CONSORTIUM OPPORTUNITY

New Grade 3!

I’m finally going to write a new ‘grade 3’ band piece this fall! I don’t usually organize my own consortiums like this, but I really wanted to make something that was open to everybody who might want to be a part of it. Anybody interested?

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WHAT’S NEW, BAND?

Desert Sage

Over the last two years, I’ve fallen in love with the past and have really wanted to write a suite based on American folk songs. In this collection, which I’ve called Desert Sage, are settings of four traditional “cowboy” songs: A Cowboy’s Life, Goodbye, Old Paint, Bury Me Not, and Rye Whiskey

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WHAT’S NEW, ORCHESTRA?

Wild Skies

Listen to this brand new piece for full orchestra performed by the 2022 Arizona All-State Orchestra conducted by Maestro Jeffrey Grogan.

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WHAT’S OLD?

Reckoning

Reckoning began as a musical underdog story: an unlikely hero’s determination to right certain wrongs that had been brought upon him or her in the past and that hero’s ambition to prove that they are “a force to be reckoned with.”

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TESTIMONIALS

“honestly just about every piece i played in middle school was garbage but this was the one exception”

Alex G

The Cave You Fear for Wind Ensemble

“They’re making me reaudition on the mallet part for All State, R.I.P. hands.”

Charlie

Dreamland for Wind Ensemble

“City Trees will probably be stuck in my head for the rest of eternity and I am perfectly okay with that.”

Rachel M.

City Trees for Wind Ensemble

“One of the only few songs where it’s OK for you to squeak on saxophone”

Jayson S.

The Cave You Fear for Wind Ensemble

“This song literally gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it”

no I refuse

Saturn Returns for Wind Ensemble

“This is the spiciest bass clarinet piece ever”

C4Sum

Tarantula for Bass Clarinet

“My friend played this piece as a flute and she said this piece was evil.”

Indigo S.

Joyride for Wind Ensemble

“I bought this for my band director and slapped it on his desk.”

Katie C.

City Trees for Wind Ensemble

“I play the bass drum for this and let’s just say I feel very cool”

IV Estridge

The Cave You Fear for Wind Ensemble

“I AM NOT PREPARED FOR THIS MADNESS, MICHAEL”

Jonathan W.

Famishius Fantasticus for Wind Ensemble

“I loveeee this piece! No words can describe how much I enjoyed playing this my 8th grade year. I wish I could rewind time”

Leeah A.

Shine for Wind Ensemble

“This makes me feel like everything is okay”

Victoria K.

Saturn Returns for Wind Ensemble

“‘Merry Christmas! It’s demons!’ – my band director”

Aspiring F.

Shadow Rituals for Wind Ensemble

“BRO OUR BASS DRUM PLAYER PLAYED AS LOUD AS HE COULD FOR THIS SONG 😭 it slapped so hard but the judges hated it”

Eren C.

The Cave You Fear for Wind Ensemble