Beasley, Rule United States
(b Texarkana AR, 12 Aug 1931)
Music for Brass 1972
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Quintet for Brass 1975
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Wiki Category: Women Composers
Bailey, Judith Margaret
United Kingdom
(b Camborne, 18 Jul 1941)
Judith Margaret Bailey Website
- Little Overture, Op. 29 for brass quintet
- Sou’wester, Op. 58 for brass quintet
- Cormoran for brass band
- Trencrom for brass band
- March for brass band
- Skyline for brass octet
- Jack Tar for brass quartet
- Tubalate Tanze for tuba quartet
- Three Pieces for brass
- Music for Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle
Azarova, Svitlana
Azarova, Svitlana Ukraine / Netherlands
(b Ukraine, 9 Jan 1976)
Onderdrukte Haast (Suppressed Haste) 2007
5’
Arakaki, Renee
United States
(b 1957)
Synapses (w/ percussion) 2002
Media Press, Inc. 8’
Agioritis, Katrina
Agioritis, Katrina Australia
(b )
Midnight Haze 2013
Musika Publishing 2.5’
Albert, Adrienne
American Composer
1941
Works for Brass Ensemble
- 1998 – Fanfare for 13 Brass
Award-winning composer Adrienne Albert (ASCAP) has had her chamber, choral, vocal, orchestral and wind band works performed throughout the United States and across the globe. Before beginning composing her own music in the 1990s, Albert enjoyed a long career as a singer working with composers including Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Philip Glass, Gunther Schuller among others,. Adrienne’s own music has been supported by noteworthy arts organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, American Composers Forum, Meet The Composer/Rockefeller Foundation, Subito Awards, Mu Phi Epsilon Fraternity, MPE Foundation, ACME, and ASCAP. Recent commissions include works for The Cornell University Chorus, Harvard-Westlake School, Holyoke Civic Symphony, Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, Palisades Virtuosi, Zinkali Trio, Pennsylvania Academy of Music, Chamber Music Palisades, Pacific Serenades as well as private individuals. A graduate of UCLA, Albert studied composition privately with Stephen Mosko, and orchestration with Albert Harris. Her music has been recorded on MSR, Naxos, Navona, Centaur, Little Piper, Albany, and ABC Records and is published by Kenter Canyon Music (ASCAP). Her music can also be found through Falls House Press, FluteWorld, Theodore Front Musical Literature, and Trevco-Varner Music
Gregan, Emma
Australian composer and horn player.
Works for Brass
- 2018 – The Sunshine Monk for brass quintet
Biography
Emma plays Tutti Horn with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. She holds a Bachelor of Music with Class I Honours from the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, and is currently a Doctor of Philosophy candidate at the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium. Emma has appeared with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Camerata, Opera Australia’s South Pacific, Disney’s The Lion King, and the Welsh Theatre Company for the Tongyeong International Music Festival in South Korea.
Alongside her orchestral career, Emma has built a profile as a composer specialising in writing for horn and brass. Her works have been performed across Australia, the USA, Europe, and Japan in recent years, including a prize-winning piece for the Twin Cities Horn Club in Minnesota, USA. She is enthusiastic about building and contributing to education and community programs, and to this effect maintains a private teaching studio and is the Artistic Director of the Adelaide Horn Jam, an active community horn ensemble.
from the ASO website
Resources
Abbott, Katy
1971, Australia
Australian composer
Works for brass ensemble
- Punch (2013) for brass ensemble
- Cross Sections (2014) for solo trumpet, solo trombone & brass ensemble
- Fanfare for the Melancholy (2021) for brass ensemble
Biography
The music of Katy Abbott (1971) leads the listener through a narrative of sound, exploring concepts of home, place, connection and human nature, frequently exhibiting a cheeky humour and cleverly juxtaposing contemporary flavours on traditional settings.
Abbott’s compositions have been performed, published and recorded around the world, brought to life by many of leading Australian chamber ensembles including Halcyon, The Song Company, Syzygy Ensemble, Flinders Quartet and Sydney, Adelaide, Tasmanian and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras. Her works have been performed in UK, Europe, Asia and the USA and featured in many Australian and International music festivals.
