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Philip Sparke is a British

United Kingdom

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composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

and musician

Musician

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. He is noted for his concert band

Concert band

A concert band, also called wind band, symphonic band, symphonic winds, wind orchestra, wind symphony, wind ensemble, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of several members of the woodwind instrument family, brass instrument family, and percussion instrument family.A...

and brass band

Brass band

A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section. Ensembles that include brass and woodwind instruments can in certain traditions also be termed brass bands , but are usually more correctly termed military bands, concert...

music.

Music for Winds

1973/1976 Gaudium
1975 The Prizewinners for Brass-Band
1978/1995 Fantasy for Euphonium
1979/1985 A Concert Prelude
1979 Capriccio (E-flat Cornet Solo) for Brass-Band
1979/1987 The Land of the Long White Cloud "Aotearoa"
1981 A Tameside Overture for Brass-Band
1981 Fanfare, Romance & Finale for Brass-Band
1981 Song and Dance (Cornet Solo) for Brass-Band
1982 Barn Dance & Cowboy Hymn for Brass-Band
1983 Rhythm and Blues for Brass-Band
1984 Aubade (Euphonium Solo) for Brass-Band
1984 Jubilee-Overture
1984 A London Overture for Brass-Band
1984 A Malvern Suite for Brass-Band
1984 Slipstream (Concert-March)
1984/1985 The Year of the Dragon
1. Toccata
2. Interlude
3. Finale
1985 A Celtic Suite for Brass-Band
1. Dawns Werin
2. Suo Gan
3. Men of Harlech
1985 Masquerade (E-flat Horn Solo) for Brass-Band
1985/1987 Music for a Festival
1. Con brio
2. Andantino
3. Vivo
1985 Skyrider (Concert-March) for Brass-Band
1986/1992 Orient Express
1986/1994 Pantomime (Euphonium Solo)
1986 Party Piece (Euphonium Solo) for Brass-Band
1986 Prelude, Toccata & Fugue (Graduation Day) for Brass-Band
1986 Variations on an Enigma for Brass-Band
1987 Flying the Breeze
1987 Mountain Song for Brass-Band
1988 A Swiss Festival Overture
1988 Concertino for Tuba (E-flat Tuba Solo) for Brass-Band
1988 Concerto Grosso (Brass Quartet & Band) for Brass-Band
1988 Endeavour (Australia 1788-1988) a Programmatic Rhapsody for Brass-Band
1. The unknown continent
2. Terra Australis
3. The new challenge
1988 River City Serenade for Brass-Band
1988 Serenade for Toni
1989 Partita for Brass-Band
1989 The sunken village for Fanfare Orchestra
1989 A Tameside Overture
1989 Theatre Music
1. Overture
2. Entr'acte
3. Finale
1989 The Vikings
1989/1990 Two-part Invention (Euphonium Duet)
1990 Cambridge Variations for Brass-Band
1990 Fanfare, Romance, Finale
1990/1992 A Pittsburgh Overture
1990 Sinfonietta Nr. 1
1. Overture
2. Aria
3. Scherzo
1990 Triptych for Brass-Band
1990 A Yorkshire Overture
1991 Celebration
1991 Concerto for Trumpet or Cornet for Brass-Band
1992 Euphonism (Euphonium Duet) for Brass-Band
1992 Jamaica Farewell
1992/1996 Jubilee-Prelude
1992 Serenade for Horns (E-flat Horn Trio) for Brass-Band
1992 Festival Overture
1992 Mountain Song
1992 Mambo Jumbo
1992 River City Serenade
1992 Sinfonietta Nr. 2
1. Overture
2. Serenade
3. Finale
1992 Soliloquy (Cornet Solo) for Brass-Band
1993 Processional Overture
1993 Song for Ina (Euphonuim Solo) for Brass-Band
1993 Tijuana Trumpets (Trumpet feature)
1994 Three Miniatures for Brass-Band
1995 Dance Movements
1. Ritmico
2. Molto vivo (for Woodwinds)
3. Lento (for the Brass)
4. Molto ritmico
1995 Euphonium Concerto No 1 for Brass-Band
1996 Fiesta
1996 White Rose Overture
1996 Music for Arosa
1997 Norwegian Rondo
1997 Time to Say Goodbye for Brass-Band
1998 Between the Moon and Mexico for Brass-Band
1998 Diversions - Variations on a Swiss Folk Song "Der Heimetvogel"
1. Theme
2. Variation 1 (Vivo e scherzando)
3. Variation 2 (Subito meno mosso
  Mosso
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  )
4. Variation 3 (Lento espressivo)
5. Variation 4 (Vivace)
1999 Earth, Water, Sun, Wind Symphony for Band

Commissioned by the Northern Arizona University Wind Symphony for their Centennial Celebration

