Gjeilo: Sinfonietta

OLA GJEILO

SINFONIETTA Organ

Duration: 7:15 mins.

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Thanks to Karen Haugom Olsen for creative suggestions throughout the writing process and invaluable help with the technical side of writing for the organ, and to Chelsea Chen for championing the piece all over the United States.

Ola Gjeilo

Listen to Sinfonietta and find more information about the music of Ola Gjeilo at www.olagjeilo.com

Other available titles by Ola Gjeilo: UNICORNIS CAPTIVATUR – SATB choir TOTA PULCHRA ES – SATB choir TWO CHRISTMAS CAROLS – SATB choir and optional soprano soloist FÖRKLARING – Soprano soloist, SATB choir and piano AGNUS DEI – SATB choir and organ VESPER VARIATIONS – SATB choir and organ PRELUDE – SSAA choir RIVER – Cello and harp WEDDING MUSIC – trumpet and organ

Scores available from Musikk-Husets Forlag A/S, Oslo tel: (+47) 22 82 59 00 / fax: (+47) 22 82 59 01 email: oslo@musikk-huset.no www.musikk-huset.no

for Karen Haugom Olsen

SINFONIETTA for organ

= 108

Organ

Gt. 8', 4', 2', mixt.

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Ola Gjeilo

sempre legato

Ped. 16', 8', 4' Gt. to Ped. Ped.

4

sempre legato

7

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«Sinfonietta»

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rit.

Freely

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«Sinfonietta»

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A tempo (strict)

poco rit.

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33

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ÂŤSinfoniettaÂť

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40

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48

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60

Sw. Flutes 8',4'

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Gt. 8',4',2'

(Ped. 16',8',4' Gt. to Ped.)

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«Sinfonietta»

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Sw. (Flutes 8',4')

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78

Ped.16',8',4'

«Sinfonietta»

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(Sw.)

Gt. princ.8'

Ped. 16',8'

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Sw. 8',4',2'

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Gt. 8',4',2'

Ped. 16',8',4'

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Gt.

Gt. to Ped.

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107 (Gt.)

Sw.

«Sinfonietta»

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rit.

109

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Gt. + mixt.

112

A tempo

114

Ped. + trumpet 8'

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Ped. - trp.

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127

«Sinfonietta»

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Sw. + mixt.

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«Sinfonietta»

12 14 140

(Gt.)

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Gt.

144

146

Gt.Sw.

+ reeds

Sw. to Ped.

«Sinfonietta»

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161

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«Sinfonietta»

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Ped. + trumpet 8'

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ÂŤSinfoniettaÂť

molto rit.

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Ola Gjeilo’s music has been performed in The United States, Canada, The UK, Japan, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, France, Belgium, and The Netherlands.

He has been commissioned by musicians, ensembles and publishers such as Philip Brunelle, Musikk-Huset Publishing House, Majorstua Chamber Choir, Uranienborg Vokalensemble, Norsk Kirkesangforbund, Akademiska Damkören Lyran, Con Amore, Kvindelige Studenters Sangforening, Ensemble Mendelssohn, Arielle Rodgers, and has written a song cycle, New England Songs, commissioned by American soprano Barbara Bonney.

Born in Norway in 1978, Gjeilo lives in Los Angeles, currently studying film music at the University of Southern California and working as a freelance composer and recording artist. A composer and pianist, he has experience from classical, jazz and popular music, and is exploring the middle ground between these genres within his own musical language.

Gjeilo has studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, and recently completed his Master’s degree in composition at The Juilliard School. He is a recipient of the Gretchaninoff Memorial Prize and was a winner of the 2005 Juilliard Composers’ Orchestral Work Competition. The winning piece, The Identity Triad, was performed by the Juilliard Orchestra in New York’s Alice Tully Hall. In 2006 his song If thou must love me won the Diana Barnhart American Song Competition. Hathon Real Estate (Oslo) has been Mr. Gjeilo’s sponsor since 2001.