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Here you will find selected works and organ improvisations by me!
For a complete list of compositions, see "Works".
Force majeure - Formation - Ouvertyr
for large symphonic orchestra was composed during the autumn of 2018 and had it's premiere November 23 2018 at The King's Hall, KMH, Stockholm with KMH Symphony orchestra and Felix Bagge, conductor.
Duration is approximately 12 minutes and the piece starts with the conductor leaving the stage. The first movement, Force majeure, is an improvisation for large orchestra which is, relating to the title, "out of control".
The second movement, Formation, takes the material which has been "thrown out" in space and organizes it, shapes it, gradually to something percievable, something which is not chaos: three ascending pitches which becomes a sort of theme.
The final movement, Ouvertyr, is a coda which brings the newly born theme to the "next level", transforming it from a melodic theme to texture which creating an exit from the music yet an introduction (ouverture) to non-musical time.
Temporary crumhorn
blossoming in spacetime
flowers like frost
This piece, for ensemble, was commissioned by Norrbotten music and premiered in 2022. Listen here to a live recording with the internationally acclaimed ensemble neo :
Reassemblance for organ and percussion
Reassemblance for organ and percussion was composed during the winter of 2024. The piece aims to merge the two instruments, organ and percussion, into one instrument. One person in the audience called it "an acoustic electroacoustic piece". I premiered together with Alexandru Monteanu (percussion) at the festival Svensk Musikvår 2024.
Organ improvisation: Jacob's ladder
This improvisation was created at a recital the 17th of may 2024 in St. James church, Stockholm, Sweden. There are two major themes: a duality (in it's simplest form - a trill) and the image of a ladder to...somewhere :)
Variationer över BÄCK/
Variations on BÄCK for piano quartett was composed in 2019. It was premiered May 27, 2019 at Edsbergs Castle, Stockholm, with Siiri Alanko (violin) Saara Kurki (viola) Daniel Thorell (violoncello) and Joakim Martinsen (piano).
Sven-Erik Bäck (1919-1994) was a Swedish violinist and composer. He was also during a period the director of studies at the Swedish Radio school of music, at Edsberg, and he played an important role for the art music in Sweden during the 20th century.
Composed in 2019, 100-years after his birth, this piece is built around spectral variations on the two contrasting events in his name: "BÄ-CK". The piece explores the becoming of a musical form through the repetition and time-stretching of those two events and, further, the aftermath or sedimentation which is the result.
Organ improvisation on Star Wars and Zelda
And now to something completely different! Here we have nothing more (or less) then the main theme from Star Wars and a bit of music from Zelda- Temple of Time going through impressionistic treatment during a concert on the Ruffatti organ of Uppsala Cathedral, a few years back.
Improvisation with sounds
An improvisation made in July 2019 on the beautiful Swedish romantic organ by Åkerman & Lund in Alunda kyrka. This improvsation explores the thousands of timbres and sounds which can be discovered in the organ by manipulating the airflow to each pipe: from the very faint noise of air going through the blower all the way up to a "fragile" tutti. Turn up the volume and close you eyes!
"I think over again
My small adventures
My fears
Those small ones that seemed so big
For all the vital things
I had to get and to reach
And yet there is only one great thing
The only thing
To live to see the great day that dawns
And the light that fills the world."
This anonymous
poem, said to be of Eskimo-origin, inspired me to compose this "spring music" which is very much about the sensation of being washed in sound which in this piece "fills the world".
O, Viola Riviniana for double choir was composed in 2016 and is dedicated to my mother. The first performance toke place the 24th of April 2017at Kungasalen KMH, Stockholm.
KMH Kammarkör and KMH Vokalensemble
were conducted by Tove Åhrman.
