APOLLO – SONGWRITER & MUSIC CREATOR NETWORK 2025
AUTUMN 2025
Apollo is a network for songwriters, producers, and composers, where everyone is welcome – regardless of genre or experience level. The purpose of the network is to create a committed community that uplifts, develops, and inspires its participants across backgrounds and styles.
Host and facilitator of Apollo is musician/songwriter Marc Facchini, who has been active since 2010 as a touring, recording, and performing artist – both in bands and as a solo artist. Today, Marc works primarily as a solo musician, educator, and facilitator, including at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen.
The Apollo network will meet six times during the fall of 2025. Four of the sessions will be facilitated by Marc, while two will feature guest speakers who will give an inspirational talk and a writing assignment. In the past, guests have included Ammar808, Karoline Skriver, and Nanna Bech.
Each session is centered around professional discussion, feedback rounds, and shared meals. Participants are expected to bring a piece of music in progress to each session. In small groups, participants present their work and receive tailored feedback. We acknowledge that sharing your art and receiving feedback can feel vulnerable, and we take great care to create a respectful and supportive environment.
In addition to fostering music and songwriting, Apollo also offers a warm and welcoming community where participants can exchange experiences from across the music industry. Both Marc, AUTOR, and turkis are looking forward to building new connections and welcoming a fresh group into this informal and creative space.
Apollo is open to 20 participants. In the selection process, we aim to ensure as much diversity as possible – in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, genre, and experience level.
MEETING DATES
➤ Wednesday, September 24
➤ Wednesday, October 8
➤ Wednesday, October 22 (with Katrine Stochholm)
➤ Thursday, October 30
➤ Thursday, November 13 (with Johannes Smed)
➤ Wednesday, November 19
PROGRAM
➤ 16:00 – Arrival
➤ 16:15 – Group forum (facilitated by Marc Facchini)
➤ 16:45 – Listening sessions in smaller groups
➤ 19:15 – Dinner
➤ 20:15 – Goodbye for now
VENUE
turkis, Vester Allé 15, 8000 Aarhus C
Please note: parking is limited.
Contact mie@detturkisetelt.dk in advance if you need a parking spot.
REGISTRATION AND WAITLIST
By signing up, you commit to attending all five facilitated sessions and to bringing a newly written piece of music to each meeting.
The full program costs 300 DKK, which includes dinner and coffee/tea.
Please note: filling out the form does not guarantee a spot.
The deadline for registration is Wednesday, September 3, and participants will be notified by Tuesday, September 9 at the latest.
Sign up here:
https://forms.gle/wAGWX8R7nazTdf3A9
CONTACT
If you have questions about turkis or registration, contact: mie@detturkisetelt.dk
If you have questions about the teaching or program, contact: marc@marcfacchini.dk
If you have questions about AUTOR, contact: clara@autor.dk
Photo by Amalie from the first Apollo 2023 edition
The project is initiated by AUTOR and supported by Koda Kultur.
KATRINE STOCHHOLM
As a composer, pianist, and co-founder of the band Under Byen, Katrine Stochholm gained major international recognition around the turn of the millennium with her groundbreaking Danish-language songs. Under Byen is regarded as one of the most innovative Danish bands of all time, and as a central member, Katrine helped create three epoch-making and highly acclaimed albums.
Katrine Stochholm is now once again in the spotlight with her third solo album BARNDOMMENS GADE, released on March 8 this year. The album sets Tove Ditlevsen’s poems to music in a vivid, moving, and poetic collection of songs. It received, among other praise, five stars in GAFFA, who described it as “successful, dreamy, impressionistic, and melancholic,” highlighting Katrine as a brave artist and songwriter with a strong melodic sensibility.
Katrine’s artistic practice spans songwriting, live performances, poetry, prose, and sound production.
She holds a degree as a rhythmic composer from the soloist class at the conservatory, where she also teaches songwriting, among other subjects.
JOHANNES SMED: STRENGTHEN YOUR PERSONAL EXPRESSION
Presented by Skabertrang Aarhus x Apollo
Johannes Smed’s workshop focuses on your music, your personal expression, your productions, your songs, your processes, and your artistic potential. The workshop offers practical and concrete artistic input and methods to strengthen your personal project, your expression, your musical identity, your productions, your songs, and your music – to help you move forward in your artistic development.
Participants are asked to bring one of their own compositions, which Johannes will work with. Together, we will explore ways to unfold and amplify the personal expression within the piece.
So bring one of your songs, either live or from a DAW on your computer.
Important! If you wish to have one of your songs/compositions worked on by Johannes Smed, you must contact coordinator Jakob Alsbjerg in advance at: jakobaalsbjerg@gmail.com
Johannes Smed is an experienced teacher, sound creator, guitarist, songwriter, producer, composer, and experimentalist. He works across genres and styles, with a particular focus on personal expression. Johannes teaches the development of personal artistic expression at various music education institutions in Denmark. He is also head lecturer in Electronic Music and Sound Art at the University of Southern Denmark’s Conservatory of Music and teaches songwriting and ensemble playing at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus.
He has produced for a wide range of acts in Denmark and composed music for Reumert-nominated productions at Aarhus Teater, Aalborg Teater, Odense Teater, among others.
Learn more at JohannesSmed.com
