Nick Pfefferkorn

Described as a 'Celebratory Prelude', Ovation was commissioned for the 500th anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Musicians in London. The first performance was given at Symphony Hall Birmingham a...

This work is cast in three movements. 1. Panache 2. Elegy 3. Mosaic. This work makes many demands on the soloist giving opportunities to display both technical and lyrical prowess. The themes and unde...

This work was composed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of flight and is cast in a structure that provides a mini-history of the subject from its first beginning to its one hundred-year achievemen...

'Meditations on the Seven Last Words of Our Saviour from the Cross' takes its form from a work by Haydn. It consists of seven slow movements prefaced by a slow introduction and concluded by a presto m...

Via Crucis (commissioned by Dr.Mathew J. George and the Symphonic Wind Ensemble of the University of St.Thomas at St.Paul, Minnesota) was inspired by a work of the same name by Franz Liszt. It describ...

This work was commissioned by, and is dedicated to the Regimental Band of Her Majesty's Coldstream Guards and their Director of Music, Major O. Jones MBE. The brief was for a piece to celebrate the Ci...

This 'symphonic Tone Poem for Brass, Wind and Percussion' was commissioned by Philip Biggs and Richard Franklin for the 2003 All England Masters Brass Band Championship. The work transfers well to the...

Having immersed himself in a translated volume of the most popular Andersen fairy tales the composer selected five contrasting stories and shapes them into a miniature suite. The movements are:- 1. Ov...

In 2005 The Royal Marines Band Service commissioned Martin Ellerby for a Wind Band transcription of Terra Australis. Originally commissed by the YBS Band, in consultation with their professional condu...