Brønnøysund Musikkorps

Brønnøysund Musikkorps (BMK) (founded in the autumn of 1894) is a wind band in Brønnøysund, Norway, with approximately 50 members. The BMK slogan is Korps for folk (Band for people). Its conductor is Hans Kristian Edvardsen.

Brønnøysund Musikkorps in the Storgata street of Brønnøysund on 17 May.

Projects

The band is particularly known for its Torghattfestivalen named after the famous mountain Torghatten with a visible hole all through. This wind band festival is arranged in June every second year (next in June 2019).

The band participates regularly in the celebrations on 1 and 17 May, and in the ceremony of the Christmas tree lighting on Advent Sunday. In addition to these regular traditions, the band has launched a number of projects cooperating with soloist singers and musicians, choirs and other bands. Below is the list of recent projects:

Church concerts

Brønnøy church.

For some years BMK performed church concerts every November in Brønnøy church. The repertoire was selected from the classical "literature", mixed with Christmas music, as a warm-up to the imminent advent. Some of the concert pieces were accompanied by the (at the time) new church organ.

Repertoire of 2009:

  1. Fanfare for Canterbury Cathedral (David Sampson) - Organ: Elena Ebbesen
  2. Hos Gud er Idel Glede ("With God there is mere joy") (Folk music from Selbu, Norway)
  3. Pelle på Molnet ("Pelle on the cloud") (Jonas Knutsson) - Clarinet soloist: Rolf Arve Wold
  4. Canon (Johann Pachelbel)
  5. Dies Irae from Requiem (Giuseppe Verdi)
  6. Rennessance suite (Various composers)
  7. Carmen (excerpts) (Georges Bizet)
  8. Funeral March (Frédéric Chopin)
  9. Second Concerto for Clarinet (Carl Maria von Weber) - Clarinet soloist: Bera Skorpen
  10. Toccata & Fugue in D minor (Johann Sebastian Bach) - Organ soloist: Elena Ebbesen
  11. Theme from Schindler's List (John Williams) - Clarinet soloist: Rolf Arve Wold
  12. Peludium from Te Deum (Marc-Antoine Charpentier) - Organ: Elena Ebbesen
  13. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Johann Sebastian Bach) - Organ: Elena Ebbesen
  14. Pavane, op. 50 (Gabriel Fauré)
  15. Deilig er Jorden ("Schönster Herr Jesu") (Silesian folk music / arr. Bernhard Severin Ingemann)

Band house

Brønnøysund Musikkorps does its exercises in the "BMK-barrack".

The band has a building of its own, called the BMK barrack, used for exercises and social events.

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