Percussion Ensemble Sextets

Intense, high energy piece for six to eight percussionists in the tradition of Japanese Taiko drumming. Scored for non-pitched instruments.

Latin percussion performance and Medieval composition techniques are combined in Talea to create unusual musical patterns and colors. Although the piece is scored as a sextet, additional players

Scored for six performers, each with a multi-percussion set-up consisting of indefinitely pitched instruments, this work would offer a challenge for the intermediate to advanced college level ensemble.

With a decidedly South American flavor, this piece originally composed for piano fits a mallet ensemble perfectly!

A thinly scored, introspective percussion sextet in 3 movements. A seamless blend of serenity and power!

Three-Four-All is a charming percussion sextet swung in a moderate three feel. The piece is scored for suspended cymbal, snare drum, triangle, wood block, orchestra bells, and 2

You need at least 6 players to perform this piece, but this can be expanded to as many as you might want. You have a lot of freedom when performing the piece with repeated sections and instrument

A beautifully written, classically oriented multi-movement work for six players. The parts are woven well, and, while each percussionists plays multiple instruments, the set ups are relatively small making

Geared towards younger ensembles, Traumatic Chromatic focuses on playing a fast chromatic scale through isolating whole tones in each hand. The result is not only an effective study in this

Under the INfluence calls for a complex and thoughtful instrumentation using an expansive array of implements and performance techniques. The musical material was influenced by everything from drum

Ups and Downs is a groove-based work for easy to intermediate percussion ensemble utilizing relative high and low pitches on non-pitched world percussion instruments. Opening with the signature

Easy level sextet scored for bells, wood block, timpani, tambourine, triangle, cymbals, snare drum, and bass drum.

A terrific concert-style piece for percussion sextet driven by modal melodies and woody timbres.