For one month, we stayed with Yannis Zhang and Yumo Wu (collaborators from our Iceland project) in their studio in Beijing. Following that, we moved on to Chongqing for a residency at Dimensions Art Center.

We have been planning our Asia tour for more than a year, and ended up scheduling a hectic but rewarding series of universities engagements and performances. After a year focusing on the Nordic countries, we felt like it was time to challenge ourselves and change continents.

Our Nordic Project took us to Denmark, Iceland, Finland (twice), Norway (twice), Sweden, and the Faroe Islands. We were able to premiere works by nine composers and perform at the Summartónar Festival (FO) and Dark Music Days (IS). Hafdís Bjarnadottír wrote us a piece called A Northern Year - we think it’s also a perfect title for our journey. Here are some of the highlights from each stop.

Passepartout Duo just finished a 2-week-long artist residency in Åland Islands, at the Eckerö Post and Customs House. Åland is an archipelago/autonomous Finnish region in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland.

Passepartout Duo's residency in Iceland lasted 9 weeks and we can assure you, none of them were boring. All of them were snowy. In the small fishing town of Ólafsfjörður (population 800), we ended up accomplishing so much more than anticipated.