A consortium of wind bands came together to commission the wind orchestra scoring of my work for brass band, Fragile Oasis. It was completed in 2014 and was commissioned by a consortium of the following bands:
Agrupación Músico-Cultural “Las Musas” de Guadalupe (Murcia) – Dr. José Ibáñez Barrachina – Spain
Band of the Coldstream Guards – Major Darren Wolfendale – UK
Borge Musikkorps – Sverre Stakston Olsrud – Norway
The Brooklyn Wind Symphony – Jeff W. Ball, Artistic Director – USA
Dunshan Symphonic Wind Orchestra – Adrian Schneider – China
Koninklijke harmonie Ste. Cecilia Zele – Bart Picqueur – Belgium
Musikgesellschaft Emmen – Manuel Imhof – Switzerland
University of Saskatchewan Wind Orchestra – Dr. Darrin Oehlerking – Canada
The work will be available to all non-consortium bands from April 2014. Details of the various premieres of the consortium bands will be found on this site (Borge Musikkorps – 19 Oct, Las Musas – 9 Nov, BWS – 21 March 2015)
You can hear the recording made by Dunshan Symphonic Wind Orchestra below