Editions Bim

The evocative title La Forêt enchantée [The enchanted forest] came to me purely by chance and the subtitles followed spontaneously: 1. par un matin [One morning] , 2. dans le lointain, el...

Dialogues III for horn and tuba, was composed in 1987, funded by a grant from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School. It is one of a series of duets for tuba and other brass instruments....

Ride 'em Cowboy is a short, concise jazz duet for flugelhorn and trombone which is meant to be fun and enjoyable to play. Both melody and harmony are based on the interval of a third and this can be s...

Richard Lane dedicated with pleasure smaller works to friends or students. All have his caracteristic musical signature, a synthesis between charm and an exceptional sens for melodic and harmonic form...

The main aim of the horn school is to achieve a noble horn sound. It is intended for horn players who already have basic musical knowledge and want to progress quickly and efficiently in learning to p...

Thanks to the basic exercises compiled here, I have been able to build and maintain my orchestral, soloist and chamber music career in the best physical shape, as is absolutely necessary in our profes...

Instrumentation 1.1.0.1. - 1.0.0.0. - timpani, harp - strings: 5,4,4,3,2

New Carnival of Venice was written in 1985 for an American Independence Day (July 4th) concert traditionally performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl (17,400 seats). T...

Die Grundidee für 'Parallels' war die Verbindung klassischer Kammermusik-Komposition mit Jazz-Harmonien, Phrasierung und Klang von improvisiertem Jazz. In diesem Stück gibt es keine Improvisations-Ste...

Movements 1. Running Wild (1'50) - 2. Prayer (5'50) - 3. Dance (2'10) - 4. Song (2'30) - 5. Fafner's Dream (4'10) - 6. Mephisto (3'40) The work The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra signed me as guest...

Only a few short years ago, jazz and classical music were considered separate and mutually exclusive worlds. No musician, it was believed, could operate in both. But in the last 2 decades, a new breed...

This piece was written for Roger Bobo. The tuba, invented around 1830 has no original baroque repertoire, so these Variations in Olden Style were conceived after the Polonaise of the French Suite VI b...

Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban (1825-1889) is the name of a French musician of the 19th century who was very popular in his day but is today remembered by no-one except brass players, and they rem...

CHRONIC PSYCHIC DISORDER Brass players are a "type". They fit in. They stick together, share their neuroses and have little to do with other musicians in the orchestra. TROMPETERS Trumpet players were...

Tower March was composed for the Trumpetissimo ensemble and the 28th Gdańsk Carillon Festival in 2026, following the great success of earlier concerts in Denmark and Sweden featuring music for natural...

Tower March was composed for the Trumpetissimo ensemble and the 28th Gdańsk Carillon Festival in 2026, following the great success of earlier concerts in Denmark and Sweden featuring music for natural...

The main purpose of the family tree is to give a clear picture of the history of the four brass instrument families of cornets, trumpets, trombones and horns. And it does so since the early Middle Age...

For 'Eastwind', Jean-François Michel was cleverly inspired by the rich Balkan or Eastern European musical folklore, which was introduced by the gypsies in countless variations wherever they settled. T...

This 2nd edition has expanded to 330 annotated solos, with a supplemental solos list of 209 works. The solos have been annotated so that both, students and teacher could better select music appropriat...

The Nocturne for alto or tenor trombone and strings is part of a series of works for various brass instruments: *Postcards* for solo instrument, *3 Miniatures* with piano, *Nocturne* with strings, and...

A kaleidoscope is a short tube that can be rotated at will so that the small, colorful objects in it create infinite variations of symmetrical patterns thanks to ingenious mirroring. It evokes a rapid...