For someone whose output is almost totally brass orientated, this MISCELLANEOUS TITLES section may seem like an after-thought. It was to start with, but is no longer, as many of my plans are for non-brass works, from piano pieces for starter players to full-on concert works containing no brass at all.
Having spent almost thirty years as a player in and therefore listening to a series of ensembles and soloists of the finest quality, my sound world is not one that is rooted in brass and then merely works from there. I have always felt that the best possibilities for the use of brass sound lies in finding its relationships with wider instrumental sound worlds.
If I have contributed in any way to the development of brass scoring it is because of imagining possibilities and not trusting to preconceived limitations... flying with the possible and sometimes improbable, never being chained to the predictable.
