Dream Sequence of an Ancient Forest. Madli Marje Gildemanni albumi esitluskontsert. • Ludensemble kontserdisari

Ludensemble presents the album Dream Sequence of an Ancient Forest, featuring music by composer Madli Marje Gildemann, released in January 2026.

The album brings together works inspired by biological processes, the hidden rhythms of nature, and mythological imagination. Its music draws from the secret life of plants, nocturnal rhythms of the natural world, and the dreamlike realm of the forest, while also engaging with the human-made world and its mythological meanings.

The album presentation concert Dream Sequence of an Ancient Forest invites the listener to slow down and immerse themselves in music as a space where the natural and the human worlds intertwine.

Kadri-Ann Sumera (piano), Madli Marje Gildemann (piano), Taniel Kirikal (overtone singing), Raido Lill (throat singing)

Ludensemble: Maria Luisk (flute), Alexandr Avramenko (clarinet), Kaija Lukas (violin), Elisabeth Härmand (violin), Sandra Klimaitė (viola), Theodor Sink (cello), Regina Udod, Madis Jürgens (double bass), Kärt Ruubel (piano), Maarja Nuut, Tiit Joamets (percussion)
Conductor: Kaspar Mänd

Madli Marje Gildemann’s music is inspired and shaped by her interest in biological processes and natural phenomena. It emerges from an effort to make these processes perceptible through sound, creating distinctive sonic landscapes. She has written music for ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, the Adelphi String Quartet, Pärnu City Orchestra, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, Ensemble 21, Estonian Percussion Group, The Mondrian Ensemble, Ensemble Synaesthesis, Sinfonietta Rīga, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, and Ensemble U:, among many others.

In 2022, Gildemann was awarded second prize in the under-30 category at the International Rostrum of Composers in Palermo, Sicily, for her work Transpiration. In 2023, she received the ISCM Young Composer Award in Cape Town, South Africa, for Osmosis, which was performed at the ISCM World New Music Days. That same year, Transpirationwas nominated for the Prince Pierre of Monaco Music Award. In 2024, she received the LHV New Composition Award (Special Prize) for Nocturnal Migrants—one of Estonia’s most significant contemporary music honors, recognizing world premieres of exceptional artistic quality with international potential.

Gildemann’s music has been performed at numerous festivals, including ORF Musikprotokoll, the Lucerne Festival, Bern Music Festival, Estonian Music Days, Baltic Music Days, ISCM World New Music Days (in Estonia and South Africa), the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Al(t)chemie Festival, Classical:NEXT Showcase, and the Afekt Festival.