2020 OMF Festival Season Brochure

OREGON MUSIC
FESTIVAL IS
COMMITTED TO
THE CREATION,
PROMOTION AND
PERFORMANCE OF
CONTEMPORARY
MUSIC
OREGON
MUSIC
FESTIVAL
music unleashed
OMF sees commissioning, performing and recording of new works essential to the
vibrancy of our own community and as a contribution to the international community
at large. For this reason we are engaged with composers, chamber music
ensembles, orchestras and soloists in pursuing new avenues of expression.
Town Portal (Denmark)
An OMF commission in collaboration with the band members: Christian Henrik Ankerstjerne,
guitar; Malik Breuer Bistrup, drums; Morten Ogstrup Nielsen, bass
Commissioned piece: “On Violence” -- A symphonic suite for rock band & orchestra
World premiere planned for OMF Fall Edition 2021. World premiere recording in the spring
of 2022. Topping the European pop charts, TOWN PORTAL is an instrumental experimental
post/math rock/metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2009 from members
of SHELFLIFE (among them guitarists Christian ANKERSTJERNE and Jeppe NIELSSON and bass
player Morten NIELSEN) that was active in 2007-2008. The band has been taking different
shapes and sizes
since then and
started playing live
in April 2010 in Denmark,
also setting
off on a mini European
tour the same
year. In September
2011, they released
their debut EP
“Vacuum Horror.”
Since late 2011 the
band continues as
a trio. Band members
come from
different musical
backgrounds but
they cite MESHUG-
GAH as one of their
common influences
(mainly in the
rhythm and groove
construction) and
they should appeal
to fans of unconventional
math/
post rock/metal.
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