Composer

I: The Great Hall

II: The Settlement

III: The Temple

A work about places and buildings from ancient times that we see around the world as ruins and during archaeological excavations. These are the large hall belonging to the king or chieftain, the settlement where daily life has unfolded, the temple with religious worship and finally the tomb that was supposed to signal status and grandeur even in death.

Duration: 36'

First perfomance

Duration: 25'

First perfomance
2nd & 3rd movement:
Summartónar 2023, Reinsariðið, Torshavn, Faroe Islands, August 9th 2023
Performers:
Disconnect:
Johan Hentze, trompet
Pauli Reinert Poulsen, el-guitar
Agnar Lamhauge, el-bass
Rúni Mouritsen, drums

Seen from a bird's eye view with church bells as a focal point, different moods and sounds are depicted from the city as well as the multicultural society that often enriches it. In three movements there are depicted the city from above, people's activities and meeting places, and finally the nature of the city with new phenomena such as urban nature, urban bees and urban farming.

Duration: 21'

Living Room is one of four works that include the home-built instrument, wandelende tak (nl: wandering stick), built by Lars Kynde.

Duration: 11'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, June 22nd 2022
Performers:
Rune Solvang, alternative instruments, wandelende tak
Martin Thaning Petersen, alternative instruments

Ripples in a Pond is one of four works that include the home-built instrument, wandelende tak (nl: wandering stick), built by Lars Kynde.

Duration: 7'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, October 20th 2021
Performer:
Rune Solvang, piano, wandelende tak

Today, the unfolding of life and the struggle for existence is very much about the climate and the preservation of nature. Animals and plants have suddenly gained a voice to a much greater extent than before. Furthermore, it has been found that intelligence is not only reserved for humans. In The Procession of Species, there is room for both fast-running animals and the quieter existences.
Procession of the Species was written for The Danish Sinfonietta's composer competition on the occasion of the orchestra's 75th anniversary, and Rune Solvang participated in the final among the six best with this work.

Duration: 10'

Ensemble: Picc., e.hn., b.cl., bs., hn. / str.

First perfomance
The final concert in The Danish Sinfonietta's composer competition, Værket, Randers, May 12th 2021
Performers:
The Danish Sinfonietta
David Riddell, conductor

Landfall has been created in a collaborative project with the painters Nina Kleivan, Bent Hedeby Sørensen and HjørdisHaack about foreign cultures, different nationalities and folk costumes. Based on three different peoples on each continent, the landscape, folk music, daily life and machines is depicted.

Duration: 20'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, October 28th 2020
Performer:
Rune Solvang, piano

Værket skildrer forskellige former for gadeunderholdning og lyde fra byrummet, så som "levende statuer", der bevæger sig når man giver dem penge, gademusikanter, tårnure og mobiler der ringer. Værket både starter og slutter med aleatorisk musik, hvor terninger kastes på scenen, og bestemmer musikkens udfald. I begyndelsen forestiller den aleatoriske musik at der lægges penge til de "levende statuer".

Duration: 20'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, June 4th 2019
Performer:
Rune Solvang, piano

A cross-over work in five movements inspired by progressive metal. With sources of inspiration such as Igorrr and Düreforsög, death metal is mixed with beautiful singing into a universe of myths and legends from prehistoric times.

Duration: 34'

First perfomance

The work consists of both aleatoric music, where dice are thrown on stage, and determines the outcome of the music, improvised music, and through-composed music in a beautiful combination.

Duration: 7'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, May 14th 2018
Performers:
Rune Solvang, piano
Martin Thaning Petersen, drums

Text: Peder Frederik Jensen

Skullfucking is a collaborative project with Peder Frederik Jensen, where Rune Solvang has set music to an excerpt from Peder Frederik Jensen's book of the same name. The text takes place in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by wars, climate change and natural disasters. With his scanty possessions - a book, a pointed match, a club and a pipe - and well marked by the horrors of war and the disintegration of the known world, the protagonist has sought refuge in a sanatorium with an expectation of fresh air and eternal oblivion.

Duration: 38'

First perfomance
1st & 2nd movement
Music and Poets Day, New Music in Birkerød, Mantziussalen, January 13th 2018
Performers:
Peder Frederik Jensen, narrator
Rune Solvang, piano

No. 1

No. 2

No. 3

No. 4

In Copenhagen, a creative zone is a term for an old industrial area, where artists and crafts in particular are located, and where creativity flourishes with events and festivals. The work is played on balloons, tin foil, sandpaper, bottles, glasses and a bunch of keys.