A versatile creative talent, her body of work incorporates orchestra, chamber and music for voice, an area where she exhibits a particular flair. She completed her PhD in 2007 including a guide to writing for the voice as her thesis, working with Brenton Broadstock and Linda Kouvaras at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. Several of her works appear on the AMEB, ANZCA and VCE/HSC syllabi.
from the composer’s website
George, Whitney
American composer, conductor, and educator
Whitney George Official Website
Works for Brass Ensemble
- Fallacies (2014) for brass quintet
- Carelessly Open, Something Unsaid, the Phone off the Hook (2014) for trombone ensemble
Biography
Whitney George’s music traverses the affective terrain between tragedy and ecstasy, fragility and strength, bringing together romantically delicate intimacy and the spectacular darkness of the macabre. Haunted by ghosts and/of love, George’s operas, staged multimedia works, and chamber music coloristically explore the mysteries of irrationality, nightmare, and memory, sonically seeking lost objects and hidden subjects.
George holds an undergraduate degree from the California Institute of the Arts, a master’s degree from Brooklyn College, and a DMA from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she has studied with David Del Tredici, David Olan, Bruce Saylor, and Tania León. In addition to her composing and conducting, George teaches at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, works at the Hitchcock Institute of American Studies, is on the composition faculty for Face the Music, and can be found giving lectures on anything from Shostakovich to OK Computer for Think Olio.
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Hogan, Samantha
American composer and trombonist
Samantha Hogan Official Website
Works for Brass Ensemble
- A Ship’s Calling for brass quintet
- Berceuse for brass quartet
- Fy Gwanwyn Sky for brass quintet
- Matt’s Music for brass quintet
- Salvation is Created for brass quartet & timpani
- Chorale on a Palestinnalied for brass band
- Draw Your Weapon for trombone ensemble and timapni
- Freewill Fanfare for trombone ensemble
- Trombone Fanfare 9for trombone ensemble
Biography
Samantha Hogan hails from Western New York and currently resides in the Twin Cities, MN. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from Youngstown State University, OH in Music Composition under the tutelage of Dr. Dave Morgan and Robert Rollin, as well as Trombone with John Olsson and Mike Crist. She has also studied composition independently with Scott Pfitzinger and Gwen Rollin while in school.
Sam is influenced by many styles of music including classical, rock, jazz, video game, and film music. These influences give her music a dramatic, yet buoyant feel to her pieces. Most recently she has enjoyed playing trombone the community jazz ensemble, the West Wind Swing Band, Twin Cities Brass Band, The Minneapolis Trombone Choir, and also Coffoa Brass, a chamber brass ensemble of which she is a co-founder.
As a composer, she has had many successful premieres with both the Youngstown New Music Society Festival Orchestra where her piece, Eclectic Images was performed in 2013. She also collaborated with her brother in the rock song Walking Dead, featured in the motion picture B.O.Y.D. in 2010 as well as being a participant at the St. Mary’s Composition Intensive where she was able to study with the faculty, Zae Munn, Joshua Marquez, Michael Schelle, Kristen Kuster, and Jay Batzner. Her piano solo, Cumulus Humilis was recorded by Pianist Avguste Antonov and put on his solo album, An American Journey.
Samantha recently composed a score for the MNKino Film Festival in Minneapolis, MN. She collaborated with Beth Peloff of Green Jeans Media to create a film score for the animated short, Blob’s Adventure (2017). The soundtrack was performed live while the short was projected for the audience to watch. Sam also had a short composition performed at a Fifteen Minutes of Fame concert by the Third Wheel Trio where her piece, Lonely Waltz was performed alongside other new music compositions from other composers. She was also a composer in residence at Henryville High School in Indiana for the premiere of her band work Reverence in the spring of 2016. She spent her residence working with students on both the piece and teaching them about composition.
Through her experiences, Samantha has become an eclectic and versatile composer, who aims to explore as many areas of music as possible. She especially enjoys working with individual performers and groups to write pieces that highlight their sound and abilities as well as fulfilling their musical desires. Her intent is to create new music that inspires and educates the listener and performer alike. When not composing, she can be found performing music on a multitude of instruments or exploring nature. Sam also enjoys learning and reading about new subjects whenever she can. After all, the moment you stop learning is the moment you stop living.
from the composer’s website