ONWARD (2018)
for brass ensemble (orchestral brass version; wind ensemble brass version available here)
Duration: ca. 1′
Composed for the 2018 Ithaca College Commencement Ceremony
Premiered by Ben Futterman, Patrick Holcomb, Sydney Rosen, and Jeremy Straüs, horns; Matt Brockman, Stephen Russell, Mike Salamone, and Michael Stern, trumpets; Andrea Dollinger, Julie Dombroski, and William Esterling III, trombones; Johanna Wiley, bass trombone; Steven Wilkinson, tuba; and Aaron Burgess, conductor on May 20, 2018 in the Butterfield Stadium at Ithaca College
INSTRUMENTATION:
4 horns
4 trumpets in C
3 trombones
Bass trombone
Tuba
PROGRAM NOTE:
“When I received the commission to write the fanfare that would begin the 2018 Ithaca College Commencement Ceremony, I was thrilled at the opportunity to be featured as a composer at my own graduation. I knew when I started the project that the performance of this piece would be my last premiere as an Ithaca College student before I went on to pursue my master’s degree at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Thus, I felt that the piece needed to express both the bittersweet of endings and the excitement of new beginnings, and with these sentiments in mind, I wrote what would soon become Onward (2018).”