Name: V by faimiss2571
Duration: 2 min 41 s
Description: Just a little silly something I wrote in an afternoon.

This is a tribute to the French Horns. Happy Father's Day!

Father's Day

Clash of the Tritones

I. The Jolly Merchant
II. The Dark Woods
III. Gypsy Cab
IV. Locking Horns
V. Hymn: Jezu, Tys caly krwia zbroczony
VI. Elliott Dreams
VII. The Fabulous Finches

Matchbook Suite for Woodwind Trio 2023

New work for symphony orchestra and two sopranos based on Celtic folklore and mythology. Text by Susan Lilley. MIDI version.

Brigid And The Banshee



2014 Gerald Wilson Award Winner: Matt Wong, Prima Luce
Independence High School / San Francisco, CA

“Prima Luce” was performed by the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra at the 57th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival on September 21, 2014.

Each year since 2005 at the Next Generation Jazz Festival Presented by Monterey Jazz Festival, the Big Band Composition Competition is open to student composers currently enrolled in high school.

Compositions are judged by college-level music faculty, and the winning composer receives the Gerald Wilson Award, named in honor of the late legendary composer, arranger and trumpeter who was a friend of Monterey Jazz Festival for many years.

The winning composition is performed on the Jimmy Lyons Stage in the Arena at the annual Monterey Jazz Festival by the Festival's all-star student band, the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, and the student composer is given the Gerald Wilson Award and a cash prize.

Matt Wong, is a pianist, composer, and arranger and is a senior at the Independence High School in San Francisco, California. Matt began playing piano at age six, and his musical influences include Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Smith, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Monty Alexander, Henry Butler, Chick Corea, and Robert Glasper.

He is currently a member of the award-winning SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Jazz Orchestra and Combo;, and the Jazzschool’s Studio Band in Berkeley. He regularly performs solo, with his own group, the Matt Wong Trio, and as a member of other ensembles in venues around the Bay Area, including the SFJAZZ Center, Yoshi’s San Francisco and Oakland, Davies Symphony Hall, the Jazzschool, the Sound Room, and Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall. He has additionally appeared at the Blue Note in New York City, Jazz Alley in Seattle, the Deer Head Inn in Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania, and the Monterey Jazz Festival.

As a composer and arranger, his big band compositions have been performed by the Realistic Orchestra, the Berklee Rainbow Band, and the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Orchestra. Some of his recent achievements in 2014 include being selected to the GRAMMY® Jazz Session Combo; winning both the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award and Berklee College of Music’s Herb Pomeroy Jazz Composition & Arranging Contest; a DownBeat Student Music Award for Original Composition; and a Outstanding Soloist Award at the 2014 Next Generation Jazz Festival. He was also selected for the 2014 Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony in Stockton, California.


Prima Luce / Performed by the 2014 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra (Complete)

Just a little silly something I wrote in an afternoon.

Virtual Zippo® Lighter

My arrangement performed by the Air Force Band of the Golden West, the Commanders, that I directed from 1991-1994. This was recorded in 1993 at Fantasy Studios in Berkley, CA.

Commanding View

Beauty And The Beast

I composed this tune back in 1979 and dedicated it to Ralph Towner. This version is from the album Awakenings by Chris Cortez. Me on Oboe, Chris on guitar, Andrew Leinhard on Piano, Glen Ackerman on bass and Joel Fulghum on drums.

Eventide by Mark Piszczek

My Arrangement of a Johnny Barranco song.  The soloist is John Wojcheihowski.  The string sections is from the Jackson Symphony.

I Found Me In You 1

Music composed, arranged and conducted by Gordon Goodwin

You Are My Sunshine (ft. Ray Charles)

Live concert with the University of Southern Mississippi.  Bill Murphy on Soprano Sax, and arranged by Bill Murphy.  Piano solo is Jeff Holmes, bass player Steve Rigazzi, drummer Bud Berthold, and of course the USM orchestra directed by Dr. Jay Dean.

Body and Soul

Composed and Arranged by Chuck Akeley.  Played by the USAF Band of the Golden West (1993).

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