Many new works for Trumpet by Cooman!

Carson Cooman continues his series of works for the trumpet with several exciting new works which have just been published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing. All of these works are available in our brass music catalog :

Moon Shards (2007) for alto saxophone, horn, trumpet, percussion, and piano
-a three movement extended work with a very dramatic atmosphere.

Pittsburgh Rhapsody (2008) for brass band was commissioned by the River City Brass Band, Denis Colwell, music director, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the
city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The work is in a very enthusiastic "American" style which charactorizes many of Cooman's works for Brass.

Sonnets for Two Trumpets (2008) is a suite of lyrical movements. The opening movement, Song, decorates a modal melody with arabesque figurations. The second movement, Dance, bounces a syncopated melody back and forth between the players. The third movement, Chorale, is fervent and stately. The fourth movement, Estampie, is fast and energetic. The fifth movement, Prayer, is sad, yet hopeful.

Fanfare for DGF (2007) for three trumpets is a short fanfare written for for Drew Gilpin Faust on her inauguration as the 28th president of Harvard Univeristy

Nobadeer Dreaming (2008) for solo fluglehorn
-The title refers to Nobadeer, a region of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. and conceived as “open-air” music, imagining the player performing outside on the beach at night, with the music echoing off the dunes

Un regard éloigné (2008) for flugelhorn and cello which is part of Musik Fabrik's celebration of Claude Lévi-Strauss' 100th birthday. The work was inspired by Strauss' Le regard éloigné (The View from Afar) and is a brief, atmospheric work that explores the unfolding of gentle melodic cells, colored with the distinctive timbre of the flugelhorn and cello natural harmonics.

Newton Antiphonies (2008) for two or more trumpets which is written in aleatoric notation and maybe played with any number of trumpets.

Musik Fabrik welcomes David Hurd

Musik Fabrik is very happy to welcome the noted American composer David Hurd to their roster.

David Hurd was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 27 January 1950. Prior to his under-graduate studies at Oberlin College, he attended both the High School of Music and Art and the Juilliard School. Upon graduation from Oberlin in 1971 (Mus.B.), he was appointed Assistant Organist of Trinity Parish in lower Manhattan where he served under the direction of Larry King. He was appointed to the faculty of Duke University in 1972 concurrent with graduate studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In 1973 he returned to New York as Organist and Music Director at the Chapel of the Intercession, a position he retained until 1978 when he was named Composer in Residence for a season. In 1976 he was appointed to the faculty of The General Theological Seminary in New York City where he is presently Professor of Church Music and Organist. In addition, has served as Director of Music at All Saints Church, New York City, from 1985 to 1997 and is currently Director of Music at The Church of the Holy Apostles.

Musik Fabrik currently publishes two works for organ by Dr. Hurd, the Aria and Finale, and Toccata. Both of these works are available in our organ music catalog.