Silent Wave for piano

Whether you are out at sea or standing on the shore looking outwards, you sometimes may observe rolling silent waves. Perhaps they give you an impression of a water-landscape rising and falling in regular sequences that over time may calm you down in an almost meditative way. Once, when I by chance hit some chords at my piano, I was inspired to start working on a piano piece titled Silent Wave because this opening chord sequence reminded me of such waves at sea.

Just before this happened, I had visited The Oslo Philharmonic with guest soloist Simon Trpceski in the first piano concerto by Johannes Brahms. Trpceski´s most delicate nuances during his performance inspired me in the further development of Silent Wave.

I dedicated Silent Wave to Simon Trpceski who premiered and performed it as an encore when he was guest soloist with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra on tour in Spain in 2019.

Later he performed Silent Wave several times on tour in the US and I also enjoyed a radio recording and newspaper review from Milwaukee where critic Brendan Fox in a longer review also mentioned the encore: “His second offering, «Silent Wave” was jazzier and more restrained, falling stylistically somewhere between Rachmaninoff and Kapustin.”