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This is an original piece of music composed by Oystein Olsen Vadsten, inspired by old Norwegian folk dances. 'Jumpety Jump' actually started out as a 'reinlender' (Norwegian Folk Dance) which origins...

Jules Sylvain (1900-1968) (pseudonym for Axel Stig Hansson), was a Swedish composer of popular music, writer and musician. As pianist, he had success first as musician at cafees and later as orchestra...

Winter Wonderland was written in 1934 by the american composers Felix Bernard and Dick Smith. The song is often regarded as a Christmas song, although the lyrics has nothing with Christmas time at all...

The four elements; Earth, water, fire and air, were the four substances which ancient philosophers believed to be the building blocks of the physical universe. The elements were bound together by thei...

This funky rock-chart is composed by Larry Barton, a US composer living in Kentucky. This arrangement is made to feature two soloists, the Tenor Saxophone and the Tuba. The tuba-player can choose to...

I was made aware of this beautiful wedding march in connection with a wedding in Lofoten, up north in Norway as I made an arrangement for quintet and altosax soloist. Later, I wrote an arrangement for...

Grand March by Ole Bull only existed as a piano arrangement of the three first parts. In 2010, when Ole Bulls two hundred years anniversary was celebrated in Norway, I made a reconstruction of the who...

Me and Mrs. Jones è stata scritta da Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff e Cary Gilbert nel 1972 e registrata per la prima volta da Billy Paul nell'album 360 Degrees of Billy Paul. La canzone parla di un uomo che...

INTRADA is based on the Chorale 'Ein' Feste Burg' (A Safe Stronghold) by Martin Luther, from Psalm 46 (written in 1524). The song became the battle song of the Reformation and this setting contrasts t...

Halling by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg originally for piano solo is presented here with a rhytmically modern flavour. A great arrangement of Norwegian traditional music which challenge the band! T...

This Selection from Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Robert le Diable was arranged by James Smyth. Enderby Jackson commissioned the arrangement which was used as the test piece for the third National Brass B...

The Nutcracker is proably Tchaikovsky`s most popular ballet, often played around Christmas-time. The ballet is a story of a little girl who gets a nutcracker for Christmas with a head on it. The nutcr...

Jerker Johansson has lived in Gothenburg, on the Swedish West Coast, since 1984, and is deeply interested in the history of the country. Gothia is the most southern part of Sweden, and Gothenburg, whi...

The incidental music for William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale was composed for a radio theatre production 1938. Larsson later chose 4 of the 22 musical contributions to be included in a suite title...

The Armed Forces Music Department wanted to have something from Edvard Grieg for the Military Tattoo. Gudim answered Yes Sir! And so it was, a different way of approach to this wonderful music. There...

Grieg is the most important Norwegian composer in the national-romantic period and then who had the greatest international success and respect. He became completely into the Norwegian folk-music and h...

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire wor...

Johan Svendsen (1840 - 1911) was the first great Norwegian symphonic composer, as well as one of the leading conductors of his time. Next to Edv. Grieg, he was the most prominent figure in Norwegian m...

Some of the pieces was written for Erlend, my oldest son, who has performed some of them in concerts. This pieces suites valved instruments very well, but of course they can be played on any instrumen...

Some of the pieces was written for Erlend, my oldest son, who has performed some of them in concerts. This pieces suites valved instruments very well, but of course they can be played on any instrumen...

Grim was commissioned by Sandviken Ungdomskorps in 1998. Grim is a folkloristic pastiche, but also with a jazz-flavoured inspiration. The piece ends with the folk-music played on top of a theme from a...

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...

'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...