Add  these professional instrumentalists  to your orchestra or feature them separately to showcase their musicianship and unique, quality arrangements.

Welcoming preludes, heartfelt praise, reflective offertories and dynamic postludes are all resources that can enhance the spirit of your program.

Support for worship services and guest artist concert programs are customized around the worship style and content of the church music ministry.  A guest artists series program can be designed for any occasion or theme such as:

Stewardship Celebrations

Homecoming & Anniversary Services

Founding Fathers & Patriotic Services

Thanksgiving Celebrations

Advent Season Services

Christmas Programs

Good Friday & Easter Services

Baccalaureate & Commencement

Fanfare from "La Peri"
by Paul Dukas
Influenced by both the romanticism of Wagner and the impressionism of Debussy, Dukas is best know for his symphonic poem, The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1897).  Composed as an introduction to a ballet (The Genie, 1912), this fanfare has proven to be far more memorable than the remainder of the work that followed it.

All Creatures of Our God & King
by G. Kirchangesang/Arr. A. Weitekamp
All creatures of our God and King, Lift up your voice and with us sing, Alleluia! Alleluia!"

Canzona Per Sonare #2

by Giovianni Gabrieli/Arr. D. Marlatt

Gabrieli is most identified with antiphonal works using divided choirs of voices and instruments in the impressive acoustical space of St. Mark's Church in Venice. Purely instrumental music is unusually prominent in Gabrieli's output. These works have provided an interesting repertoire for modern brass-players.

Simple Gifts
by Aaron Copland
The turn-of-the-century melody made famous by the quintessential style of American composer Aaron Copland depicts the scene of daily activity for the Bride and her Farmer Husband.  The variations are based on a Shaker theme, which was taken from a collection of melodies complied by Edward D. Andres and published under the title "The Gift To Be Simple".

Psalm XIX:  The Heavens Declare the Glory of God

by Benedetto Marcello

As a composer of operas, oratorios, cantatas, madrigals, concerti and sonatas, Marcello was best know for Estro Poeticoarmonico (1724-26), a setting for voices and instruments of the first 50 psalms in an Italian paraphrase by G. Giustiniani.

This Little Babe (from “Ceremony of Carols”)
by Benjamin Britten
Originally a work for women’s voices, this carol surprises us with its vigor and brashness.  Britten’s text of the carol tell of a helpless, shivering defenseless baby who has come to challenge the darkness and defeat Satan himself.

Battle of Jericho
Traditional Spiritual/Arr. R. Harvey
The gladiatorial skill of Joshua and his cohorts with trumpet enabled them to tumble the walls and end the siege of Jericho.  This arrangement of the traditional spiritual allows our trumpeter to rally the troops and re-enact the battle.  Roger Harvey of the London Brass created this soulful setting.

Impressions of a Parade
by Samuel Baron
Based on the familiar Civil War melody “When Johnny Come Marching Home Again”, this fantasy sets the excitement, pageantry and music of a hometown parade approaching from the distance, passing by and eventually fading away.

America, the Beautiful
by Samuel Ward/Arr. D. Marvin

It is notable that the poem was not always sung to the tune Materna, composed by Samuel A. Ward in 1882, nearly a decade before the poem was written. The words were not published together with Materna until 1910.  The King’s Brass has created this sparkling arrangement of our country's "second" national anthem.

Nice Work If You Can Get It
by George Gershwin/Arr. B. Holcombe
This American composer had a foot in two camps: pop music and concert music. He innovated in both, writing songs and Broadway musicals. For the concert hall, he invented a distinctive and immediately identifiable idiom with the poetically-named Rhapsody in Blue (1924).  Almost every one of his concert works has entered the repertory, and, just as important, the American psyche.

The Stars & Stripes Forever
by John Philip Sousa/Arr. G. Barker
Often considered our national march, it was an immediate success at its premiere in 1896.  Sousa’s band played it at every concert for over 25 years until his death.  Sousa even set words to it:

Hurrah for the flag of the free!
May it wave as our standard forever,
The gem of the land and the sea,
The banner of the right.
Let despots remember the day
When our fathers with mighty endeavour
Proclaimed as they marched to the fray
That by their might and by their right
It waves forever.