In recent years, classical music has been dynamically challenged by new and visionary artists from the modern electronic music scene, which has consistently endowed it with new space, contents and relevance. At the forefront of this movement stands the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannson, who with his romantic and supernatural aural spheres unites a unique sense of beauty with a dark and daunting musical universe—close to Arvo Pärt, but still with his own unique style.

Jóhann Jóhannsson performs on piano and electronica, accompanied by Iceland’s foremost string quartet as well as Mathias M.D. Hemstock on electronica and percussion. Jóhannsson has always had a strong cinematic dimension in his works, and the concert is supplemented by no less than a premiere of a visual show created live on location by the artist Magnús Helgason.

The second artists of the evening, Ben Frost, evokes memories of both Autechre, Murcof and Aphex Twin, but in reality it’s possibly artists such as Swans and Arvo Pärt, or modern classical pioneers such as Michael Nyman or Max Richter, who are closer to Frost’s universe. This is Ben Frosts’ first performance ever in Denmark.