Partitions pour orchestre d'instruments à vent

This is the finale from the original soundtrack of the opening ceremony of the XVII Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway, 1994. The piece was composed by Knut Reiersrud, Iver Kleive and Marilyn...

This arrangement is written to commemorate Robert Kvam, a trumpeter, conductor and instrument repair technician. He died of cancer in 2019, only 54 years old. The quiet, beautiful hymn 'There is power...

Norge i rødt, hvitt og blått ('Norway in Red, White and Blue') was commissioned by the Oslo Fagott Choir (yes, that is indeed a gay men's choir) for a concert with The Staff Band of the Armed Forces i...

Tuba Libre! was commissioned by Eirik Gjerdevik, Tubaist with the Norwegian Navy Band Bergen and also widely sought after as a soloist and conductor. The work is the first major work the composer wrot...

The piece was commissioned by Manger Musikklag in 1990. It is structured as a series of long crescendi towards the dynamic climax in the last bars. Awakening also pointed out a new direction for me wh...

This arrangement was written for Dragefjellets Musikkorps Bergen for their performance at the Norwegian Wind Band Championships in 2019. The original orchestral work is one of our country's greatest n...

Battle of the Galaxy is a suite in four movements. The composer describes the battle between the good and evil in a fantasy galaxy. The first movement is a journey into the galaxy. In the second move...

When Jerker Johansson in the 80's started to compose he was for a while obsessed with writing music in odd time signatures, more specifically 7/8. He was asked during the fall of 2020 by Leif Karlsson...

In the forest, not far from my house is Hestefallstjønn. Hestefallstjønn is a pond, and this music describes the atmosphere and feeling you get when standing close to it. Measure 1 Sunburst: The sun r...

The Commander was written for a concert performed by The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces on August 14th 2020 in Oslo. The occation for the concert was changing of Commanding Officer of Music...

Mariametamorphoses is a musical fantasy over "Maria hun er en jomfru ren", from Verran, in Trøndelag county of Norway. It is built up as a "theme and variations" piece, where the theme is presented la...

I have always had a love for both classical and folk music. It is in between these expressions I thrive while composing. This piece contains both fast and lingering alternations between these expressi...

Let your youngest musicians present their instruments and be soloists in this simple piece! Let's meet the band has a tutti part as starts and finish and a flexible part in the middle (A and B) where...

Erik Bye (1926-2004) was a major Norwegian TV-personality in his time, a colourful man with a varied background. He was a great lyricist, and many of his poems and songs have become modern Norwegian c...

This song was featured in a Norwegian advent calender TV-series in 1992. The TV-series was produced and broadcasted by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). The song is atmospheric and this ar...

Kerberos was written to Norwegian band Eidanger Pike- og guttekorps, Sigurd Skramsett conductor. When Sigurd Skramsett got in touch and wanted to commision a piece for their anniversary concert in Nov...

Rendezvous was commissioned by Krohnengen Brass Band for their 50th Anniversary in 2019. This version for Concert Band was scored autumn 2020. "Rendezvous" is devided into three sections. Each section...

Momentum Sequences was commissioned by Skjold Skoles Musikkorps (Norway) for their 60th Anniversary in 2021. The title of the term Momentum can be explained by an event that creates extra energy, or t...

Fragments and Sketches- Variations for Band No 2 consist of a chorale and 4 variations. The variations are of brilliant, dramatic and humorous character, and the piece also contains several solo parts...

I wrote a piece called Fancies for the wood wind ensemble B3 from Bergen (Norway). This ensemble has no brass or percussion included. In 2022 I reworked three of the movements for wind ensemble with b...

Le mot "old" et le titre de chaque mouvement font référence à la musique du passé. Le mot "licks" vient du blues, du rock et du jazz. Les licks peuvent être des figures arpégées, des gammes et des rif...

Castle Suite in three movements by Jerker Johansson was completed in 1999 and originates back to a wedding which the composer attended at Kalmar Castle. This renaissance stronghold is one of Sweden’s...