Performers & composers

Atli K Petersen

Atli K Petersen (born 1963, in Copenhagen) grew up in Tórhavn (Faroe Islands).
He graduated 1988 from Tónlistarskólinn in Reykjavík as wind teacher. After moving back to the Faroe Islands he has been working as a teacher, musician, conductor and composer/arranger. Atli has composed and arranged works for wind- brass- and big band,
symphony orchestra, choir, solo instruments and various chamber music ensembles.

"Crescit Eundo"

It is a quotation from the first-century B.C. Latin poet Lucretius. It refers to the motion of a thunderbolt across the sky, which acquires power and momentum as it goes. The Qoutation applies just as well to the rivers as they grow as they go.