As the moon runs red trumpet concerto with wind orchestra
The proposed trumpet concerto would be a piece written by UK-based composer, Angela Elizabeth Slater for Simon Desbruslais that expands upon the ideas on an earlier solo written for him titled As the moon runs red. I have always had ambitions to extend and develop this piece beyond a purely solo work as it lends itself to scale, force, and exchange of timbral colour between the soloist and wind ensemble.
The solo work is based upon a lunar eclipse; a natural phenomenon where the Earth blocks the light of the sun from reaching the moon. As the moon passes behind the Earth, the colours with the shortest light lengths, such as the violet and blue light, are scattered as they travel through the Earth’s atmosphere, learving only the longer wavelengths, such as orange and red. This results in the moon appearing a deep red colour from the longer wavelengths. The concerto would explore this idea further; removing each of the colours to change the harmony, gestural language, and timbral character of the music with each shift and refocusing.
Details
Instrumentation: Solo trumpet with wind orchestra/concert band
Instrumentation: Picc, 2 fl, 3 cl, bcl, 2 asax, tsax, bsax, 3 horn, 3 tpt, 2 cornet, 2 tbn, 2 euph, tuba, perc (If your ensemble has a different instrumentation, slight instrumentation variations may be possible)
Duration: c. 20 minutes Difficulty: Advanced (US Grade 6)
Deadline to join: End of 2024
Exclusivity: Winter 2025 - Winter 2026, (following world premiere)
Consortium buy-in fee:
£500 / $604 / €573 for professional wind orchestras/wind ensembles
£250 / $302 / €286 for university and academic institutions
Fee includes exclusivity and licensed digital pdf score and parts. Physical score and parts may be ordered from Slater’s publisher, if desired consortium members may have the option of using their own soloist for the performance or having Simon Desbruslais as the soloist. A separate conversation and contract will be established with Desbruslais for performances including him.
Desbruslais and Slater also welcome and encourage academic and university institutions to consider a residency - along with a performance, the two are available for masterclasses with trumpet, brass, and composition departments, as well as individual lessons and workshops.
To join the consortium, email Angela Elizabeth Slater at [email protected].
The proposed trumpet concerto would be a piece written by UK-based composer, Angela Elizabeth Slater for Simon Desbruslais that expands upon the ideas on an earlier solo written for him titled As the moon runs red. I have always had ambitions to extend and develop this piece beyond a purely solo work as it lends itself to scale, force, and exchange of timbral colour between the soloist and wind ensemble.
The solo work is based upon a lunar eclipse; a natural phenomenon where the Earth blocks the light of the sun from reaching the moon. As the moon passes behind the Earth, the colours with the shortest light lengths, such as the violet and blue light, are scattered as they travel through the Earth’s atmosphere, learving only the longer wavelengths, such as orange and red. This results in the moon appearing a deep red colour from the longer wavelengths. The concerto would explore this idea further; removing each of the colours to change the harmony, gestural language, and timbral character of the music with each shift and refocusing.
Details
Instrumentation: Solo trumpet with wind orchestra/concert band
Instrumentation: Picc, 2 fl, 3 cl, bcl, 2 asax, tsax, bsax, 3 horn, 3 tpt, 2 cornet, 2 tbn, 2 euph, tuba, perc (If your ensemble has a different instrumentation, slight instrumentation variations may be possible)
Duration: c. 20 minutes Difficulty: Advanced (US Grade 6)
Deadline to join: End of 2024
Exclusivity: Winter 2025 - Winter 2026, (following world premiere)
Consortium buy-in fee:
£500 / $604 / €573 for professional wind orchestras/wind ensembles
£250 / $302 / €286 for university and academic institutions
Fee includes exclusivity and licensed digital pdf score and parts. Physical score and parts may be ordered from Slater’s publisher, if desired consortium members may have the option of using their own soloist for the performance or having Simon Desbruslais as the soloist. A separate conversation and contract will be established with Desbruslais for performances including him.
Desbruslais and Slater also welcome and encourage academic and university institutions to consider a residency - along with a performance, the two are available for masterclasses with trumpet, brass, and composition departments, as well as individual lessons and workshops.
To join the consortium, email Angela Elizabeth Slater at [email protected].
About Angela Elizabeth Slater
Dr. Angela Elizabeth Slater is a UK-based composer and Director of Illuminate Women’s Music. She has an interest in musically mapping different aspects of the natural world into the fabric of her music.
