Spoons (2016) - Original Score - Comedy

Selections from my score to 2017 feature film, "The Man From Outer Space."

The Man From Outer Space (2017) - Original Score - Adventure

A fanfare based on a well-known hymn for Easter Sunday. Premiered April 17, 2022 at First United Methodist Church of Pasadena, CA.
Aaron Shows, organ
The Modern Brass Quintet
Marie Matson, timpani

"Fanfare on EASTER HYMN"

A Fanfare Prelude premiered on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024 at First UMC of Pasadena

Risen Indeed: an Easter fanfare (2024)

Sequoias

Try Again (Baggage Claim, 2023)

Stained Glass

Nothing But Blue Skies

Flowers

A brass fanfare premiere on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025. Recorded live with a brass quintet at First United Methodist Church of Pasadena, conducted by me!

Sounds of Joy (2025)

Works by my former piano and organ teacher, Harald Rohlig (1926-2014).

Sonatina For Organ - Mov 1 - Harald Rohlig

When this song gets stuck in your head, the only way I get it to go away is to play it. I did that and decided to press "record," then added some bass and drums...

Sample Libraries Used: Imperfect Samples Walnut Steinway Grand, Orange Tree Bass, and Analogue Drums Pizzaz.

The Holly and the Ivy

From the Orgelbuchlein. Recorded at West Market Street UMC in Greensboro, NC on 4-1-16.

If Thou But Suffer, God to Guide Thee - BWV 642 - J.S. Bach

First played at a Good Friday service in 2015, I finally got around to recording it a year later. Written as an homage to my first piano/organ teacher, Harald Rohlig, this piece incorporates some of the parallelism so prevalent in his music for trumpet & organ. Recorded at West Market Street UMC on 4-1-16.

Postlude on "What Wondrous Love Is This" - A. Shows

Recorded at West Market Street UMC in Greensboro, NC, on June 29, 2016.

Fugue In D Major - BWV 532 - J.S. Bach

Appreciate This Jazz

Body Pillow

Bad Yelp

Nunchucks

"Spoons" Main Title

Selections from the digital series "Jess Archer Versus" - 2016

Turners New Whistle

Selections from the original score to "As The Crow Flies" (2014)

End Credits

Heading Out

One of the lesser known Christmas tunes from the Bing Crosby Christmas record that I've always enjoyed. Side note: The recorder and accordion were played and recorded live by me!

Christmas In Killarney

Main Titles

Out Of The Water

Thank Me Later

More Desert

The Stream

Taking Female Two

Convince Me Pt 1

Selections from my first publication, "Sounding Joy: Organ Settings for Christmas" by Augsburg Fortress (June 2017)

These are all recorded by me on January 15 of 2018 at First United Methodist Church of Pasadena, CA on the 1924 Aeolian Skinner Organ.

Fanfare on "Sleepers, Awake!"

Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

From Heaven Above To Earth, I Come

Comfort, Comfort, Ye My People

The Cherry Tree Carol

A heroic fanfare based on the Easter hymn, "Welcome, Happy Morning!" to the tune FORTUNATUS. Performed by the Modern Brass Quintet, Aaron Shows (organ), and Marie Matson (percussion). Recorded live during the Easter worship service on April 1, 2018, at First United Methodist Church of Pasadena.

Fanfare on "Welcome, Happy Morning"

Car Commercial Demo

From marriage to the end of a relationship. This was the opening track from the feature film "Night Into Day."

Prelude (Main Theme from "Night Into Day")

The ends credits music from the feature film, "Night Into Day"

End Credits Suite (from Night Into Day)

Two hunters follow the trail, which leads them to the lakeside, where they lose the scent.

By the End of the Day (from "Hunter's Weekend")

A reharmonized arrangement of the classic song from Irving Berlin's "White Christmas."

Snow

An arrangement of this popular holiday hit in a mixture of ragtime, jazz, and medieval music. Featuring an alto recorder and a melodica.

Happy Holidays

A folk arrangement of a lesser known 19th-century carol from Cornwall that just might carry you off to the wintery coasts of the Celtic Sea...

Aaron Shows

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