Theodore Presser Company

Martin Amlin's aptly-titled Morceau de Concours is a 3-minute gem commissioned by the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition as its 1987 required competition piece. Held aside by the composer u...

Introspective for most of its five minutes, Inside Out is a study in beauty drawn from lyrical simplicity. Primarily a slow cantilena with a trace of Latin feel, Inside Out erupts into an exciting dan...

For flutist Jenny Cline (whose photos are featured on the cover), Schocker assembles a set of six descriptive character studies. The titles give a hint at the musical content.

Su Lian Tan is an inspired and inspiring flutist and composer whose Autumn Lute-Song was commissioned for the Vermont Symphony's autumn tour in 1995. Tan transforms the string orchestra into a giant l...

Andrew Juniper (Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence) notes that, 'If an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object...

Philadelphia's own marvelously talented Simpson family come together in Calvary for flute and piano. World-renowned mezzo-soprano Marietta Simpson and composer / organist / vocalist Evelyn Simpson-Cur...

Valerie Coleman's first work for flute and piano, Wish, was inspired by a poem of the same name. Wish is a dramatic tone poem for flutist and pianist alike, depicting the Middle Passage in which Afric...

Using a familiar lullaby as a starting point and base for exploration, Mockingbird takes on a rustic American feel with syncopations throughout the melody and guitar-like figurations in the piano. Sti...

Commissioned by flutist Cindy Anne Broz in celebration of her granddaughter Elise, Dorff's For Elise is a portrait of a delightful 3-year-old, as well as a recital piece in the slow-fast model of the...

The subtitle (Visions of Hawai'i) explains the beauty of Ewazen's ALI'I SUITE, a fascinating hybrid between the composer's luscious melodic voice and Hawai'ian music traditions. The three movements ar...

Schocker's magical charm is on display in Down the Garden Path; a brief suite for solo flute commissioned as a young artist competition piece by the Texas Flute Society. Three descriptive movements in...

Amanda Harberg's Prayer is a rarity in the modern concert repertoire, beautiful romanticism built of a haunting aria for solo flute. Within the reach of younger players, the work was inspired as a pra...

GIANTESS was commissioned by the Flute New Music Consortium for simultaneous 'copremieres'

Double Espresso! was written as a gift to flutist Christina Jennings in 2017. It is a 2-minute encore piece flung forward at break-neck speed. True to the work's title, the flutist zips through a mult...

The title Fanmi Imen is Haitian Creole for Maya Angelou's famous work, Human Family. Both the musical and literary poems acknowledge differences within mankind, either due to ethnicity, background, or...

Composed for Jasmine Choi's premiere on the 2018 National Flute Association concerto gala, Dorff's Concertino is a 10-minute showpiece full of flash and theatricality, elegantly balanced with beauty a...

Of all the solo and concertante works in the violin repertoire, few are as beloved by musicians as Saint-Saëns' INTRODUCTION AND RONDO CAPRICCIOSO; even as a young student, Jasmine Choi dreamed of per...

This charming collection includes unaccompanied ?nocturnes? on the traditional Christmas lullabies Cantique de No‰l, O Bambino, Silent Night, and It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. Each of the settings...

The magic in What's Old Is New is revealed in the title of this set of 4 movements. While the entire work is similar to Baroque flute music in general language and use of ornamentation, this dance sui...

ACADIAN DREAMS is a rollicking tribute to the folk songs and dances of the Acadians, originally French explorers who settled in Eastern Canada, later relocating in Louisiana and known as Cajuns. Alber...

Charming and lyrical, LITTLE SURPRISES is a suite of single-page preludes for piccolo alone, each bearing its own twists and turns. Each movement, or the complete collection, is ideal for recitals and...

This inspiring 4½-minute solo has drama, beauty, idiomatic flashiness, and an opening theme in minor that comes back in a triumphant major key. The composer has written, 'FLIGHT begins slowly, then su...