Concerto for Jazz Piano and Wind Ensemble

Dana Wilson

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General Info

Year: 2019
Duration: c. 19:15
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Dana Wilson
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $200.00 | Score Only (print) - $50.00

Movements

1. Strict time (funk) - 6:30
2. Freely, intimately - 6:00
3. Buoyant - 5:10

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Given my own roots as a jazz pianist, I have long wanted to write a concerto for jazz piano. In recent years, the wind ensemble has emerged as one of the most flexible musical mediums, in that conductors and performers increasingly have a good sense of range of musical styles. These styles incorporate timbral subtlety, constant adjustments, rhythmic complexity, articulative variety, and a special kind of energy that jazz requires.

Likewise, there are many jazz pianists who have a remarkable technical, stylistic, and expressive range while also having the ability to perform music complex in its melodic and harmonic nature. They also feel comfortable performing and improvising within the context of complex textural relationships with the ensemble.

I am grateful to the consortium of ensembles, their directors, and their soloists who commissioned the work.

- Program Note by composer

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Eastman School of Music (Rochester, N.Y.) Wind Ensemble (Mark Scatterday, conductor; Nick Weiser, piano) - 9 November 2022
University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire Wind Symphony (John R. Stewart, conductor; Nick Weiser, piano) - 7 May 2022
Ithaca (N.Y.) College Wind Ensemble (Christopher Hughes, conductor; Nick Weiser, piano) – 1 March 2019 *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

A complete list of Dana Wilson's compositions may be found here:

Avatar, The (2005)
Awakening... (2011)
The Banquet (2017)
Black Nightshade (2004)
Calling, Ever Calling (1990)
Clarion Call (1988)
Colorado Peaks (2009)
Concerto for Double Bass and Wind Ensemble (2010)
Concerto for Drum Set and Wind Ensemble (2021)
Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble (1997)
Concerto for Jazz Piano and Wind Ensemble (2019)
Concerto for Trombone (2015)
Concerto for Tuba (Wilson) (2012)
Conjurer, The (2015)
Dance of the New World (1992)
Day Dreams (2006)
Evolution (1999)
Fanfare for a New Center (2011)
Fanfare for Karel (2017)
Footsteps (2010)
Front Burner (2020)
How Very Close (2012)
Io Rising
Kah! Out of Darkness (1999)
Last Ride to Solutré (1998)
Leader Lieder (1993)
Liquid Ebony (2006)
Liquid Gold (2005)
May the Road Rise Up to Meet You (2013/2019)
Odysseus and the Sirens (2008)
Of my dream before me... (2021)
Old Number One (2017)
On Fire! (2017)
The One-Lady Band from Owego (2021)
Piece of Mind (1987)
Primal Worlds (2000)
Quintessence (2019)
Sang! (1993)
Searching for Lost Dreams (2013)
Shakata: Singing the World into Existence (1989)
Shortcut Home (2003)
Speak to Me (2010)
...the harder they fall (2004)
the most sacred of times (2022)
Time Cries, Hoping Otherwise (1991)
To Set the Darkness Echoing (2005)
Uprising (1995)
Vortex (1999)
When I Am Gone Away (2006)
Winds on the Steppes (1994)

Resources

Dana Wilson website Accessed 2 March 2019