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Wind Ensemble Compositions

Flexible Band and Chamber Winds
Brass Fanfares

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Aerodynamics (2009-10) Duration: 6'30" Winner of a 2009 BMI Student Composer Award Honorable Mention in 2012 ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize Grade: 6 Bennu's Fire, concerto for clarinet and symphonic band (2011) Duration: 22' Commissioned by Alexander Fiterstein Winner of a 2012 BMI Student Composer Award Winner of a 2012 ASCAP Morton Gould Award December Lullaby (2017) Duration: 4'30" Grade: 3 Flex band instrumentation available Ghost Town Triptych (2021) Duration: 4'10" Grade: . 5 Written for the Beginning Band Adaptable Series Hydrostatics (2020) Duration: 11' Grade: 6 Recipient of the 2020 ACCBDA James E. Croft Grant Interstellar Tarantella (2019) Duration: 1'30" Grade: 1 Commissioned by the Center Grove Middle School Central Instrumental Music Program, Ashley Carney and Samuel Fritz, Directors Lift-Off (2006) Duration: 3' Winner, 3rd International Frank Ticheli Competition, category 2 Commissioned by Andrew Lane and the Sarasota Orchestra Symphony Association Grade: 4 Mare Tranquillitatis (2008-12) Duration: 7' Commissioned by a consortium of wind ensembles around the United States Grade: 4 Chamber winds with flexible options instrumentation available Meditation on Amen (2018) Duration: ca. 4' Commissioned by Ridgeview Charter Middle School Grade: 3 Flex band instrumentation available Ocean of Undiscovered Truth (2018) Duration: ca. 22' Commissioned by a consortium of 15 wind ensembles Grade: 6 Tangents (2014) Duration: 5'30" Grade: 5 Three Ostinatos (2015) Duration: ca. 11' Grade: 4 Flex band instrumentation available Water Bear Jig (2017) Duration: 2'30" Grade: 3.5 We Are the Movers and Shakers (2015) for SATB Choir and wind ensemble Commissioned by Missouri Western State University Duration: ca. 6' Grade: 5 We Choose to Go to the Moon (2020) Commissioned by the Rocky Mountain Commissioning Project Duration: ca. 6'30" Grade: 4 Flexible Wind Ensemble and Chamber Winds Biomimicry (2019) for wind octet or saxophone octet Duration: 16' Grade: 6 Commissioned by Nomad Session, available for performance in Spring 2021 December Lullaby (2017) Duration: 4'30" Grade: 3 6-part flexible band instrumentation available Ghost Town Triptych (2021) Duration: 4'10" Grade: . 5 Written for the Beginning Band Adaptable Series Interstellar Tarantella (2019) Duration: 1'30" Grade: 1 Commissioned by the Center Grove Middle School Central Instrumental Music Program, Ashley Carney and Samuel Fritz, Directors Fully flexible instrumentation available Mare Tranquillitatis (2008-12) Duration: 7' Commissioned by a consortium of wind ensembles around the United States Grade: 4 Chamber winds with flexible instrumentation options available (grade 5) Meditation on Amen (2018) Duration: ca. 4' Commissioned by Ridgeview Charter Middle School Grade: 3 6-part flexible band instrumentation available Pulmonary suite (2004-2012) for wind quintet Duration: 18' Grade: 6 Three Ostinatos (2015) Duration: ca. 11' Grade: 4 6-part flexible band instrumentation available Water Bear Jig (2017) Duration: 2'30" Grade: 3.5 5-part flexible band instrumentation available Brass Fanfares Divertimento-Fanfare (2008) Duration: 2'30" for brass choir: 6 tpt, 5 hn, 3 tbn, 2 euph, 2 tuba Grade: 4 Divertimento-Fanfare is a bouncy rhythmic exclamation for brass, filled with swirling melodies and imitation across the ensemble. It was chosen as a winner of the 2008-2009 Dallas Wind Symphony Brass Fanfares Competition, and it was premiered on February 10, 2009 by the brass players of the Dallas Wind Symphony in the lobby of the Meyerson Symphony Center. This work is published by Lovebird Music. Listen to a midi mockup below. Solar Fanfare (2017) Duration: 2' for brass and percussion: 4 tpt, 4 hn, 3 tbn, 2 euph, 1 tuba, timp, bass drum, cymbals, snare drum Grade: 4 Spectral Fanfare (2012) Duration: 2' for brass octet and percussion: 2 tpt, 2 hn, 3 tbn, 1 tuba, timp+3 Written for the Sioux City Symphony brass and percussion Grade: 6 Take Flight! (2019) Duration: 3' for brass and percussion: 6 tpt, 4 hn, 3 tbn, 2 euph, 2 tuba, timp, snare drum, bass drum, susp. cymbal Grade: 5

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