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The Norwegian Festival Overture was written for the grand opening of the National Theatre on September 1st, 1899. In the opening bars, one can virtually imagine the stage curtain being drawn aside, an...

A short concert opener. I quote a couple of Norwegian Folk Tunes to make a musical picture of the Vikings running from the seashore to face a battle. They used to drink something made of mushrooms to...

Why Not?' is the most well-known piece by Dominican Republic pianist/composer Michel Camilo. It appeared for the fist time on his 1984 album record 'French Toast'. He re-recorded it in 1985 for the 'W...

Feelin’ All Right is the title track from the first record album by Frode Thingnæs, released in 1974. In Norway, the song became well-known after being used as jingle for the TV-programme “På sparket”...

Tortoises from 'The Carnival of the Animals' is a brand new arrangement of this movement from the orchestral suite by Camille Saint-Säens. The slow and goofy turtle is given a hip-hop groove to speed...

Brooklet' is one of the movements from Grieg's Lyric Pieces for Solo Piano opus 62. Information for the conductor: «Brooklet' is an technically advanced work for solo piano. In this arrangement, techn...

The titles of this three-movement work are abstractions where visual experiences are thought to be recreated as music, i.e. an abstract presentation of a motif, similar to an abstract image where one...

The Selection from La Figlia del Reggimento (The Daughter of the Regiment) by Gaetano Donizetti comes from the second of a series of works (No. 6 in the advertisement below) called Distin's Brass Band...

The Opera “The Cossacs” by Catharinus Elling is based on the Nikolai Gogol novel about Taras Bulba. “The Cossacs” was premiered in 1897 at Eldorado in Kristiania (the old name on Norway’s capitol Oslo...

This arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's famous piece "Flight of the Bumblebee" was originally written for tuba soloist (!) And concert band, commissioned by Lilleaker skoles musikkorps. The target grou...

This arrangement was written for Norwegian School Band Madlamark Skolekorps to their participation at the Norwegian Championships 2023. The arrangement will work excellent also for a wind ensemble (on...

Diese Bearbeitung von Johann Sebastian Bachs Andante aus der Orgelsonate Nr. 4 entstand in der Covid-Zeit. Unter den langen Tagen der Isolation, fand ich die Aufnahme des isländischen Virtuosen Viking...

Brooklet' is one of the movements from Grieg's Lyric Pieces for Solo Piano opus 62. Information for the conductor: «Brooklet' is an technically advanced work for solo piano. In this arrangement, techn...

This arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's famous piece "Flight of the Bumblebee" was originally written for tuba soloist (!) And concert band, commissioned by Lilleaker skoles musikkorps. The target grou...

3 Movements for Brass Band is written with the intent to explore concise, but intention-filled musical forms. Even though each movement is a clearly defined part, there are still many similarities and u...

Hvoslef has com-posed a wandering bass line which goes through the whole piece. The descant part and the trumpet eventually merge into a rhythmically intense drive and an effective ending. The piece w...

Festoso' is written in the recital tradition. This piece was also the starting point for the idea of commissioning several works for trumpet and piano. Festoso was premiered at Avgarde in Bergen in 20...

The work 'Signals' for trumpet and piano was commissioned by the festival BrassWind 2010 for the Norwegian trumpeter Erlend Aagaard-Nilsen. The title refers to signaltrumpet blowing, a wellknown use o...

War and Peace was commissioned 2021 by The Royal Swedish Navy Band and conductor Alexander Hanson to mark the celebration of The Svea Life Guards' 500th anniversary. I. "Fanfares and Battle" opens in...

Pang ist eine Onimatopoesie, die die brutalen Kräfte beschreibt, die vom ersten Takt an entfesselt werden. Der Energiestrom setzt sich im gesamten Stück fort. Das Stück wurde 1998 vom Bispehaugen Ungd...

'D-Tune' is a piece that concentrate around the note D and the connection to the chords that spread out both up and down from the unisone 'D'.

Sketches of Pain was composed for Kristiansand Blaseensemble in 2005, and consists of a series of short movements exploring the same material in different ways. The title refers to the format of the p...

'Viking Saga' was inspired by my conducting engagements in Norway in the 1980s. Among them was a visit to the Flekkefjord Pike Korps who asked me to write a piece for them. I had just written 'Adventu...