This is the professional recording of my final recital as a student of the IU Jacobs School of Music. For the event I composed an original 40+ minute symphonic work called Kodachrome, the premiere of which on April 27th, 2015 in IU's Alumni Hall is seen here. The piece was written to be a musical portrait of my four years at IU, and used 42 musicians, many of which were/are my close friends from the Jacobs School.
Due to the way the piece is scored (each part is named, not labeled by instrument, and written specifically for the person that played it) and the logistics behind such a piece that includes both orchestral (including pipe organ) and Latin jazz, this piece was written to be performed one single time, and it is extremely unlikely it will ever be heard live again.
The piece, while mostly original, does reference quite a bit of non-original material, including the entire Ray Barretto version of Guarare (my favorite salsa tune), Time by the Alan Parsons Project, Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene, the soundtrack from the video game Ace Combat 5, the finale from Kalinnikov's first symphony, Siegfried's horn call, and Oscar Boehme's brass sextet chamber piece.
In it I primarily play bass trombone (as it is a bass trombone recital), but there is a euphonium passage in the middle, as well as two different tenor trombones, mellophonium, and French horn in the closing Latin section.
