Very excited that the North Texas Euphonium Quartet has released their new album, Machines, including my piece Goldberg's Machine. I had watched some livestreams of them playing this before, but I was absolutely blown away by the recording. Their signature attention to detail and musical nuance was on full display. Be sure to check this album out, on iTunes, Spotify, and CD!
Some new projects coming down the line that I'm very excited for.
First up is a piece for Contrabass Trombone and Recording, the brainchild of lead consortium member Shelby Kifer. This is going to be a raucous piece featuring drum beats by Christian Teele, son of the late legendary bass trombonist Phil Teele of the LA film scoring scene. The piece will also be dedicated to Phil. Next is a book of 15 Advanced "Performance" Etudes for Euphonium. These are meant to be challenging etudes that push musicality and technique, without being impossibly hard. Each etude will also function as a standalone unaccompanied work for recitals. Also in the works is a new duet for Euphonium, Tuba, and Recording, utilizing elements of rock, jazz, metal, and electronic styles. If you heard my recent work for solo euphonium and recording, Mandelbrot's Dream, the flavor will be similar. There aren't many pieces out there for this combo, and with electronic accompaniment, this will make an ideal piece for guest artists to play with resident studios! Apart from more brass music, I'm work on music for concert band as well! In other news, over the weekend I happened to see that the extremely talented euphoniumist Dr. Gail Robertson was in town, and got to meet up for dinner with her and her incoming student Thomas Janssen. It was so awesome to get to sit down with someone I've been listening to since I was in high school! |
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