Music For Winds
Four Cinematic Scenes
Orchestration: Large Wind Ensemble.
Film music is usually written precisely to match on screen action. It helps amplify our emotions towards what we are seeing on the movie screen. Music usually conjures up a visual image for listeners even without a specific movie playing in front of us. With this piece, let your mind wander free and see what images the music calls to mind as you listen. I had some ideas in mind when I wrote it, perhaps you'll see something completely different?
Last Flight of the Lancaster.
Orchestration: Large Wind Ensemble.
I'm pleased to release a new piece for Wind Band. "Last Flight of the Lancaster" is a rip-roaring celebration of the Lancaster Bomber, instrumental in the defense of Britain during WWII. This piece is very much in the British band style, with a march, hero's theme, nazi theme and spectacular dogfight all in a challenging, fast moving piece.
Light The Beacons!
Orchestration: Large Wind Ensemble.
A Rousing Super Hero style concert opener or perfect encore piece, this is the final movement of 4 Cinematic Scenes and makes for a thrilling standalone piece. Great melodies and an inspiring ostinato keeps all sections of the band playing throughout!
Echoes of Howth
Orchestration: Large Wind Ensemble.
A three piece suite of music inspired by a visit to Howth, a charming seaside fishing village in North County Dublin. The movements evoke memories of a mansion on a hill, musicians busking in the busy streets of the village, and traditional wooden boats setting up for and racing in a sailing regatta. The piece was premiered by North County Winds in San Diego, October 4th, 2025.
Franklin Falls
Orchestration: Large Wind Ensemble.
Premiered by the Seattle Wind Symphony, Benaroya Hall, July 3rd 2025. This is a rousing concert opener or closer. Celebrating the beauty of nature and scenery around the Pacific NorthWest, this piece will get audiences sitting up and paying attention for sure!
A Lancaster Overture
Orchestration: Wind Ensemble Grade 4.
With a lot of the same material as Last Flight of the Lancaster above, but without the difficult dogfight section and simplified elsewhere to meet Grade 4 standards, this is a march in the British Style with a heroic them and brief evil-doers theme added for variety in the center section.