Bolter: Meditative Longing

Here is a piece I played recently in the Toledo Museum of Art. It features wawa mute, circular breathing, digeridu techniques and multiphonics. It's soft and contemplative, so it's best with headphones or good speakers.

Svoboda: Concert Etude Nr 2, Wawa

This is one of five in a set of concert etudes for solo trombone by Mike Svoboda. Each features different techniques for trombone. This one features the wawa mute as well as multiphonics (singing while playing).

Bass Trombone Recital 18Jun2016

Here is a recording of my first full-length professional solo recital. There were a lot of kids attending, and it was fun to come up with ways to help them enjoy it too. Here is the program:

And here are the videos. It made a new video after an hour, so the 

second video is the second half of the encore.

Here are the pictures from the drawing competition. 

They had to draw how the music made them feel.

The girl who drew the first picture said that when the piano started, it made her mind clear. The boy who drew the second picture said that the music made him feel happy and sad at the same time.

Devil's Waltz

Kevin Dombrowski and I have played this piece many times this past month, and will play it many more next month. "Devil's Waltz" by Steven Verhelst was written for two bass trombones, but the top part works well on tenor too. Here we play it with Kevin on tenor trombone and myself on bass trombone.

Here are a couple pictures from when we played this piece as an encore for an orchestra concert with Symphony S.O.N.G. Probably the first time a trombone duet was played as an encore to Beethoven Symphony No. 9!

Master's Recital, Robert Dennis: Blackbird Variations

This is the East Rock Brass playing Blackbird Variations by Robert Dennis.

Burhans Phantasie for Trombone and Piano

This is a great piece for Trombone and Piano by Caleb Burhans written in 2011.  This is from the Yale trombone studio recital we did earlier this month.

Joan Tower, Copperwave

This is "Copperwave" by Joan Tower with the East Rock Brass Quintet at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival over the summer.

Kamen: Quintet

Here is another Norfolk concert.  This is me with the East Rock Brass Quintet playing Michael Kamen's Quintet.  Michael Kamen worked mostly as a film composer.  You will know his music from films like "The Three Musketeers," "Toy Story," "Mr. Holland's Opus," and "X-Men."  He also wrote some concert works, the last of which is this brass quintet simply called "Quintet."  He passed away in 2003, the year after he wrote this quintet.

Rite of Spring

This is the Sacrificial Dance from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring with the Yale Philharmonia.  This is from my first concert with the Philharmonia, two weeks into school.  It's really a great group to play with.

Arise!

I have the privilege of working with a stellar group of musicians in my brass quintet.  This is us playing "Arise!" by David Maslanka.  I'm very grateful to be able to play in this quintet.  It's been one of the most musically fulfilling groups I've played with.