Welcome to the 23rd Nordic Church Music Symposium in Copenhagen
19 – 22 September 2024
NKS2024: a professional conference for the Nordic church musicians – a meeting place and a source of inspiration for everyone involved in church music!
Heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated and contributed to a successful NKS2024.
Revisited for NKS2028 on 21-24. September in Bergen, Norway.
The Danish steering group behind NKS2024 looks back with gratitude on the intense days. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed and filled NKS2024 with stellar moments and moved us out of ourselves. Thanks for the music and performances at the highest level. Heartfelt thanks to choristers, organists, conductors and composers. You touched and moved us. We have all, individually, experienced something that leaves a lasting mark and makes us better church musicians than when we came. NKS2024 sends us home even more dedicated to what we do. Thank you for all the human warmth that has been between us these past few days. Thank you for the community and friendship between us and our countries.
Thanks to everyone who came to Copenhagen – and everyone in Copenhagen who made the 23rd Nordic Church Music Symposium a reality.
The program of the symposium
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WEDNESDAY 18/9
Evening concerts
THURSDAY 19/9
At 8 Morning devotion
Our Lady Church
At 8.30-16 Excursions
At 14-17 Check-in
Bethesda
At 14-17 Sales exhibition
Bethesda
At 16 Bell concert
Church of the Holy Spirit
At 18 Opening concert
Conservatory's
concert hall
At 19 Reception
Conservatory's
concert hall
Evening concerts
FRIDAY 20/9
At 8 Morning devotion
Our Lady Church
At 8.30-14 Sales exhibition
Bethesda
At 9-11 Seminars
At 12 Choir concert FINLAND
Trinity Church
At 14-16 Seminars
At 16-20 Sales exhibition
Bethesda
At 16 Bell concert
Church of the Holy Spirit
At 17 Choir concert ICELAND
Garnisons Church
At 18.30 Organ concert FINLAND & ICELAND
Trinity Church
At 20 Improvisation concert
Garnisons Church
Evening concerts
SATURDAY 21/9
At 8 Morning devotion
Our Lady Church
At 8.30-17 Sales exhibition
Bethesda
At 9-11 Seminars
At 12 Choir concert NORWAY
Garnisons Church
At 14 Organ concert SWEDEN & NORWAY
Christian's Church
Afternoon concerts
At 16 Bell concert
Church of the Holy Spirit
At 17 Choir concert SWEDEN
Garnisons Church
At 20 Concert DENMARK
The marble church
At 21 Social event
Nikolai Kunsthal
SUNDAY 22/9
At 11 Festhøjmesse
Our Lady Church
At 13 Bell concert
Church of the Holy Spirit
CONTRIBUTOR
Read more about the artists at NKS2024
NORDIC CHURCH MUSIC FESTIVAL
– more than 50 events on the occasion of NKS2024
SEMINARS
The organizers behind NKS2024 aim for a rich program of seminars, masterclasses, debates and lectures, with relevance for the church musician's versatile field of work and everyday life in a church workplace.
You can find the seminars divided by theme or time period. Participation in seminars requires registration.
Pedagogy
Work environment
The service
Organ playing
Choir management
recruitment
Music & theology
Research
Carillon
Friday 9-11
Friday 14-16
Saturday 9-11
CHURCHES AND ORGANS
Read more about the churches and organs used during NKS2024
Welcome to Copenhagen
It is a pleasure that NKS2024 is taking place in Denmark and I look forward to welcoming the Nordic church musicians and all those involved to the Diocese of Copenhagen. It is important that the church has and can continue to recruit professionally skilled church musicians and NKS2024 is an opportunity to strengthen the great church musical work that is carried out throughout the Nordics.
The music is crucial for the service and the broad field of work of organists and choir directors is an invaluable part of local congregational life. Music and song open our awareness to new dimensions. If the world is to become a better place, we need beauty to express both the divine and the human. May NKS2024 become a source of inspiration to support the work of individual church musicians and to the common benefit of the Nordic churches and Nordic cooperation.
NKS2024 is closed for registration
What am I signed up for?
You can see which excursions and seminars you have registered for by logging into your registration profile HERE
Public transport
You can easily get around Copenhagen by metro, train or bus. Plan your route i Google Maps or use Journey Planner.
You can download the app to your advantage DOT – Your Public Transport. Here you can buy single tickets, and you also have the option to buy one City Pass Small, which can apply for 1-5 days. With it, you can travel unlimitedly from the airport and in inner Copenhagen, where the symposium will take place.
Symposium fee
The symposium fee is 2500 Danish kroner.
Seminars
Symposium participants can participate in 3 seminars, and registration is required. These are included in the total symposium fee. The deadline for registration for seminars has expired.
Hotel booking
In connection with the Nordic Church Music Symposium, it will be possible to book accommodation at selected hotels in central Copenhagen. Accommodation can be booked in connection with registration or added later. Accommodation can be booked from 18 to 22 September 2024. If other dates are desired, please contact our congress office at reg@meetingplanners.dk
Cancellation of overnight stays can be made until 18 August 2024 for a fee of DKK 350. After this date, refunds will only be made if the room is sold to another party. However, it will be possible to send a colleague if you are unable to participate. Payment is collected at the end of the registration. Payment can be made either via credit card, EAN invoicing or invoice.
Cancellation of an existing booking can be done by sending an e-mail to: reg@meetingplanners.dk
Excursions
The symposium's field trips take place on Thursday 19/9, and the registration deadline has expired. If you are registered, you can find out about the meeting place here.