Concert Marches for Concert Band

For Free Mind, a light and dynamic piece, Marc Jeanbourquin drew inspiration from a gospel song, namely "Oh, Freedom", a post-Civil War African-American freedom song. In these times of crisis, the com...

A new era dawns-heralded by solemn brass fanfares. What does the future hold? In his work Overture to a New Age , Jan de Haan expresses on the one hand anticipation, on the other also an awareness tha...

This stately opening work begins in the low register with a broad main theme from the low brass immediately setting the tone. Gradually other sections and registers enter and despite retaining a majes...

The German composer Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) wrote his Academic Fesival Overture in the summer of 1880, together with the Tragic Overture. The occasion was the honorary degree which Brahms had re...

In The Essence of Youth the composer gives an insight into childhood and youth - inspired by his own daughter. The opening of sparking rhythms, dynamic contrasts and changes of time signature paint a...

Crescent Moon is a festive overture composed by Jan Van der Roost and was commissioned by a Japanese wind band. The piece begins solemnly in the middle register but gradually becomes brighter and more...

Alphamonic Overture is an opening piece that serves equally well at other points in a concert programme. This unique work is based on the syllables of the name of the orchestra: just as Ravel once wro...

Every year a competition for wind orchestras and brass bands takes place in Wallberg, Switzerland. Apart from a hymn and a solo piece, all orchestras also have a compulsory piece to play. The commissi...

Satoshi Yagisawa received a commission by the Hiroshima Shinjo Junior & Senior High School, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the school. The resul...

Glorioso was commissioned by, and is dedicated to, the 'Siena Wind Orchestra'. The work opens after a short aleatoric intro, with an energetic and brassy 'one tone fanfare'. The note F acts as an omni...

Glorioso was commissioned by, and is dedicated to, the 'Siena Wind Orchestra'. The work opens after a short aleatoric intro, with an energetic and brassy 'one tone fanfare'. The note F acts as an omni...

If you are looking for a musical introduction with overwhelming energetic character, lots of rhythms and a pumping bass and drum part, this is the piece you are looking for. Sparks of Fire originated...

If you are looking for a musical introduction with overwhelming energetic character, lots of rhythms and a pumping bass and drum part, this is the piece you are looking for. Sparks of Fire originated...

This work was commissioned by the Miyazaki Prefectural Police Band from Kyushu, Japan, and was premièred in 2017. Bandmaster Sano is an elder alumni of Musashino Academia Musicae, Toyko, where Satoshi...

In the summer of 2010 Dirk Brossé was appointed music director of The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. During his inauguration concert in September that year he brought a musical surprise to the cit...

This short but solemn overture was written on the occasion of the 110th jubilee of Harmonie Hautcharage, Luxembourg. It is an homage to Jean-Paul Frisch and his son Gérard (the present conductor), who...

This short but solemn overture was written on the occasion of the 110th jubilee of Harmonie Hautcharage, Luxembourg. It is an homage to Jean-Paul Frisch and his son Gérard (the present conductor), who...

This piece was composed in 2022 as a commission work for the 50th regular concert of the Takamatsu First Senior High School Symphonic Wind Ensemble in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, and was performed for t...

This piece was composed in 2022 as a commission work for the 50th regular concert of the Takamatsu First Senior High School Symphonic Wind Ensemble in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, and was performed for t...

This work was composed in 2018 as a commission to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Shibuya Youth Band, based in Tokyo, Japan. Its world premiere was conducted by the composer's mentor, Masato S...

Maximus Fanfare is a radiant, energetic work for wind band, conceived as a short, percussive overture in which the brass and percussionists are in the foreground from the outset, drawing attention wit...

Maximus Fanfare is a radiant, energetic work for wind band, conceived as a short, percussive overture in which the brass and percussionists are in the foreground from the outset, drawing attention wit...

Bright Dawn Overture was commissioned to Franco Cesarini by the Swiss Band Association as part of a project for the renewal and expansion of the artistic repertoire. “There was never a night or a prob...