Andy
Dedicated to: Södra Latin Symphony Orchestra
Orchestration: 2,2,2,2/3,3,2,basstromb,1/timp,perc(3-4)/harp,piano/strings
Durata: 07'00''
Year: 2006
Comments: I look at this piece as a screen print. I use different templates which are added in different places and orders to simulate this fine graphical technique of which Andy Warhol was best known for. I also tried to have this pop-art feeling throughout the piece, looking at the orchestra more as a pop band than an classical institution. Andy Warhol's Race Riots (1964) has been a inspiriation for this piece, but also Roy Lichtenstein's famous piece Whaam! (1963) has contributed to the atmosphere of the music.

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Breaking Surface/Hitting Concrete
Orchestration: picc,1,1,1,1/1,1,1,basstromb,1/timp,perc(2)/harp,piano/vln,vla,vlc,strings
Durata: 10'00''
Year: 2006
Comments: This piece puts two very contrasting elements up against eachother. The one titled Breaking Surface stand for fragility, peace and nature. I try to use the orchestra as if it were a chamber ensemble. In the contrasting part named Hitting Concrete I fokus on the metrical rythms and try to bring out the pushy, vivid tempo of a city.

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Bakom stängda dörrar/Behind closed doors
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Type: Opera in one act
Orchestration: 1,1,1,1/2,1,1,basstromb,1/timp,perc(2)/piano(doubl. celesta)/soloists(2)/mixed choir(4,4,4,4)/vln(2),vla,vlc,db
Libretto: Robin Rolfhamre
Norwegian translation: Hallvar Djupvik
Durata: 40'00''-50'00''
Year: 2006
Synopsis: A couple have locked themselves inside their apartment to protect eachother from the world, but are they protected from themselves? A psyko-drama of when it gets to much and reality becomes something else.

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Could it be...?
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Orchestration: saxophone quartet (S,A,T,Bar)
Durata: 05'30''
Year: 2006
Comments: To hug whithout touching, to kiss without touching, to love without letting go.

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Diptyk for Violin
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Dedicated to: Aslak Juva
Orchestration: violin
Durata: 04'30''
Year: 2006
Comments: This is the second piece (whereas the first one is Breaking Surface/Hitting Concrete) in which I experiment with two contrasting parts. But in this piece I take it a bit further making part a and b almost of the same lenght, as if you had a pink cube next to a black one. I did also put the bravura part before the more introvert calm part, instead of the usual klichée of giving the musician a show-off in the end for the audience to remeber.

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Fanfare for Birkenes Hornmusikk
Orchestration: 2,3,0,0,altsax(2),tensax(1)/1,3,1,bar(3),1/timp,perc(3)
Commission: Birkenes Hornmusikk
Durata: 00'30''
Year: 2006
First performance: performed 17 times the 15th and 16th of sept 2006 at Norwegian Championship of Roller Ski Shooting by Birkenes Hornmusikk, cond. Robin Rolfhamre

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Krschhhh
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Orchestration: electric guitars, electric basses
Durata: 10'00''
Year: 2004-2005
Commission: Haninge Communal Music School
Recording: Haninge Kommunala Musikskola 60 år, Haninge Kommun

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Miniatures for Sinfonietta
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Commissioned by: Agder Orkesterforening
Orchestration: 2, 1, 2, 1/2,2,1,0/timp/strings
Durata: 05'30''
Year: 2007

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Next to...
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To: Ingunn Berglund Johnsen
Orchestration: 1,1,1,1/ - /glockensp./harp, pno, cel/strings
Durata: 06'50''
Year: 2007

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När himlen blev svart/When heaven became black
Orchestration: guitar and reciter
Durata: 4'00''
Year: 2007
First performance: April 21st 2007 at 9 am (09:00) by Robin Rolfhamre at TvSør's tv show "MorraKvisten"

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I blessed my self for it
Orchestration: fl, pi, guit, mezzo, vln
Durata: 04'00''
Year: 2006
Comment: A small dramatical piece based on an excerpt from Richard Dehmel's poem Weiß und Welt.

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Punch
To: Kristiansand Wind Ensemble
Orchestration: 3(III=alt. picc),3(III=eng.horn),3,3(III=dbl.bsn.)/4,3,2,basstromb,1/timp,perc(2)
Durata: 3'30''
Year: 2007
First performance of version for full wind orchestra: November 22nd 2007, time: 19:30 (7:30 pm) by Kristiansand Wind Ensemble conducted by Rolf Gupta at Kristiansand Cathedral

Punch version for reduced orchestra
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To: Kristiansand Wind Ensemble
Orchestration: 3,2,2,2/4,3,2,basstromb,1/timp,perc(2)
Durata: 3'30''
Year: 2007
First performance of version for reduced wind orchestra: April 26th 2007, time: 13:15 (1:15 pm) by Kristiansand Wind Ensemble conducted by Ingar Bergby at Marvika

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Rush
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Orchestration: vln, vla, pno
Durata: 07'00''
Year: 2006

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Soundscapes
Orchestration: guitar
Durata: 08'00''
Year: 2004
Publisher: Guitarissimo Publications
First performance: 29 january 2005 by Robin Rolfhamre
Comment: Four musical photographies

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Stol(Chair)
Written to: Duo Gelland
First performance: september 1st at Galleri Rennée, Östersund, Sweden by Duo Gelland
Orchestration: 2 vln
Durata: 04'00''
Year: 2006
Comment: A reflection over the chair TILT designed by Peter Andersson

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Untitled/Combines
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Written to: Thomas Haave Backe
Tribute to: Robert Rauschenberg
Orchestration: guitar
Durata: 04'00'' - 05'00''
Year: 2007
Comment: An experiment for prepared guitar

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Var inte rädd/Do not be afraid
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Orchestration: 2(II alt. picc), 2(II alt. eng.hrn.), 2(II alt, bs.cl.), 2(II alt. c.bsn)/4,2,2,bass tromb,0/timp, perc(1)/strings 10,8,6,5,4
Durata: 10'00''
Year: 2006
Comments: In "Var inte rädd/Do not be afraid" I see a person that is afraid of something. He does not really know what it is but he tries to calm down telling himself "Do no be afraid".

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Vilsen(Lost)
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Dedicated to: Nina Bauer Nilsen
Orchestration: sop, vlc, pno
Durata: 07'00''
Year: 2006
Comment: The compositional process of Vilse/Lost gave me an experience I have never had before. It took me a long time to make the scetches and to decide the material which I would work with. It was inportant for me to create a relationship between the instruments, to make them feel that they belong together. Composing this piece was therefore, for me, like getting to know a person and to create a relationship with him/her. Like an allegory of two persons trying to find eachother. You must not hurry. You have to take your time and find the right path that suites both of you. They know that they like eachother but are their feelings strong enough? How far do they dare to go?

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Womb
Orchestration: 4 sop solo, SSAA, electronics
Durata: 07'00''
Year: 2005
First Performance: 20 february 2005, Stockholm New Music Festival by Södra Latins Female Choir, cond. Jan Risberg
Comment: Womb (the uterus) is build on creating an atmosphere around a foetus. I want to recreate the atmosphere and stillness that surrounds the foetus.

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Är jag.../Kan du...?
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Orchestration: SSAATTBB
Durata: 04'30''
Year: 2006

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