Current Commission Consortiums
I am excited to announce my next consortium project, Extant Flight, a new work for flexible double reed ensemble. Commissioned by Dr. Sarah Wildey-RIchmond, Senior Lecturer of Bassoon at the University of Texas at San Antonio, this work will be a four-movement piece, about all the diverse ways flight can be achieved in the animal kingdom.
The piece will contain movements about the Texas Unicorn Mantis, a “one-horned” mantis which lives in Southern Texas, the Mexican free-tailed bat, who perches in large groups, sometimes as large as a million bats at once, the Monarch butterfly, the itinerant insect, making its annual migration, and the Roadrunner, capable of flight but preferring to escape by ground.
The Extant Flight consortium will contain three tiers: an oboe tier, a bassoon tier, and a mixed double reed tier. (Explanation of the tiers is below.) People who join the Extant Flight consortium will receive a digital copy of their chosen tiered score, an autographed physical copy of their chosen tiered score, recognition in all scores, and exclusive performance rights to the work until January 1, 2027.
The cost to join the consortium is $200 for the full double reed tier. The oboe and bassoon tiers are available for $150. To join, please go to my Shop page.
Oboe tier: This will involve a fixed score for oboe quartet, along with an alternate English Horn part that can be performed in addition to, or in place of, the fourth oboe part.
Bassoon tier: This will involve a fixed score for bassoon quartet, along with an alternate contrabassoon part that can be performed in addition to, or in place of, the fourth bassoon part.
Double Reed tier: This will involve the open SATB score, along will all oboe and bassoon parts, including Oboes 1-4, Bassoons 1 – 4, English Horn 1 – 2 (These will match the 3rd and 4th parts) and Contrabassoon.
Current Members
Robert Bedont, Aspen Winds, Salt Lake City, Utah
Drs. Sara Fraker and Marissa Olegario, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Dr. Jennifer Wohlenhaus Bloomberg, Des Moines, Iowa
Other works for double reeds by Martin: