The Trobriand Music Company is a music publishing company located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Pittsfield is the largest city and the county seat of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the principal city of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Berkshire County. Its area code is 413. Its ZIP code is 01201...

. The company is principally engaged in the publication and distribution of the musical works of American composer, William P. Perry

William P. Perry

William P. Perry is an American composer and television producer.-Life and career:Born in Elmira, New York in 1930, he attended Harvard University and studied with Paul Hindemith, Walter Piston, and Randall Thompson...

. Among the major works represented by Trobriand are Perry's Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra, Summer Nocturne for Flute and Orchestra, the Jamestown Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, the orchestral suite from Life on the Mississippi and the ballet The Wind in the Willows, based on the Broadway stage musical that starred Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane is an American actor of stage and screen. He is best known for his roles as Mendy in The Lisbon Traviata, Albert in The Birdcage, Max Bialystock in the musical The Producers, Ernie Smuntz in MouseHunt, Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to...

. Trobriand Music is also the publisher and licensor of the Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...

 stage musical Mark Twain: The Musical

Mark Twain: The Musical

Mark Twain: The Musical is a stage musical biography of Mark Twain that had a ten-year summertime run in Elmira, NY and Hartford, CT and was telecast on a number of public television stations. An original cast CD was released by Premier Recordings in 1988, and LML Music in 2009 issued a...

, for which William Perry wrote the music and lyrics.

A number of major composers and arrangers have contributed their talents to the compositions represented in the Trobriand catalogue. Included among these are William David Brohn

William David Brohn

William David Brohn is an American arranger and orchestrator, best known for his theatre scores of musicals such as Miss Saigon, Ragtime and Wicked...

, Richard Hayman

Richard Hayman

Richard Hayman is an American arranger, harmonica player, and conductor.Hayman started out as a player and arranger for the Borrah Minnevitch Harmonica Rascals before becoming an arranger for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during the early 1940s. He did arrangements for the MGM films Girl Crazy,...

, Peter Breiner

Peter Breiner

Peter Breiner is a Slovak pianist, conductor, and composer.Breiner began to play and study the piano at age four. At age nine, he started to study at Conservatory in Košice, Slovakia...

, Donald Sosin and Robert Nowak.

Trobriand has also commissioned

Commission (art)

In art, a commission is the hiring and payment for the creation of a piece, often on behalf of another.In classical music, ensembles often commission pieces from composers, where the ensemble secures the composer's payment from private or public organizations or donors.- Commissions for public art...

 works for important contemporary soloists. This includes a Trumpet Concerto for Armando Ghitalla

Armando Ghitalla

Armando Ghitalla was an American orchestral trumpeter. He studied at the Juilliard School, and performed in the New York City Opera, the New York City Ballet, and the Houston Symphony. He was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for twenty eight years, and served as principal trumpet for...

, the Jamestown Concerto for Cello and Orchestra for Yehuda Hanani

Yehuda Hanani

Yehuda Hanani is an Israeli-American cellist. He is a Professor of Violoncello at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and an international soloist and master class teacher. Hanani studied with Leonard Rose at Juilliard and with Pablo Casals.At the age of 19, Hanani was taken...

, the Summer Nocturne for flutist Keith Bryan and the Gemini Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra for the Albek Duo.

The company has been affiliated with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) since 1975. Trobriand publications are represented on a number of record labels including Naxos

Naxos Records

Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music. Through a number of imprints, Naxos also releases genres including Chinese music, jazz, world music, and early rock & roll. The company was founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born resident of Hong Kong.Naxos is the largest...

, Bridge

Bridge Records, Inc.

Bridge Records, Inc. is an independent record label based in New Rochelle, New York that specializes in 20th century classical music. Its president is Becky Starobin...

, Opus, Premier, and LML Music.

Recent Discography

• Armando Ghitalla: A Trumpet Legacy William Perry, composer and conductor (Bridge 2007)
• The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain Film Scores (Naxos, 2008)
• Jamestown Concerto American Music for Cello and Orchestra (Naxos, 2008)
• Mr. Mark Twain Original Cast Recording (LML 2009)
• The Romance of the Silver Screen (Naxos, 2009)

External links

• http://trobriandmusic.com/ Official website of the company.
• http://perrymusic.com/ Website of composer William Perry
• http://windinthewillows.com/ Website of the Broadway musical, Wind in the Willows
• http://rnh.com/theatricals/ Rodgers & Hammerstein Theatricals, distributors of Wind in the Willows