Eventually, this page (and more as needed) will offer opportunities to find out about much of my music and listen to sound samples. These are the works I have had time to post here so far.
Please note that all of my music is published by Cimarron Music Press unless otherwise noted.
CONCERT BAND
Sandburg Reflections: I wrote this for the Coast Guard Band and soprano Tracy Thomas for the Band’s 2002 appearance at Chicago’s Midwest Clinic. It is an original setting for mezzo and wind ensemble of four Carl Sandburg poems: Good Babies Make Good Poems, The Fog, Ezra (Pound), and Jazz Fantasia. The recording is the live performance from Midwest 2000.
Sandburg Reflections is published by Alfred Publishing and can be found here.
Con Sabor Espanol came into being in an odd way; I wrote it as a conducting sight-reading exercise for the auditions to choose my successor as Director of the Coast Guard Band. It’s full of mixed meter and other knotty little conducting challenges, but it turned out to be a piece I enjoy doing with all kinds of groups. This recording is from my final concert as Director of the Coast Guard Band.
Bright-Colored Dances is a dance suite for wind ensemble, based on the colors I “saw” when I was conceptualizing the four movements. Ranging from simple to complex, easy to difficult, it encases both color and motion in a way that speaks to me. I’ve played this with everyone from regional bands to the pros.
Con Sabor and the Dances are published by Cimarron Music Press and can be found here.
I’ll get more music up here as the site grows. In the meantime, enjoy!