Hugo Ruf

This piece was selected for the 29th Symposium for New Band Music in Virginia, has been presented at national and regional composition and band conferences, and received an honorable memtion in the co...

Written after the shootings at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, when the composer lived in the neighboring community of Eugene, this elegiac piece is reminiscent of Samuel Barber's 'Adagio...

This energetic 6-minute overture in sonata form makes a great opener. It contains a backdrop of swirling woodwinds, a powerful first theme presented in unison by trumpets, horns, and trombones, and a...