For a long time I wanted to compose a concerto for a single percussionist and ensemble. My main motivation was educational: I had not done it before and I wanted to explore the percussion world. I chose chamber orchestra for practical reasons in order to make it more flexible an…
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Dr. Emre Araci is a notable Turkish composer, music historian, and conductor. The European musical practice of the Ottoman court is his academic focus. He discovered numerous compositions, which were written in the 19th century European style by several Ottoman sultans. Dr. Arac…
To write concertos means placing oneself in the occidental tradition. At the same time, that implies a great challenge as one confronts a musical form worked throughout previous centuries by many composers. How to write concertos in twenty-first century? How to approach a well e…
Chief Master Sgt. Floyd Edwards Werle was the head of the composing and arranging staff of The United States Air Force Band for thirty-two years. His lifetime output included 513 arrangements, 23 transcriptions, and more than 166 church hymns—in addition to his 280 original comp…
Chasing Yiddishkayt: Music for Accordion, Klezmorim Concertino, Strings, and Percussion is a four-movement composition that combines the idioms of klezmer music with aspects of serialism. I aimed to infuse the piece with a sense of yiddishkayt: a recognizable, rooted Jewishness.…
My interest in the history and problems of the Bulgarian composers' school and specifically in the establishment and development of the Bulgarian violin concerto goes far back in my musical career. The Bulgarian composers and their concertos had essential contribution to my deve…