0:30 slow, dark sample cue for film/video

Produced by DG using Finale 26.3, NotePerformer 3, Audacity 3, and MeldaProduction effects

Video Cue: Ominous/Dark/Mysterious - 0:30

This track is from the album Music For Winds and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/davidgaines

Duo for flute and tuba:  4 - Lively and dramatic

Holly Schaaf, trombone
Unknown, piano

Recorded live at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, 1994

Lyric Fanfare (1994) for trombone and piano

Five Miniatures is a short duet for flute and euphonium that was my first completed composition at Northwestern University. Over the years it has been performed numerous times at high school, college, and professional recitals around the United States and a couple of times in Europe. This is a computer-generated recording using virtual instruments from the Garritan Personal Orchestra and Garritan Concert and Marching Band libraries.

Publisher: Verda Stelo Music (ASCAP)

The score is available for purchase using the sheet music store links at www.davidgainesmusic.com.

Five Miniatures for flute and euphonium

This is a brief string orchestra demo, one of many exercises I'll be creating as part of the prep for my 3rd symphony.

Equipment: ASUS G73jh laptop, Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 audio interface, Windows 10, Vienna Symphonic Library, Finale 25.2, SoundForge Audacity

Perpetuum Mobile

Perpetuum Mobile Demo

The final version of the "Perpetuum Mobile" excerpt previously uploaded as a basic demo.

Equipment:  ASUS G73jh laptop, Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 audio interface, M-Audio Keystation 49e, M-Audio BX5a nearfield monitors, Windows 10, Finale 25.5, Vienna Symphonic Library, Cakewalk Sonar X1, SoundForge Audacity

Perpetuum Mobile for strings and percussion

Perpetuum Mobile Demo - Final

A transcription for euphonium of the first movement of Bach's mighty 4-movement solo partita for flute - performed by Finale 26 music notation software, Vienna Ensemble, and the Vienna Symphonic Library euphonium with some tweaking by DG

Pictured is a Yamaha YEP-321s silver plated 4-valve euphonium, the same kind I played through high school, college, and graduate school

Partita, BWV 1013 - I. Allemande

J.S. Bach: Partita for solo flute BWV 1013, transcribed for euphonium - I. Allemande

A transcription for euphonium of the second movement of Bach's mighty 4-movement solo partita for flute - performed by Finale 26 music notation software, Vienna Ensemble, and the Vienna Symphonic Library euphonium with some tweaking by DG

Pictured is a Yamaha YEP-321s silver plated 4-valve euphonium, the same kind I played through high school, college, and graduate school

Partita, BWV 1013 - II. Corrente

J.S. Bach: Partita for solo flute BWV 1013, transcribed for euphonium - II. Corrente

A transcription for euphonium of the third movement of Bach's mighty 4-movement solo partita for flute - performed by Finale 26 music notation software, Vienna Ensemble, and the Vienna Symphonic Library euphonium with some tweaking by DG

Pictured is a Yamaha YEP-321s silver plated 4-valve euphonium, the same kind I played through high school, college, and graduate school

Partita, BWV 1013 - III. Sarabande

J.S. Bach: Partita for solo flute BWV 1013, transcribed for euphonium - III. Sarabande

A transcription for euphonium of the fourth movement of Bach's mighty 4-movement solo partita for flute - performed by Finale 26 music notation software, Vienna Ensemble, and the Vienna Symphonic Library euphonium with some tweaking by DG

Pictured is a Yamaha YEP-321s silver plated 4-valve euphonium, the same kind I played through high school, college, and graduate school

Partita, BWV 1013 - IV. Bourrée Anglaise

J.S. Bach: Partita for solo flute BWV 1013, transcribed for euphonium - IV. Bourrée Anglaise

Rough demo recording (Finale 26 using the Garritan Personal Orchestra Steinway piano) of the piano outro/coda from a new art-song-in-progress for University of Denver Lamont School of Music soprano Stacie Frost

Ho, Mia Kor' for soprano and piano - coda

Written for lyric coloratura soprano Stacie Frost of the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music, this is an art song based on a poem ("Ho, Mia Kor'" or "Oh, My Heart") in the international language Esperanto written by Dr. Ludwig Zamenhof (1859-1917), Esperanto's creator. This demo recording substitutes flute for the voice track.

Ho, Mia Kor' {demo]

Ho, Mia Kor' (2021) for soprano and piano [flute demo]

Composer David Gaines (b. 1961) has been recognized both by critics and by other artists for his imaginative orchestrations and his uniquely international and eclectic style. His music, which has been performed across the United States and Europe, includes two symphonies, concertos for baritone saxophone, trombone, and euphonium, plus a variety of chamber, choral, and electronic music.

Recordings are available in compact disc and digital download formats on the Navona Records, Verda Stelo Music, and MMC Recordings labels, the most recent of which is a newly remastered version of the long out-of-print 2001 orchestral album "The Music Of David Gaines."

A graduate of Northwestern University, American University, and Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Conservatory of Music (where he earned a doctoral degree in composition), David Gaines studied with M. William Karlins, Stephen Syverud, Jerzy Sapieyevski, Jean Eichelberger Ivey, and Robert Sirota. His awards include annual ASCAP Standard Awards since 2000 as well as first prize in the 1997 College Music Society Mid Atlantic Chapter Student Composers Competition and first prize in the song division of the World Esperanto Association's 1995 International Fine Arts Competition. The "Society and Esperanto" Foundation of Bulgaria named him an Honorary Life Member in 1994, and in 2006 the international organization Muzika Esperanto-Ligo awarded him the title of Honorary President in recognition of his usage of the international language Esperanto in his music. In 2010, the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium Competition selected Gaines’ Jubilee for euphonium and piano as one of the required semifinal round compositions.

Past faculty appointments include The New School's online Master of Media Technology degree program via Connected Education, Inc., for which he created the first Internet university-level music course for credit (on the history of electronic music technology), as well as University of Maryland University College, where he held the rank of adjunct associate professor.

Recent performances include the premiere of Free Air for trombone and organ at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas; the Esperanto choral work Povas Plori Mi Ne Plu in Saint-Nazaire, France; The Lion Of Panjshir (Symphony No. 2) in Baltimore; the piano reduction version of the Concerto for euphonium and orchestra at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia; Duo for flute and tuba at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh; Lyric Fanfare for trombone and piano at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan, the University of Oregon, Texas State University-San Marcos, and Shoreline Community College in Washington state; Five Miniatures for flute and euphonium at West Virginia University, Southwestern University, and the University of Oklahoma; and the premiere of a trombone concerto written for Robert Kozánek (principal trombonist, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra) as part of the 60th anniversary celebration of the P. J. Vejvanovský Conservatory in Kromeríž, Czech Republic.

Outside of his musical activities, Dr. Gaines has been an animal welfare activist, shelter trainer, and an advocate for ferrets and other small mammals for many years. He is a former volunteer director of legal and legislative affairs for the American Ferret Association.

David Gaines

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