Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen Brass Band

Poco Loco was commissioned by Krohnengen Brass Band for KBB Ung. The idea was that experienced musicians could play together with younger ones.The piece is built around a catchy yet simple riff, with...

Arctic Funk might just as well have been a flashing sequel to a scene from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Popular music but with a difference, as indicated by the title. The work's quiet section...

A good friend of mine, trombonist and professor Jesper Juul Windahl commissioned me a trombone quartet. I then wrote Four Nordic Folk Pops. The last of the four is a Norwegian tune called Havard Hedde...

After composing 'Introduction' in 1989 and 'Entrada' in 1990, Aagaard-Nilsen received a new commission for a 'concert-opener', this time from Tromsø Brass in 1991. Tromsø is a city in the north of Nor...

A short concert opener. I quote a couple of Norwegian Folk Tunes to make a musical picture of the Vikings running from the seashore to face a battle. They used to drink something made of mushrooms to...

Edvard Grieg composed this funeral march in memory of Rikard Nordraak who died i Berlin in 1866. The work present both pompous and magnificent thems as well as melancholic melodies. The solemn funeral...

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...

Composed during the summer of 1988. Commissioned by The Norwegian Brass Band Club First performed in the Grieg Hall at the 10th Anniversary Concert for the Norwegian Championship, Bergen, February 198...

The composer: A short concert-opener where I use Norwegian folk-tunes. I wanted to create a short musical picture of the Vikings running from the seashore towards some people they wanted to fight down...

Wonderfull piece. Cornet section has tacet in this composition.

Commissioned by Manger School Band and their conductor (at that time) Bjoern Sagstad in 1990. He wanted a calm, slow piece of music. Nocturne means 'night music'. It does not reflect a particular drea...

This piece was commissioned by Nordhordland Brass Seminar in 1990 and written for a youth band. The title referes to a story from norse mythology. 'The Binding of the Wolf' is not a programmatic piec...

Verket ble bestilt av Norges Musikkorpsforbund som pliktnummer til NM for Brass Band 2. divisjon (nå 1. divisjon) 1990. Satstitlene er abstraksjoner der synsopplevelser er tenkt gjenskapt som musikk,...

Commissioned by Radøy Brass for their 20 years anniversary. This version was first performed by Manger Skulemusikklag in 2005. The Work is devided into Five Scenes: 1. Sverdet (The Sword) 3:45 2. Adva...

Commissioned by The Norwegian Band Federation for The European Brass Band Championship 2003, in Bergen, Norway (Third edition) I remember as a kid the very early morning wake-up ceremonies caused by S...

The work is important for me because it was my first piece to be performed outside Norway. Black Dyke Band/David King performed it and did a recording of it in 1991. In the original score I quote a Sw...

Rendezvous' was commissioned by Krohnengen Brass Band for their 50th Anniversary in 2019. 'Rendezvous' is devided into three sections. Each section are referring to Edvard Grieg's own titles. but twi...

This piece was written for Manger Skulemusikklag (Norway). The title is given 'NOCTURNE' (night song) for sereval reasons. It gave me the opportunity to compose a calm and introvert piece of music. Th...

Pang is an onimatopoeia that discribes the brutal forces unleashed from the very first bar. The stream of energy contiunes throughout the piece. The piece was comissioned by Bispehaugen Ungdomskorps (...

This arrangement written by Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen for Trumpet Solo with Brassband is a meditation on a folk tune from Hallingdal in Norway. The text was originally in German from before 1600.

'Who can Sail without the Wind' is an old folk tune from Aland in Finland. I believe the song was one of the first one I learnt to sing and play on the guitar. The melancholic character of the song i...

This exciting brass band work is written in the form of a rhapsody based on folk tunes originating from the region where this young Norwegian composer was born. In addition to traditional harmonies th...