For SATB Choir and Snare Drum. April 26, 2011, Baker University Chamber Choir, Dr. Matthew Potterton, Director. The text is taken from an 18th century English poem by John Scott of Amwell and deals with an anti-war motif. The piece is dissonant throughout and thus requires educated voices. The work has a duration of about 3 minutes.

The Drum

For Clarinet Choir. August 3, 2014 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest© 2014 Shaver Theatre – LSU Campus Baton Rouge, LA by Clarinet Madness (Clarinet Choir) Nancy Williams, Director; David Martinson, Conductor. Grenadille du Trisque (follement) is a bouncy, fun, madly enjoyable work which features the Eb clarinet and 1st Bb clarinet players, while at the same time providing interesting and challenging material for the rest of the choir. The piece is scored for 7 voices (Eb, 1-2-3 Bb, Eb Alto, Bb Bass, Eb Contra Alto) with a Bb contrabass part in place of the Eb contra alto if desired. The piece was commissioned by Clarinet Madness, a community-based clarinet choir in Rapid City, SD, and is in the "difficult but playable" range for most college choirs.

Grenadille Du Trisque (Follement)

For Saxophone Quartet. April 3, 2009, The Four Saxmen of the Apocalypse (Samuel Roble – Soprano, Nick Conte – Alto, Shane Traughber – Tenor, Robert Eaton – Baritone) – Texas State University – Dr. Todd Oxford, Quartet Coach. All voices must double on Alto Sax in a plaintive middle section. Dance-like motives are highlighted in the entire work, which closes with a frenzied tutti passage. The work has a duration of about 7 minutes.

Saxophone Sonnet

For Violin and Clarinet. January 30, 2014, El Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel Castillo de Sevilla (Seville, Spain) (Violin, Sophia Victoria Quarenghi; Clarinet, Carlos Guillén González). A quirky, fun, accessible duet that trades melodic and contrapuntal material throughout. It makes an interesting change of pace for the usual violin or clarinet recital with a duration of about 5 minutes.

Fractals is a 5 movement work for brass quintet (2nd trumpet doubling on flugelhorn) of graduate level difficulty. The piece employs a wide variety of colors, sonorities, tempi, and styles. The highlight of the work is the 4th movement which is a tuba solo. This was performed first on May 24, 2015, in Acworth, Georgia by an exciting young brass group in the Atlanta area, The Spectacle Brass. The performers are – John Thomas Burson, Trumpet/Flugelhorn; Justin Rowan, Piccolo Trumpet (Movement II); David Anders, Horn; and Michael Lockwood, Trombone. 

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Fractals Mvt. 1

Triangle is a lively, highly contrapuntal trio for clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, and viola.  Each voice demands a graduate-level mastery of technique, and the clarinetist is also required to be fluent on bass clarinet. The interplay between the instruments is clever and entertaining.  The piece has a duration of 8 minutes.

Triangle

Innovative, Fresh Music by William Funk, composer. Kansas composer William Funk is a former Artist in Residence at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas and former adjunct faculty member at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas. In addition to his composition work, he is a freelance trumpeter in the Kansas City area. His passion is creating new works utilizing new forms related to Mandelbrot set theory and self-similarity.

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