Om Stefan Johnsson

Premiere Performance in Havana Cuba, july 2017 with Banda Nacional.Portrayed in swedish television in 1999. Portrayed in swedish radio P2 ”Mitt i Musiken”. 

Finalist at Music 2000 the Composer Festival in Cincinnati USA 2000. 

Premier Performance at the Sarajevo Winter Festival 2001. 

Composer in Residence at Hafnafjordur Art Studio, Iceland in 2003. 

Premier Performance in Lisbon 2005. 

IAJE in New York 2007. 

International Trumpet Guild in Banff, Canada 2008. 

Premier Performance in Elgin, Scotland 2010. 

Premier Performance at the University of Whitewater USA, 2011. 

Composer in Residence at the Italian Brass Week2011 in Santa Fiora, Italy.

New Music Incubator 2011-2012 London-Piteå

Composer in Residence 2012 at the Italian Brass Week in Cesena, Italy.

Premier Performance at the UFMG Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2012  

Masterclass with the trumpet section of Banda Filharmonia Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2012

Guest Composer and Premiere Performance at the Italian Brass Week 2013

Premiere Performance in Kampala Uganda, 2014. 

Premiere Performance in Izmir, Turkey, 2014 

Composer in Residence at the Isla Verde Bronces Brass Festival 2015, Isla Verde, Argentina

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Composer in Residence at  GVSU Trumpet Seminar 2015

Composer in Residence at the Isla Verde Bronces Brass Festival 2016, Isla Verde, Argentina

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Premiere Performance in Kampala Uganda, october 2016. 

Premiere Performance in Havana Cuba, december 2016. JazzPlaza 2016

Premiere Performance in Havana Cuba, july 2017 with Banda Nacional.

Premiere Performance in Havana Cuba, jan 2018 with Banda Nacional.

Premiere Performance in South Africa, march 2018 

Premiere Performance in Havana Cuba, jan 2019 with Banda Nacional.

Premiere Performance in Nicaragua, feb 2020 with Camerata Bach

Premiere Performance in CIMVO, Spain july 2021

Premiere Performance in Costa Rica, feb 2022 with Banda de Conciertos de Heredia

Premiere Performance in Florence at the Italian Brassweek, july 2022

Premiere Performance in Costa Rica, feb 2023 with Banda de Conciertos de Heredia

Premiere Performance in Lima, Peru, april 2023

Premiere Performance in Kaliszc, Poland 2023

Några utvalda verk

Orchestral:

• "Solstråle" (Son of Cher) dur. 6 min.- string orchestra, rewarded at the international music festival in Östersund, Sweden1994
• ”Two young lovers on a bridge”- dur. 15 min. orchestra, first performed by the Sarajevo Philharmonics in Sarajevo 2001
• "The Children"- dur. 30 min. orchestra, chorus and jazztrio
• "Yggdrasill Reborn"- dur. 35 min. orchestra, 2003
• "Fantasia for strings"- dur. 8 min. string orchestra
• "Saturday sound”- dur. 6 min. windband
• "La Habana en mi corazon- dur. 5 min. windband
• "Fantasia Celebración”- dur. 6 min. windband
• "Fantasia Tico-Sueca”- dur. 5 min. windband
• "Fantasia for windband- dur. 7 min. windband

Chamber music:

• "Fanfare Collection" - for various Brass Ensembles
• "Fjärilen" (the Butterfly), voice/pi text by Harry Martinson, chamber orch. arranged for choir
• "Enbusken" (the Juniper) - voice/pi,text by Harry Martinson, chamber orch. arr for choir
• "Världens sommar"- voice/pi arranged for choir, text by Harry Martinson
• "Liv" (Life)-chamber orch, arranged for choir, text by Harry Martinson
• "Snus-Henrik"- voice/pi-text Henrik Bengtsson, chamber orch.
• "Vart tog livet vägen"? - voice/pi-text Henrik Bengtsson, chamber orch.
• "Inferno" voice/pi,trp,text,- chamber orch. (in memory of the victims of the fire in Gothenburg 1998)
• "Andetag" (Breath)- trumpet/piano
• "Inventions in swedish folkstyle" dur.7 min. - woodwind quintet, first performed in 2000 by the italian"Quintetto Miro", in Cincinnati USA
• "Coalescence"-trumpet/piano CD-recorded 2001
• "Integration"- dur.7 min.cello/violin premiered dec. 2000 by duo from the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Recorded by a GSO string quartet in 2001. Also orchestrated as String quartet
• "Scherzo for trumpets"- dur.6 min. 5 trp + solo trp 2003. Prem. in Elgin, Scotland 2010
• “Spiritus Sanctus”- SATB, lyrics by H von Bingen. Prem. in Lisbon 2005
• “Aniara, song 80”- SATB and solotrumpet
• "Onoma"- dur. 4:30 min.trumpet/piano 2006
• "Byn"- trumpet/piano 2007
• “Intermezzo” dur. 8:20 - trp,fr.hn,pi, 2008
• “För mig”-SATB 2008
• "Terezin"- trumpet/piano 2009
• "Eld och lågor"- trumpet/piano 2010
• "Moder Jord (Mother Earth)"- trumpet/piano 2011
• "Brass Fantasia"- dur. 8:30 Brass Ensemble 2011
• "The Wonder of Brass"- dur. 10 min. Brass Quintet 2012
• "Fanfare en hommage à Maurice André"- Brass Ensemble 2012
• "Conjunto" - trumpet ensemble dur. 7 min. 2012
• "Variations on a turkish folksong" - Brass Quintet 2013
• "Lockrop”- dur. 6 min. solo trp 
• "Inauguration”- dur. 6 min. Brass Quintet and organ 2023

Jazz and improvised music:

• "Suite for Big band"- bigband
• "Brothers"- bigband
• "Jazz"- a Festival Suite, commissioned. by the Nordic Jazz&Blues Festival 2001. (voice, string quartet, trp, tromb, sax,pi, bas, dr.) STIM, swedish music.
• 12 jazz tunes.
• "Välkomna"
• "Twelve Sketches" dur. 40 min.- trp, alto sx. ten.sx, pi, bs, dr. Premiered at the Nordic Jazz&Blues festival 2003 in Borås.

Solo work:

• "Fantasia" dur. 5 min - church organ
• Pedagogical material: "Trumpet på lite annat sätt" 28 songs with CD. 8 of the songs are arranged for Brass Ensemble. Youth Wind Orchestra compositions.