Every year, on 17 May, we celebrate our national day in Norway.  "Gratulerer med dagen" means Happy Birthday!  We celebrate Norway's freedom and independence.

Our constitution was signed on 17 May 1814.

Everything I feel about living in a free and independent country is described in the march.  I don't need to use words.

Gratulere med dagen!

Opus 20. Janitsjar/Concert band

Kjære Gud Fader (10.05.22)

Moods

Sinnsstemning 2

Opus 21 For 2 Cellos Pr 07.03.2021

Marsj nr 23

Marsj nr 1, Folkestadmarsjen

Kjerkemusikk

Marsj nr 8

Koral versjon 2016

2023_08_25_09_18_44.mp3

I use different methods when i compose my music. Sometimes i start recording whatever comes out of my mouth 😂 In this clip i was overwhelmed with a moment of Unexpected Inspiration at way to work as a carpenter.

  This was a sunny friday. Saturday was rainy and i sat down with my mobile and tried to write down on my computer the moments from the day before. Unfortunately, the device ran empty of battery and my Unexpected Inspiration saw another way. But one day when i have time for my hobby i will write down the original version for my fantasy orchestra.

Enjoy. 

Unexpected Inspiration Original Version

I wanted to give my girlfriend a special birthday present. She loved the cello. So i contacted a professional cellist. She played my music together with a friend and gave me a link to her YouTube-channel.

The music was written for two euphoniums. I think Sophia and Brage made a lovely version for my beloved. 

https://youtu.be/I5wIiyb89vY?feature=shared

Rest in peace Nadia. 

Puzynko. Original track

Jeg skrev dette stykket i 1996. Det var en av pappas favoritter.

Når dagen gryr... Euphonium og piano

Når dagen gryr...med sopran, slagverk, bassgitar, tromboner

Opus 20. For Barytonsax, Funny Version

Opus 21 Original version. Euphonium, klarinetter, sax, hn, trmb, tuba, slagverk

I just found this in the basement. I wrote it in 1993

Hymne. Opus 10.

Hymne. Opus 10. Fantasy

Telttur (1996)

God morgen!

Marsj Nr 5, 0.2

Talitatara Lalala

Alone In The Night... (arr 2024)

Tofte Musikkorps 2011. Solist Gorm Folkestad 

Tofte Musikkorps Opus 20 org. versjon

Hildes Marsj 22.04.2024 Brass

https://youtu.be/lo8EposWy_g?si=gsfvh2Q17-W1ZjAp 

 Denne marsjen skreiv min gode kamerat Jan Sørlie og jeg sammen ca år 2000. Jan hadde mesteparten av barytonstemmen i hodet, jeg tror han hadde spilt på dette i mange år når jeg ble involvert.

En lystig aften satt vi sammen og spilte, skreiv noter og røykte sigaretter til kaffen. Det er sjelden sidemelodien kommer først. Men mye av jobben min var å legge melodi til barytonstemmen i første og andre del. Trioen skreiv vi sammen på en halvtime.

Marsjen ble brukt i mange sammenhenger, som kjenningsmelodi for vår lille kvintett. Vi hadde Stian Berg på trompet. Egil Ø. Andreassen på fingerbasun. Espen Ribe på tuba. Jan og jeg på hhv baryton og 2.trompet.

Vi var enige om at melodien i Trio-delen passet bedre for klarinett enn for trompet. Dette fikk vi prøvd ut en eneste gang, da vår venn Stein Enger var med og spilte ved en festlig anledning. På denne versjonen la jeg til klarinetten. Trommer er selvskrevent på marsj, det var dessverre ikke noen trommis med i gruppa den gangen.

Jan var raskt ute med tittelen "Gutta på tur". Det passet bra for oss, og jeg har friskt i minne mange flotte turer vi hadde sammen med musikalsk bagasje. Tankene går til hytta i Finnskogen og de lange lyse sommerkveldene vi hadde der. Og utallige andre. 

Jeg er sikker på at Jan ville vært stolt over å høre marsjen vår på Soundcloud. Det er jeg.

Fred over Jans minne

🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

My good friend Jan Sørlie and I wrote this march together around the year 2000. Jan had most of the euphonium voice in his head, I think he had been playing this for many years when I got involved.

 One merry evening we sat together and played, wrote notes and smoked cigarettes with our coffee.  It is rare that the side melody comes first.  But a lot of my job was adding melody to the euphonium voice in the first and second parts.  We wrote the trio together in half an hour.

 The march was used in many contexts, as the theme song for our little quintet.  We had Stian Berg on trumpet.  Egil Ø. Andreassen on finger trombone.  Espen Ribe on tuba.  Jan and I on euphonium and 2nd trumpet respectively.

 We agreed that the melody in the Trio part was better suited for clarinet than for trumpet.  We only got to try this out once, when our friend Stein Enger came along and played on a festive occasion.  On this version I added the clarinet.  Drums are self-written on the march, unfortunately there were no drummers in the group at the time.

 I'm sure Jan would be proud to hear our march on Soundcloud.  I am.

 Peace to Jan's memory

Gutta på tur

I wrote this march for Hilde. Because she wished she had her own march 😉

Hildes marsj (nr 20)

I wrote this piece for Elin. She plays the glockenspiel

Tel'a Elin (A song for Elin)

I am a hobby composer from Norway. Every file is my own music. 

I wrote the march "Gutta på tur" together with my friend Jan Sørlie who is no longer with us ❤️

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