Recent significant achievements include being selected for the Royal Philharmonic Society Composer programme for 2021-22, as a 2020-22 Tanglewood Composition Fellow, and a 2017-18 Britten-Pears Young Artist through which Angela worked with Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Michael Gandolfi. Angela was the 2019 Mendelssohn Scholar at New England Conservatory (Boston) and has continued to have performances of her works across the US, including the world premiere of Roil in Stillness by the New England Philharmonic.
In 2021 she wrote two new works for Royal Scottish National Orchestra, alongside six solo works for the Connected Skies project, funded by Arts Council England. In Autumn 2022 Angela had the world premiere of her piano concerto Tautening skies performed by Laura Farré Rozada with the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Yannick Mayoud supported by PRS Foundation, the Ambache Charitable Trust, and the RVW Trust. Her clarinet quintet called The Light Blinds was premiered by Ensemble 360 at Music in the Round as part of the RPS Composers 2021-22 programme. In July 2022 she also had premiere performance of her viola concerto, Through the fading hour, given by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with the soloist Richard Waters.
In addition to the CBSO commission as part of this programme, 2023 will see Angela developing a new accordion concerto for the accordionist Sanja Mlinarič, and writing new works for both the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Mostly Modern Festival’s chamber ensemble and orchestra.
For more information please visit: https://angelaslatercomposer.co.uk
About Simon Desbruslais
Dr. Desbruslais is a trumpet soloist and musicologist. He is the author of The Music and Music Theory of Paul Hindemith (Boydell & Brewer), and was the first British scholar to publish in the Russian Journal of Music Theory. In performance, Dr. Desbruslais has an international profile which includes critically-acclaimed recordings, and he has performed live on BBC 1 Television, BBC Radio 3 & 4, and German Radio SWR2 to millions of viewers and listeners worldwide.
In particular, he works with composers to commission new works, epitomised by his albums for Signum Classics, Psalm: Contemporary British Trumpet Concertos and The Art of Dancing. He also performs with many leading baroque ensembles using the natural trumpet.
Dr. Angela Elizabeth Slater is a UK-based composer and Director of Illuminate Women’s Music. She has an interest in musically mapping different aspects of the natural world into the fabric of her music.
Recent significant achievements include being selected for the Royal Philharmonic Society Composer programme for 2021-22, as a 2020-22 Tanglewood Composition Fellow, and a 2017-18 Britten-Pears Young Artist through which Angela worked with Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Michael Gandolfi. Angela was the 2019 Mendelssohn Scholar at New England Conservatory (Boston) and has continued to have performances of her works across the US, including the world premiere of Roil in Stillness by the New England Philharmonic.
In 2021 she wrote two new works for Royal Scottish National Orchestra, alongside six solo works for the Connected Skies project, funded by Arts Council England. In Autumn 2022 Angela had the world premiere of her piano concerto Tautening skies performed by Laura Farré Rozada with the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Yannick Mayoud supported by PRS Foundation, the Ambache Charitable Trust, and the RVW Trust. Her clarinet quintet called The Light Blinds was premiered by Ensemble 360 at Music in the Round as part of the RPS Composers 2021-22 programme. In July 2022 she also had premiere performance of her viola concerto, Through the fading hour, given by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with the soloist Richard Waters.
In addition to the CBSO commission as part of this programme, 2023 will see Angela developing a new accordion concerto for the accordionist Sanja Mlinarič, and writing new works for both the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Mostly Modern Festival’s chamber ensemble and orchestra.
For more information please visit: https://angelaslatercomposer.co.uk
About Simon Desbruslais
Dr. Desbruslais is a trumpet soloist and musicologist. He is the author of The Music and Music Theory of Paul Hindemith (Boydell & Brewer), and was the first British scholar to publish in the Russian Journal of Music Theory. In performance, Dr. Desbruslais has an international profile which includes critically-acclaimed recordings, and he has performed live on BBC 1 Television, BBC Radio 3 & 4, and German Radio SWR2 to millions of viewers and listeners worldwide.
In particular, he works with composers to commission new works, epitomised by his albums for Signum Classics, Psalm: Contemporary British Trumpet Concertos and The Art of Dancing. He also performs with many leading baroque ensembles using the natural trumpet.