Duration: 27'

First perfomance

Scenario no. 1

Scenario no. 2

Scenario no. 3

What will happen? Three scenarios that can give a suggestion for a development. Scenario no. 1 is completely composed throughout, Scenario no. 2 contains a large amount of improvisation, where the performing musician controls the music, and Scenario no. 3 contains aleatoric music, where a dice are thrown on stage three times, and determine the outcome of the music.

Duration: 21'

First perfomance

Duration: 5'

Duration: 8'

Duration: 7'

WINDS
The wind is blowing
Different winds blow around us
Also in society
It can be understood in several ways

Duration: 7'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, New Music in Birkerød, Mantziussalen, January 26th 2014
Performers:
Sofia Kayaya, flute
Charlotte Andersson, baritone saxophone
Rune Solvang, piano

From Nordic Music Days 2021, Torshavn, Faroe Islands
Bernharður Wilkinsson, conductor

Flash Mob was written to the fusion band Charlies Blaahval. A flash mob is always unpredictable and occurs completely unexpectedly. The work therefore contains a lot of improvisation

Duration: 5'

Ensemble: Fl., as., ts., hn., trp., trb., el-guit., el-bass, dm., vib.

First perfomance
Gladsaxe Music School, April 3rd 2013
Performers:
Charlies Blaahval
Rune Solvang, conductor

Meditation no. 1

Meditation no. 3

We live in a time where it becomes more and more common for people to meditate. It can be a pleasurable break from a hectic everyday life for rest and contemplation. Where it used to be associated with something religious, such as Buddhism, today there is also non-religious meditation such as mindfulness. Furthermore, it has been discovered that meditative music can heal, and today you can get music on prescription. The three meditations form a suite that is played only in pianissimo.

Duration: 24'

First perfomance

A symphony in seven movements about the society.

Duration: 43'

Ensemble: 3 3 3 3 / 4 3 3 1 / pk. perc. / cel. hrp. pno. / str.

A tribute to exotic places and foreign cultures. The play is like a fantasy journey to these countries, where you can experience both dance and drum music, beaches and palm trees.

Duration: 8'

First perfomance
The 10th Anniversary Concert of Grundtonen, Stengård Church, May 30th 2013
Performers:
Mai Kamstrup, flute
Charlotte Andersson, baritone saxophone
Rune Solvang, piano

Duration: 7'

First perfomance
Summa Cum Laude Festival 2012, Musikverein, Wien, July 8th 2012
Performers:
Køge School Orchestra
Arne Svendsen, conductor

Virak was written to Charlotte Andersson

Duration: 7'

First perfomance
Grundtonens 10 års jubilæumskoncert, Stengård Church, May 30th 2013
Performer:
Charlotte Andersson, baritone saxophone

In a country the people has their own music culture and dances to make them unique. People from other countries e.g. tourists can become acquainted with their music and culture of the nation and widen their horizons. This piece is how a tribal dance from a society far away could sound. In Tribal Dance the piano plays according to a graphic score, and there is improvisation in various places in the work.

Duration: 5'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, October 20th 2011
Performers:
Rune Solvang, piano
Martin Thaning Petersen, drums

I - Death Dance of the Yuppie

II - Free Nature

III - National Housekeeping
- Free from Racism

IV - The Windmill's Fight against Don Quijote

V - King Croesus' Revelation

A suite in five movements with political, left-wing music. Inspired by old protest songs, The Red Suite deals with red and green themes from today's left wing.

Duration: 26'

First perfomance

Duration: 26'

Ensemble: 2 2 2 2 / 4 2 3 1 / pk. perc. / pno. / str.

In this work, a good idea (like the tone A) follows from the first thought, over the reactions of the outside world and to the major upheavals of society.

Duration: 8'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, April 23rd 2009
Performer:
Rune Solvang, piano

In the big city, you can experience many different cultures and music right next to each other.

Duration: 7'

Ensemble: Fl., as., trp., synth., el-guit, el-bas, tr., vib.

