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Jeffrey Agrell
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Year |
Instrumentation |
Description |
Price |
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Meditation |
1997 |
Solo Horn |
2.5 minutes, 1 movement. |
$4.50 |
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New Wine in Old Bottles |
2001 |
2 Natural Horns, Percussion |
7 minutes, 3 movements. |
$19.50 |
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September Elegy |
2001 |
Natural Horn in E-flat, Piano |
9.5 minutes, 1 movement. |
$6.50 |
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Night Sonata |
2001 |
Horn, Piano and
optional Contrabass, and
optional Percussion |
7.5 minutes, 1 movement. |
$24.50 |
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Jeffrey Agrell has always had a keen interest in the creative process as
evidenced in his long-time activities as a writer and a composer. He has
well over sixty published articles to his credit and he currently writes two
regular columns for The Horn Call. He began composing and arranging during
his college years, and he played and composed for jazz guitar and electronic
music in the 1980s. For the past dozen years he has had a steady stream of
commissions from professional chamber music ensembles, which have recorded
many of the works on CD. Jeffrey Agrell's works have been broadcast on radio
and television nationally and internationally, and many have been published
and performed at contests and festivals. He is a member of the ASCAP and
SUISA, respectively the American and Swiss composers' rights societies.
His Rhythm Suite for clarinet and marimba won First Prize in the 2000
composition contest of the International Clarinet Association. September
Elegy for natural horn in Eb and piano, was performed at the Infinite
Respect Conference at the University of Iowa in January 2002, and was a
winner in the Beyond 9-11: Arts in Iowa project. His current compositional
interest is in composing pieces (including September Elegy and Night
Sonata) that integrate written material with improvised sections.
He joined the University of Iowa School of Music faculty as horn professor
in 2000 after a 25 year career as symphony musician with the Lucerne
(Switzerland) Symphony. He currently teaches horn, directs the UI Horn
Choir, coaches chamber music, teaches Introduction to Improvisation, and
performs with the Iowa Brass Quintet and the Iowa Horn Quartet. Outside of
the university, he is on the faculty of the Asian Youth Orchestra and is a
member of the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society. He often
appears in concert with pianist/composer Evan Mazunik, performing the
written/improvised pieces that they compose. They also offer workshops in
(nonjazz) improvisation for classical musicians (see www.creativehorn.com).
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