I´m so proud of this Linnet Bird. She makes the audiens cry and they saluted her with a standing ovation!! She´s so worth it!
Myrra Malmberg
August 29th, 2011Conducting Gävle Symphony Orchestra
August 28th, 2011
Yesterday I conducted the wonderful Gävle Symphony Orchestra in a program that included composers like Korngold, Bernstein, Sondheim & Morricone. Music from film and theatre. Unique soprano, Myrra Malmberg, sang as butiful as ever!
Earlier this week I conducted and produced a Christmas album with the same orchestra together with swedish singer Jill Johnson. The album is exclusivly produced for Childhood Foundation.
Break the Spell
July 1st, 2011
This was the day when Björn completed the vocals on the forthcoming album and I must say that it has been a true pleasure working with him. He sings his heart out!!! Jörgen (to the left) wrote all the songs and together we have produced the album. The first singel, “Break the Spell” will be released on august, 15.
Commisioned a piece for Anders Wall
March 21st, 2011
Tomorrow I will start to wright an orchestra piece to honor Anders Wall on his 80th anniversary. The piece will have it´s world premiere on a special concert later on this year. I imagine a worthy and joyous piece.
Philomene at the concert
March 20th, 2011
The host at the Big Bang Concert was the wonderful actress Philomene Grandin (Philofix from Bolibompa) who guided the children through the concert amazingly well. Here you can see her in her space suit from “Vid Vintergatans Slut” together with kids from Djurgårdsskolan. Let´s do it again!!!
World Premiere of “De Ondas Svit” from the TV-series “Vintergatan”
March 18th, 2011
I forgot to mention that I conducted the world premiere, at the Big Bang Consert, of my own piece “De Ondas Svit” which is a suit based on the “dark themes” from the TV-series “Vid Vintergatans Slut”(The end of the Milky Way) that I scored last year for Malmö Symphony Orchestra. “Vid Vintergatans Slut” has been one of the most popular TV-series for children in Sweden and it´s was actually the first time I conducted a piece that I had been written myself. It felt great and I hope I´d get the chance to do it again soon. I keep my fingers crossed that I will be able to conduct the two orchestra piece that I just been commisioned to wright.
Conducting The Swedish Wind Ensemble
March 18th, 2011
Today I have completed a very successful series of concerts with The Swedish Wind Ensemble. The concerts were titled “Big Bang” and the repertoire were inspired by planets and space in different ways. The main audiens were kids between 7-10 at it sure looked like they had a god time. We also had a couple of school classes that attended on stage singing and reading their own poems inspired of the above mentioned theme. During the concert we showed their great paintings on a big screen while we played Gustav Holt´s Mars and Jupiter. To offer the children some contemporay music we played Molly Keins 134340 Pluto and Thérèse Brenets 5523 Luminet 1991 PH8. Together with Star Wars Saga and the main theme from Star Trek we created a great blend of different music styles. The Concerts were held at Nybrokajen 11 in Stockholm. I love this orchestra and I hope I will be back soon for another production.
At rehearsals
March 10th, 2011
Next week I will conduct The Swedish Wind Ensemble in a series of conserts for children. Here I am in action at the last rehearsal in this very old concert hall called Nybrokajen 11. From April 1 this wonderful orchestra will move in here permanently and that was about time because they have been struggling for many years without a “real” home.
World premiere – Shades of Green, Shades of Red
October 7th, 2010
Here am I together with Maestro Henrik Schaefer after the consert in Karlstad on Octorber 7, 2010.
It was a wonderful consert with my new piece “Shades of Green, Shades of Red”, plus music from Wagner’s “Tristan & Isolde” and Bruckner’s 5th symphony.
“Shades of Green, Shades of Red” is a comment on the 1986 pollution disaster in the Rhine River when the pollutants turned the river red. It is very sad to see history repeating itself in Hungary and the Donau at the same time my piece is being premiered.
Below you can see the text that I wrote about my piece for the consert programme. An english translation will be made soon!
“Håll hårt, annars flyr jag” - sjunger Wellgunde, en av två Rhendöttrar, då hon och hennes syster träffar på Nibelungen Alberich nere i flodens djup. Citatet är hämtat ur Wagners Rhenguldet och har varit den givna utgångspunkten för detta beställningsverk. Scenen är lekfull men har en allvarlig underton, som har gett upphov till mina nyckelord: okänd, farlig, slipprig, rinnande, bubblande samt en återkommande tanke om långsamma undervattensrörelser. Jag ville komponera ett stycke där betraktaren, direkt vid styckets start, dras med i en undervattensresa ner i det okända, för att där upptäcka en mystisk och mytomspunnen värld full av liv.
Styckets tidsaxel motsvarar inte bara jordens evolution utan även hur vi människor på extremt kort tid lyckats med konststycket att ta död på nästan allt liv.
En gång i tiden var floden Rhen full av liv. fiskar, växter, organismer, ja, till och med Rhendöttrar. I dag är floden mer eller mindre död efter ett giftigt utsläpp 1986 som färgade hela floden röd(därav verkets titel). Mitt stycke ska därmed ses som ett inlägg i den allmänna miljödebatten som för tillfället, enligt mitt tycke, avstannat kraftigt.
För att hitta musikaliska byggstenar till mitt verk så återvände jag till det ursprungliga citatet och fann då tonerna C#,D,F# och G och kände att dessa element skulle kunna fungera som grund för styckets “DNA” både melodiskt och harmoniskt.Tonmaterialet utökas sedan i takt med föroreningarna. När väl tungmetallerna, i form av det “öppna” brasset gör entré kan det bara sluta på ett sätt.
www.vf.se/kultur-noje/kultur/innehallsrik-nykomposition
www.vf.se/kultur-noje/kultur/han-hyllar-wagner
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=3721&artikel=4079314
Shades of Green, Shades of Red – rehearsals
October 6th, 2010
Wonderful conductor Henrik Schaefer while rehearsing my new piece for symphony orchestra.
The piece was commisioned by VärmlandsOperans Sinfonietta and Dalasinfoniettan.
World premiere will be tomorrow and I´m very excited so far.