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May 31 , 2006
Cikada win Edison Award
The Cikada String Quartet has won Holland’s coveted Edison Award in the Chamber Music category for their ECM New Series disc "“In due tempi”", with music of Kaija Saariaho, John Cage and Bruno Maderna. Of their performance, the judges noted, “emotion can be felt in every note they play”.
This is the second major prize for the Cikada musicians within months. In 2005 the Cikada Ensemble won the Nordic Council Music Prize, the biggest prize of its kind in the Northern lands.
Founded in Oslo in 1989 Cikada uniquely comprises three autonomous formations: the full ensemble consists of nine musicians and conductor Christian Eggen, and subdivides to become the Cikada String Quartet and the Cikada Duo. Cikada, in any shape or size, maintains an undogmatic attitude to working across genre boundaries – resulting in joint projects with leading jazz musicians and visual artists. Since the beginning of the nineties, Cikada has collaborated closely with ECM on albums including Bent Sørensen portrait CD “Birds and Bells”, the CD An Acrobat’s Heart with the American ‘avant-garde torch song’ vocalist Annette Peacock, as well as CDs with the Norwegian improvising quartet the Source, the Swedish folk musician Mats Edén, and veteran Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen.
In November 2006 the ECM-distributed XtraWatt label will issue a further disc featuring the Cikada Strings.: “So There” is a special project curated by Steve Swallow and featuring the great bassist’s settings of poetry of Robert Creeley. Creeley’s readings of his poems are enveloped by Swallow’s arrangements for his own bass guitar, Steve Kuhn’s piano, and the strings of Cikada’s Henryk Hannisdal, Odd Hannisdal, Marek Kontantynowicz and Morten Hannisdal.
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