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, May 20th 2010
Performers:
Charlies Blaahval
Rune Solvang, conductor

Duration: 13'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, March 27th 2008
Performer:
Rune Solvang, piano

A political satire of the bourgeois world view and the population groups they look down on.

Duration: 7'

First perfomance
Composers soiré, The Royal Danish Academy of Music, February 23rd 2007
Performers:
Gitte Nyholm, flute
Rune Solvang, electronics

A park or green space in a city is often referred to as the "green lung of the city." There is preferably fresh air and nature, but the city's green lungs can also be polluted, just like the rest of the city.

Duration: 7'

First perfomance
Pulsar Festival, The Royal Danish Academy of Music, October 10th 2007
Performer:
Paula Engel, accordion

Time is made up of moments. A moment cannot be limited, because it has no beginning or end, but replaces the previous one and disappears in the next. The piece begins and ends with free improvisation.

Duration: 8'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, March 22rd 2006
Performers:
Gitte Nyholm, flute
Christian Fallesen, alto saxophone
Rune Solvang, piano

A suite inspired by different genres and moods of indie-rock, progressive metal and avant-garde jazz. The suite is shaped like a mini-album. Fragments from some movements occur in other movements, and the finale in particular is built on elements from the previous movements.

Duration: 28'

First perfomance
Pulsar Festival, The Royal Danish Academy of Music, October 9th 2007
Performers:
Niels Nyboe, el-guitar
Martin Buono, el-bass
Simon Bjarning, drums

Duration: 5'

Duration: 21'

A piece about conflict and discussion. It consists of seven sections, which are alternately synchronous, where the instruments follow each other, and asynchronous, where they play independently of each other. It revolves around a middle section with more mixed characters. The work was written for The Danish Clarinet Quartet

Duration: 8'

First perfomance
Pulsar Festival, The Royal Danish Academy of Music, November 1st 2005
Performers:
The Danish Clarinet Quartet:
Kristian Flagstad Olsen, clarinet
Nicolai Eghorst, clarinet
Nanna Helweg-Larsen, clarinet
Bo Skjold Cristensen, bass clarinet

There are 4 ways that music can be produced. The music can be random, i.e. different each time, or written down, i.e. the same every time. At the same time, it can be structured, where a system or a formula devised in advance determines how the music should sound, or it can be freely designed. And if you combine these possibilities, you get 4 ways that are represented in the 4 sections of the piece. The first is aleatoric, the second is system-composed, the third is impulsively composed and the last is improvised. In the aleatory section, the musical outcome is determined by rolling dice. The same system is used in the following section. The impulsively composed section contains, among other things, a kind of adapted recapitulation of the system-composed section, and the piece ends with an improvisation that gradually becomes free. The piece is also for 4 very different instruments: a wind instrument, a string instrument, a percussion instrument and a keyboard instrument.

Duration: 10'

First perfomance
Pulsar Festival, The Royal Danish Academy of Music, November 5th 2006
Performers:
Anna Jauhola, clarinet
Carla Kuotila, cello
Mads Hebsgaard Andersen, marimba
Rune Solvang, piano
Toke Brorson Odin, conductor

A piece of electronic music inspired by music concrete. It should humorously represent a scene from the jungle with various sounds that you will be able to experience. It begins with the chirping of birds and ends with a monkey.

Duration: 3'

First perfomance
Electronic concert, The Royal Danish Academy of Music, April 5th 2003
Performer:
Rune Solvang, electronis

- an allegory about the Danish pop culture ... and the new clothes
Værket er inspireret af elektronisk musik og musik concrete. Musikken har karakter af et teaterstykke, og flere af instrumenterne har bestemte roller, som de beholder stykket igennem. Stykket handler om et kulturelt fænomen, der har været i Danmark i en del år. Reality-tv har en usædvanlig evne til at gøre mennesker kendte, eller ligefrem til idoler. Glem alt om mange års uddannelse eller et talent, der siger spar to. Det hele handler om, hvor god man er til at få opmærksomhed, især hvis man har lavet nogle vanvittige ting her i livet. Jo vildere og mere ekstremt, jo bedre. Også negativ opmærksomhed kan bruges. I stykket møder vi tilhængere af denne trend, der ihærdigt prøver at bevæge sig op ad "opmærksomhedens stige". Men vi møder også andre: Nogle, som kulturen ikke giver plads til. Folk, der er for "dumme" til at forstå, hvad der foregår, folk der boykotter trenden ... og hvad er nu det!? ... folk der ligefrem afslører og modarbejder den!

