Category: Blog posts

Sometimes you just have to know when to give up. Not every fight is worth fighting. As someone who has struggled with unreasonably high demands on myself pretty much since first grade, this is something I have a regretfully large experience with. Unfortunately, most of that experience is in the form of giving in to… Continue reading Knowing Is Half the Battle

Antonio Vivaldi’s famous set of four violin concertos, each depicting one of the four seasons, doubtlessly rank among the most famous of all ”classical” (though actually Baroque and not Classical) music works. For decades, they have been repeatedly performed, quoted, rearranged, deconstructed and recontextualised. The 20th century saw a rise in the interest in the… Continue reading Le Quattro Stagioni

Today was the first really chaotic traffic day of the season. A modest layer of sleet covered the ground along Sweden’s waistline and, even though this happens every year, still it catches some unfortunate (and some regretfully unattentive) drivers off-guard. From what I saw, at least there were no fatal or other serious accidents. However,… Continue reading The First Sleet

I am incredibly happy and proud to finally reveal the cover art for my new digital single which will be available worldwide within the coming days! Also coming up: an accompanying music video to go with it. This is the cover art for “Lacrimosa”, my composition for violoncello and organ written for, dedicated to and… Continue reading Lacrimosa

This week I am back in Norrbotten, way up in northern Sweden, where I went to college and lived for six years. More than half of Sweden is officially known as the ‘northern’ part, but this truly is the northern part of Sweden. A part of me still feels at home up here, even though… Continue reading Songs about Life and Death

This Thursday evening, if you happen to live in or near to Härnösand in Sweden, you should definitely come to Härnösand Theatre for a full evening of concerts featuring, among other things, the premiere performance of a new musical work by myself and my friend and colleague Jörgen Häll! And believe me, there is plenty… Continue reading Everyone Can Do Something

This autumn is proving to be an exciting and eventful time in my life. Yesterday, I conducted the Härnösand Cathedral Choir for the first time during a Sunday service. Next week, a new work for solo voice and electronics to which I have written the text will be premiered. And three weeks from today I… Continue reading Tears for the Living

As you might have noticed, I posted nothing on my blog last week. Both the two past weeks turned out terribly busy, to the point where I didn’t have the time or the mind to sit down to write even a short post. For shame! I do at least have plenty of exciting things to… Continue reading Now Presenting: One Sweet Suite

Yesterday, the new principal at the community college (folk high school) where I teach quoted an intriguing and thought-provoking phrase in the weekly staff newsletter. He didn’t mention where he had found it or who had coined the phrase, but being the curious person that I am, I quickly started hunting for the quote’s origin.… Continue reading Confused On a Higher Level

Just as I had thought, last week turned out a busy one. Not that my weeks aren’t usually busy; in fact, the opposite tends to be also the exception to the rule. It was however also an exciting week with major progress on my new studio as well as getting back into teaching and choral… Continue reading Stop, Look, Listen