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The idea came to me suddenly: It would be Undine or Ophelia, in any case with a connection to water. When I reread the two stories, I decided on Shakespeare's heroine Ophelia, a touching portrayal of...

The brevity of my Quatuor No. 1, op. 60 and the little piece Alligun were probably the incentive to undertake the composition of a more extensive string quartet at an advanced age. It seemed urgent to...

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....

2 Spielpartituren Complex , commissioned by the French tubist François Thuillier, was written in the autumn of 2011. It was preceded by a collaboration between the composer and the tubaist that began...

This work for trumpet/flugelhorn, horn, and tenor trombone was written in 2002 on commission from Dorothy Duncan as a gift to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of her brother, trumpet player James Dunca...

Triangles was composed in 1978 for the members of Pentagon, a brass quintet based in New York City of which John Stevens was the tubist. The work was premiered in January 1979 on that group's debut co...

Six Miniatures was composed in May 2006 and premiered by the Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble the following July, at the Usdan Center for the Performing Arts on Long Island, NY. The six short movements ar...

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...

Igor's Dance is a virtuosic, molto allegro parody of the Ballerina's Dance from Igor Stravinsky's Petrouchka, with the quintet parts including some isolated musical elements, such as single rhythmic f...

Salutations, the first of the 4 miniatures, was originally written as a concert opening for the US Army Brass Quintet, hence the very free military signals that appear here and there. The other moveme...

The four untitled movements of this work exhibit all of the same characteristics: within archaic Renaissance polyphonic musical structures (for instance, in the style - but not the music - of the open...

As the title points out, my intention was to take advantage and to explore the numerous characteristics of the different instruments constituting the brass quintet, especially their wide dynamic resou...

Ruperto Chapí (1851-1909) was a Spanish composer, and co-founder of the Sociedad General de Autores (S.G.A.E.) He wrote a large number of symphonic, band, choral and chamber works, as well as zarzuela...

Spanish Dances (Parody IX) was commissioned by the Louisville Brass and awarded First Prize at the 2003 International Trumpet Guild Composition Competition. The Louisville Brass gave the premiere perf...