Sunward
General Info
Year: 2024
Duration: c. 3:00
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $85.00 | Score Only (print) - $20.00
Instrumentation
- Full Score
- Flute
- Oboe
- Bassoon
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet I-II
- Horn in F
- Trombone I-II
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- Timpani
- Percussion I-VI, including:
- *Bongos
- *Cabasa
- *Conga (optional)
- *Ride Cymbal
- *Snare Drum
- *Tambourine
- *Triangle
- *Wood Block
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This piece was written to honor Patti Kroth on her retirement from teaching at MacDonald Middle School in East Lansing, Michigan. While I worked on the music, I learned about Patti’s vibrant personality and her description as being “solar powered.” I titled the piece Sunward to reflect the energy, warmth, and joy that the sun brings to the human spirit. The music captures a spirit of optimism, mirroring the vibrant and uplifting qualities of an encouraging human being.
- Program Note by composer
Commissioned by the East Lansing Band and Orchestra Association in honor of Patti Kroth's 15 years of teaching at MacDonald Middle School.
- Program Note from score
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Video: Reference recording and perusal score
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Arizona State University (Tempe) Wind Symphony (Jamal Duncan, conductor) - 23 October 2025
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Postcard from Sequoia (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Solace Dance (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
- Three Miniatures (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- You Decide (Adaptable Band) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Articulate March (2016)
- At a Crossroads (2022)
- Autumn Air (2016)
- Be Still and Still Moving (2020)
- Beauty Broken (2015)
- Blue Radiance (2022)
- Bright Shadow Fanfare (2021)
- Catharsis (2020)
- Concertino for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (2019)
- Dance the Joy Alive (2016)
- Down by the Sally Gardens
- Escapade (2026)
- Eternity in an Hour (2016)
- Frostfire (2024)
- I Will Lament and Love (2018)
- Image on Truth (2019)
- In the Depths of Winter
- Letters from the Traveling Doll (2021)
- Look Not Upon Us (2011)
- Monterey Sketches
- Night Watches (2020)
- On a Hill Far Away
- Postcard from Sequoia (2019)
- Postcard from Sequoia (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Radiant Glory (2025)
- Resound (2021)
- Safely Rest (2020)
- Shifting Shadows
- Sing of Tomorrow (2026)
- Solace Dance (2016)
- Solace Dance (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
- The Spirit Is Willing (2023)
- Spring Fanfare (2016)
- Sunflower Studies (2023)
- Sunward (2024)
- Three Miniatures (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Through Wind and Whispers (2014)
- Where Words Cannot Go (2020)
- Wilderness of Mirrors (2026)
- With Love and Grace (2024)
- Woven
- You Decide (Adaptable Band) (2020)
Resources
- Nicole Piunno website. Accessed 22 October 2025
- Perusal score