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Text: Pia Juul Evolution! is part of the project ORIGINS2017 for Rethink2017 - Aarhus European Cultural Capital

The Saxophone Concerto Saivo paints a musical portrait of a saxophonist of a new kind. The word 'saivo' originates from the ancient Sami beliefs meaning a two-bottomed lake, where under a lake dwells...

The name or title alone says it all: a piece of music where courtly elegance embraces soulful melancholy, a world where velvety symphonic twilight and the majestically striding dance of the Baroque, t...

Commissioned by Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and dedicated to singer Tora Augestad. This piece is based on material from Loven/The Law, commissioned and performed by Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in No...

Outi Tarkiainens Joye for Sinfonietta (2017). Programme Note by the composer:Joye is a miniature or an orchestral fanfare, essentially brightthroughout and aphoristically pithy. The title alludes to t...

Three Pieces For Orchestra (2014-17) by Hans Abrahamsen. Dedicated to Simon Rattle. Commissioned by Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker. To be premiered by the Berliner Philharmoniker and Simon Rattle (c...

Commissioned by Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Norrköping Symphony Orchestra setting the texts of the Chinese poet Bei Dao.

Konzert Für Horn Und Orchester Op. 445 (Concerto For French Horn And Orchestra) by Niels Viggo Bentzon (1982). Piano Reduction: WH33110C Solo part: WH33110D

Commissioned by Nordic Chamber Orchestra, with support from Swedish Arts Council. Duration: 23 minutes

This short work for orchestra is dedicated to the memory of Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen.

Commissioned for the 200 years anniversary for the Norwegian constitution by the symphonic orchestras of Norway. Released on the record Variations over Variations in 2017.

Spolia' for orchestra was commissioned by TONALi and is programmed to be first performed in June 2020 at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. Spolia' for orchestra was commission...

A Hymn to the Thames was commissioned by James Turnbull and the Music Director of the St Paul's Sinfonia, Andrew Morley. It was begun in 2019 and completed early in 2020. There are four movements play...

On one level it is an evocation of the vast spaces of the Australian desert . . . on another it is a metaphysical journey through the emotions . . . First and foremost, though, it is a hugely impressi...

This piece was performed at the 2002 World's Largest Concert in Salt Lake City.