Cimarron Music Press A Caged Bird - York - Trombone or Euphonium/Piano - Sheet Music

Author/Composer:

YORK, BARBARA

Instrumentation:

TROMBONE

Model #:

CM2413

Composer: Barbara York
Format: Sheet Music
Instrumentation: Solo Trombone or Euphonium and Piano

Commissioned by the International Women's Brass Conference, 2014; Playable on Trombone or Euphonium. Bass clef and treble clef solo parts provided.

2017 The Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival Competition Music

Barbara York (b. 1949, Winnipeg, Canada) has been working in both Canada and the U.S. for over 45 years as a concert accompanist, choral and theatrical music director and composer. Her score and lyrics for the Canadian musical Colette won a Dora Mavor Moore Award (Canada's version of a Tony) in 1981. She has received commissions from two Canadian symphony orchestras (Mississauga and Saskatoon), the Boise State University Symphonic Winds and the Boise State Symphony Orchestra, plus numerous private groups and soloists in both the US and Canada.

She has presented compositions at three World Saxophone Congresses and at the 2003 International Double Reed Symposium. Her 50-minute scripted, children's piece, A Butterfly in Time was nominated for a Canadian "Juno Award" for recordings in 2006 and is available through Amazon.com and elsewhere on the Children's Group label. Her first tuba piece, Sea Dreams, was on the required repertoire list for the International Tuba Euphonium Association's 2004 Young Artists Competition in Budapest. In 2006, Barbara, won the Harvey Phillips Award for Euphonium in Chamber Music at the International Tuba Euphonium Congress. Her Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra was recorded by Tim Buzbee with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and is available internationally through Albany Records.

As an accompanist, Barbara plays regularly at school, university and professional concert venues throughout the United States and Canada, has recorded for CBC Radio and has premiered numerous works for other composers at International congresses. Barbara lives in Pittsburg, KS where she works part-time as a staff accompanist at Pittsburg State University.