who premiered the work in 1987 in Mexico City

• Tre trötta tranor

From the movie As in Heaven

6 ur Sex sånger för soloröst och piano i version för soloröst och blandad kör a cappella

perhaps an expression of man's smallness in the universe

Haikudikter IX Bäckström who premiered the work inHaiku poem taken from Tomas Transtrmer's Den stora gtan , commissioned for Stockholm's Student Singers' 100th anniversary in 2005. For six part male choir, with some divisions. For advanced choir, the parts are singable but require large ranges. The work contains great shifts in expression, from stripped down simplicity to dramatic drive, and is characterized by a great sensitivity to Tomas Transtrmer's text.