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Carl Strommen
Biography
Carl Strommen (b. 7 May 1939) is an American composer, music teacher, and conductor.
Mr. Strommen attended and graduated from Long Island University (B.A. English literature) and The City College of New York (M.A, music). He studied orchestration with Manny Albam and Rayburn Wright, and composition with Stefan Wolpe.
Carl Strommen's contributions to band, orchestra, jazz band and vocal music make him one of the most performed composer/arrangers, nationally and internationally. His music is heard regularly in concert settings, television, and film. Mr. Strommen is in constant demand as a clinician and commission writer. His prolific and varied output has consistently earned him the annual ASCAP Standard Writers Award.
Mr. Strommen keeps in touch with the academic community as an adjunct professor of orchestration and composition at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, N.Y.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- Sundance (Flex instrumentation) (2012/2014)
All Wind Works
- Aerius (2018)
- Broken Bow (2010)
- Canterbury Walk (1998)
- Chisholm Trail (2012)
- Chroma (2013)
- Communion (2007)
- Cross Creek
- Cumberland Cross (1995)
- Daybreak (2015)
- Dawnwood Overture (1993)
- Edgemont Festival Overture (1996/2021)
- Fanfare and Patrol
- Festive Tribute (2011)
- Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
- Fuego del Alma (2011)
- Gigue Française (2001)
- Glengarry Way (2005)
- Here Comes Christmas (as arranger) (2000)
- Home for the Holidays (as arranger) (1954/2015)
- Innisfree (2013)
- Irish Lullaby (as arranger) (1931/2018)
- Kivgik (2015)
- Leaning on the Everlasting Arms (as arranger) (1877/2013)
- Nordanvind (2017)
- Platte River Hoedown (2014)
- Prairiesong (2004)
- Ravensgate (1996)
- Reflections on an English Hymn (1916/2009)
- Shivaree (1998)
- Silversword (2014)
- Storm Mountain Jubilee (2004)
- Sundance (2010)
- Sundance (Flex instrumentation) (2010/2014)
- Tir Na Nog (2004)
- Tum Balalaika (2018)
- Variations on a Sailing Song (2006)
- Waterdance (1995)
- Ye Banks and Braes (as arranger) (2012)
Resources
- Carl Strommen, Wikipedia Accessed 6 October 2022
- Carl Strommen, Alfred Music
- Carl Strommen website
- Miles, Richard B., and Larry Blocher. 2002. Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. Volume 4. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 154.