Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

The piece consists of nine fully notated sections which surround eight sections of improvised music. Each of the improvised sections includes the reading of a poem which refers to the moon.

This challenging arrangement for Concert Band was originally recorded for piano/flugelhorn duet. The jazz pianist Mikhail Misha Alperin of Ukraina is today Professor at The Norwegian Academy of Music...

This piece was composed to Hordaboe Skulemusikklag which needed an entertainment piece. The piece should also activate the percussion section in particular. E' Spenstig is a piece in swing style witho...

Jeg er en papegoeye fra Amerika' ('I'm a Parrott from America') is an arrangement of a very popular, Norwegian song for children. This edition should be played in a bright swing-style. This medium adv...

An old norse folktune is used in this piece: The song about Sigurd, the Dragonslayer. The myth is one of the eldest norse myths. Scenes from the myth are carved as decorations in old Norwegian stave c...

Johan August Halvorsen (1864-1935) was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. He received his musical education in Kristiania (today named Oslo), Stockholm and Leipzig. He conducted 'Harmonien...

Gravitation' was commissioned by the Norwegian organization 'New Music'. The work has a main motive (bar 19) which is used as a starting point for the different musical themes. After a short opening f...

This work was premiered by the Royal Norwegian Navy Band conducted by Ingar Bergby in 2011. The occation was a big outdoor-concert (named 'Firework Concert'), and the work was written especially for t...

A short, soft, mellow piece of music, expresses the feeling you sometime have when thoughtfulness and calmness are more important. After working on a piece for choire using a poem called 'Nights have...

Tanta to Beate' (Beate's Aunty) is written by Norwegian singer/songwriter Lillebjoern Nilsen and achieved great success when it was released in 1982. The song about an old lady feeding the pigeons and...

A piece well suited for lower section school bands. Two of the percussion parts are quite challenging. The other parts should not be too difficult for the our youngest to play. Please notice the chara...

This piece is well suited for concert- and contest performances. The suite consists of various musical expressions, and there are challenges for all instruments. The piece has four movements which can...

Arvid Hanssen was a popular Norwegian poet who got several of his poems set to music by Tove Karoline Knutsen. The song 'Kom sommarvijnn' (Come summerwind) became very popular when it was released on...

Come Fly With Me was written in 1957 by Sammy Cahn and James van Heusen for Frank Sinatra and his new record album also entitled 'Come Fly With Me' The record was released the year after and became on...

This is part I from the suite: Viking Spirit Tunes from Ryfylke (Rogaland, West-coast) Tunes collected by Arne Bjorndalen The fast tune 'Voggesull' The slow tune is 'O du min Imanuel'

These three short pieces was originally written for solo piano and performed for the first time by the composer in New York in 1926. Each prelude is a well known example of early 20th-century american...

Brass Wings was written in 1998 as a commission for the Women Home Guard Band, and was first performed at the Swedish Army Tatto in Stockholm under the baton of Harriet Jönsson. The piece revised in 2...

Jerker had the idea for this piece one sunny day in the spring of 1996, when he by mistake had strayed into a hunting store. Back on the street he found himself to be the happy owner of a duck call. H...