Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

This world famous Latin-american evergreen is now available in an arrangement for symphonic windband and fanfare orchestra. The warm blooded, Latin-american drive has been preserved excellently.

This sparkling Bossa-Nova reminds us of the famous carnival in Rio de Janeiro.

Literally 'The Birds of Brazil”, this title refers to the Brazilian people. In Part 1 Passaros coloridos (Coloured Birds) an ocarina or panflute imitates an amazon bird. Part 2 Pomba Triste (Sad Dove)...

This is based on the famous tango 'El Choclo' by Angel Villoldo. The tango is the national dance of Argentina, but Terry has turned it into a samba, which is the national dance of Brazil, thereby runn...

Peter Kleine Schaars most skilfully uses the wind band to give a nice demonstration of the wrapped salsa rhythm. The theme is strolling right through the various instrument groups, whereas the woodwin...

Antonio Carlos Jobim (1925-1994), undoubtedly one of the greater Brazilian composers, is especially known as a songwriter. He combined modern classical touches with a suave swing rendering individual...

Luis Pasquet (1917) is an Uruguayan composer who was very active both in the world of jazz and the world of tango. After many peregrinations he returned to his home country in 1970 and founded a chamb...

The American composer Uri Hodorov studied at the famous 'Julliard School of Music' in New-York. Between 1980 and 1988 he conducted the conservatory of music and the wind band of Eilat in Israel and fr...

By means of its simplified rhythms 'Mas Que Nada' allows the starting musician to play some typical Brazilian music. Both performances by Black Eyed Peas and by Sergio Mendes have recently made this t...

A spectacular Concert Pasodoble, written by the Portuguese composer and conductor Nuno Osorio. Charachteristic hand claps, castinettes, traditional trumpet solos, broad strung out melodies, and majest...

Artis Calambria was commissioned and premiered in August 2011 by the Band of Vale de Cambra (Portugal), conducted by Gil Magalhães, on the occasion of its centennial. The work took as its starting poi...

'Sway' is the English version of 'Quién será?', a 1953 mambo song by Mexican composer and bandleader Pablo Beltrán Ruiz. The most famous version is that of Dean Martin recorded in 1954. English lyrics...

The infernal and extremely rhythmical 'Samba di Janeiro' was a hit made popular by the group Bellini years ago. A driving and exotic sounding percussion introduction is followed by a most compelling t...

Depicting 3 different dances styles, this fun-filled suite will have toes tapping and people swaying! There is plenty of exciting rhythmic drive in the initial Salsa which is then followed by the prec...

The infernal and extremely rhythmical 'Samba di Janeiro' was a hit made popular by the group Bellini years ago. A driving and exotic sounding percussion introduction is followed by a most compelling t...

Especially for the upcoming Football World Cup in Brazil 2014, Anton Burger has arranged this well known song in a samba style. If the Netherlands wants to be worldchampion, this piece shouldn't be mi...

This single from Ritchie Valens from 1958 is originally a Spanish song from Mexican folklore. Years later it was picked by Rolling Stone magazine as the only non-English song in their 500 Greatest Son...

'El Mismo Sol' is the debut single by Spanish singer and songwriter Álvaro Soler. The song was written for Soler's debut studio album Eterno Agosto (2015) and it became one of the summer hits of 2015,...

Cuban music is widely recognized as one the most richest and influential in the world. The fusion of Spanish and West African musical traditions can be heard in all it's genres that range from slow an...

Cuban music is widely recognized as one the most richest and influential in the world. The fusion of Spanish and West African musical traditions can be heard in all it's genres that range from slow an...

I composed this work in 2010 under the title "Nu-Bossa". This first version had an unusual instrumentation, including two electronic organs, so in 2012 I rewrote it as a large wind band composition an...

I composed this work in 2010 under the title "Nu-Bossa". This first version had an unusual instrumentation, including two electronic organs, so in 2012 I rewrote it as a large wind band composition an...

The infernal and extremely rhythmical 'Samba di Janeiro' was a hit made popular by the group Bellini years ago. A driving and exotic sounding percussion introduction is followed by a most compelling t...