Intermediate Sheet Music from Editions Bim

Showdown at the Hoedown, written for Ronald, Avis and Aaron Romm, is a light-hearted tribute to the genre of 'cowboy' music. It's a lively mixture of Bach, Copland, a little jazz, and, hopefully, a li...

2 piccolo trumpets and string orchestra or organ Exact instrumentation: Strings: 8.6.6.5.4

2 trumpets and chamber orchestra or piano Exact instrumentation: 2.2.2.2-2.0.0.0-strings

When Claude Rippas asked me to compose something for his trumpet ensemble, I was immediately fascinated by this unusual formation. I had the idea of using the five trumpets in such a way as to create...

In 2008, Branimir Slokar commissioned a concert-opening work for his quartet from Jean-François Michel. Five years later, for the 40th anniversary (1973-2013) of the famous ensemble, Slokar renewed hi...

A few years ago, I had arranged the well-known 'Six Canonical Duets' by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) for tuba and/or euphonium and greatly admired the skillfulness of this style of writing. When...

A few years ago, I had arranged the well-known 'Six Canonical Duets' by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) for tuba and/or euphonium and greatly admired the skillfulness of this style of writing. When...

Double Jeu is a four-movement work inspired by the 4 suits of a card game: 1st diamonds, 2nd clubs, 3rd coeur, 4th spades. It was written for the double bass players Richard Dubugnon and Thierry Barbé...

Double Jeu is a four-movement work inspired by the 4 suits of a card game: 1st diamonds, 2nd clubs, 3rd coeur, 4th spades. It was written for the double bass players Richard Dubugnon and Thierry Barbé...

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...