Two Composers - Two Generations: Selected Chamber Music of Gunnar & Bjørn G. Gjerstrøm. Nordic Piano Music for Children. Expressions of the Piano Sonata.

Bjørn G. Gjerstrøm (born in Oslo in 1939, deceased 8 May 2017) was a Norwegian contemporary composer. From an early age, Gjerstrøm would receive musical impulses from his parents, the composer Gunnar Gjerstrøm and music teacher Elsa Gjerstrøm.

Discover Turid Nordal Haavik's full discography. Profile: Classical soprano.

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If you're a fan of classical music but not specifically familiar with Nigerian composers, you can start with the five names below. Percussion is central to Yoruba music, and Olatunji’s Drums of Passion (1960) was the first album to introduce Yoruba sacred drumming-or traditional African music of any kind, for that matter-to the West. It has sold more than five million copies and remains popular to this day, having influenced a wide range of Western classical composers. Much like Sowande, he is a nationalistic composer who has blended Yoruba and Igbo aesthetics into his work-and, in keeping with his instrument, he also tends to rely heavily on liturgical motifs.

Yaron Gottfried Portrait. Dmitri Smirnov Portrait.