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Violin Fantasy No.1 is an approx. 7.5 min work for solo violin of upper intermediate to advanced difficulty. Composed by Chase Morrison in 2025. Program Notes: Fantasy No.1 for Solo Violin had its origins as a collaboration with the TCU Dance program, from whom I was commissioned to write a solo work on my main instrument for a multi-discipline concert program in the Spring of 2025. Following the successful performance, I was captured by the intertwined relationship between the music and dance, and I decided to expand the work into three movements, with the second movement being the original piece from the dance showcase. By exploring virtually every range, timbre, technique, and mode of expression on the violin, Fantasy No. 1 seeks to musically capture the immense, fantastical beauty that comes with dance, and its keen relationship to music that I am glad to have unveiled.

Violin Fantasy No. 1

Violin Solo Unaccompanied

Four Outings is an approx. 6-minute work for solo flute of upper-intermediate to advanced difficulty. Composed by Chase Morrison in 2025. Program Notes: Much of my musical inspiration is drawn from the environment around me, especially the hum and buzz of society from the front porch of my childhood home. Four Outings depicts four different episodes of soundscapes I tend to gather from my home, illustrating the erratic nature of our world.

Four Outings

Flute Solo

Boulevard Echoes is an approx. 4.5 min work for solo trumpet of intermediate to upper intermediate difficulty. Composed by Chase Morrison in 2024. Program Notes: Inspired by the eccentric Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles and many other iconic American sights I have visited on my travels, Boulevard Echoes is a reflective piece that seeks to capture the dazzling sights and striking moods one may feel when walking down such a vibrant city street at night. Drawing on influences from jazz, blues, bossa nova, and bebop, this piece further seeks to reflect the great melting pot of American culture that so often occurs in American cities and cultural hotspots, a truly sublime slice of human spirit that very  few other world nations have and enjoy.

Boulevard Echoes

Trumpet Solo Unaccompanied

Park Story is an approx. 6.5 min. work for upper intermediate SATB Sax Quartet in three movements. For parts, please email morrisonchase@outlook.com, if desired. Composed by Chase Morrison in 2024. Program Notes: As a violinist and longtime orchestral musician, I delight in exploring the various colors and features of instruments of which I am not familiar. My first saxophone quartet, Park Story, seeks to highlight the saxophone’s impressive range of expressive tones and techniques, an instrument that I have recently found a great amount of interest in studying and writing for. Park Story is a narrative piece that recounts the experience I had upon visiting Yellowstone National Park, capturing the many “phases” the park seems to undergo throughout the day in three movements. From its enchanting sunrises (I. Sunrise) to its chaotic tourist-filled quarters (II. The Masses) to its otherworldly backcountry scenery (III. Solace at Last), Yellowstone is truly one of America’s most important icons that I believe needs to be carefully preserved at all costs. This work takes abundant inspiration from Jazz styles, the Blues, experimental Western music, and Western classical music to tell this story, reflecting the melting pot of American culture that so often meets at Yellowstone. Thank you so much and please enjoy Park Story!

Park Story

Saxophone Quartet-SATB Quartet

Stroll and Drive is an appox. 5 min. work in three movements for upper intermediate to advanced Clarinet, Violin, and Piano Trio. For parts, please email morrisonchase@outlook.com, if desired. Composed by Chase Morrison in 2025. Program Notes: Ever since I was very young, I have frequently resorted to movement as a means to unravel the storms that so often plague my mind. As a person with a constant internal monologue and a very vivid capacity for mental imagery, going on long walks/runs or drives across Southern Denton County has been the best way for me to work out the chaos of my mind, and I have grown quite fond of these so-called “mind-expeditions” throughout my life. Stroll and Drive is a two-part work that essentially seeks to capture these mind-expeditions, additionally inspired by Tom Wesselman’s sculpture Standing Tulip, and further informed by the physical environments and various interests I have cycled through over the course of my life.

Stroll and Drive

Violin, Clarinet, Piano Trio

The Gift of Defeat is an appox. 7 min. work in three movements for upper intermediate to advanced Brass Quintet. For parts, please email morrisonchase@outlook.com, if desired. Composed by Chase Morrison in 2025.