Duration: 9'

Ensemble: 3 3 3 3 / 4 3 3 1 / pk. perc. / cel. hrp. pno.

First perfomance
Workshop concert with Copenhagen Phil, April 25th 2003
Performers:
Copenhagen Phil
Frans Rasmussen, conductor

From the concert with Grundtonen 2003
Pelle Gravers Nielsen, oboe
Rune Solvang, piano

- an allegory about people who meet ... and all the prejudices
Storm in a Teacup is based on the Danish immigration debate. The work is a parody of two people with prejudices about each other, who are forced to be in a room together.

Duration: 10'

First perfomance
New Music Week, The Royal Danish Academy of Music, January 15th 2003
Performers:
Kristine Vestergaard, oboe
Tanja Zapolski, piano

Duration: 9'

First perfomance
New Music Week, The Royal Danish Academy of Music, January 17th 2003
Performers:
Jolson Oshiro, clarinet
Hedi Dobias, organ
Linda Edsjö, percussion

Text: Euripides

Three choral songs from the Greek tragedy Bacchanter. In ancient Greece, prehistoric forms of flutes, stringed instruments and drums have been played, hence the ensemble. But no music has been preserved from that time. The work is a cross-over, including improvisation.

Duration: 11'

Choir: Male choir (B) one-part
Ensemble: Recorder, guitar, drums

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, May 15th 2003
Performers:
Steffen Bruun, bass
Pernille Ebert Larsen, recorder
Jonas Skielboe, guitar
Martin Thaning Petersen, drums

Duration: 2'

Duration: 2'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, April 23rd 2004
Performers:
Gitte Nyholm, piccolo flute
Snorri Heimsson, contra-bassoon

Duration: 2'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, October 1st 2003
Performers:
Peter Due, violin
Patricia Andersen, violin
Malene Wichmann, viola
Ida Kühn Riegels, cello
Marie Kølle, double bass

Duration: 6'

Ensemble: 2 0 1 0 as. ts. / 0 2 1 0 / pk. perc. / pno.

First perfomance
New Music Week, The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Januar 26th 2002
Performers:
Guy Feder, conductor

Duration: 5'

First perfomance
Borupgård High School, November 26th 1997
Performers:
Rune Solvang, piano
Nicolai Slaatto, percussion
Rasmus Holm, percussion

Duration: 11'

A "fireworks" for solo cello.

Duration: 3'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, October 1st 2003
Performer:
Anja Lillemæhlum, cello

Et humorous piece about confusion.

Duration: 2'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, May 12th 2005
Performer:
Mette Fiigaard Schneefeldt, trombone

A symphony about astronomy and about the four elements.

Duration: 35'

Ensemble: 3 3 3 3 / 4 3 3 1 / pk. perc. / cel. hrp. pno. / str.

First perfomance

Duration: 2'

Duration: 8'

First perfomance
Spring Concert of Gladsaxe Music School, Høje Gladsaxe School, March 20th 1997
Performer:
Rune Solvang, piano

Duration: 2'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, May 12th 2005
Performer:
Carsten Barsøe, trumpet

A musical rendition of experiences at the Danish Steinway Festival, where Rune Solvang has participated many times.

Duration: 6'

First perfomance
Summer Concert of Gladsaxe Music School, Stengård Church, June 7th 1997
Performer:
Rune Solvang, piano

Duration: 2'

Inspired by a person from a Danish christmas calendar, the piece is dedicated to Jørgen Mortensen, who was Rune Solvang's first teacher in composition, and who is also a flutist.

Duration: 3'

First perfomance
Concert with Grundtonen, Stengård Church, May 12th 2005
Performers:
Gitte Nyholm, flute

The Greek word ionos means wandering or walking, hence the chemical term ion. The piece goes from one mood to another.

Duration: 5'

Duration: 2'

Duration: 27'

Ensemble: 2 2 2 2 / 4 2 3 1 / pk. perc. / pno. / str.

Duration: 15'

Ensemble: 2 2 2 2 / 4 2 3 1 / pk. perc. / pno. / str.

Duration: 15'

Ensemble: 3 2 2 2 / 4 2 3 1 / pk. perc. / pno. / str.

Duration: 18'