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Tip of the Spear (2019) for trombone choir (8 parts: 6 tenor, 2 bass)
Heroic Brew (2018) for horn choir (6 parts)
Moonlight Rhapsody (2016) for oboe, viola, and piano
Up To No Good (2015) for woodwind quintet
Homage (2014) for trumpet sextet
Inosculation
(2014) for string quartet
Compressionism
(2012) for trumpet sextet

Duration: 5 ’45”

First two score pages (pdf)

Excerpt 1            Excerpt 2             Excerpt 3            Excerpt 4

Compressionism was premiered at the 2012 International Trumpet Guild Conference at Columbus State University in Georgia.  It was commissioned by Eric Swisher, coordinator of the conference’s Festival of Trumpets concert for inclusion on that program.

The piece takes its name from the four-voice progression that begins the piece and is one of its main ideas, repeated and manipulated throughout.  The top two voices in the progression move down chromatically while the bottom two move up, contracting the space they all occupy – see the boxed passage below.        

     

When the piece later reaches Rehearsal B, it is simply a fast variation of the opening idea.  The quicker tempo and the repetition of the repeated notes reinforce the effect of compression, squeezing the piece forward into the next section.

Score and parts available for sale at Triplo Press.

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Ice Town (2009) for trumpet sextet
OK, Then AL (2005) for brass quintet
The Belfry (2001) for woodwind quintet and vibraphone
The Last Sunset (2000) for trumpet, trombone, and piano
Poetics (1999) for flute, clarinet, bassoon, piano, and marimba
What Love Tells Me (1999) for 2 horns and organ
Prelude and Scherzo (1995) for brass quintet


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