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Sensational recording project in USA
Important collaborations –
CARSON COOMAN
American concert organist and composer
Composer in Residence at The Memorial Church, Harvard University
Link to Carson Cooman’s website
Carson Cooman records over 70 of Thomas Åberg’s organ works.
News from Norsk Musikforlag (Sheet music)
New anthology: The Nordic Organ Journey Series, Vol. IV
Organ music from Denmark/Greenland, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland and Sweden.
Curated and Edited by James D. Hicks
Including Åberg’s ”In the Garden – Frosty Morning”.
The music is recorded by James D Hicks on the American Label Pro Organo.
Previous releases from Norsk Musikforlag, 2022:
The Nordic Journey Series – Volume III
Including Åberg’s Toccatas No. 13 & 19
The music is recorded by James D Hicks on the American Label Pro Organo.
Toccatas No. 5 & No. 12 – The composer playing
This is an old recording made in 1992 never released on YouTube before.
Toccata No. 5 (1983)
Toccata No. 12 (1990)
Organist: Thomas Åberg
Organ/Venue: Allen (Heliga Korsets Kapell, Skogskyrkogården, Stockholm).
Sound recording: Per Frendahl
Sheet music published by Noteria Norbergs Musikförlag.
Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in National City Christian Church, Washington D.C. (Video)
October 17, 2025, at 12:15 pm
Absolutely lovely concert! Thank you so much dear Carson Cooman and Mike McMahon !!! Playlist: Toccata No. 5 by Thomas Åberg; October by Evelyn Stell; Pavane & Galliard by Malou F. Rogers; Some Simple Sonatas by Judith Weir and Sonata VI by Burkhard Mohr.
Organist: CARSON COOMAN
Host: Mike McMahon
You can download the printed program from the YouTube-file.
Organ Recital: DAVID VON BEHREN and CARSON COOMAN in The Memorial Church, Harvard University
October 15, 2025
Works by Carlotta Ferrari, Tom Trenney, Claude Debussy/Alexandre Cellier, Kjell Mørk Karlsen, Sigfrid Karg-Elert and Thomas Åberg (Toccata No. 5).
Organists: DAVID VON BEHREN and CARSON COOMAN
”Evergreens und neue Töne”: KURT WIKLANDER in Berlin
September 29, 2025
KURT WIKLANDER, piano – Stadtbibliothek Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Berlin
Works by Haydn, Gershwin, Lehár, and Puccini, Wiklander and Thomas Åberg (Legend No. 6).
Stadtbibliothek Marzahn-Hellersdorf
Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in Trinity Church, Boston, MA
September 19, 2025 at 12:15 pm
Works by Carlotta Ferrari, Kjell Mørk Karlsen, Karen Beaumont, Judith Weir and Thomas Åberg (Toccata No. 19).
Organist: CARSON COOMAN
Listen to CARSON COOMAN playing Toccata IV in Engelbrektskyrkan, Stockholm
Recorded at the rehearsal before his concert July 24 ,2025
Toccata No 4 ”Hommage à Stig Gustav Schönberg” (1983) by Thomas Åberg
Organist: CARSON COOMAN
Sheet music published by Noteria-Norbergs Musikförlag
Carson’s text about the piece:
“Toccata No. 4 (1983) was composed in tribute to the Swedish composer and organist Stig Gustav Schönberg who had been Åberg’s composition teacher from 1981–83. Near the end of that period, Åberg was asked to compose something for a 50th birthday concert in Schönberg’s honor held in Vaxholms kyrka. The pieces in Åberg’s extensive toccata cycle vary in character, and this work is one of several Swedish-style “stylus phantasticus” toccatas where a free alternation of contrasting sections all develop related musical material in both an expressive and virtuosic manner. The three-note theme of the toccata is introduced at the outset (C-F-G). This is developed throughout both rhythmically and with different harmonic contexts, often with modal shifts and juxtapositions.”
Teaser for the concert
Link to YouTube
Write-up! The Diapason
Write-up on Åberg’s Toccata No. 8 (Publisher: Noteria)
“He is one of our very best composers for the organ, be it for church or concert, and I would hope that every organist could play at least one of his pieces. It would leave you hungry for more!”
Jay Zoller, The Diapason (August 2017) – Journal of the Pipe Organ & Church Music (USA)
Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in Unitarian-Universalist Church, Nantucket, MA
Second Congregational Meeting House Society
August 14, 2025, 4 pm
Works by: Tamsin Jones, Liz Lane, Judith Weir, Marcia Hempel, Karen Beaumont and Thomas Åberg (Swedish Wedding Music No. 2).
Organist: CARSON COOMAN