Aliento Fanfare - for Orchestral Brass and Percussion
Small Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.917411

Aliento Fanfare was composed in 2020 in tribute to the hospital workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The word Aliento means "breath" in Spanish. In many cities and towns around the world at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, hospital workers were cheered every night at 7:00 PM by the people who were "locked down" in quarantine. At this time especially, hospital workers were called on to help everybody through the pandemic.

Aliento Fanfare was premiered by the C.I.M. La Armonica of Buñol, Spain on November 21, 2020 conducted by Jose Tello Espert. It was later arranged for orchestra brass and percussion and a "virtual" performance was placed on YouTube by players of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Both versions are included in this publication and they may be used interchangeably if desired, to expand the orchestral brass by adding a 4th trumpet and adding a vibraphone.

He recently retired from Berklee College of Music where he was Professor of Composition and Tuba, serving on the faculty from 1979 to 2016. He was Principal Tubist with the Rhode Island Philharmonic from 1983 to 2016. His other performance activities include The Colonial Tuba Quartet, The Harvey Phillips Tuba Consort, Cambridge Symphonic Brass Ensemble, Boston Brass Ensemble and others.

He did his undergraduate work at Boston Conservatory studying tuba with Chester Roberts and received his Masters degree at Indiana University while studying tuba with Harvey Phillips.

He has forty compositions commercially recorded on Albany Records, MSR Classics, Crystal Records, Mark Records and others. He has been a guest lecturer, conductor and performer at many colleges, universities and music festivals in the United States, Canada, Japan, South America and Europe. He was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1954 and now resides in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida.