Theodore Presser Company

The poem, written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson, was set to music by his brother, John Rosamond Johnson, five years later, and was soon adopted as the Black American National Anthem. The powerful so...

Valerie Coleman's first work for flute and piano, Wish, was inspired by a poem of the same name. Wish is a dramatic tone poem for flutist and pianist alike, depicting the Middle Passage in which Afric...

Using a familiar lullaby as a starting point and base for exploration, Mockingbird takes on a rustic American feel with syncopations throughout the melody and guitar-like figurations in the piano. Sti...

A beautiful, highly melodic piece for a dynamic flute, featuring long, singing phrases. The piano accompaniment is not demanding. Schocker notes that A Gaspar was modeled after Hahn's A Chloris, in tu...

Commissioned by flutist Cindy Anne Broz in celebration of her granddaughter Elise, Dorff's For Elise is a portrait of a delightful 3-year-old, as well as a recital piece in the slow-fast model of the...

The subtitle (Visions of Hawai'i) explains the beauty of Ewazen's ALI'I SUITE, a fascinating hybrid between the composer's luscious melodic voice and Hawai'ian music traditions. The three movements ar...

Schocker's magical charm is on display in Down the Garden Path; a brief suite for solo flute commissioned as a young artist competition piece by the Texas Flute Society. Three descriptive movements in...

Amanda Harberg's Prayer is a rarity in the modern concert repertoire, beautiful romanticism built of a haunting aria for solo flute. Within the reach of younger players, the work was inspired as a pra...

GIANTESS was commissioned by the Flute New Music Consortium for simultaneous 'copremieres'

Double Espresso! was written as a gift to flutist Christina Jennings in 2017. It is a 2-minute encore piece flung forward at break-neck speed. True to the work's title, the flutist zips through a mult...

This gentle 5-minute memorial was commissioned by flutist Ray-Michael Kauffman in remembrance of his mother, who was very much a snow-loving angel. Its tender dialog is preceded by three rings on a tr...

The title Fanmi Imen is Haitian Creole for Maya Angelou's famous work, Human Family. Both the musical and literary poems acknowledge differences within mankind, either due to ethnicity, background, or...

Composed in memory of his brother; Gary Schocker's Sonata No. 9 for Flute and Piano is a serious yet tender work. The four movements are marked Affettuoso; Arioso; Marziale; and Ondeggiando - the Ital...

Composed for Jasmine Choi's premiere on the 2018 National Flute Association concerto gala, Dorff's Concertino is a 10-minute showpiece full of flash and theatricality, elegantly balanced with beauty a...

Of all the solo and concertante works in the violin repertoire, few are as beloved by musicians as Saint-Saëns' INTRODUCTION AND RONDO CAPRICCIOSO; even as a young student, Jasmine Choi dreamed of per...

This charming collection includes unaccompanied ?nocturnes? on the traditional Christmas lullabies Cantique de No‰l, O Bambino, Silent Night, and It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. Each of the settings...

The magic in What's Old Is New is revealed in the title of this set of 4 movements. While the entire work is similar to Baroque flute music in general language and use of ornamentation, this dance sui...

ACADIAN DREAMS is a rollicking tribute to the folk songs and dances of the Acadians, originally French explorers who settled in Eastern Canada, later relocating in Louisiana and known as Cajuns. Alber...

Charming and lyrical, LITTLE SURPRISES is a suite of single-page preludes for piccolo alone, each bearing its own twists and turns. Each movement, or the complete collection, is ideal for recitals and...

This inspiring 4½-minute solo has drama, beauty, idiomatic flashiness, and an opening theme in minor that comes back in a triumphant major key. The composer has written, 'FLIGHT begins slowly, then su...