During the Nordic Choir Leaders' Convention in Malmö in October

ranging from traditional choral folk tunes to contemporary Swedish music

Her task was to come up with proposals for texts for an alternative baptismal order

Text from Luke 3:4-6

Min tro och nattens mörker har fört mig fram till källans stilla vatten

Stenarna SSAATB + cajon ad lib During the Nordic Choir Leaders'Stenarna (The Stones) is a setting of a 1954 poem by the Swedish poet and Nobel prize winner Tomas Transtrmer. Stones are a recurring symbol in Transtrmers poetry, often representing time and transformation. Transtrmers almost minimalistic formal clarity creates a space which seems to fill with an ethereal power, an otherworldly presence. My musical style was an easy companion to the great poet in this work. Canons, simple rhythms, clear lines. A