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TERJE VIKEN

composer - percussionist

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Ever since my early teenage years I dreamt of playing in a large symphony orchestra. In 1991 I became principal percussionist in the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and this started my journey as a musician. The great classics - Beethoven, Shostakovich, Mahler - among other composers of great substance, are still just as amazing and important to me today in my current job as co-principal percussionist of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, where I have been for the last 25 years.
I enjoy playing chamber music, have performed as soloist with multiple orchestras and participated in a number of festivals. Every year I teach at summer courses with The Norwegian National Youth Orchestra.
As a teenager and later as a student at the Norwegian Academy of Music, I discovered contemporary music. Several composers made a huge impression on me, inspiring my own compositional creativity. My activities as a composer have flourished in recent years with new pieces of mine performed by great musicians and published by Norsk Musikkforlag and NB noter. 
I still get goosebumps almost every week at work. Being involved in music on a daily basis - playing, composing and listening – makes my life rich and colourful.

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NEWS

Upcoming:

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October 23the

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Aura 

for solo euphonium 

world premiere by Bente Illevold

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November 2023

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Imprints 

 for solo clarinet and ensemble

      Concert at Dokkhuset/Trondheim 25/11and recording - with Lars Hilde, Trondheim Sinfonietta/cond. Rolf Gupta

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2023

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Riss 

for solo tenor recorder

recording with Caroline Eidsten Dahl

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Shadow to Shadow III

new version for solo timpani and percussion trio ( concert and recording)

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New album:  Passage(s) - release august 13the -21

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RE-echoes - concert and tour in Norway  - october 2021

with Bente Illevold and Anders Kregnes Hansen 

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Works (in progress) :

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    - "Midrè-fragmenter" based on poems by Markus Midrè

       ,for soprano/bass/perc/audio files

    - new piece for Sisu percussion trio and winds

    - new piece for Caroline Eidsten Dahl

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PASSAGE(S)

Release August 13th, -21

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Passage(s) 

solo percussion and audio files

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Transformations, and how different materials interact are the basic idea of this piece – like a journey in and out of soundscapes.

To expand the instrumentation, the performer's voice is used to give some extra timbre to the textures. Letters, mostly consonants are transformed into syllables, words and expressions, which resonates

with the various passages and moods in the piece.

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Earth IIb  - reverberation-

percussion trio


This piece is inspired by a series of memories. The piece modulates between sections with strict rhythms, pulses and gestures, and dreamy abstract landscapes.

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Shadow to Shadow

timpani, tuned gongs,bells, crotales and electronics

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This piece is written for five timpani, and the idea was to create something melodic and poetic for solo timpani. To expand  the instrumentation I added some gongs, bells and electronic sounds.

 I have long been fascinated by the works of  writer Paul Auster, and his poems "Shadow to Shadow" became the starting point of writing this piece. 

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Shadow to Shadow is written for my good friend Tom Vissgren - solo timpanist

in The Oslo philharmonic Orchestra

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 with suppsort from

 Norwegian Society of Composers

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Geir Strande Syrrist  

solo percussion / timpani


Bathos

Simen Brenden/Geir Strande Syrrist/HÃ¥kon Drevland


Christian Obermayer

recording - edit/mix/master


Coverdesign : Trym Valebjørg

Painting : Bjørnulf Dyrud

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WORKS

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Imprints

 solo clarinet and ensemble

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RE-echoes

 euphonium, percussion and audio files

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Fragments from Cold

solo flute(s) and electronic sounds

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Mirror of Air

solo alto flute

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Triplex I

solo clarinet

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Canzona

solo double bass

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5 Pieces

solo double bass

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Passage(s)

for solo percussion and audio files

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Earth IIb -reverberation -

percussion trio

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Shadow to Shadow

solo timpani/percussion and electronics

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Shadow to Shadow II

solo timpani/percussion

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Light Extracts

percussion quartett

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Ripples

percussion trio

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Transition

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Epilog

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scores available at : NB noter / Norsk Musikkforlag

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