Chamber Ensembles
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Heritage-Saxophone Quartet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts) Bb Soprano Saxophone Eb Alto Saxophone Bb Tenor Saxophone Eb Baritone Saxophone This commission was completed in May 2022 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of LINE-T Saxophone Ensemble. They have performed my works "The Dance in the Heat Haze" and "Arion's Harp"(both published by Brain Co.), and I happily... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa... -
Intrada - Brass Octet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts)3 Bb Trumpets F Horn Trombone (or Euphonium) 2 Trombones Tuba Commissioned by the Toyama Minami Wind Orchestra, this work was composed for their brass ensemble in November of 2001. As "Intrada" means the beginning of something like "prelude" or "introduction", I felt a gorgeous image in brass, with a soft and... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa... -
Jewelry - Flute Sextet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts)2 Flutes (doubling Piccolos) 2 Flutes Flute (doubling Alto Flute) Flute(doubling Bass Flute) Commissioned by Flute Ensemble Gimonaus, six flautists from western Japan. The request was for a sextet, so I decided on a suite describing six differing characters. Though I have done a number of flute ensembles, it took... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa... -
Lament of Artemis - Clarinet Octet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts)Eb Clarinet 4 Bb Clarinets Eb Alto Clarinet Bb Bass Clarinet Eb Contra-alto Clarinet This is the third work commissioned by Takanawadai Senior HS Band following Capriccio and Pater Noster. Artemis is the goddess of hunting and chastity in ancient Greek mythology. She is also goddess of the moon, being twin... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa... -
Library of Hadrian - Brass Octet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts)3 Bb Trumpets 2 F Horns Trombone Bass Trombone Tuba Commissioned by Ensemble Wizard, basis its activities mainly in Chiba, Japan. A few year ago when I visited Athens for research, I gained inspiration from many archaeological sites. "Library of Hadrian" for brass octet is the second composition in the series... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa... -
Maple Dance - Flute Quartet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts)4 Flutes Composed in the fall of 2017 as a commission by flute Ensemble Fiore following "Fioritura"," "Coloratura," "Stazione di Roma Termini,"and "Cocktail Paradise!" The group requested a Japanese work, though it is not perfectly "Japanese" but a mixture of Japanese and Western styles. This is because there... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa... -
Marimbacances - Marimba Quartet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts)4 Marimbas (4.5-ocvave, 5-octave) (You can also share two marimbas) This is a pleasant work for four marimba players (with two marimbas), composed at the request of percussionist Kazuko Ogawa. Marimbacances is derived from "marimba" and "vacation (vacance)". It is one of her commissioning series works featuring... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa... -
Nenia - Clarinet Octet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts)Eb Clarinet 4 Bb Clarinets Eb Alto Clarinet Bb Bass Clarinet Eb Contra-alto Clarinet Commissioned by Yamaha Symphonic Band in 2006. I received a request for "a work to be widely performed as new repertoire for clarinet ensemble," so we considered possibilities for all ensembles in a technical and enigmatic... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa...