Without you

“You said you'd follow me anywhere

But your eyes tell me you won't be there …”

“Without you” is a song about the pain of love, of abandonment, of the strength it takes to relearn how to continue ones way alone.

Hans Vainikainen (b. 1976) hails from a new generation of conductors in the Swedish choral tradition. His conducting repertoire covers a wide range of genres and eras, from Mahler’s Eighth Symphony to the Swedish DJ Avicii. In 2005 he won the Swedish Conductors’ Prize, and two years later he was appointed artistic director of the Katarina kyrka, the home of Katarinakörerna, one of Sweden’s largest choral societies.