This past Sunday I participated in the last concert of the Stockholm International Composer Festival dedicated to Thea Musgrave. It was an amazing and impressive chamber concert with Musgrave music from the 1950s undtil today.
I sang  A song for Christmas (to poems by William Dunbar) with brilliant pianist Stefan Lindgren. This song was composed during the late 1950s and is wonderfully built on twelve-tone technique.
Together with Nicholas Daniel (oboe d'amore) and Pascal Siffert (viola) I performed Snow to poems by Isaac Rosenberg. This piece was composed 2010 and the three melody lines are closely and beautifully entwined!

I want to give my warmest thanks to Norrköpings Symfoniorkester, to conductor Dalia Stasevska, to Stockholms Konserthus/Stockholm Concert Hall, to Stefan Lindgren, Pascal Siffert and Nicholas Daniel, and of course to Thea Musgrave for a wonderful production week during the Composer Festival 2018. It has been an honor!

It's a great honor to perform during the Stockholm International Composer Festival, and to get to know, to meet and to work with the composer Thea Musgrave herself! Yesterday I performed her Songs for a Winter's Evening to poems by Robert Burns, with Norrköpings Symfoniorkester conducted by Dalia Stasevska. These songs are painting the love of a young girl, then the journey through life and end in the love of the mature and wise woman. It has been fantastic to learn these songs and to be a part of the magnificent tonal landscape of Thea's!

It's such a privilege to sing the magnificent music of Thea Musgrave! Today we continued to rehearse Songs for a Winter's Evening (to poems by Robert Burns) with Norrköpings Symfoniorkester conducted by Dalia Stasevska! Later on I went from Norrköping to Stockholm to meet with Thea Musgrave and as well with Nicholas Daniel (oboe d'amore) and Pascal Siffert (viola) to go through the piece Snow to poems by Isaac Rosenberg.
Tomorrow we'll do an open dress rehearsal of the program for Friday night. For more information please visit:
Norrköpings Symfoniorkester

Today I got to meet wonderful Thea Musgrave for the first time! I had a great moment with her and her husband Peter Mark going through some of the music for the upcoming concerts this week. I am performing at the Composer Festival at the Stockholm Concert Hall, and the spotlight is on Thea Musgrave and her amazing music.
Pianist Stefan Lindgren and I will do one of the songs for the Sunday concert; A Song for Christmas!

I have really enjoyed these last days singing amazing jazz music from the 1960s! I got the chance to sing once more the beautiful piece Ljus tungt som bly by Jan Johansson (lyrics by Elisabet Hermodsson). The last time was during Östersjöfestivalen in August. During these new concerts with Radiojazzgruppen I also performed the piece Intermittent meditation över Dr Martin Luther King Jr by Georg Riedel.
Last night we did the final Jan Johansson Tribute concert at Uppsala Konsert & Kongress. Thank you all involved in this project! Thanks to all wonderful co-musicians, and special greetings to Georg Riedel (conductor and producer) and Lennart Åberg (producer).

What a great night yesterday at Fasching Jazz Club, Stockholm! The greatest co-musicians in Radiojazzgruppen conducted by Georg Riedel, a wonderful audience and a warm and inspiring atmosphere!
I am so proud to sing with Radiojazzgruppen again. Last time was during Östersjöfestivalen at Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, in August. During these new concerts I sing of course music by Jan Johansson, but also music by Georg Riedel!
Tonight we'll do this fantastic concert at Uppsala Konsert & Kongress.

I am rejoicing in the light. The light and the love are so much stronger than the darkness!
During these days of All Saints and days of All Souls, we light candles and focus on good memories and the love to one another. It's a great thing for me to honor all this by music and through my voice.
So, thank you Essinge kyrka, Essinge Kammarkör, conductor Espen Myklebust Olsen and Tobias Ringborg (violin) for a soulful and beautiful evening, with music by Ivar Widéen and Gabriel Fauré, among others.

May eternal light shine upon them...
Soulful music through Requiem by W A Mozart in memoriam of our beloved ones.

Thanks to all performing the Requiem yesterday in Uppenbarelsekyrkan, Saltsjöbaden!

Maria Sanner, alto
Thomas Volle, tenor
Johan Wållberg, bass
Saltsjöbadens Kyrkokör
Symfoniorkestern Pro Musica
Katja Själander, conductor