Concert and Contest Music for Woodwinds

This is a straightforward yet beautiful arrangement of the famous tune.  It will require sensitive musicianship and good technique, but is such a fine piece, it practically plays itself.

Already a long-standing rite of passage in the contrabassoon repertoire, Dorff has revisited and adapted In a Deep Funk for solo bass clarinet, for Barbara Haney to premiere at the 2014 ICA

Originally composed for trumpet and piano, A Song from the Heart is one of those rare works that immediately captures performers and listeners in a wide range of settings. A beautiful melodic solo

Legends of the phoenix are found in stories from ancient Egypt and Greece. While each culture possesses a range of stories encompassing the myth, these tales tend toward similar traits: a sacred bird with

Hall of Ghosts was composed in 2020 during the Covid lockdown period. Evocative of imagined spirits in an empty concert hall, the music pits dramatic silences, amid searching and plaintive phrases

Responding to demand from clarinetists and saxophonists, Schocker created this adaptation of his best-loved work, customizing it for the instruments colors and contrasting registers. Composed as a recital

Faure's most celebrated orchestral work, the Pavane is well-known for its haunting flute solo - as beautiful as it is challenging at times in the authentic key of F-sharp minor. Within one

The six Brandenburg Concertos are among the most familiar of Bach's works. Among the six, the third is a wondrous experience for performers and audience, with its fascinating use of

The classic depiction of Death and the dancing dead is arranged by Thorne for a clarinet choir of nine instruments. Death's violin solo is here, along with the immediately-identifiable themes of this spooky

True to its title, this is a rustic and dreamlike idyll full of lush lyricism and atmospheric surprises. With a range from low E only up to C3, bass clarinetists of all levels will enjoy its warmly

The Famous set of dances by Norway's greatest composer were written for piano duet. Grieg later created a piano solo version, but refused to orchestrate the set. After some study of Grieg and his music,