1. Earth
2. Water
3. Sun
4. Wind
1999 Hanover Festival

Commissioned by the Hanover Wind Symphony for their Fifteenth Anniversary

1999 Lindisfarne Rhapsody (Flute Solo)
1999 Tallis Variations for Brass-Band
1999 Wilten Festival Overture

2000 The Centurion for Brass-Band
2000 Five Festive Fanfares
2000 Navigation Inn (Concert March)
2000 Overture for Woodwinds
2000 Time Remembered
2000 To a New Dawn
2001 Carol of the Shepherds
2001 Ballad for Benny
2001 Four Norfolk Dances
1. Pulham Prelude
2. Diss
  Diss
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  Dance
3. Lopham Lament
4. Garboldisham Gigue
2001 Infinity and Beyond...
2001 Invictus (The Unconquered)
2001 A London Intrada
2001 Navigation Inn for Brass-Band
2001 The Prince of Denmark's March
2001 Shalom! (Suite of Israeli Folk Songs)
1. V’ha’ir Shushan & Havdala
2. Hanerot Halalu & Ba’olam Haba
3. Mishenichnas Adar, Ani Purim & Yom Tov Lanu
2001 South Down Pictures for Brass-Band
2001 Sunrise at Angel's Gate
2001 Te Deum Prelude
2001 Time Remembered for Brass-Band
2001 Two Norwegian Folk Tunes
2002 Alladale from Hymn of the Highlands (Flugel, Horn and Baritone Trio) für Brass-Band
2002 Big Sky Ouverture
2002 Mary's Boy Child '"
2002 Merry-Go-Round
2002 Morning Song - for Horn Quartet and Band
2002 Pathfinders March
2002 Portrait of a City
2002 Sinfonietta No 3 (Rheinfelden Sketches)
1. Promenade
2. Ballad
3. Interlude
4. Scherzo
2002/2003 Suite from "Hymn of the Highlands"
1. Ardross Castle
2. Alladale
3. Dundonnell
2002 Flowerdale from "Hymn of the Highlands" (Soprano Cornet Solo) for Brass-Band
2002 Lairg Muir from "Hymn of the Highlands" (Cornet Solo) for Brass-Band
2002 Strathcarron from "Hymn of the Highlands" (Sword Dance) for Brass-Band
2002 Summer Isles from "Hymn of the Highlands" (Euphonium Solo) for Brass-Band
2002 The White Rose
2003 Aria (Tenor Horn Solo) for Brass-Band
2003 Clarinet Calypso
2003 Clarinet Concerto
2003 A Huntingdon Celebration
2003 Kaleidoscope - Five Variations on the "Brugg Song"
1. Introduction
2. Theme
3. Variation I
4. Variation II
5. Variation III
6. Variation IV
7. Variation V
2003 Masquerade (A Willisau Celebration)
2003 Out of the Darkness, Into the Light
2003 Prelude and Scherzo (Trombone solo) for Brass-Band
2003 Simple Sarabande
2003 Ten Chorale Preludes
2003 Veni Immanuel
2003 Westminster Prelude
2004 Between the two Rivers
2004 Choral and Variations
2004 A Klezmer Karnival
2004 Flying the Breeze
2004 La Caracolá
2004 Mandalen Landscapes
2004 Manhattan (Trumpet Solo)
2004 Marchissimo
2004 Music of the Spheres für Brass-Band
1. t = 0 - Big Bang
2. The Lonely Planet
3. Asteroids and Shooting Stars
4. Music of the Spheres
5. Harmonia
6. The Unknown
2004/2005 Portrait of a Music
2004 Postcard from Singapore
2004 Summer Scene for Brass-Band
2004 The Bandwagon for Brass-Band
2004 The Four Noble Truths
1. Dukkha
2. Samudaya
3. Nirodha
4. Magga
2005 Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
2005 Jubilate for Brass-Band
2005 The Painted Desert
2005 The Pioneers
2005 Variants on an English Hymn Tune (Euphonium Solo)
2005 When the Spirit Soars
2006 Valerius Variations
2006 Tuba Concerto
2006 Trombone Concerto
2006 Dances and Alleluias for Brass Band
2007 Albion Heritage for wind ensemble

Commissioned by The Association for Music in International Schools (AMIS)

The Association for Music in International Schools (AMIS)

The Association for Music in International Schools, best known as AMIS, is an organization that brings together students of schools worldwide who excel in musical achievements for days of music practice and then conclude with a concert.-The name:...

for the 2008 International Honor Band. World premier on March 15, 2008 in London, UK, at the AMIS 2008 International Band and Choir Festival.

Harmony Music for Brass-Band
2007 Legend of Celobrium commissioned by the Harmonie de Soleuvre, Luxembourg, to celebrate their 100th Anniversary
2007 A Monmouth Overture commissioned for Monmouth School
Monmouth School
Monmouth School is an HMC boys' boarding and day school in Monmouth, Monmouthshire in south east Wales. It was founded in 1614 by William Jones. It is run as a trust, the William Jones's Schools Foundation, by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, one of the Livery Companies...

Symphonic Wind band
2007 Tales of the River Wye commissioned for Monmouth School
Monmouth School
Monmouth School is an HMC boys' boarding and day school in Monmouth, Monmouthshire in south east Wales. It was founded in 1614 by William Jones. It is run as a trust, the William Jones's Schools Foundation, by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, one of the Livery Companies...

Junior Symphonic Wind Band
2007 Music for Battle Creek for Brass-Band
2007 Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes from Saint-Saens' 3rd Symphony
2008 Letter From Home commissioned by the James Madison University Brass Band, Harrisonburg, VA
2008 The Roaring Forties for wind ensemble
2009 Neapolitan Holiday for wind ensemble

Commissioned by the Green Hope High School Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble directed by Brian Myers. World premier on May 21, 2009 at the

Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the capital and the second largest city in the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 403,892, over an area of , making Raleigh...

, United States.

2009 A Winter's Tale for concert band

Commissioned by the Western Plains Wind Consortium, Daniel Baldwin, Founder and Director. World premiere on December 1, 2009 at the OPSU Centennial Theatre by the Oklahoma Panhandle State University Concert Band, under the direction of Dr. Matthew C. Saunders in Goodwell, Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

, United States.

2010 "Atlantic Odyssey" for concert band

Commissioned by the Oakton High School Bands of Vienna, Virignia, United States. World premiere by director Dr. Cheryl Newton at Oakton High School on June 12, 2010 by the Oakton High School Symphonic Band.

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