Through my good friend, and duo partner Lee Ferguson, I met the composer James (‘Jake’) Romig. https://www.jamesromig.com

They are both Alumni of the University of Iowa, and Lee has championed his work ever since those days- performing chamber works in the USA, at BISYOC Summer course concerts and with the Black Forest Percussion Group. Jake also, naturally, wrote a duo Contour piece.

'MICROSONNET II, for unaccompanied trumpet, was written in December 2000 for Stephen Altoft. The work is an adaptation of a page from SONNET 2, for for solo flute. It features two pitch-strands of counterpoint -- the first a more or less standard string of twelve-tone isomorphs, the second a string of pitches produced by the modulus array, a technique derived to produce modulus-based unequal pitch repetition (providing momentary "tonicizations" of various pitches). In this work, the counterpoint between the two vastly different collections of pitches can be heard explicitly in sections where the music is actually written in two voices, and the trumpet-player must expertly juggle two lines at once.' (JR)

Post Production: Donald Bousted

James Romig - Microsonnet II (2001)

Trumpeter specialising in contemporary music, and especially microtonal music.

James Romig - Microsonnet II (2001)

Stephen C. Altoft