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Winner of the Linkopings Studentsangare Composition Award 2020, this avant-garde piece in six parts for tenor-bass choir creates a soundscape of darker and brighter moments that both highlight and oppose

A suite in ten parts with a text from the Declaration of Human Rights and anonymous sources. The composition includes scenic elements.

W.H. Auden's poem "Funeral Blues" ("Stop all the clocks…") became widely known when it appeared in the film "Four weddings and a funeral".

"A tribute to nature and to life, but also a reminder of the increasingly apparent threats and challenges posed by climate change. The piece consists of three different musical and lyrical

"Moonlight over Spain". Ingenious lyrics (in Swedish) about dreaming oneself away from dull reality. Music that's both yearning and dancing.

An intense and appealing prayer that ends in peace and tranquility.

Loosely based on a Gregorian chant, this piece features harmonies that are warm and modern. Apart from the Latin text, there is really no sense of the ancient here - moving parts are structured with full

This wondrously beautiful and inviting music embodies the magic and wonder of the Nativity. Based on ancient chant, the modern a cappella harmonies move and explore sonorities that bring colorful dimension

A modern madrigal for male voices, very well suited as a concert opener. The lyrics (by the composer) are a call for singing, and for singing together; a choir of voices could drown a storm. Maria

"For many people silence and solitude are strongly connected with fears of the unknown, yet precisely what is lacking. In some cases solitude could be all that is necessary." Sven Hagvil An off-print of the

The Christmas song of all Christmas songs in a wonderful setting for men's choir a cappella. A touch of jazz in the harmonies. Lyrics in Swedish (by Carl Oscar Mannstrom, Edvard Evers & Torsten

A classic Maria prayer in a suggestive composition for four male voices by Mikael Carlsson, choral singer and composer in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Three traditional Georgian songs for male voices. The lyrics in Georgian have an alternative Swedish version. A rider's song, a love song and a drinking song.

Three Georgian hymns for male choir: Tsmindao Gmerto, Sjen char venachi, Motsikulta. Lyrics in Georgian and Swedish.

Laura Stevens is a native English South African, educated in Cape Town and London, but living and working in London. The poet Katharine Towers is also a londoner. Laura Stevens' The Way We Go is the winner