For clarinet and cello

Off Pist was commissioned by the Swedish Public Television in 1996 for a televised concert at Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. I wrote it for the soprano saxophonist Anders Paulsson, who also premiered it together with me. We have something in common: we feel drawn to the limits, in music as well as in our mutual hobby alpine skiing. In skiing, we like to cross the black-and-yellow tape and go off pist. In music, we like to take our instruments to the limits, by extending range, playing techniques, and even genres, involving an exhilarating degree of risk.

– Svante Henryson