” about the piece CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL
2022 / ARTICLE / Seismograf / “Sounding Women’s Work”
»You look like 50% of the world's population, but are professionalised as a minority,« writes Juliana Hodkinson in this special issue.
Seismograf asked 11 artists/artist groups how they experienced gender playing a role in their artistic practice.
The series of 11 essays in 'Sounding Women's Work' has been curated, carefully edited and translated by: Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek, Agnete Seerup, Kristine Ringsager and Stina Hasse Jørgensen.
The artists/musicans are among others: Anja Jacobsen, Lotte Anker, Juliana Hodkinson, Ragnhild May, Kristoffer Raasted, Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen, Mette Nielsen, Meshes, Aske Zidore, Pernille Zidore Nygaard, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Lil Lacy, Kim Sandra Rask and Sara Willemoes HansenLink to all 11 articles in the series: in Danish or in English
Essay by Lil Lacy in the series: in Danish or in English
2022 / ARTICLE / Magasinet Klassisk / “Har man ikke adgang til et orkester, så kan man ikke komponere symfonisk” by Sune Anderberg, February ‘22
- The 6 female composers Juliana Hodkinson, Bára Gísladóttir, Signe Lykke, Mette Nielsen og Line Tjørnhøj in interview about writing music for symphony orchestras.
2022 / ARTICLE / Perfect Sound Forever Online Magazine / “Creative dead ends in music” by Jonas Vognsen, August ‘22
2021 / ARTICLE / Århus Onsdag / “Aarhus Festuges gallakoncert skal ledes af ung fremadstormende komponist”, August 2021
Presenting that the piece you’re somehow connected - a dream play, 80’ (revised in 2021) for accordion soloist, ensemble, electronic composition, visuals and lights - will be performed as the Gala Concert at Aarhus Festuge on August 27 and as a reprise on August 28, 2021
2020 / ARTICLE / Seismograf / by Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek: “Der, hvor noget vokser imellem os”
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2023 / RADIO / DR P2Koncerten / Premiere of ‘Dreaming in Colors’, performed by Marianna Shirinyan (pno.) and Torleif Thedéen (vlc.) at min. 01:47:47
2023 / RADIO / DR P2Koncerten / Premiere of ‘Di drømm dæ bringe vos sammel’, performed by Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester and chief conductor Johannes Wildner at min. 00:11:51
2023 / PLAYLIST / by Lil Lacy: A curated playlist for Seismograf and their series: ‘Vil du se min playliste?’
2022 / PODCAST / podcast series about the piece ‘you’re somehow connected’ created by Ida Skjerk, released on The Lake Radio (in Danish)
2022 / RADIO / P2 Koncerten at Oremandsgaard Kammermusikfest, music by Abrahamsen, Schubert, Mozart and Lacy. Premiere of ‘Tribute to the Craft of Time’ performed by Marianna Shirinyan (piano), Torleif Thedéen (cello) and Jonas Frølund (basset clarinet) (premiere at min. 1:041:00)
2022 / RADIO / Hønsehusets Søndagsskole - radio with Jonatan Spejlborg at Den Grænseløse Festival about the festival, resonance, 'you’re somehow connected' and Jonatan performed the piece ursonate by Kurt Schwitters (in Danish)
2019 / PODCAST / podcast about the piece 'Concert for a Space and Time' created by Frederik Sakham and AUT (in Danish)