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Bjarke Mogensen is
an astonishment on record.
Once heard, never forgotten.

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Born and raised on the Island of Bornholm, Bjarke Mogensen quickly made a name for himself as an internationally acclaimed accordion virtuoso and as a versatile musician with a keen ear for different styles.

At the age of 13 he made his solo debut with the Munich Symphony Orchestra in a German TV broadcast with millions of viewers. Since then a great curiosity and search for new sounds and expressions has taken him on musical paths where few other musicians have ventured before as a highly sought-after soloist in the classical music world.

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Album for Astor – a Piazzolla tribute album (2022)

The new Piazzolla album has arrived!

All my life I have admired, studied and performed the music of the extraordinary Argentinian composer, Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992).

So, when I was offered the chance to publish a whole instrumental Piazzolla album of my own for the centenary of his birth, I decided to base my tribute solely on Piazzolla titles but also dived headlong into designing a varied and comprehensive listening experience, an hour of interchanging accordion solos, instrumental duos, and pieces that I arranged for myself and a small group of mixed instruments.

About the album:

‘The music is all Astor but with a touch of Bjarke here and there and maybe everywhere, in fact. There are no singers involved, but Piazzolla’s music sings, and our instruments sing, and at every corner there is melancholy, tripping feet, fast figures, and perhaps even the scent and atmosphere of Buenos Aires.’

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News

Single release: ‘Mother of Sorrows’

New digital release:

Mother of Sorrows – A Modern Classic for Accordion
Composed by Nick Martin

Mother of Sorrows was written by composer Nick Martin for my debut performance at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in 2011. At the time, Nick was barely in his twenties, and the piece—deeply moving and atmospheric—draws its inspiration from Michelangelo’s Pietà. Coincidentally, the premiere took place on Memorial Day, a fitting backdrop for a work that meditates so powerfully on loss and compassion.

Since that debut, the piece has followed me across the globe, from the United States to Russia and, most recently, to Helsinki, Finland. Just last week, I performed it at the Helsinki Music Center (Musiikkitalo) and taught it to a student at the Sibelius Academy. Mother of Sorrows is steadily establishing itself as a new staple of the contemporary accordion repertoire. It’s particularly popular among the new generation of conservatory students, and I am frequently invited to teach the work internationally.

Nick Martin has gone on to compose several more works for me and is now beginning a new accordion concerto— more on that later…

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