Douglas Laustsen

Compositions

If you are interested in performing any of the pieces below, please contact me at douglas.laustsen@gmail.com and I can have parts made.  More music will be included shortly! I am also willing to work with you on any new piece of music or an arrangement you have in mind.  Just get in touch!

Educational Wind Literature

  • Chocolate Chip Blues – Grade 2.5 jazz style piece for Concert Band with an optional open solo section for students. pdfmp3 (2009)
  • A Hero of Our Time  - Grade 3 piece for Brass Ensemble.  Versions available for standard Brass Quintet and for Sextet (2 Tpt, FH, Tbn, Euph, Tuba). I’ve posted the sextet version. pdf – mp3 (2008)
  • Holiday Sinfonietta - Grade 2.5 arrangements of Oh Christmas Tree, the Hanukkah Song, and Up On the House Top.   Christmas Tree is written to be a march in Common Time, and House Top is given a Latin Groove! (2009) pdf Christmas Tree mp3 Hanukkah Song mp3House Top mp3
  • A Hero of Our Time – Grade 3 piece for Brass Ensemble.  Versions available for standard Brass Quintet and for Sextet (2 Tpt, FH, Tbn, Euph, Tuba). I’ve posted the sextet version.  Written for the Mount Olive High School Brass Ensemble in Mount Olive, NJ. pdf – mp3 (2008)
  • Tangents – Grade 4 work for Wind Ensemble.  This was the final work I wrote in college. pdf – mp3

Chamber Music

  • New Works for Tuba & Drum Set and Saxophone Quartet or Reed Quartet in Progress!
  • Abduction of Innocence - String Quartet (2009) pdfmp3
  • Dirge – Trombone and Piano (2009) pdf mp3
  • Blue Spectrum - for Solo Piano (2008) pdfmp3
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.