Such a touching and sophisticated composition for horn! Thank you for sharing! 👏 I love the horn and tried to write my first, humble short composition for horn, which is here and I I hope is playable concerning the range 😉

Found Ann Louise Wall's "Grow" @ Carl Chapple's channel. So touching!

for wind quintet 

Ensemble ARS NOVA | Eglise Sainte Bernadette | Annecy, France | August 2023


I - birds ( here, inven ting air
II - Upon The Starry Sky
III - On The Mountain A Cry Was Heard 

Written for Péter Eötvös Foundation, European Creative Academy and Imperial Annecy Festival



Sebastian Black © 2023

Bunte Blätter (2023)

for 13 instrumentalists with obbligato oboe d'amore

Dunabia Orchestra Obuda | Sebastian Black, conductor

Budapest Music Center, Hungary | October 2023

Written for Péter Eötvös Foundation 

Sebastian Black © 2023

Like The Nightingale (2023)

Jacques-François Gallay (1795 - 1864) : Etude mélodique n.3 op.53 for Natural Horn
Played by Nicolas Roudier on a c1820 Halari
Recorded by Isabel Plaat

Gallay - Etude Mélodique n.3 op.53

Isaac Shieh: Caprice No. 1 - l'arpège (2024)
For solo natural horn (or modern horn)

Composed for Ann Louise Wall.

Shieh: Caprice No. 1 - l'arpège (2024)

I have recently become obsessed with fragments and nonlinear growth, both in and out of music. Drawings that extend beyond the frame, ‘shadow pieces’ that begin after the last measure of a work, and the branching growth and communication of mycelium all were on my mind while composing this piece. 'Not buried, but just under the surface' is complete in itself yet remains a fragment. The abstract and the unspoken hint at more beyond themselves.
This piece was composed for Garden Unit, and shares its name with a painting by Caroline Kent.
— HAB

Garden Unit
Julia Ansolabehere, bass clarinet
Cameron Roberts, tenor saxophone

World Premiere, 5 March 2023, Constellation Chicago

Not buried, but just under the surface (premiere)

Hailing from New Zealand, Isaac is a London-based hornist; specialising in historical and contemporary performance. Regarded as one of his generation’s leading exponents on period horn playing and an ‘era-defining’ musician, his work takes him around the globe; exploring repertoire and instruments from early 18th Century through to the present day.

Shieh: Caprice No. 1 - l'arpège (2024)

Isaac Shieh

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