New album ”Pållans låtar” recorded!
Wow! Another glimmering week in Studio Epidemin with the musical friends in my dreams. In reality:) Per Strandberg g/voc, Olle Linder b/voc/perc, Ossian Ward dr/voc/perc, Peter Noos Johansson tbn, Martin Bjurek Svanström/Urban Ward sxs, Vanessa Liftig/Emil Besslinger voc, Ludvig Ward synt/mix, Johannes Lundberg b/voc/recording producer. 18 more songs from the 80´s recorded for Imogena Records. Looking forward to our release in Stockholm 17 December. More info to come. Photos include a nice review from the first album…hope to keep it up even this time:)
New CD´s with choir music
Two beautiful new CDs with choir music: 1) Erik Westbergs Vokalensemble ”The cloud of unknowing”. Humble to find my ”Sunplay – 55 bars before dusk” among brilliant colleagues as Carl Unander Scharin, Andrea Tarrodi, Jan Sandström, Brett Dean and Fredrik Högberg.
2) ”Et in terra…” Vokalensemblen Sundbyberg, cond. Rikard Lindberg Karlsson. Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Kjell Perder, Staffan Isbäck, Emil Råberg, David Åberg and myself. Thank you Erik, Rikard, and wonderful singers for your sensitive and intelligent work.
New release on Edition Skellton
New release on Edition Skellton:
”Growing, coming, filling up” for Soprano saxophone. Dedicated to and commissioned by Anders Paulsson, within his solo Youtube project
”Solitary poems”
Vädret (The weather) – first performance
Finally! ”Vädret” in concert 30/8 Ödsmål church. A special, ”taylor-made” commission for wonderful Chalmus music week in Ljungskile. Mixed choir, recitation, piano and ping pong balls. Base on a prosa poem by Thomas Tidholm. Thank you all wonderful people who made this pice come alive. A special thanks to Thomas Tidholm, who read his own beautiful text in the church’s loudspeakers.
Choir from Chalmus Music week
Thomas Tidholm, recitation
Anna Brolin, piano
Conductor: Erik Westberg
Sjungande barn – Singing children
Grateful and honored to be a part of a most important project:
Composing music literally for the future: Our children.
A grand collaboration with The royal academy of Music, Swedish Society of composers, Folkoperan, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet. Adolf Fredriks Musikklasser among others. Lead by amazing project leader Jörgen Petterson, one of Swedens most important ambassadeur for making new music among with and for children and with and for adults. For people. For all of us.
My contribution to the project is a song alled ”Som solen och månen” (As the sun and the moon), which I created from verses […]
Coming CD Releases
Vocal music in my heart.
CD releases:
14/6 ”Som en skatt” on the CD ”Et in terra” (Swedish Society/Naxos) with Vokalensemblen i Sundbyberg
1/9 ”Solspel” on the CD ”The cloud on unknowing” (Naxos) with Erik Westbergs vokalensemble