Program Notes:

For all human beings, I believe that repeated failure is necessary in order to achieve sustained success. In fact, from my experience, failure and defeat can even be gifts, as the lessons, skills, and drive attainable from them can enable us to achieve more than what we had originally thought was possible. In The Gift of Defeat, I seek to musically portray in three movements how I have wrestled and overcome repeated failures in my life, while also choosing to acknowledge the many blessings that come with failures. 
The first movement, Triumph, illustrates the somewhat naive pride that comes with embarking on a new venture, followed by the second movement, Anguish, which wrestles with the inevitable defeats and setbacks that soon arrive. The third movement, titled Pursuit, however, demonstrates the remarkable drive and passion that can be gained from learning and acceptable defeat, perhaps leading to goals once deemed unachievable.

The Gift of Defeat

Quintet

Solstice Wonders is an approx. 5 min. work for intermediate Wind Quintet. For parts, please email morrisonchase@outlook.com, if desired. Composed by Chase Morrison in 2022.

Program Notes:

For my final project in my freshman composition I class back in 2022, I was tasked with writing a rondo-style piece. Given that I also desired to expand the range of my compositional abilities, a Wind Quintet promptly ensued, and was titled Solstice Wonders given the time of year it was composed in the Winter of 2022. From its joyous holiday festivities to the dreariness of a gray January day, this work seeks to musically capture the feeling of wintertime, especially through the lens of the childhood experience. This piece was my first attempt at using many new techniques that differed from my typical string writing at the time, and thus was an important milestone in the diversification of my compositional abilities.

Solstice Wonders

Woodwind Quintet

Nighttime Glow is an approx. 8' 30" work for Pierrot Ensemble. For parts, please email morrisonchase@outlook.com, if desired. Composed by Chase Morrison in 2024.

Program Notes:
Growing up on the outskirts of a large metropolitan area, the glowing city lights from afar have been a common spectacle at night for me. Nighttime Glow aims to capture this feeling of guarded wonder I often felt when gazing at these far away lights, telling an all too frequent tale about the extreme environmental impacts humans have had on our world. Scored for the Pierrot ensemble, this piece was composed for and premiered at the 2024 Texas New Music Festival in Houston, Texas.

Nighttime Glow

Skagway Heights is a Violin, Cello, and Piano Trio of intermediate to advanced difficulty. For parts, please email morrisonchase@outlook.com, if desired. Each movement serves as a stand-alone work and can be each be performed on their own. Composed by Chase Morrison in 2024. 

Total Duration: ca. 15' 22"
I. Beckoning (7' 00")
II. Reverie and Spur (5' 32")
III. Culmination (2' 50")

Program Notes:
Skagway Heights, for piano, violin, and cello trio, is a piece I was encouraged to write in the first semester of my sophomore year of college. Having taken a trip to southeast Alaska the summer prior, I was awestruck by the overwhelming natural and historical beauty of the land, and I felt called to capture this beauty in my music. Having spent some time admiring and learning about the history of Skagway and the Klondike gold rush, this became the focus of my new work, aptly titled Skagway Heights. This piece seeks to recount a prospector’s journey to and through the mad Klondike gold rush, and makes use of a wide variety of modes and key centers to portray the many highs and lows of this journey. In three movements, I aim to provide insight into what drives humans to undertake such ludicrous feats, and why the Klondike gold rush is so meaningful in American history.

Skagway Heights

Piano Trio- Violin, Cello, Piano Trio

Sideways Chasm is a approx. 7'30" work for Solo Clarinet of intermediate to advanced difficulty. Composed by Chase Morrison in 2024. 

Program Notes:
Sideways Chasm (2024) began as a musical experiment for me during my undergraduate composition studies, as my instructor Dr. Meyn encouraged me to expand my horizons by writing a piece for a solo wind instrument. As a violinist, this task proved to be unique for me, and eventually the clarinet was chosen given its wide range and versatility. The multi-movement work that followed seeks to explore the many different facets of the clarinet’s abilities, while also seeking to capture the contrasting feelings of emptiness and contentment present in the cycle of human nature.

Sideways Chasm

Clarinet Solo Unaccompanied

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