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Chamber Music for Larger Ensembles

Tip of the Spear (2019) for trombone choir (8 parts: 6 tenor, 2 bass)
Heroic Brew (2018) for horn choir (6 parts)
Moonlight Rhapsody (2016) for oboe, viola, and piano
Up To No Good (2015) for woodwind quintet
Homage (2014) for trumpet sextet
Inosculation (2014) for string quartet
Compressionism (2012) for trumpet sextet
Cross Face Cradle (2010) for clarinet, trumpet, viola, piano, and percussion
Ice Town (2009) for trumpet sextet
OK, Then AL (2005) for brass quintet
The Belfry (2001) for woodwind quintet and vibraphone
The Last Sunset (2000) for trumpet, trombone, and piano
Poetics (1999) for flute, clarinet, bassoon, piano, and marimba
What Love Tells Me (1999) for 2 horns and organ

Duration: 4’30”

First three score pages (pdf)

Excerpt 1            Excerpt 2

For his third symphony, Mahler had originally given various subtitles to the movements: “What the Flowers Tell Me,” “What the Trees Tell Me,” “What the Night Tells Me,” etc. The sixth and final movement carried only the subtitle “What Love Tells Me.” Though Mahler later decided to drop them, those titles made a strong impression on me, and I decided to use the last for this piece, composed for and premiered at my best friend’s wedding. Mahler’s early symphonies were among my biggest influences at that time, and my original ideas for this work were adapted from themes in the first movements of his first and second symphonies. 

Contact the composer directly to inquire about score/parts: mikedambrosio@gmail.com

Prelude and Scherzo (1995) for brass quintet