2026 First Prize — Tunescribers International Arranging Competition [info]

Awards and Recognitions 

WORKS 

Pan American Overture 

Orchestra / 12'30" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials 

perusal score available / more orchestra works

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa 

(after Katsushika Hokusai)

Orchestra / 8'00" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials 

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Window Seat

WINNER - International Call For Scores, Montreal Premiere

Orchestra / 8'15" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

(Versions for Wind Ensemble, Clarinet Choir, and Brass Choir) 

perusal score available / more orchestra works

New World Rhapsody 

FINALIST - International Call For Scores

Orchestra / 5'00" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

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Jorğa—after a Kazakh Folk Dance (Flute and Cello)

Chamber Music / 8'20" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

more chamber works

Akbayan (Ақбаян) Variations on a Kazakh Folk Song 

String Quartet

Chamber Music / 9'30" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

more chamber works

Blessed Assurance

Orchestra / 8'00" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

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A Thousand Hills

String Orchestra / 5'00" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

more orchestra works

Restorative Measures (String Quartet)

Chamber Music / 3'30" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

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Expulsion (the Mirth of Light)

Wind Ensemble / 8'45" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

FINALIST - Cambiata Arts / Phantomnesis Call For Scores, [info] 

perusal score available; version for British Brass Band Available

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Mea Culpa

Wind Ensemble / 4'00" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

more wind ensemble works

Wonder Restored (Chamber Orchestra)

SELECTED - 10 of 523, global call for scores/workshop, Germany

Chamber Music / 9'15" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

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Steadfast Spirit (Flute Choir)

FINALIST - Call For Scores, National Flute Association

Chamber Music / 7'30" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

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Assurance (Trumpet Sextet)

Chamber Music / 7'15" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

more chamber works

Mahler Symphony 1, Mvt 4 (Highlights)  (Trumpet Octet)

Chamber Music / 7'15" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

more chamber works

Mahler Symphony 1, Mvt 4 (Highlights)  (Saxophone Choir)

Chamber Music / 7'15" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

more chamber works

On the Approximation of a Circle (Variations on a Theme)  

(Reed Quintet)

Chamber Music / 6'15" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

more chamber works

O Be Joyful 

Choir, SSAATTBB, Unaccompanied / 4'45" / ▶ Listen & Request Materials

more choral works

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