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Celebrating 50 years of composing 2026
Fun to look back on
All available for listening on YouTube
DREAMS (1976) for piano
Listen to the Composer playing
Adapted for organ (1980)
LIsten to Carson Cooman playing
THREE SHORT FANTASY PIECES (1978-79) for organ
Listen to the Composer playing
Adapted for piano (2021)
Listen to the Composer playing
FANTASY A-MINOR (1980) for organ
Listen to Carson Cooman playing
THREE ST. GEORGE PRELUDES (1983) for organ
(Swedish: Tre Sankt Göranpreludier)
Listen to Carson Cooman playing
FESTIVAL VOLUNTARY (1994) for organ
Listen to the Composer playing
NOVEMBER MUSIC (1995) for organ
Listen to the Composer playing
Vocal music
BY THE SEA AT NIGHT (John Gracen Brown) for mezzo soprano and organ (2002)
Listen to Sharon Lind and the Composer
Adapted for string orchestra by Eyvind Hallnäs (2010)
Listen to Hanna-Maria Strand and Lunds Nya Kammarorkester under Johan-Magnus Sjöberg
LATE AUTUMN (John Gracen Brown) for mezzo soprano and organ (2012)
Listen to Hanna-Maria Strand and the Composer
OM ATT INTE DÖMA VARANDRA (Romans 14:7-10, 15-1-7) for soprano and organ (2012)
Listen to Hanna-Maria Strand and the Composer
English version (Judge Not One Another) adapted from the Swedish original by Carson Cooman (2013)
Listen to Carson Cooman and Olympia Hatzilambrou
TOCCATA NO. 20 ”DISTANT LANDSCAPES” for organ (2019)
Adapted for piano (2019)
Adapted for choir (2023)
Read more and listen
LATE WINTER (John Gracen Brown) for piano, spoken word, soprano or mezzo-soprano (2024)
Listen to Sharon Lind performing
Sheet music
Sheet music: SVENSK MUSIK – Swedish Music Information Centre
Interview
Listen to interview made by CARSON COOMAN
Toccata No. 2: Violoncello Solo
News from 2026
Toccata No 2 in a version for solo violoncello (originally written for organ in 1982)
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026!
LIsten to CARSON COOMAN playing Toccata No. 2 for toy piano (Åberg)
Thomas to Carson: ”What a lovely start on 2026! Thank you so much, dear Carson!!! I love your video …”
Published by SVENSK MUSIK – Swedish Music Information Centre
This is a special New Year’s version (2026) – original for organ (1982)
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.
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
New Hope for soprano saxophone & 2 pianists – Live recording on YouTube
Engelbrektskyrkan, Stockholm June 2022
New Hope from New Hope Suite by Thomas Åberg
Lars Kristoffersson (saxophone), Karin Hellman-Geworkian & Thomas Åberg (piano)
Sheet music published by Svensk Musik – Swedish Music Information Centre
Write-up: Fanfare Magazine (USA)
Write-up on CARSON COOMAN’S CD ”Legends in the Garden” – Organ Music by Thomas Åberg
“I am no lover of organ music. Not at all. Yet if anything might convince me to spend some more time with the King of Instruments, this disc would be it.”
Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine
Soundspells Productions (Catalogue #CD137)