#Aural training oboe vs english horn series

The work was premiered at the 2017 IDRS Conference in Appleton, WI, and is recorded on the Three Reeds Metamorphosis album, released in Fall 2019 on the Blue Griffin label! To purchase, visit Trevco Music.The cor anglais ( UK: / ˌ k ɔːr ˈ ɒ ŋ ɡ l eɪ/, US: /- ɑː ŋ ˈ ɡ l eɪ/ or original French: plural: cors anglais), or English horn (in North American English) is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. Duo Displasia is a “displaced Fantasia.” Within the framework of a baroque dance suite, the piece fuses baroque and jazz idioms, creating a musical conversation between two instruments with very different histories. It is composed for Oboe & Alto Saxophone in four movements (11 minutes total length). This work was commissioned in 2016 by the Three Reeds Duo and NSULA Creative & Performing Arts. Her music has been presented at several International Double Reed Conventions, the National Flute Association Convention, the National Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest, and the Society of Composers Inc. Regarding her equally expansive work as a composer, Alyssa’s chamber music is performed extensively around the world.

Mark Ostoich, Dwight Parry, and Lon Bussell. She earned her DMA in oboe performance with a cognate in composition at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she studied with Dr. She earned her BM and MM degrees in oboe performance at Brigham Young University, where she studied with Dr. To play this piece contact Joshua Burel, Composer ( to purchase the score.Īlyssa Morris has delighted audiences around the world with her “exceptional” and “soulful” musicianship (Fanfare.) American Record Guide describes her playing as “stunning,” exhibiting “unmistakable…virtuosity.” Alyssa serves as Assistant Professor of Oboe and Music Theory at Kansas State University, and as the principal oboist of the Topeka Symphony Orchestra and Wichita Grand Opera. This is a single movement work and is approximately 8 minutes in length. Ostinato rhythms provide an energetic dialogue between the two instruments. The work explores the intertwining timbres of the oboe and saxophone in a technical race that embodies the name.

Gauntlet was commissioned in 2021 through the Varnado Professorship at Northwestern State University.

#Aural training oboe vs english horn series

Joshua’s compositions are regularly performed in venues throughout the United States including Carnegie Hall, the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival in Washington, the Bowling Green State University New Music Festival, the University of Tennessee Contemporary Music Festival, the Biennial Festival of New Music hosted by Florida State University, and the Constellation Concert Series at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Louis, MO and the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, and currently serves as the Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He has served on the faculties of Webster University in St. Curtis-Smith, and Richard Adams and violin with Benjamin Sung, Renata Artman Knific, Amanda Walvoord Dykhouse, and Ellen Rizner. He studied composition with Ladislav Kubik, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, C. Joshua completed his Doctor of Music degree in Music Theory and Composition at Florida State University and completed his Master of Music degree in Composition and his Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance and Music Education at Western Michigan University.