Invited by a fellow composer to write a quintet for a local (Chicago) woodwind group. Until experimenting with the medium, was never excited about classical woodwind quintet music as a listener, finding it a bit colorless and treble-centric I suppose. My solution included some doubling on cor anglais, bass clarinet, and piccolo, and lots of stopped horn to expand the usual range and color. I'm indebted to Christie Vohs (clarinet) and the San Benedetto Winds for doing the first workshopping of this piece, and to Charlotte Cerminaro (horn) and Susan Telford (flute) for arranging its premier public performance.

Quintet for Winds

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