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Aeon: A Miniature Suite for Bassoon and Piano was written at the request of my very good friend, Carl Rath, who wanted a piece based on the very evocative wildlife photographs of Montana artist,

By Daniel Baldwin. Ballade for Bassoon Choir is an arrangement of the middle movement of Neoteric Suite for bassoon, horn, and cello. It is a tender and passionate love ballade that

In 2006, I was with my friend, Jeffrey Powers, at a regional horn conference. One evening we were out to dinner discussing some of his experiences playing in orchestras abroad. At the end of the

Colored Stones tells the story of three stones: smoky quartz, lapis lazuli, and tiger's eye. Some cultures and spiritual practices believe these stones have powerful qualities such as the ability

Celebrating the tiny subatomic particles that are, in essence, the building blocks of matter, this whimsical and introspective piece is divided into three sections: the main "dance" theme; a middle

Based on the poem by Pablo Neruda, En Los Bosques is a dialogue between a bassoon and prerecorded audio. The track to En Los Bosques is a mix of personally made recordings. Congos, djembe,

This set of 24 short etudes is designed to allow students to work on a variety of musical styles, articulations, meters, and tempi throughout all major and minor keys. There are also several technical

Flayed is a composer's equivalent of a free improvisation on a few motives. While the overall structure of the piece is a tidy A-B-A form, the individual phrases are often irregular or elided and

This piece should be played with straight eighth notes throughout and a fun, light feel. There are many chromatic passages to navigate, which should be fun to play at a quick but not too fast tempo. Make

Originally written for organ, this fugue by Reinhold Gliere was composed when he served on the faculty of the Kiev Conservatory. Deftly arranged for a trio of flute, oboe, and bassoon, it retains the

The Native American ghost dance is part of a religious ceremony for the regeneration of the earth and the restoration of the earth's caretakers to their former life. The religion experienced its fullest and

The contrabassoon octet version of this piece was created for the legendary Contraband ensemble that performs annually at the International Double Reed Convention. Typically conducted by the incomparable

Hidden Lake reflects the gentleness and wonder of encountering a quiet, secluded lakeshore filled with dazzlingly colored flowers amid bright sunshine. The piece ends in the quiet calmness of

Humoresque was conceived as musical play on many of the stereotypical roles of the bassoon in traditional Western European Art Music. From buoyant, lighthearted melodies to thick, dramatic

My intention in writing Impressions was to present to both the audience and the performers short and simple character pieces, each leaving very contrasting mental images of people, places, or

When I first started thinking about In Malaysia (sometime in April 2015), I immediately heard a bassoon melody playing in my mind that grew into a larger piece of music that painted my memories

Light through the Darkness is an elementary piece originally written for clarinet and adapted for bassoon. The final entrance of the main theme is an introduction to tenor clef. The piece is

Though my training as a musician and a composer is firmly rooted in western art music, more specifically within an American collegiate environment, a lot of my inspiration and musical influences come from

This lyrical showcase of perpetual motion is a colorful and energetic addition to the bassoon quartet repertoire. Full of rhythmic interest and dramatic harmonic interplay, this piece truly is a maverick

Commissioned by the Blue Ridge Bassoon Quartet (Richard Meek, Andrew Witherington, Yvonne Kershaw, and Carol Bernstorf), Millennium Fantasy is an adventure through time. This piece rotates between

Outside my San Francisco apartment window seemingly unrelated sounds fade and pan. Street traffic, fog horns, rain, emergency sirens, pedestrians, freight ships - they all seem to create their own

Mists and Sun reflects changing moods and is written in rondo (ABACA) form. The first theme (mm 5-20) should have a very ethereal, mysterious character, which is characterized by its key of g

In 2013, I had the pleasure of meeting Will Peebles, a terrific bassoonist with a passion for the small tenorbassoon known as the tenoroon. As one of my passions is writing beautiful works for instruments