Summer Suite

for Trumpet

with alternate accompaniment for String Quartet or Piano
or String Orchestra or Chamber Orchestra with optional percussion

Summer Suite was commissioned by Brian Chin (Seattle, Washington), Nathaniel Mayfield (Austin, Texas), Bryan Appleby-Wineberg (Glassboro, New Jersey), Adrian Kelly (Perth, Australia), Marco Esperti (Italy), and Matt Burke (Manchester, U.K.).

The world premiere performance was given at the Seattle Composers Salon on May 1, 2009, by Brian Chin, trumpet; Steve Creswell and Kim Zabelle, violins; Eva Sheie, viola; and Brad Hawkins, cello.

The recordings with piano were made by British trumpeter Matt Burke playing over a computer-generated piano part. The recordings with string quartet were made by trumpeter Matthew Swihart, Teo Benson & Miodrag Veselinovic, violins, Amber Archibald, viola, and Dylan Rieck, cello, at Jack Straw Productions studios, Seattle, on April 25, 2010.

Sheet music for Summer Suite is available from Art of Sound Music.
Summer Suite is an outstanding piece. A work of great depth and beauty!
            - Richard Harris, Washington, D.C., trumpeter

      Matt Burke & piano

Popsicle Rocket Sunrise

Still Life with Melon & Sand

Red Cherry Lark

      Matt Swihart & string quartet

Popsicle Rocket Sunrise

Still Life with Melon & Sand

Red Cherry Lark

"A modal work suggestive of English folk melodies with pandiatonic contrapuntal texture, reminiscent of the music of Frank Bridge and early Britten." – Art Gottschalk, Chair of Composition & Theory, Shepherd School of Music

Performance History


Brian Chin
May 1, 2009
Seattle Composers Salon
Chapel Performance Space, Seattle

Premiered May 1, 2009, by trumpeter Brian Chin and string quartet comprised of Steve Creswell, Kim Zabelle, Eva Sheie, and Brad Hawkins

Nathaniel Mayfield
July 6, 2009: American Festival for the Arts, Houston
October 13, 2009: Texas A&M

Premiered with piano accompaniment July 6, 2009, by trumpeter Nathaniel Mayfield and pianist Julie Loeb Sachs at the American Festival for the Arts, Houston, Texas

October 13, 2009, by trumpeter Nathaniel Mayfield and pianist Andrea Imhoff at St. Thomas Church, Texas A&M University

Adrian Kelly
July 28, 2009
Ellington Jazz Club
Perth, Australia

Australian premiere of "Popsicle Rocket Sunrise" on July 28, 2009, by trumpeter Adrian Kelly and pianist Stephanie Nicholls at the Ellington Jazz Club, Perth, Western Australia.

Jean Christophe Dobrzelewski
September 27, 2009
Composer's Voice Concert Series
New York City

September 27, 2009, by trumpeter Jean Christophe Dobrzelewski and pianist Carl Cranmer, Composers Voice Concert Series, Jan Hus Presbyterian Church, New York


Matt Swihart
March 5, 2010
Society of Composers Conference
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma

March 5, 2010, "Still Life with Melon & Sand" and "Red Cherry Lark" performed by Matt Swihart at the Society of Composers Region 8 Conference at Puget Sound University in Tacoma, Washington, accompanied by a string quartet comprised of Teo Benson and Miodrag Veselinovic, violins, Amber Archibald, viola, and Dylan Reick, cello.



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