Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Full of color and drama, Requiem to a Land Forgotten provides a stunning addition to any concert program. Whether by geo-political strife or natural disaster, many people across the world have been di...

Full of color and drama, Requiem to a Land Forgotten provides a stunning addition to any concert program. Whether by geo-political strife or natural disaster, many people across the world have been di...

Full of color and drama, Requiem to a Land Forgotten provides a stunning addition to any concert program. Whether by geo-political strife or natural disaster, many people across the world have been di...