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Wind Ensemble Compositions

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Aerodynamics (2009-10) Duration: 6'30" Grade: 6 Winner of a 2009 BMI Student Composer Award Honorable Mention in 2012 ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize ASIMO (2023) Duration: 4' Grade: 2/4 Commissioned by the Sycamore Community Schools Awakening (2023) Duration: 9' Grade: 4.5 Commissioned by the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band Bennu's Fire, concerto for clarinet and wind ensemble (2011) Duration: 22' Grade: 6 Commissioned by Alexander Fiterstein Winner of a 2012 BMI Student Composer Award Winner of a 2012 ASCAP Morton Gould Award Breathless, for three solo flutes and wind ensemble (2023) Duration: 4'45" Grade: 4 (Solo flute parts grade 6) Commissioned by Prairie Ridge High School December Lullaby (2017) Duration: 4'30" Grade: 3 Flex band instrumentation available Deep Underground (2024) Duration: 11' Commissioned by a consortium of orchestras and wind ensembles Ghost Town Triptych (2021) Duration: 4'10" Grade: . 5 Written for the Beginning Band Adaptable Series Hydrostatics (2020) Duration: 11' Grade: 6 Recipient of the 2020 ACCBDA James E. Croft Grant Interstellar Tarantella (2019) Duration: 1'30" Grade: 1 Commissioned by the Center Grove Middle School Central Instrumental Music Program, Ashley Carney and Samuel Fritz, Directors Lift-Off (2006) Duration: 3' Grade: 4 Winner, 3rd International Frank Ticheli Competition, category 2 Commissioned by Andrew Lane and the Sarasota Orchestra Symphony Association Mare Tranquillitatis (2008-12) Duration: 7' Grade: 4 Commissioned by a consortium of wind ensembles around the United States Chamber winds with flexible options instrumentation available Meditation on Amen (2018) Duration: ca. 4' Grade: 3 Commissioned by Ridgeview Charter Middle School Flex band instrumentation available NEOWISE (2021) Duration: 9'30" Grade: 5 Commissioned by the Trinity Symphony Orchestra Wind Ensemble version transcribed by the composer Ocean of Undiscovered Truth, concerto for solo oboe and wind ensemble (2018) Duration: ca. 22' Grade: 6 Commissioned by a consortium of 15 wind ensembles Pastorale (2021) Duration: 4' Grade: 3 Runner up, Women's Band Directors Association Composition Competition Tangents (2014) Duration: 5'30" Grade: 5 Three Ostinatos (2015) Duration: ca. 11' Grade: 4 Flex band instrumentation available Water Bear Jig (2017) Duration: 2'30" Grade: 3.5 We Are the Movers and Shakers (2015) for SATB Choir and wind ensemble Duration: ca. 6' Grade: 5 Commissioned by Missouri Western State University We Choose to Go to the Moon (2020) Duration: ca. 6'30" Grade: 4 Commissioned by the Rocky Mountain Commissioning Project Flexible Wind Ensemble and Chamber Winds Biomimicry (2019) for wind octet or saxophone octet Duration: 16' Grade: 6 Commissioned by Nomad Session, available for performance in Spring 2021 December Lullaby (2017) Duration: 4'30" Grade: 3 6-part flexible band instrumentation available Ghost Town Triptych (2021) Duration: 4'10" Grade: . 5 Written for the Beginning Band Adaptable Series Interstellar Tarantella (2019) Duration: 1'30" Grade: 1 Commissioned by the Center Grove Middle School Central Instrumental Music Program, Ashley Carney and Samuel Fritz, Directors Fully flexible instrumentation available Mare Tranquillitatis (2008-12) Duration: 7' Commissioned by a consortium of wind ensembles around the United States Grade: 4 Wind/brass octet with flexible instrumentation options available (grade 5) Meditation on Amen (2018) Duration: ca. 4' Commissioned by Ridgeview Charter Middle School Grade: 3 6-part flexible band instrumentation available Pastorale (2021) Duration: 4' Grade: 3 5-part flexible band Pulmonary suite (2004-2012) for wind quintet Duration: 18' Grade: 6 Three Ostinatos (2015) Duration: ca. 11' Grade: 4 6-part flexible band instrumentation available Water Bear Jig (2017) Duration: 2'30" Grade: 3.5 5-part flexible band instrumentation available Brass Choir Blaze Star Fanfare (2024) Duration: 2'30" for brass and percussion: 3 tpt, 4 hn, 3 tbn, (1 euph), 1 tuba, timp, crash cymbals, bass drum Grade: 4 Divertimento-Fanfare (2008) Duration: 2'30" for brass choir: 6 tpt, 5 hn, 3 tbn, 2 euph, 2 tuba Grade: 4 Divertimento-Fanfare is a bouncy rhythmic exclamation for brass, filled with swirling melodies and imitation across the ensemble. It was chosen as a winner of the 2008-2009 Dallas Wind Symphony Brass Fanfares Competition, and it was premiered on February 10, 2009 by the brass players of the Dallas Wind Symphony in the lobby of the Meyerson Symphony Center. This work is published by Lovebird Music. Listen to a midi mockup below. Mare Tranquillitatis (2008-2021) Duration: 7' brass choir instrumentation: 2 tpt, 3 hn, 4 tbn, 1 tuba Grade: 4 Solar Fanfare (2017) Duration: 2' for brass and percussion: 4 tpt, 4 hn, 3 tbn, 2 euph, 1 tuba, timp, bass drum, cymbals, snare drum Grade: 4 Spectral Fanfare (2012) Duration: 2' for brass octet and percussion: 2 tpt, 2 hn, 3 tbn, 1 tuba, timp+3 Written for the Sioux City Symphony brass and percussion Grade: 6 Take Flight! (2019) Duration: 3' for brass and percussion: 6 tpt, 4 hn, 3 tbn, 2 euph, 2 tuba, timp, snare drum, bass drum, susp. cymbal Grade: 5

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