Percussion Concerto (2010)

for percussion soloist with orchestra, chamber ensemble, or unaccompanied

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Movement I. Portraits

Movement II. Landscapes

Jeremy Brunk, percussion
Millikin-Decatur Symphony
Michael Luxner, conductor

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PROGRAM NOTE

Percussion Concerto, commissioned by a consortium of twenty-five percussionists from the United States and Europe, was composed in late 2009 and early 2010 during sabbatical leave from Western Illinois University and as part of an artist residency at Petrified Forest National Park. The work comprises two movements—titled Portraits and Landscapes—that may be performed together (in either order) or individually. Fast-paced and extroverted, Portraits is scored for a solo multi-percussion set-up of non-pitched instruments with minimal sustain accompanied by winds, brass, and strings. In this movement, short segments of highly differentiated musical materials are transformed and repeated before and after a central solo cadenza. Slower and more contemplative, Landscapes features solo vibraphone, crotales, and long-ringing non-pitched metallic instruments accompanied only by orchestral strings. Longer strands of melodic and harmonic material are gently interrupted three times by a virtuosic refrain in the solo part.

COMMISSIONING CONSORTIUM

Gustavo Aguilar  (New York, NY)
Amy Lynn Barber  (Depauw University)
Michael Burritt  (Eastman School of Music)
Greg Beyer  (Northern Illinois University)
Jane Boxall  (Burlington, Vermont)
Jeremy Brunk  (Millikin University)
Michael Bump  (Truman State University)
Anthony Di Sanza  (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Robert Falvo  (Appalachian State University)
Lee Forrest Ferguson  (Freiburg, Germany)
John Ferrari  (William Paterson University)
Stuart Gerber  (Georgia State University)
Randy Hogancamp  (University of Northern Iowa)
Tom Kolor  (State University of New York-Buffalo)
Rick Kurasz  (Western Illinois University)
Daniel Moore  (University of Iowa)
Tony Oliver  (Augustana College)
Morris Palter  (University of Alaska-Fairbanks)
Nick Petrella  (University of Missouri–Kansas City Conservatory)
Melanie Sehman  (Brooklyn, NY)
Steve Sehman  (Brooklyn, NY)
Steven Schick  (University of California-San Diego)
Dale Speicher  (Seattle, Washington)
Brian Sweigart  (Cleveland Institute of Music)
Matt Ward  (New York, NY)