War and Peace was commissioned 2021 by The Royal Swedish Navy Band and conductor Alexander Hanson to mark the celebration of The Svea Life Guards' 500th anniversary. I. "Fanfares and Battle" opens in...
Prelude Festivo is intended to be performed in concerts and in competitions as well. The work includes solo passages for most instrument groups. Duration 7 ½ minutes. Form: Fast - slow - fast. The pi...
Fanfares and Fantasies' was commissioned by Strindheim Janitsjar for their 40th Anniversary in 2019. The commission was supported by The Composers' Remuneration Fund. With the title 'Fanfares and Fant...
Ukraine was invaded on February 24, 2022, and the world again became spectators to a conflict between unequal opponents. Once again we saw lies, injustice and brutality up close. I must admit that a f...
This piece was commissioned by Torskangerpoll Musikklag as a massed-band item for their “Storm Festival” in 2016. The “Storm Festival” is a festival for from bands all over Norway with concerts, parad...
Agathe Backer Grøndahl’s ‘Ballade’ can best be described as a Romantic character piece. Such one-movement piano pieces with titles that loosely indicate a mood/idea made out a central genre in the 19t...
2005-Overture - 100 years of independence. This overture was commisioned to celebrate Norway's 100 year as an independed nation in 2005. It had its premier perfomance at Akershus Castle in Oslo May 20...
This piece was commisioned by The Norwegian Band Federation - Northwestern Region for an summer festival in Eid. Intrada Orientale recieved it's first performance there in 2012. It is a concert-opene...
This piece was composed in 1937 in the composer's later part of life. Here, Widqvist shows his broad competence as a composer by using both classic marching and late-romantic thematic elements with ex...
Intrada on a Norwegian religious folk tune can be performed as an concert opener, as well as an sparkling intermesso for most concerts occations.
In Norwegian Rustic Dance Helge Hurum combines the tradition of Norwegian folkmusic with the rhythm and chord progessions of jazz. An excellent choice for any concert- and competiton! Norwegian Rustic...
Helge Hurum is often inspired by elements from Norwegian folk music, like in this new work, Ferdaminne. His skills to combine themes from Norwegian folklore with his own character (style, timbres and...
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...
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...
This is a traditional tune from Sorfold, a small village close to Bodo in the northern part of Norway. The song is lyrical, with a possibility for the soloist to add his or her own flavour regarding...
This traditional wedding march comes from the Norwegian village of Viklem, Ørlandet at Fosenhalvøya which is a part of the county Trøndelag. The melody was picked up by local fiddler Jochum Olsen Håpr...
This wedding march originates from the Valdres region in Norway. The municipality of 'Southern Aurdal' is known for its two beautiful 'Stave' churches, probably built around 1160-1190. The wedding ma...
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...
Be Thou My Vision' is the eldest religious song from Irland used in Norway. The lyrics was originally written in Old Irish and translated to English in 1905 and versified in 1912. The text from 1912 i...
Hymn of Lofoten is composed by Dag Kajander from Kabelvag in Lofoten, a part of Northern Norway. Kajander is composer, singer and author of books for children. Hymn from Lofoten was written in 1979. T...
'How I love the name of Jesus' is a psalm of David Welander. He wrote it on the train home to Lorenskog in January 1923, and completed it out overnight. It was printed in the magazine 'Krigsropet' sho...
Lord, Let Me See is an arrangement on a relegius folk tune from Jolser in the county of Sogn og Fjordane in Norway. The solo in the start and end should preferably be in flute, but may also be played...
Lead, Kindly Light is composed by the English composer Charles Henry Purday (1799-1885). This arrangement was originally written for Brass Band to Norwegian band Hj(o/rungav(aog Brass. Purday was appo...
Thomas Caplin is a Swedish professor of choral conducting. He works at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences in Hamar. He composed this beautiful opus for choir based on the ancient text 'U...
This arrangement of "Abide with me" slightly differs from the traditional representation of the hymn. The piece has a majestic introduction based on elements from and around the hymn. Furthermore, th...
