Month: April 2022

Still a little tired after Saturday’s marathon working with this year’s edition of the local contemporary music festival Nymus Live in Härnösand. Weeks of preparation paid off handsomely in the form of a diverse, all-day programme with no less six concerts featuring various flavours of contemporary music. The afternoon started off with a kind of… Continue reading In the Service of Music

I admire musicians who not only work in different genres and settings but also relish and even excel in them. That is just the kind of musician I myself strive to be, as well. I suppose it relates to my belief that it makes more sense to look at how different kinds of music relate… Continue reading More than Two Sides

Re-orchestrating or re-arranging music from one instrumental setting to another is an interesting job that presents slightly different challenges than simply writing a brand new piece of music for a particular set of instruments. On the one hand, you have the existing music that is (presumably) written with the particular requirements, possibilities and of course… Continue reading Don’t Despair, My Would-Be Juliet