Joan Tower

This chamber work by American composer Joan Tower who is known for her symbolic titles that draw on abstract, action-filled imagery. Fantasy for Clarinet and Piano accompaniment is based on ...those H...

Four works from a popular series of brass & percussion pieces that celebrate the achievements of extraordinary American women. Includes Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, and Celebration...

This piece was inspired by the composer's childhood memory of riding her horse through a deep valley in the Andes range in Bolivia. First performed by Chee-Yun, violin, David Finckel, cello, and Wu Ha...

Composed for clarinetist Laura Flax, who premiered the piece at Merkin Hall (New York City) on December 14, 1981.

Version for solo Alto Saxophone. Wings for solo clarinet (1981) typifies those works of Tower's that bear evocative, symbolic titles drawing on abstract, action-filled imagery. One of her most frequen...

Work for Guitar Solo composed in 1985. Clocks is Joan Tower's second excursion into guitar composition and she has crafted a magnificent representation of time. This measurable and memorable piece exp...

Two Pianos, Four Hands. 2 Copies needed to perform.

The titles of the pieces in this four-movement suite were taken from lines of a poem by John Ashbery, No Longer Very Clear. Holding a Daisy was commissioned and premiered by Sarah Rothenberg. Or Like...

Joan Tower gives the viola plenty to say with Wild Purple, her first solo work written for violist Paul Neubauer. The work gives violists an opportunity to show the expressive and technical capabiliti...

For flute and orchestra (piano reduction).

For unaccompanied clarinet or bass clarinet.

For unaccompanied violin.

This dramatic new work from one of our most important contemporary composers was premiered at the 1996 annual conference of the American Guild of Organists. The title is a description of the upward-mo...

Arranged for Concert Band by Jack Stamp.

Scored for four trumpets, Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, No. 5 was commission by the Aspen Music Festival for the opening of the Joan and Irving Harris Concert Hall in 1993.

The Tokyo String Quartet commissioned this string quartet composition in 2001. This one-movement piece about death and loss was written in memory of one of Tower's friends, and later, of those who die...

Tower's third string quartet contains a white heat from which ideas unfold, develop, interact, and gradually change their temperatures. 18 minutes.

Angels for String Quartet by Joan Tower was composed in 2008 and premiered on August 31 2008 in Angel Fire, NM, performed by the Miami String Quartet. Angels is my fourth quartet - amediumI really lo...

Joan Tower's White Water - String Quartet No. 5. Score and parts. White Water is the first of four commissions for Chamber Music Monterey Bay's 'Arc of Life' project. TheartistBill Viola shared excer...

Brass instruments interweave and surge through wavelike patterns in Copperwave, a piece inspired by the work of Tower's father, a geologist and mining engineer.

Joan Tower is one of this generation's most dynamic and colourful composers. Her bold and energetic music, with its striking imagery and novel structural forms, has won large, enthusiastic audiences....

Viola and piano reduction of Tower's one-movement concerto for viola and orchestra. 19 minutes.

Joan Tower is one of this generation's most dynamic and colorful composers. Her bold and energetic music, with its striking imagery and novel structural forms, has won large, enthusiastic audiences. T...

Work for Flute and Guitar.

Joan Tower is one of this generation's most dynamic and colorful composers. Her bold and energetic music, with its striking imagery and novel structural forms, has won large, enthusiastic audiences. T...