Göteborg Wind Orchestra performing "Let Me Go" (composed in 2013) at Kronhuset in Gothenburg.

Let Me Go

Composed in 2015. Premiered at the Music Spectra T society's international polymodal event Ny Musik i Örebro, Sweden, on the 13th of June 2015. Inspired by the song Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be).

Fickle Future

Dunja percussion duo (Emelie Sjöström & Robert Drewstad) performing "Still life light on cobbles" live at a concert arranged by the Music Spectra T Society in Wasakyrkan Örebro, Sweden on june 13, 2015. 

Still Life Light On Cobbles

Soundtrack from the art film Maai by the same composer, first shown on april 5, 2011 at the Norwegian Academy of Music.

Maai

First performance of Kaleidoscopic clouds, concerto for two violins and ensemble (part 1 of 3)
Soloists: Ophelia Kamkar & Marielle Iivonen
Conductor: Per Sigmund Thorp
Ensemble: members of the NMH sinfonietta
Recorded in Lindeman salen at the Norwegian Academy of Music nov. 11, 2011
Recording technician: Yngve Guddal

Kaleidoscopic clouds, concerto for two violins and ensemble - part I

A recording of the collaborative explorations between Simon Berggården and percussionist Emelie Sjöström with the aim to explore and expand the relationship between percussion, live electronics, fixed media, composition and improvisation. Recorded in Örebro and Studio Storkh, Hygnestad.

Bridges

Simon Berggården (b. 1981) is a composer living in Väderstad, midway between Stockholm and Gothenburg in Sweden.  
Berggården’s output encompasses a large range of works: chamber music, orchestral works, solo pieces, electroacoustic music and polymedial works. 
The basis for his creative work lies in a keen interest in layers and flows within, outside and between us. The idea that music-making, composing, experiencing music and music itself are useful communicable tools with which we can explore our connections to the earth, to cultures and to ourselves thus deepening our understanding, plays a central role in the concepts of Berggården’s compositions. 
The materials in his compositions are uncompromisably ’worked through’,  letting the conceptual qualities of the music rather emerge than being placed on the music.
Berggården is dedicated to promote interest in active contact with contemporary music in our present day and he is active in the music scene as composer and as chairman of the composers association ’the Musicspectra T Society’, which organizes concerts, international cultural exchanges and produces publications.


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