Orchestral Music

Haga Motettkör conducted by Ulrike Heider. Various sacred choral works composed for concert and service.

Sacred Music

O Magnum Mysterium (2008)

Haga Motettkör conducted by Ulrike Heider. Various sacred choral works composed for concert and service.

Sheet music available from Carlssons Kluster:
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/agnus-dei-digital-sheet-music/21289766

Agnus Dei (2009)

Ave Maria (2014)

As a gift to BSO Spirit, the organizers behind the International Film Music Festival in Córdoba, Spain, I wrote this little orchestral fanfare to celebrate their 10th anniversary in 2014. Incorporating themes from RoboCop by Basil Poledouris was my way to emphasize the “roots” of the special festival spirit, to which Poledouris contributed a considerable amount of heart and bravery when participating in one of the festival’s first editions in the midst of battling cancer. Performed by the Orquesta de Córdoba conducted by Juan Manuel Parra.

Fanfare for Córdoba (2014)

In October 2015, Johannebergskyrkan in Göteborg, Sweden, celebrated its 75th anniversary highlighted by a number of concerts. For the final one, on October 18, the Church of Sweden and the Congregation of Johanneberg, commissioned a new piece by composer Mikael Carlsson. "Te Deum", written for choir and orchestra, sets the old christian hymn (also known as "A Song of the Church") to suggestive and dramatic music with the pitches of the church's three tower bells as it foundation. The piece also incorporates a theme by Hilding Hallnäs (Johannebergskyrkan's first organist and a fine and prolific composer in his own right) to acknowledge the great musical heritage of the church. 

Music Composed by Mikael Carlsson
Conducted by Jan K. Delemark
Johannebergs Oratoriekör
Camerata Gothia
Musicians from GöteborgsOperan
Daniel Åkerlund, trumpet solo
Music Recorded by Erik Sikkema

Concert video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyAVTHfBYd4

Te Deum for Orchestra and Choir (2015)

World premiere performance by Gothia Concentus conducted by Emanuel Kling, May 2018.

Sheet music available from Carlssons Kluster:
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/innerspace-digital-sheet-music/21144091

This piece was commissioned by Gothia Concentus, Sweden's largest amateur orchestra, as an original concert work addition to their 2017-2018 project focusing on music from science fiction films and video games.

This is my tribute to the genre that brought me so many wonderful musical highlights.

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Innerspace (2018)

Haga Motettkör conducted by Ulrike Heider. Performed in service in Hagakyrkan, September 30, 2018.

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Gratias Deo
Gratias ago Deo,
Quia spritus est cantus.

Gratias Deo.
Gratias ago Deo,
Per potentiam virtuete cantus.

Gratias Deo,
Gratias ago Deo,
Quod ad amorem, caritas cantus.

Gratias Deo,
Gratias ago Deo,
Quod a sanitatem cantus ad sanitatem.

Gratias Deo,
Propter Gaudium, gaudium in cantus.
Gratias Deo.

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Thank God,
thank you God,
for the spirit of singing.

Thank God,
thank you God,
for the power of singing.

Thank God,
thank you God,
for the love of singing.

Thank God,
thank you God,
for the health of singing.

Thank God,
thank you God,
for the joy of singing.

Gratias Deo (2018)

World premiere performance of "Nostalgia" for string orchestra, performed by David Bergström and Lars Kvensler (violins), Emil Jonasson (viola), Lars-Erik Persson and Christoffer Bergström (celli) and Thomas Allin (contrabass), conducted by Ulrike Heider. 

Hagakyrkan, Göteborg, November 3, 2018.

An outburst of tears,
a reminiscence of beauty,
perhaps... too pathetic a memorY?
No, it is not.
Call it what you want.
It is profound.
From darkness again,
light. Always in eternity.

This piece is dedicated to John Williams (Vienna, November 3, 2018).

Illustration: Anders Nyberg (http://www.andersnyberg.se/)

Nostalgia

Composer specializing in choral and orchestral music for concert use and service. Works published by Svensk Musik,  Bo Ejeby Förlag and Santa Barbara Music Publishing. Arranger of film music for concert use (clients include Marco Beltrami, Terence Blanchard and Carter Burwell) and a soundtrack album producer with +600 albums released on the acclaimed record label MovieScore Media. Mikael is also a producer for three choirs in Göteborg, Sweden, and a singer(tenor/alto).