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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, Assistant Professor of Practice (Bassoon) at the University of Texas at San Antonio, this work will be a four-movement piece, about all the diverse ways flight ca 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 oboe tier is specifically designed for a quartet of bassoonists. Members receive a digital copy of the bassoon score and parts, including an optional contrabassoon part, an autographed physical copy of the bassoon score, recognition in all scores, and exclusive performance rights to the work until January 1, 2027.
