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…
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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…
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…
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…
In addition to contributing to all major compositional genres, Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) was a prolific composer of choral music. In total, Schnittke's output contains eighteen pieces for chorus plus two stage works that use a tape of mixed chorus. A detailed survey of Schnit…
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.…
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…
My percussion concerto is scored for percussion soloist, chamber orchestra, and electronics. It explores virtuosity of performance on both Chinese and Western percussion instruments, the timbral interplay between acoustic and electroacoustic sounds, and the art of storytelling i…
The modern oboist is frequently called upon to perform concertos from the Classical Era. Often, this means performing the Oboe Concerto in C; K. 314 by W.A. Mozart. Theorists and oboists alike have extensively researched the form, history, and performance practice of this work t…
This document concerns the ways in which the relationship between the violin and orchestra in the violin concerto has changed in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Using the concerti of Unsuk Chin (2001), Jennifer Higdon (2008), and Esa-Pekka Salonen (2009) I show th…