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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
A souvenir from a concert in Lund, 2011
Stig Gustav Schönberg and Thomas. Photo by Nida.
Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in National City Christian Church, Washington D.C.
October 17, 2025, at 12:15 pm
Works by Evelyn Stell, Malou Rogers, Judith Weir, Burkhard Mohr and Thomas Åberg (Toccata No. 5).
Organist: CARSON COOMAN
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
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
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
Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in Sct. Nicolai Kirke, Svendborg, Denmark
Svendborg International Organ Festival
July 31, 2025, 8 pm
Works by: Carlotta Ferrari, Howard Skempton, Dan Ehlert Nielsen, Aulis Sallinen, Judith Weir, Tore Bjørn Larsen and Thomas Åberg (Toccata No. 3).
Organist: CARSON COOMAN
Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in Sct. Mortens Kirke, Randers, Denmark
July 29, 2025, 7:30 pm
Works by: Andreja Andric, Carlotta Ferrari, Dan Ehlert Nielsen, Nancy Galbraith, Tobias Naumann, Howard Skempton, Burkhard Mohr, Karen Beaumont and Thomas Åberg (Toccata No. 4 ”Hommage à Stig Gustav Schönberg”).
Organist: CARSON COOMAN (USA)
Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in Sakskøbing Church, Denmark
July 27, 2025, 8 pm
Works by: Karen Beaumont, Howard Skempton, Dan Ehlert Nielsen, Flemming Chr. Hansen, Judith Weir, Villemo Daneling, Burkhard Mohr, Aulis Sallinen and Thomas Åberg (Toccata No. 4 ”Hommage à Stig Gustav Schönberg”).
Organist: CARSON COOMAN (USA)
Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in Engelbrektskyrkan, Stockholm (Sweden)
July 24, 2025, 6 pm
Works by Karen Beaumont, Stig Gustav Schönberg, Villemo Daneling, Burkhard Mohr, Kjell Mørk Karlsen, Nancy Galbraith, Howard Skempton and Thomas Åberg (Toccata No. 4 ”Hommage à Stig Gustav Schönberg”).
Organist: CARSON COOMAN (USA)
Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in Old Palatine Church, Mohawk Valley, NY
June 8, 2025
Works by Gwyneth Walker, Iteke Prins, Carlotta Ferrari, Judith Weir, Esther Megargel, Villemo Daneling, Alfred V. Fedak, Roberta Rowland-Raybold and Thomas Åberg (Toccata No. 4 – ”Hommage à Stig Gustav Schönberg”).
Organist: CARSON COOMAN