Growth of a composer

Minatures

This was my first full orchestral piece. It was commissioned by the Cannon Valley Orchestra in 1980. I was 19. 

Each movement of the piece was inspired by a different early 20th century technique and composer. 
I. Brass Chorale - inspired by Stravinsky and using "wrong note" harmony. 
II. Nocturne - Inspired by Ives and using twelve note chords. Scored for strings and solo trumpet. 
III. Scherzo - inspired by Bartok (maybe too literally) and using modalism and more wrong note harmony.

Three Bagatelles For Orchestra

Pastorale for Mixed Ensemble Audio

Pavane for Mixed Ensemble Lento

Brass Quartet (1981)

Written in 1981, when I was 19 years old, this piece was commissioned by the Cannon Valley Orchestra in Rice Country Minnesota. It was the first larger scale composition I wrote and the beginning of my first stylistic period.

Concert Music for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra.wav

Morning In America Orchestral Version - Flow 1

Fisrt of three short atmospheric preludes for guitar solo

Three Preludes - 1. The Wind on Mars

Three Preludes - 2. Echos in the Canyon 7- 30 - 25

Three Preludes - 3. Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws 7 - 31 - 25

Petite Variations after Kurtag 8-5-25

Pastorale for Mixed Ensemble Audio

Christopher Gordon Forbes