Turmmusik for Brass Quintett is given its first performance during the Brass Wind Festival in Bergen/Norway. The Consert is given by Fine Arts Brass Great Britain Saturday the 26. of September. The short piece is dedicated to Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen.
Aura (Mikkelifassung) for 16 solostrings or string orchestra was performed with the EOS Kammerorchester Köln on the September 20 2009, Susanne Blumenthal conducting. The concert was a part of the Equinox Musifestival 2009.
NB, the score file is 3,5 MB
Three of the composers wich had compositions performed, from left: Hartmut Schultz, Silvia Sommer and Dagfinn Koch (photo Malin Kjelsrud)
I´ve written the arrangements and two of the tunes for the CD (to be released later this autumn) and the concert on September the 12. during the Southern Discomfort Metal Festival with Lucifer Was and Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra conducted by the well known violinist Jan Stigmer.
By ved hav – fanfarer for fire orkestergrupper (fanfares for four orchestral groups), is going to be performed on the 31 of October in Kristiansund by the Kristiansund Symfoniorkester with Bjørn Sagstad conducting. The orchestra is celebrating its 90th anniversary.
Aura for string orchestra is going to be performed in Bonn/Germany on the September the 13th and in Cologne/Germany on the 20th of September with the EOS Kammerorchester Köln conducted by Susanne Blumental. I´m going to be present at the second consert.
On the 21. August 2008 I preformed a seris of piano sketches called “Urban Portraits” at Malin Kjelsrud & Kristin Rasmussens exhibition opening at the Stadtbibliothek Schwerin/Germany.
I’ve selected three sketches and made the pieces from them.
The paintings (acrylic on canvas) painted by Malin Kjelsrud has the following titles: (Click on the pictures to see larger versions, click on the titles to go to Malin Kjesrud’s home page.)
1. Ketil J. Zahl “Der Scharfrichter”
2. Malin Kjelsrud “Selbstportrait”
3. Dietrich Cassube “Storeblink”
Pesni i tanzi (Songs and dances in bulgarian) was written in 1999 - ten years ago (…), and first performed as ballett music with musicians from the Manuell de Falla Orchestra Cadiz/Spain and Jose Biondi coreography. The composition contains thirteen pieces: Four solo pieces, three duets, three trios and three quartets. The order, and which pieces to play is free. The material is abstractions of bulgarian folk music, and one of the most complex works I’ve written so far; and difficult to play. Pesni i tanzi is dedicated to Bojidar Spassov. Go to scores and/or click on the thumb nail to look at the music!
Short Rhapsody was written in 1998 but got its first perforrmance on the 26. January this year (2009) during a work shop with the Marinierskapel der Koninklijke Marine (Royal Navy Millitary Band) Rotterdam/Netherlands with Bjørn Sagstad conducting.
…it’s a fabulous song by Thomas Dolby. But I’m not going to write about him but myself. As I moved back from Germany in 2005 I had a lot of boxes with scores and books that I knew would not have a enough space for in an over expensive one room flat in Oslo; so I decided to put some of the scores that fitted in a suitcase and the rest in a store house. So the nominees are. Torstein Agaard-Nilsen, Luciano Berio, Rolf Wallin, Arne Nordheim, Igor Stravinsky, György Ligeti, Jonathan Harvey, Bernt Sørensen, Sir Michal Tippett, Anton Webern, Paul Hindemith. Ludvig van Beethoven, Béla Barók, Charles Camille Saint-Saëns and Arnold Schoenberg.
“Versuch über Schatten, Farben und Licht” was commissioned by Manger Musikklag and was first performed during the BrassWind Festival in Bergen/Norway on the 30. September 2006 with Bjørn Sagstad conducting.
“Schatten” is dedicated to my colleague Jon Øyvind Ness, “Farben” to my colleague Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen and “Licht” to my colleague Asbjørn Schaathun. The material is generated from their names!
I’ve reduced the file size, but it’s still 1,7 MB, so be patient. The thumbnail is a screen shot of page 7 “Schatten”.
