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Northfield, Minnesota, United States
In 2000 composer Justin Merritt (bn.1975) was the youngest-ever winner of the ASCAP Foundation/Rudolph Nissim Award for Janus Mask for Orchestra. He is also the winner of many other awards including the 2006 Polyphonos Prize, the 2000 Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Composition Competition Award for The Day Florestan Murdered Magister Raro and the 2001 Kuttner String Quartet Competition for Ravening. Other works include music for orchestra, ballet, and opera. He has also worked as composer and musical director in dozens of theater productions, ranging from Shakespeare to DaDa. Justin is an Assistant Professor of Music Composition & Theory at St. Olaf College. He received his Bachelors in Music from Trinity University and a Masters and Doctorate in Music from Indiana University. He studied composition with Samuel Adler, Sven-David Sandström, Claude Baker, Timothy Kramer, Don Freund, and electronic and computer music with Jeffrey Hass.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Invocation (Chamber Music)

for 7 solo brass



This work invokes the spirit of Mahler to share the musical space. Although there are no literal quotes, Invocation strongly echoes his music. The work begins with a long trumpet solo, which projects the plan for the entire work. The soloist then invokes the sound of each of the members of the ensemble with a series of calls. Invocation is a free, sometimes aleotoric and dependent on the performer’s interactions through cues.

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