composer
Klas Torstensson was born on January 16, 1951, in Nässjö, Sweden.
Education
Klas Torstensson studied composition at the Ingesunds Musikhögskola (Sweden), musicology at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and electronic music at ...
related works
Colour Consort : for five instruments / Klas Torstensson
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Instruments:
rec panfl perc vla acc
Percussion concerto : for solo percussion and large ensemble / Joey Roukens, 2011
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and large ensemble
Instruments:
fl fl(pic) 2cl fg 2h trp trb pf(cel) perc 4vl 3vla 2vc 2cb perc-solo
It Takes Time : Concerto for percussion and large ensemble / Amos Elkana
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and large ensemble
Instruments:
perc-solo fl/picc/fl-a ob/eh cl/cl-b fg f tpt-picc/tpt trb 2vn vla vc db
Concertino : voor bekken solo, koperensemble, pauken en slagwerk, 1976 / Cees van Steijn
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and large ensemble
Instruments:
0000 4441 timp 6-7perc cymbals-solo
composition
Self-portrait with percussion : (Lantern lectures, volume V), for percussion solo and large ensemble, 2006, Volume V / Klas Torstensson
Contains:
Procession I
Aquarelle
Woodpecker
Procession II
Almglocken
Kretsande (revolving)
Bowed vowels
Procession III
Pulse
Description:
Program note (English): [Premiere: May 5, 2006 - Witten, Germany - Peppie Wiersma, Asko Ensemble cond. Hans Leenders (Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik)] - As the composer Edgar Varèse stated already in 1930: "Notre temps est percutant" (our time is percussive). For a composer who grew up in the fiftees and sixtees of the last century, my childhood was indeed extremely percussive: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa with his Mothers of Invention, later on Varèse, Xenakis... In 'Self-portrait with percussion' I deal with percussion in many of its manifestations in my life. - KLAS TORSENSSON