1982-92

Instrumental music, almost entirely for piano solo. At first I was and extreme "Beethoven fundamentalist" and rejected all music after 1900 AD. I started to write 24 piano pieces in different keys and different forms as a comosition excercise, but after 17 finished pieces I dropped the project, since I realised that it is possible to write tonally and melodically without minor and major keys – and even that the different modalities provide much more flexibility in colours and expressions.

Building blocks

Other piano pieces

Other instrumental music

1993-94

In 1993 i went to a folk high school and that woke up my interest in community singing and amateur choirs. I wrote several strophic songs for this purpose. It was important for me to write melody and lyrics in the same proces to achieve an organic coherence.

Songs

Songs with piano

1995-nu

I realised that a few 20th century composers wrote fabulous music without being reactionaries. I studied among others Arvo Pärt and Messiaen. Josquin Desprez however is my present guru number one. Like these three composers I try to create static, colourful, modal music. I also enjoy mathematic subtleties, but it must always contain a personal expression.

In this period I have almost entirely written choral music with Bible texts. This can be seen in relation to my engagement in choir singing and in Komvest – a Danish society for choral composers.

Cantata

Motets