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 funera...
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...
This beautiful aria from Rinaldo by Handel is a masterfully arranged character piece for concert band! Lascia ch'io pianga is an aria from the opera Rinaldo by Georg Friedrich Händel. It was the first...
The 6th symphony is probably Tchaikovsky`s most important work. It was played for first time just a few days before the composer's death in 1893. This Andante-theme is taken from the first movement of...
Edvard Grieg composed his 'Four Norwegian Dances, op. 35' during the summer of 1881. The second of these four dances is by far the most popular and recognizable. This short piece in ABA form has becom...
Johan August Halvorsen (1864-1935) was born in Drammen and played violin and several brass instruments. He played in both orchestra and wind bands and in 1881 he became a student at Brigademusikken in...
Brooklet' is one of the movements from Grieg's Lyric Pieces for Solo Piano opus 62. Information for the conductor: «Brooklet' is an technically advanced work for solo piano. In this arrangement, techn...
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...
This well-known work was composed in Christiania in 1874 for a burlesque Carnival in 'Kunstnerforeningen'. An early title for the work was 'Bryllup paa Dovre'. The manuscript score and parts at The N...
The Opera “The Cossacs” by Catharinus Elling is based on the Nikolai Gogol novel about Taras Bulba. “The Cossacs” was premiered in 1897 at Eldorado in Kristiania (the old name on Norway’s capitol Oslo...
This arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's famous piece "Flight of the Bumblebee" was originally written for tuba soloist (!) And concert band, commissioned by Lilleaker skoles musikkorps. The target grou...
Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis This piece for concert band was commisioned by Lilleaker Skoles Musikkorps, and conductor Tomas Austestad. A big thank you to Austestad for invaluable encourage...
This arrangement was written for Norwegian School Band Madlamark Skolekorps to their participation at the Norwegian Championships 2023. The arrangement will work excellent also for a wind ensemble (on...
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...
Reach for the Sky was composed by Jerker Johansson at the time he was serving as principal conductor for The Royal Swedish Air Force Band. The march, written in a classical British style, was premiere...
Festival March was written for a matinè at The National Stage, Bergen on Norway's National Day 17th of May 1898, on which Johan Halvorsen was leading the orchestra. For this first performance, the pie...
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...
Fortis et Liber (Strong and Free) was composed in 2012 on commission from the Swedish Armed Forces and dedicated to The Special Operations Task Group. Jerker has written three marches in the past; Wes...
'The March of Finnmark Regiment' for band was composed in 1996 by order from Finnmark Regiment. Some years before I composed a trumpet signal to the same regiment. This trumpet signal you can also hea...
This concert march describes a town in the middle ages which is attacked by enemies. The citizens, helped by the fortress` soldiers suffer losses, but manage to win the battle. The march starts off wi...
This march is written for the 70-year anniversary of the conclusion of the World War II in 1945.
This concert march was comissioned by The Royal Norwegian Navy Band for the farewell concert of their manger, Commander Truls Sandaker in March 2017. Sandaker left the Military to become manager of th...
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...
Onwards with Grieg is a festive march commissioned by the Norwegian concert band, Skjold Nesttun Janitsjar, for their 115th anniversary in 2019. The famous Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg (1843-1907...
ALBERT LÖFGREN (1872-1930) is one of the great names in the annals of Swedish military music. He came from a poor peasant family and went the same way as his two older brothers. Only ten years old he...
Draug is a sea-monster! The piece is not too difficult...Commissioned by the Torghatt-festival.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867-1942) has become one of Swedens most beloved composers through his piano collections 'Flowers of Frösö 1-3'. He looked at his five symphonies and five operas as his main...
Blowing is a very interesting original work for windband by Norwegian composer Olav Berg. A very good choice for any concert- or contest occation! The Norwegian composer Olav Berg (b. 1949) has been a...
The horn is often associated with hunting. Hunters in earlier times used horns to signal their hounds during the hunt. In this piece the roles have been switched, and the horn is the one being hunted....
