Damijan Mocnik: et LUX perpetua

Featuring

Gary Graden
Anders Åstrand
Linda Öhlin
Kristina Arn
Torsten Buddee Roos
Henrik Ståhlberg

S:t Jacobs Kammarkör
Stockholm Royal College of Music String Ensemble
Damijan Močnik

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Composer Biography

Damijan Močnik, the composer, is a music professor, conductor, and head of music at St. Stanislav's Institution, Ljubljana, where he conceived an important 'choral pyramid' for Slovenian choral life.

Compositional Technique

Damijan Močnik often uses Latin wordings in his compositions, as he finds a distant tongue offers him a less parceled sketch of content, allowing for associative movements toward a 'melodic scrap of a chorale'.

Performer Biography

S:t Jacobs Kammarkör has made significant contributions to contemporary music, commissioning and premiering over 90 works.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Musicologist Borut Loparnik describes Damijan Močnik's style as neoclassical, limiting everything to the essential and simple, with a sensitive balance of homophony and polyphony.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Močnik's compositional approach focuses on a cappella and vocal-instrumental choral music, and he is among the most performed contemporary Slovenian composers abroad.

Performer Biography

S:t Jacobs Kammarkör (S:t Jacobs Chamber Choir), led by conductor Gary Graden, has won several of Europe's most important competitions, including the European Choral Grand Prix.

Performer Biography

Gary Graden, the conductor, is the director of choral music in the Stockholm cathedral and S:t Jacobs Church, and was elected Sweden's Choral Conductor of the Year in 2005.