Dear friends,
2025 was a really busy year for me. I composed the score for DR1’s TV series Generations; performed in a new opera as the only non-opera singer as we toured around Denmark; released the album WHAT TIES US TOGETHER WILL KEEP US APART; composed and recorded another score with Silas Tinglef for an upcoming documentary about midwives airing on TV2 in Spring 2026; toured with my incredible band in Denmark last fall, followed by a tour with my trio in China (what an experience!); and am working on a upcoming project that I will reveal more about shortly (I’m very excited and a bit nervous about this one).
I’m grateful for my life and music, my family and friends, my colleagues and collaborators, and all the privileges I can take for granted in the part of the world I have been lucky to be born into.
I hope that we all, in the upcoming year, on all platforms, online as in real life, will become better at listening to each other, even when we disagree. Globally, this past year was full of horrendous events. The tragic slaughter in Gaza, the continuing wars in Ukraine and Sudan, and just watching with sheer dread as the new American government rampages and rolls back civil rights – things that we thought we could take for granted in our day and age. Banning books and closing educational institutions.
In a highly polarized time, however, it is easy to divide with your own kind and get stuck in echo chambers with people who share your views. We need to meet each other with love and embrace each other’s differences. It is easy to be afraid of what we do not immediately understand. My hope for this year is that we will all try a little harder to open up our minds and see what is to be found. It takes a lot of love and forgiveness to heal this mess we are in. Thanks to all those who are trying!
Right now I’m trying to catch my breath and am looking forward to what’s ahead.
If you would like to hear me sing, January brings many opportunities.
I will be a guest at BAAL’s Baalorama extravaganza and will play six shows across Denmark, alongside Bjørn Fjæstad, Steen Jørgensen, Dicte, and Sebastian Wolff.
I will also perform in a great celebration of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys in DR’s concert hall on the 13th and 14th of January. I think one of the shows is already sold out.
https://www.drkoncerthuset.dk/kalender/2026/en-hyldestkoncert-til-brian-wilson-beach-boys/#flere
Also, I will sing some of the great love songs of jazz with Ålborg’s Symphony Orchestra in Musikkens hus in Ålborg on the 31st of January!
https://musikkenshus.dk/great-love-songs-of-jazz
And then I am looking so much forward to my own trio tour around some of Denmark’s historic museums and churches in March. Make sure that you buy your tickets soon. Glyptoteket has sold out the first show, and the second is selling out fast.
https://kin.dk/kira_skov_2026/
I send you all my warmest wishes and love, and hope to see you in 2026.
Kira Skov