Category: Blog posts

For me, just like for many other homeowners, summer is a time for doing renovations, particularly outside. This summer, I’m working on a substantial section of the house wall, changing out both the siding as well as the inner structure where it has suffered from the elements. Fortunately, I have good friends to help me… Continue reading Home Improvement

It’s tremendously valuable for a composer to have performers, conductors, interpreters who like your music, who not only perform or even commission pieces from you, but who actively like it. It is even better when those good ambassadors are also great people. I have had the pleasure and privilege to get to meet and work… Continue reading Good Ambassadors

Tomorrow, the ensemble that I recorded three of my choral works with earlier this year is giving a concert in lovely Arnäs Church, north of Örnsköldsvik. Come listen to a delightful programme, including the first performance of my motet Pie pellicane, Jesu Domine! At the recording session, I sat with the audio engineer as a… Continue reading Ready for Prime-Time

I read an article about contemporary literary critique last week in one of Sweden’s major newspapers. The article, which also reflected on other recent opinions on the topic, set me on an unexpected trail of reading and discovery. The article centred on whether critics should consider their emotional responses to what they were reviewing. The… Continue reading Best of Both Worlds

Hot on the heels of the success of my short story opera, The Loving Mother, comes two new digital single releases next week on several major worldwide streaming services, with a third single to come later this summer! The digital releases next week coincide with Nordic music publisher Gehrmans releasing the scores for both works… Continue reading Pathway to Heaven

They are indeed, and I’m thrilled that they are in fact rather good. Sweden’s two major newspapers both reviewed Short Stories V after the premiere last Thursday and both had positive opinions about my contribution, The Loving Mother. Writing for Svenska Dagbladet, Bo Löfvendahl writes that, having watched all five editions of Short Stories, “this… Continue reading Reviews Are In

Well over a year after I had my first meetings with my librettist, the time has finally come for the premiere of my short story opera, The Loving Mother. My year got off to a rough start – that also ended up having an unexpectedly long tail – so it feels especially rewarding now to… Continue reading Opening Night

I think it is a gross overstatement when some people claim that nothing ever goes as planned. However, when some things inevitably do not go as planned, it can indeed interrupt your life to an unexpected degree. Once again, my blog has gone silent for longer than I had planned. Without going too far into… Continue reading A Disturbance in the Force

…the end of the year is approaching. Looking back, as we tend to do as some things end and others begin, it has been an interesting year with some real musical highlights. In hindsight, I’m not sure if 2024 has been one of my most exciting years yet, as I wrote here on New Year’s… Continue reading It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like

I had the great pleasure this past weekend to perform in two different Swedish Christmas Oratorios: one on Saturday, in Ösmo Church south of Stockholm, the other back home in Härnösand Cathedral. The two concerts were separated by more than 500 kilometres geographically, and the two musical works were separated chronologically by almost 90 years.… Continue reading One Weekend, Two Oratorios