Published IEI – Interpret, Express and Interact! for any wind instrument and optional non pitched percussion at scribd.com in the open scores collection. IEI –

This summer I wrote an organ piece to the swedish organist Larsåke Sjöstedt. My idea was right from the start to deal with the issue of ethnic and cultural openness. As I was working with the piece the topic of racism and ethnic discrimination (again) came into the spotlight in a major way with the [...]

Today I went to Copenhagen for a rehearsal with Magnus Hjorth Trio, which is a young and brilliant jazz piano trio. The rehearsal was in preparation for a concert next week, with five new pieces premiered of which I have written one. The project presented in the concert is an interesting inter-genre cooperation, where five contemporary [...]

Last month a new piece for string quartet and percussion was premiered at a festival/workshop-week in Lithuania. The process behind the work was somewhat unusual for my part. I actually made the first sketches for the piece a few years back. When Bo Håkansson requested a piece for that very setting I took the opportinuty [...]

Today Sarah Nichols plays my piece Strings, Skins and Wood for harp and percussion on her final bachelor exam in Schonbergzaal, Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag. The piece was previously premiered by Duo Harpverk. Sadly contemporary art music normally doesn’t get many performances especially not by various performers, so it is very exciting and somewhat unusual experience [...]

If you visited this blog before you may have read about my ideas for a cello and marimba piece, here. Since then I have done several attempts, but I never have been totally pleased with the result. But now on my third version it actually seems that I’ve done something that I can put out [...]

Today Duo Harpverk (harp and percussion) starts a tour in Europe with a performance in the Icelandic Music Days at the Blue Note of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Included in the program is my piece written for them Strings, Skins and Wood.

I ‘ve got great response so far on the piece I’m doing for Ensemble for New Music (ENM) – TheMusArt, premiere in the beginning of next year. Yesterday we briefly tried out the beginning of the piece. “TheMusArt” stands for Theater, Music and Art, and the piece constitutes of 36 sections whereof less than half [...]

It seems that quite a few of my latest projects have involved ideas about openness and tolerance; which always is an important and current topic. On sunday one of the most distinct examples of this idea have its premiere – Mental Journey, written for ContemporarY Ensemble. It features strong influences from different parts of contemporary [...]

I have found some inspiration for the instrumentation of Old Snow from the distant 20th century; I have decided to use the same setup as Boulez in Le marteau sans maître. Some of you may not agree with me that Boulez famous work is an “old” masterpiece (some may not even consider it a masterpiece), [...]