Concert Music Sheet Music

This piece for beginning band was written as a commission for Norsk Musikkforlag to their “Music for Beginners” serie. Vortex Vibrations is a up-tempo piece that enters the music and moves like a vort...

Music for Halloween 2 is three simple pieces who describes spooky and scary characters we all know from halloween. In The first movement you meet some ghosts. The second movement describes death danc...

The Outlaws is a musical piece in three parts who describes three criminal characters. The first part describes a thief in a cartoon who is chased by the police. The second part describes a gangster...

'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'.

A beautiful character piece, very suitable for church concerts and other occasions. Many solo options! This short character piece is a perfect choice for a church or classical concert. The church of N...

Uptown Girl is a song written and performed by the American pianist and vocalist Billy Joel. It was released in 1983 as a part of his record album 'An Innocent Man'. The lyrics describe a working-clas...

This is a four-part suite written for beginning bands at grade level 1. The four movements are different in character and style, and can be performed as a suite or as single movements. Every part is c...

This march was commissioned by The office of cultural affairs in Fana and Ytrebygda (a part of Bergen Municipality) for the opening of The Bergen Light Rail. The premiere was given by The Norwegian Na...

I came to know of this piece when hearing famous Norwegian ragtime pianist Morten Gunnar Larsen playing it at a concert with the Norwegian Navy Band Bergen. I was struck by it's melancholic beauty and...

Ferdinand Kühne was a German composer who lived from 1858 to 1939. He wrote many marches, and this is the most well-known one. The march, also known as Jour de Fete, is a march in traditional german s...

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...

'Tornado' is based on sketches from the Royal Norwegian Naval Forces' Band (SFMK) Composer Workshop with composition students from The Grieg Aacademy in 2012. The working title of the piece, 'Worksho...

The title is 'Continental Divide' and it has nothing to do with tectonic plates, but is another word for 'Watershed'. It is the place where the the water flows in opposite directions. For example, whe...

This arrangement was made for The Suoni Wind Orchestra of Skien, Norway, and performed for the first time at their Promenade Concert 'At Sea' at the Ibsen Culture Center, March 8th 2014, being the fin...

Fairytale-Suite is an original work for beginning band. The name of the movements are taken from well-known themes from Norwegian fairytales. The music may not tell a story itselv, but it may be a goo...

Many Norwegian bands have grown up around factories; but Norwegian factories are often located in the countrysides - by a fjord or lake, by a river or waterfall that provided power for the factory. Th...

'The past is never dead. It's not even past.' - William Faulkner To the conductor: Slurs in accompanying voices can be seen as indicating the phrasing only, thus breathing is possibe when necessary. I...

This beautiful little piece of music will be perfect to play at any concert. Elegy means lamentation and the melodic themes reflect this. You may use the piece to work with sound, dynamics and phrasi...

'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...

Candy for Beginners is a suite of three songs used by the composer with the youngest beginners throughout several years. The method is to sing the melodies before learning it on the instruments. Lyri...

''Brittern' was written for my good friend, Brit Johnsrud to her Solo-CD recording 'Light Blue Outfit'. Brit is a former hornist with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and works today with the profess...

This piece was commissioned by Movig og Sjostrand skolemusikk to their 50th anniversary in 2017. Premiere performance took place at Kilden in Kristiansand, 17. november 2017, conducted by Sofie E. Rin...

Prelude Festivo is intended to be performed in concerts and in competitions as well. The work includes solo passages for most instrument groups. Duration 7 ½ minutes. Form: Fast - slow - fast. The pi...

This concert march was comissioned by The Royal Norwegian Navy Band for the farewell concert of their manger, Commander Truls Sandaker in March 2017. Sandaker left the Military to become manager of th...

The horn is often associated with hunting. Hunters in earlier times used horns to signal their hounds during the hunt. In this piece the roles have been switched, and the horn is the one being hunted....