Acts 10

This suite is in fact a piano trio in miniature. The whole composition lasts for approximately nine minutes with three movements entitled Dawning, Courting, and

These four trios for violin, cello and piano can only be classified as 'parlor music.' The collection is arranged in order from easiest to the most difficult. They are excellent not only for students

This short piano trio (approximately six minutes) is reminiscent of those composed by Anna Priscilla Risher during the early 20th century. Following standard A-B-A form, the B theme stands out as a duet

These five compositions can be performed individually or as a set of five. From a technical standpoint, the pieces run the gamut from a difficulty level of intermediate to advanced. The musician is expected

Boris Koutzen began studying violin with his father at age seven. When he was seventeen the family moved to Moscow where he enrolled in the Moscow Conservatory. He studied violin with Leo Zetlin and

Polaris, otherwise known as the North Star, is one of the brightest stars in our sky. This piece is a dramatic ride through the imagination, from wondrous and intimate to heavy and percussive. Polaris

Prayer originated as an interlude for flute and piano in my choral setting of Psalm 19, Requiem, written in memory of Marie Mountain Clark. She was a friend and former principal

This composition is a true tour de force. Unlike the majority of my chamber music, which is usually aimed at intermediate and/or more advanced students, this work is geared for the most gifted students and

The manuscript of this Prelude pour 4 Bassons ou Violoncelles bears the date 1902, during the time Gilson was professor of composition at the Brussels Conservatory. There are few original

Dedicated to the composer's parents, this piece reminisces on all the various memories of life, good and bad, when parents tenderly molded their children into who they are today.

Two Memorials is based on two tunes from the 1835 hymnal Southern Harmony. The sketches against these two hymn melodies, "In Adam We Have All Been One" and "What Wondrous Love," were

The Pastorale (No. 1), believed to be an original work, was rescored by the composer in a variety of instrumentations. The original version for flute, cello, and piano is the most harmonically complex and