Slide Factory 2013 Composition Competition
I was incredibly lucky to be chosen as a finalist in the Slide Factory 2013 Composition Competition with my piece Luminosity. Attending the weekend, I was blown away by the New Trombone Collectives rendition of my piece.
Judged by Johan de Meij, Hans Koolmees, George Wiegel and the New Trombone Collective, I was unfortunately not the winner. However, I had an amazing time rubbing shoulders with some of the great trombonists of our time in Ian Bousfield, Bill Watrous and many more. As part of making the final, my piece has been published by the New Trombone Collective.
You can buy the piece here
Luminosity
Written as an exploration into the brightness of the modern trombone, Luminosity takes the names of its movements from the brightest objects in the universe, the stars; and as an additional subtitle, aspects of luminosity. Accompanying the two Alto Trombones and six Tenor Trombones are audio files created by scientists through asteroseismology; detecting the frequencies at which a star vibrates and artificially boosting those frequencies into human hearing range.
The work is written mostly in the upper register of both Alto and Tenor trombones and should encourage a bright tone from the players.