Concert and Contest Music for Woodwinds

With its distinct rhythmic feel and technical challenge, this exciting work for clarinet or saxophone ensemble will let your performers shine!

Colored Stones tells the story of three stones: smoky quartz, lapis lazuli, and tiger's eye. Some cultures and spiritual practices believe these stones have powerful qualities such as the ability

From across the misty moor arises a mournful flute solo, a blur of supporting tones, a pause... and a jig! This lively 6/8 folk-like tune of shared flying flute lines, tuneful countermelodies, and drones

This catchy classical-country crossover for six or more flutes and optional alto flute is a delightful tribute to the 19th- and 20th-century shoe manufacturers of New England. Filled with fun percussive

This delightful gem for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, piano, and hand percussion is a collage of fun, tranquility, and adventure. Set on an island, its waltz, ragtime, soliloquy, hornpipe, and other

Endearing and laden with motion, this poignant pop-jazz quintet for four flutes and alto flute begins with a haunting low solo, builds through countermelodies and bell tones to its tense climax, and closes

Here's another catchy Rick Hirsch original for saxophone quartet. It's based on his popular big band chart Mambo Over The Mountain, and has optional ad-lib/notated solos in all parts. Scored for

A dark love poem set against the backdrop of a gloomy autumn day. This lovely college-level work for solo flute with piano explores the full range of the instrument. It maintains a sense of floating

Whip-poor-will! Spangled with avian antics and musical treasures, this entertaining toe-tapper with lots of independent lines, syncopation, grace notes, sixteenth-note runs, and bird imitations

Nineteenth-Century Czech composer Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) spent the years 1892-1895 as the director of the National Conservatory in New York City. It was during these years that Dvorak composed his

Written for piccolo virtuoso Christine Erlander Beard, Haven for piccolo and piano was written in response to a difficult time in the performer's life. She expressed that her one escape from her

Expression for Flute is an original concert piece for flute and piano written by Jack Normain Kimmell. This masterful piece evokes a feeling of unease with its use of atonality and

Kui is a polysemous figure in ancient Chinese mythology named for the legendary musician "Kui" who invented music and dancing and for the one-legged mountain demon or rain-god variously said to resemble a

A beautiful homage to Edvard Grieg set in his richly harmonic style. Reflective and calming in character, this original solo will make a gorgeous addition to any performance recital.

By Daniel Baldwin. Ballade for Bassoon Choir is an arrangement of the middle movement of Neoteric Suite for bassoon, horn, and cello. It is a tender and passionate love ballade that

Wood Song for solo oboe (2019) was inspired by the Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) poem of the same name.  It tells of the wood thrush bird as well as the poet's honesty of kissing life "scars and

The Ballade for Bassoon and Piano, Op. 34, was composed for the bassoon studio examinations in 1912. The work is of moderate difficulty, only utilizing the upper range of the instrument to the

The score for the Riverboat Sonata bears no date or dedication, but all clues indicate that it was written for Benny Goodman sometime during the 1960s when he and Powell were both living in New