Ensemble

For their 1991 Mozart bicentenary celebrations, Glyndebourne commissioned five composers to write wind serenades. Each serenade was to be musically connected in some way with one of Mozart’s ope...

Instrumentation: Flute (piccolo), oboe, Eb Alto clarinet, bassoon, 2 trumpets, 2 french horns, trombone and bass trombone.

Ernest Bloch's Prelude And March, transcribed for Woodwind choir by Frank Erickson. Duration: approx. 5 minutes.

Scales and Tuning Exercises for Superior Bands is a great resource for those bands seeking to improve their development in scale studies, intonation, and balance through chorales and harmonized studie...

RAIN, an elegy for Wind Nonet, is an arrangement of my unaccompanied choral piece (to words by Euan Tait) that I made for London Serenata; the expressive quality of wind instruments is perfectly suite...

Par Arban aux éditions Leduc. Partition / Livre de chansons pour Ensemble.

This mournful piece is based on a Canadian folk song which is an account of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, where the British, led by General Wolfe, captured Quebec City from the French, under Ge...

There is no place on earth more mysterious than the Great Pyramids in Egypt. The Valley of the Kings was the location of more than 60 tombs constructed for kings and nobles. In modern times the valley...

Using the style of Canadian folk songs from the east coast and the story-telling features of Newfoundland, A Fisherman's Tale is a piece about a trip out into the ocean. The piece opens with the solem...

In Dreams is a musical representation of exactly what our dreams are like: peaceful, calming, horrific and unpredictable; yet, there is always something to remember about them when we wake up. This pi...

The pieces I decided upon that form the Undulations suite, were chosen because they seemed to offer opportunities for all six instruments to perform in a solo capacity. In general, piano pieces with t...

Jeder kennt das berühmte Klarinetten-Glissando, das Gershwins 'Rhapsody in Blue' eröffnet. Aber wer weiß schon, dass die Originalfassung mit zwei Klavieren besetzt und statt des Glissandos eine aufste...

Everyone knows the famous clarinet glissando that opens Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue". But who knows that the original version featured two pianos and an ascending scale instead of the glissando? Joac...