This is a little teaser from a concerto I'm writing for my twin brother who is a horn player.

Horn Concerto 1 Mm2 (teaser)

This is a piece that I wrote for myself and some friends to perform at our schools composers recital. 

Tango For Tuba Quartet

A piece I wrote this past summer for saxophone quartet. I wrote this piece to embody my love of Latin music. I like to think of this as a contemporary 
Bossa Nova. This piece has a really nice groove that is sure to catch the audience's attention 
as well as being fun to perform.

Latin Paradise

This a piece I wrote for my theory class to imitate the impressionist style. It is a song for solo tenor, string quartet, and harp. The lyrics come from a poem of the same name by Sarojini Naidu.  

From groves of spice, 
O'er fields of rice, 
Athwart the lotus-stream, 
I bring for you, 
Aglint with dew 
A little lovely dream. 


Sweet, shut your eyes, 
The wild fire-fiies 
Dance through the fairy neem; 
From the poppy-bole 
For you I stole 
A little lovely dream.


Dear eyes, good-night, 
In golden light 
The stars around you gleam; 
On you I press 
With soft caress 
A little lovely dream.

Cradle Song

This piece was written as a ﬁnal project for my Theory 4 class. The piece is in a post-tonal style as that was the requirement. Also per requirement, this piece uses four (4) permutations of a hexachord that was designed to sound
like the natural Lydian mode.

Sketch No 1

This piece was written as a ﬁnal project for my Theory 4 class. The piece is in a post-tonal style as that was the requirement. Also per requirement, this piece uses four (4) permutations of a hexachord that was designed to sound
like the natural Lydian mode. 

Sketch No. 1 (strings)

This concerto is a very artistic result of a dare. I would always make of the repertoire that so many horn players would because was, ‘Mozart this… Strauss that…’, and in my opinion, it all sounded the same; it was getting out of hand. My brother, Dilon, challenged me. He told me that if I was going to rail on horn players and horn music so badly for sounding the same, then I ‘better be able to write something better’. I accepted the challenge not expecting that it would be something that I was going put so much time and energy into it. I’m glad I did, though, because even though this started as a challenge, I can now call it a gift to my brother… and to myself since it has been a lot of fun.

Concerto For Horn, Piano And Percussion

This piece is for string orchestra and what I like to consider "unique" concertino. I wrote this to pay homage to one of my favorite composers Astor Piazzolla. This is meant to be very fun, but is also rather difficult. 

The concertino instruments are soprano sax, euphonium, bass clarinet, contrabass, and piano.

Perpetuation

Perpetuation (Orchestra Reading)

Tango No. 2 (live)

Tango No. 2

I am currently a senior at Columbus State University’s Schwob School of Music. I have been writing music since I was in the 7th grade. Before coming to the Schwob School of Music, I did not write music frequently, but since being here, I have written several works, ranging from chamber ensembles such as tuba quartets and wind quintets to much larger works for orchestra, wind ensemble, and even brass ensemble. 

Dalian Bryan, Composer

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