"Beyond The Ancient Lights" was composed in 2021 for Norrköping Symphony Orchestra. It was initially inspired by a dark summer night, while gazing upon the stars a lighting storm could be witnessed so far away in the horizon that no thunder could be heard, yet the lightnings would interrupt the darkness and change the silent calmness for a split moment with its violent strength. 
The music is based on the idea of parametrical counterpoint, in which where different musical parameters interacts both with each other and as individuals in order to create various textures, colours and gestures. From the musical fabric, different perspectives are searched and tells the energetic and intense stories from the calm night sky while being interrupted by the violent thunderstorms in the distance.
Orchestra setup: 2222, 4231, Timp+2 perc, harp, strings.
Duration: approx. 10 minutes

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"Palette" for small orchestra, was composed in 2018 for Jönköpings Sinfonietta. In this piece the idea of having the musical material in control of the form, rather than the usual opposite, was investigated, and to use small individual motifs, textures and timbres much alike colours on a painters palette to create the syntax which becomes the musical form.
Orchestra setup: 2222, 2211, 1 perc, piano, strings
Duration: 8 minutes

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"Colours Of The Spheres", composed in 2022 for The Swedish Wind Ensemble, is a short piece which travels through intense contrasts of textures and timbres; from shimmering brightness and flowing melodies to heavy chords and eager rhythmical figures. As the title tells, colours are an important factor in this piece in order to vary and develop the musical parts. Each sphere, like a sea of prisms, contributes to different nuances, in order to unite and become stronger together.
Duration: 5 minutes

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Concertino for Solo Trombone and orchestra (2019). The title of the piece refers to the aerodynamical phenomena that occurs when a moving object reaches a high velocity and creates a tailing vacuum. Based on the initial motif in the eight movement of Schoenberg’s "Pierrot Lunaire", the material in Slipstream consists of variations on this motif which is built up like large objects - and from its wind shadows the soloist appears towards higher and higher velocities.
Slipstream was premiered in 2019 by soloist Robert Karlsson and Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra at Helsingborg Concert Hall, Sweden.

Orchestra setup: 2222, 4231, timp+1 perc, Solo Trombone, strings
Duration: 10'30"

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Child Game (2015), written at Gotland School of Music Composition in Visby, Sweden.
This is one of four pieces in the musical serie "Four World Depictions" (2014-15).
A child game is a tool that educates the young mind and developes the perception of the outside surroundings.
Perfomed by Faint Noise
Violin: Karin Hellqvist
Tenor Recorder: Anna Petrini
Objects: Malin Bång

Child Game

Fanfare for the Travelers - for small Wind orchestra (2014-15), written at Gotland School of Music Composition in Visby, Sweden.
This is one of four pieces in the musical serie "Four World Depictions" (2014-15).
The most effective way to experience the world is to see it firsthand. Through travel, we can complement our past experience with new knowledge that interact to widen our field of vision.
Performed by GotlandsMusikens Wind Orchestra
Conductor: Jan Risberg

Fanfare for the Travelers

Forked tune (2015), written at Malmö Academy of Music.
This piece makes a deep dive into a single sound source to explore and develop its potential. The sound source consists of a tuning fork being struck, sounding 440 Hz and then silenced by an abrupt damping.

Forked tune

Theme with variations - for Clarinet in Bb (2015-16), written at Malmö Academy of Music.
In this solo piece for clarinet, a short theme is presented in the beginning. Using different kinds of modulations, the theme developes in the following variations and creates individual and divergent characters.
Clarinet: Fernando Arieno Lucendo

Theme with variations

Metamorphosis (2016), written at Malmö Academy of Music.
This piece is an extension of the short solo study "Étude for cello" which I wrote in August 2015.
The original piece has a continuous development of the cello's entire register from low to high, which is also presented in "Metamorphosis". The same goes for the intensity, techniques and the electronic which is added to amplify the metamorphosis from an acoustic sound to an electronic soundscape; a transition from natural to artificial.
Cello: Oskar Palm Helmersson
Live electronics: Daniel Möllås

Metamorphosis

Émancipation (2017)
For Brass Ensemble - 4 trumpets (including piccolo trp and flugelhorn), 1 horn, 1 tuba and four trombones (incl. bass trmb).
Premiered at Blekinge International Brass Academy in June 2017.
Conductor: Daniel Möllås

Émancipation

Swedish composer, arranger and music teacher, based in Malmö. Trained at Malmö Academy of Music in the field of contemporary classical music (2015-23), specialized towards brass bands.
Plays trombone, euphonium and baritone.

Daniel Möllås

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