Percussion Music Gets Rave Reviews

I just discovered two very positive reviews of my pieces Tomfoolery and Two Dragons in Percussive Notes. I have added these reviews to both pages for Tomfoolery and Two Dragons if you want to check them out. 

New Flute Music

My piece Valse des Grenouilles will be premiered on this concert on June 7th in Michigan. The livestream link is in the description for the event. 

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Update on Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 06:07AM by Wes Stephens

Vignettes Premiere

My piece Vignettes for Solo Alto Sax received two great performances this weekend by Guido Bäumer. The audio featured here is from the Sunday performance in Seydisfjordur. The premiere of the work was on Saturday in Egilsstadir. 

Wesley W. Stephens · Vignettes for Solo Alto Saxophone

Soft Snow Premiere This Friday

My piece Soft Snow for SSA choir will be premiered this Friday in Reykjavik at the Icelandic Women´s Choir festival held in Harpa Concert Hall. It will be live streamed and tickets can be purchased from here. 

Update on Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 09:51AM by Wes Stephens

2022 Composition Goals

In January of 2022 i was coming off of a big slump in my writing. From September of 2020 to December of 2021 I had only written a 2 minute percussion duo (which was published so yay!). That period of my life was very draining on me and I made a vow to make the time to create more music in 2022. So, I made a goal of writing twelve pieces of music, one a month, for the new year. Today I have achieved that goal I am happy to say. Not only has this been the most productive year for me as a composer, but interest in my music is the highest it has ever been. This has led to several commissions and performances of my newly composed works. I hope to continue this pace and complete some long overdue pet projects of mine, which include:

• Expanding He Cried Out into a 8 movement work.
• Writing my first work for orchestra
• Writing more music for woodwinds. I really enjoyed writing for woodwinds this year and would like to do more in the future. I am thinking of writing a sonata for either saxophone of clarinet.