– FEBRUARY 2022 –
Performances in the new year
Briefly, here are the runs of pieces, new and old, of mine (and collaborators of course)

February 17, 2022 – “Frailty of Man“, Artipelag. Immersive installation made with Alexander Ekman and Carina Nildalen.
April 1 2022 – “Escapist“, Royal Swedish Ballet, Stockholm, Royal Swedish Opera. Alexander Ekman ballet.
June 2022 – “A Swan Lake“, Oslo Opera House, Norwegian National Ballet. Alexander Ekman Ballet.
August 2022 – “Coppelia In The Digital Age“. New ballet by Morgann Runacre-Temple and Jessica Wright for the Scottish National Ballet. Score by Michael P. Atkinson and me as co-composers. Premieres at the Edinburgh International Festival Aug 14 2022.
October 2022 – “Hotel“. New ballet by Morgann Runacre-Temple and Jessica Wright for the Birmingham Royal Ballet. Score by me, co-orchestrated with Michael P. Atkinson. Premieres Oct 21 2022.
Fall 2022 – “Remind Me I’m Not Dead“, a dance piece by Mari Carrasco for the Skåne Dansteater,
Fall 2022 – “Hammer”, by Alexander Ekman for the Gothenburg Opera Dance Company. Premieres Oct 29 2022

– MARCH 2021 –
MELANCHOLIA – THE OPERA (a note from the beginning)
After a long year of a lot of premieres despite the pandemic, the time has come to start the work on my next big project – an opera version of Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia, with a libretto by the always wonderful Royce Vavrek. I received the first version a few weeks ago, and let me tell you… it’s a dream. Challenging, funny, dark, wild, hallucinogenic and not at all easy for me to work with… so I have to figure it out, test things, really try to go further than before. In other words, it’s just right. I may slow down the pace of other projects now, to give this one the space it needs.

If you like my music, don’t miss this one. See you in the fall of 2023 at the Royal Swedish Opera.

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