[Here's a streamable quasi-mastered mp3 version of the BCMS quintet, eventually to be released on an all-BH chamber music CD in 2017.]

performed and recorded by Bellingham Chamber Music Society

Kimberly Breilein, flute; Pat Nelson, bassoon; Laura Speck Camacho, violin; Thom Mayes, double bass; Milica Jelača Jovanović, electric piano; Melanie Sehman, conductor.

Four Pieces for mixed quintet (2015)
I streets
II fresco
III chaconne
IV graffiti/murmur/drift

As time passes I find myself more and more interested in unpredictable forms. Ideally I want my pieces to be journeys to get lost in, with strange surprises and a kind of magical logic tying things together into a satisfying whole. Composing ‘Four Pieces’ was a balancing dance around a few solid themes, a few basic motives, and a few abstract ideas. ‘streets’ plays with shifting textures and tonal centers. ‘fresco’ is an exploration of sonority and timbre. ‘chaconne’ is a simple variations conceived on the electric piano. The last movement is a triptych of contrasting panels: a feisty chase; a mechanical meditation; and a roadside reverie.	-BH

Four Pieces for mixed quintet (2015)

performed and recorded by Bellingham Chamber Music Society

Kimberly Breilein, flute; Pat Nelson, bassoon; Laura Speck Camacho, violin; Thom Mayes, double bass; Milica Jelača Jovanović, electric piano; Melanie Sehman, conductor.

Four Pieces for mixed quintet (2015)
I streets
II fresco
III chaconne
IV graffiti/murmur/drift

As time passes I find myself more and more interested in unpredictable forms. Ideally I want my pieces to be journeys to get lost in, with strange surprises and a kind of magical logic tying things together into a satisfying whole. Composing ‘Four Pieces’ was a balancing dance around a few solid themes, a few basic motives, and a few abstract ideas. ‘streets’ plays with shifting textures and tonal centers. ‘fresco’ is an exploration of sonority and timbre. ‘chaconne’ is a simple variations conceived on the electric piano. The last movement is a triptych of contrasting panels: a feisty chase; a mechanical meditation; and a roadside reverie.	-BH

Four Pieces for mixed quintet (2015)

bruce hamilton