Thank you Svensk Musikvår and Stockholm Cathedral parish
THANK YOU ALL for a magnificent concert! Mattias Wager, Anne Pajunen, Andres Åstrand, Helene Stureborg, Stockholm cathedral chamber choir – so happy to have all you musical, creative stars around me:) The concert included the world premiere of my (no longer latest) choir piece Den äng som höljts at Svensk Musikvår festival, (read about all concerts in the link! Amazing festival!!) in this concert presenting my music side by side with dear colleague Agneta Sköld who gave us the beautiful, well-sounding Maria suite, with great S:t Jacobs chamber choir led by Gary Graden.
Choir, organ, percussion, impro, a little Shakespeare […]
Spår vägar world premiere
WE DID IT!
THANK YOU all who brought my credo Spår vägar to reality!
Lene Juhl, Ingar Bergby, Katie Harrison Thomas, Samuel Eriksson, Gothenburg symphony vocal ensemble, Gothenburg orchestra, co-lyricist (prologue translation to Dari) Ahad Sadeghi, Gothenburg symphony orchestra.
YOU ARE ALL STARS!
A musical celebration of Gothenburg 400 years, side by side with dear colleague Klas Torstensson.
World premiere of Spår vägar.
A vocal symphony in precarious times for
vocal ensemble, orchestra, organ and video art.
Commissioned by Gothenburg symphony orchestra.
First performances December 14 and 15 2023, Gothenburg concert hall
Idea, libretto and music: Paula af Malmborg Ward
Video design: Lene Juhl
Gothenburg symphony vocal ensemble
Gothenburg symphony orchestra
Organ: Samuel Eriksson
Choir […]
Article on Spår vägar
Read Kjell-Åke Hanssons article about my work in the magazine Podiet.
Welcome to Gothenburg Concert Hall!
NB Photo by Francis Löwenholm
Opera magazine highlighting Mytomania
Mytomania on the front page of the Swedish magazine Opera, also with a great review.
Kerstin Perski and I are happy that the piece landed well.
We continue trying to make Mytomania fly over the borders…
MYTOMANIA SUCCESSFULLY PREMIERED
Finally, it happened! Kerstin Perski´s and my Mytomania became reality! Thank you all wonderful people involved: Soloists Kerstin Avemo, Joachim Bäckström, Åke Zetterström, Anki Jones, Matilda Paulsson. Gothenburg opera´s outstanding choir and orchestra. Stage musicians Anna Svensdotter, Kerstin Andersson, Gunnar Vallin, Viveca Rydén Mårtensson, Michael Sikich, Michael Andersson. Conductor Andreas Hanson, choir masters Martin Nagashima Toft and Bernard Greter. Repetiteur Karin Holm. Director Clara Svärd, stage and costume designer Maria Feinsilber, light designer Anna Wemmert. The fantastic behind the-stage-people…and all of you at the Gothenburg Opera who made our piece come through. Special thanks to Stephen Langridge for commissioning the […]
In time, world premiere at festival OrganSpace in Stockholm
The festival OrganSpace is over. Thank you dear organists Hanne Kuhlmann (DK) and Sarah Kim (FRA) who performed In time for the first time – beautifully! It was a pleasure meeting you, and I look forward to make new sounds together soon!
In time was commissioned by Swedish Radio P2 for OrganSpace, the international venue collecting organists from all over the world for some days in the world’s most beautiful capitol – Stockholm.
My organ mentor Ligita Sneibe stood by me in the creation of the piece, for which I am very grateful.
Swedish Radio P2 will broadcast the concerts; TBA
