Percussion Ensemble Sextets

This arrangement of Coventry Carol, a traditional English carol based on a biblical play entitled The Pageant of the Shearman and Tailors, is a delicate and haunting treatment. Textures

A Dance On Three Legs is a percussion ensemble piece with constantly shifting meter, hence the title. It also has constantly changing texture and dynamics to add interest.  Six players

Daydreams features several memorable melodic lines and an overarching A-B-A structure that provides harmonic depth as well. The addition of active hand drum grooves makes for a complete musical

An upbeat and comical ragtime piece arranged for six- to eight-piece percussion ensemble complete with siren whistle and a washboard.

Francisco Perez wrote Ephemera following a two-year hiatus from composing any original percussion music. Inspired by the grit of his students at Lamar University over the eventful 2020-21 school

True to its name, Epic Proportions is a sextet with bombast and tenacious energy. The piece moves through many feels and time signatures with rhythmic motives derived from the syllables of its

A very powerful molto perpetuo which makes a great concert opener or closer. Feels like the train is about to come off the tracks! Lots of interlocking rhythms and powerful unisons.

Written to utilize the many possibilities of the tambourine, John Alfieri's Fanfare for Tambourines is a treat for both the ears and eyes. It is scored for six players, and requires

Major work from one of the masters!

A medium-level sextet for pitched and non-pitched percussion.

A sextet arranged for traditional African drums, with suggestions offered for Western substitutions. The piece is based on three dances of the Ghana Dance Ensemble.

Scored for chimes. bells, 2 vibraphones, and 3 marimbas

William Bolcom composed Graceful Ghost as one of three rags for piano in the early 1970's. Written in memory of his father, it is now considered his most famous work. In this adaptation for

From Robert Cohen's Homeland Security Suite for Percussion, Green Alert is the lowest level on the Homeland Security Advisory System, a level that is unlikely to be attained.