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The main electronic concert calendar is KultuNaut, including concerts and cultural activities all over Denmark, (use the links in the fact box).
Below you wil find information about the main music societies, music festivals and concert halls in Denmark.

Music Societies
The 150 Music Societies subsidised by Danish Arts Council's Committee for Music host several classical and contemporary concerts every year. (Use the advanced search function for information about the main music societies).

Concert series featuring exclusively contemporary music are arranged by a number of associations:
Fyns Unge Tonekunstnere (FUT)
Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere (AUT)
Nordjyllands Unge Tonekunstnere (NUT)
New Music in Frederikshavn
New Music in Birkerød

A special forum for artistic experiments with sound is the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde.
Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde

Festivals
The main festivals for classical music are:
Bornholm Music Festival
Copenhagen Summer Festival
Esbjerg International Chamber Music Festival
Golden Days of Copenhagen
Oremandsgaard Chamber Music Festival
Schubertiade
Vendsyssel Festival
Aarhus Festival

The most important new music festivals with an international profile are:
Musikhøst (Music Harvest in Odense)
SPOR (Aarhus)
Susaa Festival (Næstved)

Nordic Music Days is a festival organised every second year by the Nordic Composers' Council, and is held in the five Nordic countries by turns. The Nordic Composers' Council has also initiated co-operation between various international festivals, with whom it exchanges concert programmes and ensembles.
Nordic Music Days

The Öresund Biennale Sound Around is a festival for contemporary music in the Öresund Region with Malmö, Helsingborg and Copenhagen as the central points. The festival takes place every second year and is organised by the Danish Composers’ Society and Musik I Syd in collaboration with the music institutions of the Öresund Region. Sound Around is launched for the first time in October 2007.
Sound Around

The Wundergrund festival is a festival with contemporary music as a central stream, but with the main idea to create a framework for collaboration across traditionally separated genres. The festival is organised by The Secretary for Contemporary Music (SNYK).
Wundergrund

A complete list of classical music festivals can be found at the Danish Music Yearbook website.
www.musikinfo.dk

Concert halls and venues 
List of concert halls and venues

August 2007

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Electronic Concert Calendars

KultuNaut

LytNyt
(Contemporary Music Concerts - in Danish)

What's On in Copenhagen

Copenhagen This Week

Alt Om København - AOK (Visiting Copenhagen)

ByenKalder
(in Danish)

Online Ticket Sales

BilletNet

Billetlugen

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