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This piece, which is familiar to many schoolchildren, is arranged with a limited instrumentation, suitable also for smaller bands. It works well with as few as 2 clarinets, 2 cornets and 1 baritone/tr...

Dream of Flight is a concert march commissioned by The Royal Norwegian Air Force for their 80th anniversary in 2024. It is a semi programmatic piece, who tries to describe the irrepressible optimism t...

Molinasque is a grotesque dance full of speed and excitement. The fun almost bubbles over. "Grotesk" refers to the caricatured and exaggerated. Heavier instrumentation, darker timbre and rhythmic irre...

5 Songs for Wind Ensemble are, as the title suggests, five short pieces for concert band. They range from everyday miniatures to more introspective works. The first, "To reach for fire," is built on m...

When summer sleeps in light is inspired by the bright summer night. The night when it is both dark and light at the same time. At 4 in the morning, when everything is colored in dark pastel colors and...

Villfar is a tone poem for a legend that does not exist. It lives only in the music, and in our memories. The piece contains folkloric elements, with themes that appear, change, and adapt to their sur...

The piece was written for Martine Kristoffersen Dramstad, whom I have had the pleasure of having as a soloist on trumpet and flugelhorn on several occasions.The reason I composed Martine was that at o...

In the march «Babylon», it is used themes from Bellmans song no. 41 from Fredman's song Joachim from Babylon. The song is inspired by the biblical story of Susanna in the bath, where the figure Joachi...

The song, which was released on the album "Langt nord i livet" in 1994, has deep lyrics that are about the ups and downs of life. The melody was created by composer and organist Henning Sommerro. This...

Festsodd, which is a name of a soup consisting of meat, potatoes and carrots eaten on festive occations, is a divertimento for wind band, written for "Strinda ungdomskorps" for their 100 year annivers...

This work was written for the Kragerø Wind Band in 2022 and received its world premiere on April 16, 2023, in Kragerø Church. The piece consists of four movements, each inspired by a work of art by Th...

Blessing is a deeply atmospheric character piece for cornet soloist and brass band. It is based on the blessing passage from 1 Thessalonians 5:23–24 and is dedicated to Tom Brevik's wife, Jarnfrid.

When I was a music student in Bergen in the late 1980s, conductor, arranger, and educator Tom Brevik commissioned me to arrange two folk tune suites for all young bands. The idea behind the suites was...

Emelie Hollow participated in Hver gang vi møtes alongside William Kristoffersen in 2024. She chose to interpret the beautiful "Jeg vet du er borte" ("I Know You're Gone"), which now has over 2.5 mill...

Folk tunes were collected as a part of building Norway as a independent country. Fiddlers and folk singers learned from each other. In the early 19 hundredth recordings were used to collect tunes and...

Brout was commissioned by Jane Westervik and Krohnengen Brass Band for KBB Ung. A famous Norwegian folk tune is used in this fun piece. It's about a he-goat that was stolen and slaughtered. The fanfa...

Moments of Peace is a lyrical composition with the flugelhorn and the tenor horns as soloists accompanied by the rest of the band. The piece is in ABA-form, where the lyrical first part is followed by...

This suite was composed in the winter of 2024, for the junior band of Tjøme skolemusikk. The different movements describe the challenges and joys of winter and the cold season: 1. Snow 2. Freezing Col...

The composer wrote «Serenade» as a prelude for his grandson`s wedding.

This piece, which is familiar to many schoolchildren, is arranged with a limited instrumentation, suitable also for smaller bands. It works well with as few as cornet 1&2, flugel or Eb horn 1, Eb horn...

A Little Thought (Ein liten tanke) is a small lyrical poem for brass band. The piece is based around a melodic thought that is expressed in many different ways throughout the piece. The piece is rhaps...

Misty Morning describes the most beautiful, subdued morning, featuring the lower brass section as the melodic element.

In The Dancehall of The Mountain King was commissioned by The Royal Norwegian Air Force band for the opening concert of Norwegian Military Tattoo 2025, which the arranger also conducted. It is a count...

I wrote this piece in 2019 for the beginner band of the Valdres Junior Brass Band, which I was conducting at then. As the title suggests, the piece is a simple calypso, featuring the characteristic sy...

Sub Vexillum (Under the Flag) was composed in February/March 2025 and is primarily intended as a march for parade. The composer used the march as a contribution to the Royal Norwegian Navy Band's info...