This composition is dedicated to Anita Fogge, trumpet player in The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces. The soloist alternate between trumpet and flugelhorn. The work is divided in two parts to...
A beautiful character piece, very suitable for church concerts and other occasions. Many solo options! This short character piece is a perfect choice for a church or classical concert. The church of N...
Sketches of Pain was composed for Kristiansand Blaseensemble in 2005, and consists of a series of short movements exploring the same material in different ways. The title refers to the format of the p...
'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...
The title is 'Continental Divide' and it has nothing to do with tectonic plates, but is another word for 'Watershed'. It is the place where the the water flows in opposite directions. For example, whe...
Many Norwegian bands have grown up around factories; but Norwegian factories are often located in the countrysides - by a fjord or lake, by a river or waterfall that provided power for the factory. Th...
This piece was commissioned by Movig og Sjostrand skolemusikk to their 50th anniversary in 2017. Premiere performance took place at Kilden in Kristiansand, 17. november 2017, conducted by Sofie E. Rin...
Fraxinus Excelsior is the latin name for the ash tree. The piece is written for a school band seated in Asker, a community with its name derived from the word 'ash'. The tree is also known in Norse my...
The railway between Oslo and Bergen, 'Bergensbanen', was built in the years 1895 - 1909. This piece is dedicated to the railway labourers, the navvies, who did the hard work across the mountains. Most...
Il trittico è stato commissionato dai Midtun Skoles Musikkorps per il loro 60° anniversario nel 2018. Il termine trittico originariamente indicava una pala d'altare in tre parti, ma oggi viene utilizz...
4th July in 1054 AD one of the most spectacular events was witnessed in the Cosmos. A massive star blew out; a supernova explosion. From the Earth it appeared as a new, bright star; the most brilliant...
Time for Celebration was commissioned by the Norwegian School Band, Søreide/Sandsli Skolekorps (SSS) for their 50th Anniversary. The piece is written in four movements: I. Fanfare, II. Toccata, III....
Robin Hood suite 2 is five movements collected from a play written for a summer course arranged by The Norwegian Band Federation. The Composer is inspired by the story of Robin Hood; He who steals fro...
This suite in 5 movements was written during the Corona pandemic and is inspired by experiences and feelings during this period. Feelings like insecurity, frustration, happiness, sorrow, hope, and opt...
This piece is about running away. First there is restlessness, then the escape begins. But what are we running away from? That is for you to find out! Playing time: appx. 4:30 To the conductor: There...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Interlude for Band is an arrangement based on the theme from "Affinity and Fellowship". "Affinity and Fellowship" was commissioned by Nord-Odal Concert Band, and published by Warner/Chappell Music Nor...
The first theme played by the solo clarinet was written by Jerker Johansson the summer 1997, when he was composing in Swedish folk music style for an intended radio programme in which his father shoul...
This piece originates as a piano piece written by the composer as he was convalescing after an illness and operation. In the music there is an outlet for emotions of uncertainty and doubt, but also o...
Startship Battle is a catchy composition inspired by music written for film an series who describes war in space. The form of the composition is a typical ABA structure. It starts with a fast A-part...
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...
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...
Rukan Krukan has its origins from the collaboration between The Norwegian Armed Forces Band -Western Norway, legendary Hardanger fiddle player Knut Buen and myself which in 1999 resulted in the album...
Russian, orchestral music at it's best arranged for Concert Band. The arrangement challenge the whole band, espescially the brass section. The ballet 'The Bolt' was composed in 1930 -1931. The title o...
The opening theme, symbolising a sunrise, is repeated throughout the work, giving the promise of hope for a new day. The musical and conceptual idea for this work is taken from Revelation 22, 5: 'And...
This character piece was composed for a competition held in 1962 by the Norwegian Band Federation. Three prices were awarded and Geirr Tveitt won all of them. The Old Mill on the Brook is the most per...
Night is a calm, slow piece of music. Almost like an ancient chant.