Sjung för livet!
I have been conducting choirs since 2011, when a long period of intense watching gave way for active performances. The autodidactic learning had started long time earlier but from the moment of my first conducting project, it has accelerated continuously in intensity and depth. Training conducting means often practicing a musical art without access to an instrument or other musicians. To do it anyway requires some craziness and the pleasure to try out new approaches. The determination and focus of this long-term project has become an enormous enrichment of my life. Today I feel priviledged to have found a place where my passion for conducting can make a contribution beyond music and where I am free to shape projects and choir concerts in entirely new ways, emerged in a group of wonderful, creative people. A warm thank you to all of you who have supported me along the way and who still do.
Since fall 2022, I am working on a program focussing on on human traces in history, our souls and planet earh. We shall present it on multiple sites, if covid rules allow. More details here:
anima nordica kammarkör:
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Project-based chamber choir "anima nordica" for contemporary, predominantly Swedish, a-cappella music.
Running march - june. More details here
"Norden Runt" - open project choir for Scandinavian and Baltic choral music in Dresden-Blasewitz.
Running august-november. More details here
Some, information, thoughts and media from former projects and performances can be found here.
Enthusiastic audience again in our three concerts in Dresden at Heilig-Geist-Kirche, Christuskirche Strehlen and Betlehemkirche Tolkewitz. We collected >2000 Euro for charity.
Contemporary swedish a-cappella music perfomed in two concerts in Dresden. We collected >1800 Euro for charity.
We ended up as a group of singers with 7 nationalities who performed a 1-hour a-cappella program in 9 languages. We had our concerts at Heilig-Geist-Kirche Blasewitz and Himmelfahrtskirche Leuben for 700 enthusiastic listeners and collected more than 3000 Euro for charity. This was so much fun that this project will be continued. Stay tuned...
I only organized this concert. Conducted only one piece in the performance for fun.
Directing 1 piece as my farewell to the choir.
As a part of my thesis work, I did video studies of other conductors to analyze what I could learn from imitating their conducting movements. The answer: A gorgeous lot! It was enlightening but much harder than what I could imagine. One fun result of this work is the following > video (P. S.: My conducting is done from memory and without visual guidance)
We performed a very appreciated 10-minute program with title "Det brinner en eld" ("a fire is burning")
Program "P4 Förmiddag" with Hasse Andersson. We performed 5 songs live and got interviewed about the music.
Program "Radiohuset" with Hasse Andersson. We performed 4 songs live and got interviewed about the choir and the upcoming christmas concerts.
One week on the topics "less is more" and "which conducting cues are really necessary"?
Special focus on choir acoustic.
Concert in the beautiful theatre "Aftonstjärnan", Göteborg
Rehearsals and recording sessions during student choir summer break
Chalmers Kammarkör, autumn concert
Chalmers Sommarkör 2011