Christmas Concert Works for Band

With "To Mother Earth", published by Symphonic Dimensions Publishing, audiences and musicians alike are treated to a deeply moving musical homage to the beauty and majesty of our home planet. This exp...

Triple Brew Concerto – A.L.E. is a work about what happens when musical seriousness and human pleasure sit at the same table – and both stay too long. The title is no coincidence: A.L.E. stands not on...

Triple Brew Concerto – A.L.E. is a work about what happens when musical seriousness and human pleasure sit at the same table – and both stay too long. The title is no coincidence: A.L.E. stands not on...

Symphony in Blue & Gold was commissioned to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Bands at my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. As a starting point, I researched and studied two signifi...

Like the Wind was commissioned by the Wisconsin Arts Board to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The piece was inspired by the poem of the same title (also commissioned by the WAB) by Wisconsin poet laur...

Baskerville is inspired by imagined scenes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, specifically the setting of the moors. During much of the story, Holmes is...

The title "Category 4" refers to Hurricane Harvey, classified as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale. This piece for Concert Band with iPad utilizes a large percussion se...

Clocktower Fanfare utilizes the familiar chimes of the Westminster Quarters heard on many college campuses. This academic fanfare works well as a concert opener, as well as at graduation and commencem...

Fairest of the Renaissance Faire takes melodic themes and motives from John Philip Sousa's march Fairest of the Fair. These melodic materials are transformed into a Renaissance context, with inspirati...

Florence and Alice Leduc were sisters who founded and ran Hastings Needle Work out of their home in Hastings, MN from 1888-1922. The story of these two young women who used their creativity and needle...

This four-movement suite features a series of vignettes from a speculative-fictional Victorian era.

The idea behind Springtime Ride is a group of young people riding bikes through their neighborhood when the weather finally warms up enough to do so. I wanted to capture the freedom and optimism that...