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The core of the output of Jarmo Sermila consists of some 50 chamber music works. This includes some works for solo instrument and tape that are clearly chamber music by their nature. There are no traditional sonatas, trios or string quartets in Sermila’s output; each of his works has a free, descriptive title. Sermila favours colourful, piece-specific ensembles, with an emphasis on wind instruments. Considering that Sermil? created a career as a jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player in the 1960s before turning to composition in the field of concert music, this is scarcely surprising. Certain works are special cases in that their instrumentation is partly indeterminate, such as Improparlando (1981) for three or more (unspecified) instruments, Musique aerée (1982) for four brass instruments, and Committee Meeting (1982) for six instruments. |