The concert is organised in collaboration with the Gothenburg Wind Orchestra and is a part of the Siren Festival 2026.
Read about the composers' thoughts behind the works below.
Composer: Maja Prill
Carried Away
Sometimes when I write music the material makes me go in a certain direction and leads the way. It feels like I’m no longer in charge of the process, instead the music itself is deciding. It is a wonderful feeling that I’m always grateful for when it happens. This is one of the pieces, where I got ‚carried away’.
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Composer: Linde Huygens
Chacune
A rhythmic pattern is repeated over and over, like a Chaconne. It forms the core and framework of the entire composition as it appears throughout the piece in different instruments. Chacune means ‘each one’ in French. So, as the title suggests, the pattern is related to all instruments and it triggers them into action.
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Composer: Karl Tammaru
A Quiet Tale of Ronga – the Swedish troll, who took his way to Norway
A sad troll hits rock bottom and needs a change in his life. He commits to the dream of moving to Norway to find bigger caves to live in, more friends to hang out with, better tasting people to eat and of course, a pretty troll-wife to marry. In the adventure of a lifetime, he learns more about himself than any other troll before and after him.
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Composer: Annika Marie Rebecca Liebig
Der erste Flug
Der erste Flug (engl. “the first flight”) tells the story of a little boy who flies for the first time in his homemade flying machine, soaring high in the sky and racing over several lands. It’s about staying curious, feeling joy, experiencing deep satisfaction in pausing to reflect, and marveling at the world around you.
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Composer: Ole Martin Rosvold Haugen
Goathorn Concerto for GWO
For about 2 years ago I bought a goat-horn from a local instrument-maker far up in the mountains in Røros, Norway. Since then, I’ve been practicing and exploring how the goat-horn works and figuring out all the different sounds and options that are playable.
This composition is a great opportunity for me to challenge myself in the way of thinking as a composer and playing the goat-horn in a very unusual or non-traditional way.
This composition is built from a short rhythmical loop that keeps on developing throughout the piece.
Then at some point it all switches. We leave the rhythmical loops and slowly float over to a more sonorous sound image.
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Composer: Georgios Tsomidis
Vespe
Mass, swarm, flock,crowd,shoal,throng,horde,gears,belts,clock,tick-tock. An exploration of different textures of a mass transforming into a fine-tuned clock machine.
Wasps and the machine
Wasps become the machine
Wasps against the machine
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Composer: Axel Lönner
Reminiscense
The piece is about a treasured memory that slowly becomes more and more saddening to think about. You start to miss this memory, long for it. Eventually you recall that it is a pleasant memory.
You can think back at it with joy again.
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About Calle Rasmusson, conductor
Calle started out as a drummer but now works mainly as a composer, arranger, and conductor. He describes himself as a musical architect where artistry and craftsmanship go hand in hand.
Calle has collaborated with both Swedish and international orchestras and artists such as The Metropole Orkest, Bohuslän Big Band, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tommy Körberg, Rigmor Gustafsson, Ale Möller, Chaka Khan, Gregory Porter, Lalah Hathaway, Gretchen Parlato, Cory Henry, and many others.
