Christmas Concert Works for Band

Perfect for programming any time of year, be it winter/holiday concerts or festival, this bright, feel-good original will place the audience in a festive winter landscape with all sections having wond...

This one packs a lot of musical punch set up by dramatic builds and big impact moments. The piece opens with soft but intense percussion that quickly builds into a powerful brass fanfare followed by c...

Beginning groups will love this unique programmatic suite of four short movements, each of which portrays a well known prehistoric creature (or two!). Clever and very easy, it includes: Stegosaurus, B...

Composed as a reverent memorial for an inspirational musician and educator, Existence Infinite is the composer's way of conveying the sense of loss, but also the emotional healing that follows. Featur...

100 rubies is inspired by the unwavering will that our young band musicians and their support staff show year after year, - in good times and in bad times. When the Mandal boys' band turned 100 years...

100 rubies is inspired by the unwavering will that our young band musicians and their support staff show year after year, - in good times and in bad times. When the Mandal boys' band turned 100 years...

The Troll Circle is an attempt at a musical portrayal of the plot in Sigurd Hoel's novel of the same name. We meet the young man Håvard from Telemark, who arrives in a rural village in Eastern Norway...

Wonderful Peace was composed by Swedish composer Gustaf Nordqvist in 1921 and is one of the most well-known Swedish Christmas songs. It has been recorded by artists such as Sissel Kyrkjebø, The Real G...

David Foster (born 1949) is a Canadian record producer, composer, arranger and musician. His career began as a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark in the early 1970s before focusing largely on compo...

Romance and Scherzo is, as the name suggests, a short piece in two movements: A charming Romance and a dramatic Scherzo. The piece is originally for cornet and piano, and was written around 1900. In m...

Festive Music, Op. 25 was composed for the inauguration of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1908. The commission however caused concern for Alfvén until he paid Verner von Heidenstam a visit. The poet wa...

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...

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...

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...

The most well-known piece by Owe Green is "By the end of the day", composed as the finale for the Skövde Tattoo in 1973. In this paraphrase, Lina Sandell's hymn "Bred dina vingar" ("Spread your wide w...

On the slopes of Billingen, north of Skövde, lies the farm Lagmansboda, where Green and his family often celebrated Midsummer. In 1971, he composed the "Lagmansboda Suite", comprising three movements:...

Song from Utanmyra is a Swedish folk melody that gained renewed popularity after jazz musician Jan Johansson recorded it on the album "Jazz på svenska" in 1964. Bjørn Linderoth wrote the lyrics that a...

Suite for Baritone & Concert Band was written as a tribute to my first trombone teacher, Svein Thorolf Berg. He performed it with Skeiene Janitsjar, a concert band with a reduced instrumentation. For...

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...

JUBILEE SALUTE was commisioned by Bispehaugen Ungdomskorps for the band´s 100-years celebration in 2023. The composition has two main themes; theme A (Allegro) from bar 13, and theme B (Andante) from...

The concert march The Colonel was dedicated to Colonel Henrik Wrede, commander of the I 16 Regiment from 1944 to 1947, and its original title was Överste Wrede. However, as early as 1945 it was alread...

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...