Acceptance speech to the Royal Academy. Academy of Music November 26, 2012

Your Majesties, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Academy Members, Ladies and Gentlemen. I hereby would like to thank on behalf for all prize winners, and award recipients also medalists the Academy. We all prize winners are deeply honored and grateful for these awards we have received. Our goal is to touch and enrich. I personally want to thank myself for the Christ Johnson Prize for the work Worried Souls. Worried Souls (translates the title into Swedish) is a clarinet concerto written in close collaboration with the winner of Soloist Prize Karin Dornbusch and Norrköping Symphony Orchestra. It is not solely a concerto for solo instrument and orchestra but it touches on the themes "the relationship between man and machine in a futuristic society." However, it does not concern about that but deals with what we have within us - the creativity. We have here something in common and it is the music which implies music-making, performing, researching, and composing. Where the pen goes no one knows until we get to hear the results. Maybe for example that we heard i.e. some piece by a certain guy called Benjamin Staern Tranströmer Songs or Sonata by Röntgen this evening (as an example). The point is this... you are as a creator attentive to all impressions and sound. Who knows about the pearl that lies inside a shell on the beach is a delicate solitary that gives inspiration for building up a whole new work. It can turn out to be a big hit beyond your wildest imagination. This applies to open his soul to the unknown, to receive impressions and to let it all go. I propose that we raise our glasses and giving a toast to Our Majesties, and the Royal Swedish Music Academy and to the music that we all love! Cheers!!! Stand up! Thank you.