Wind Instruments - Sheet Music

Shulamit Ran has created many powerful and sparkling works for flutists, but none for Flute and Piano until the Chicago Flute Club commissioned this work to be premiered at the 2014 NFA convention in...

Kozuch's Poem is a plaintive elegy, perfect for memorial concerts, in religious services, or as a lyric interlude in recital. Although composed with piano accompaniment, the music is also very effecti...

Ewazen's A Night in New Orleans is a tour-de-force: a 12-minute work for solo flute which is at once a three-movement sonatine, a colorful travelogue, a venture into New Orleans jazz and zydeco styles...

In Greek mythology, Daedelus was an inventor who created wings from feathers and wax, so he and his son Icarus could escape Crete by flying away. While Daedalus flew wisely, Icarus flew too close to t...

Martin Amlin's aptly-titled Morceau de Concours is a 3-minute gem commissioned by the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition as its 1987 required competition piece. Held aside by the composer u...

Introspective for most of its five minutes, Inside Out is a study in beauty drawn from lyrical simplicity. Primarily a slow cantilena with a trace of Latin feel, Inside Out erupts into an exciting dan...

For flutist Jenny Cline (whose photos are featured on the cover), Schocker assembles a set of six descriptive character studies. The titles give a hint at the musical content.

Su Lian Tan is an inspired and inspiring flutist and composer whose Autumn Lute-Song was commissioned for the Vermont Symphony's autumn tour in 1995. Tan transforms the string orchestra into a giant l...

Andrew Juniper (Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence) notes that, 'If an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object...

Philadelphia's own marvelously talented Simpson family come together in Calvary for flute and piano. World-renowned mezzo-soprano Marietta Simpson and composer / organist / vocalist Evelyn Simpson-Cur...

The poem, written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson, was set to music by his brother, John Rosamond Johnson, five years later, and was soon adopted as the Black American National Anthem. The powerful so...

Valerie Coleman's first work for flute and piano, Wish, was inspired by a poem of the same name. Wish is a dramatic tone poem for flutist and pianist alike, depicting the Middle Passage in which Afric...

Using a familiar lullaby as a starting point and base for exploration, Mockingbird takes on a rustic American feel with syncopations throughout the melody and guitar-like figurations in the piano. Sti...

A beautiful, highly melodic piece for a dynamic flute, featuring long, singing phrases. The piano accompaniment is not demanding. Schocker notes that A Gaspar was modeled after Hahn's A Chloris, in tu...

Commissioned by flutist Cindy Anne Broz in celebration of her granddaughter Elise, Dorff's For Elise is a portrait of a delightful 3-year-old, as well as a recital piece in the slow-fast model of the...

The subtitle (Visions of Hawai'i) explains the beauty of Ewazen's ALI'I SUITE, a fascinating hybrid between the composer's luscious melodic voice and Hawai'ian music traditions. The three movements ar...

Schocker's magical charm is on display in Down the Garden Path; a brief suite for solo flute commissioned as a young artist competition piece by the Texas Flute Society. Three descriptive movements in...

Amanda Harberg's Prayer is a rarity in the modern concert repertoire, beautiful romanticism built of a haunting aria for solo flute. Within the reach of younger players, the work was inspired as a pra...

GIANTESS was commissioned by the Flute New Music Consortium for simultaneous 'copremieres'

Double Espresso! was written as a gift to flutist Christina Jennings in 2017. It is a 2-minute encore piece flung forward at break-neck speed. True to the work's title, the flutist zips through a mult...

This gentle 5-minute memorial was commissioned by flutist Ray-Michael Kauffman in remembrance of his mother, who was very much a snow-loving angel. Its tender dialog is preceded by three rings on a tr...

The title Fanmi Imen is Haitian Creole for Maya Angelou's famous work, Human Family. Both the musical and literary poems acknowledge differences within mankind, either due to ethnicity, background, or...

Composed in memory of his brother; Gary Schocker's Sonata No. 9 for Flute and Piano is a serious yet tender work. The four movements are marked Affettuoso; Arioso; Marziale; and Ondeggiando - the Ital...

Composed for Jasmine Choi's premiere on the 2018 National Flute Association concerto gala, Dorff's Concertino is a 10-minute showpiece full of flash and theatricality, elegantly balanced with beauty a...