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Brien Henderson

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Recent Works


String quartets

Things Change (2007) 6 minutes


(Presidio Quartet live at Berkeley Art Center. March 9, 2008)

Absolution and Eternal Refuge (2008), 7 minutes

Saxophone quartets


Quixote Suite (2008), 20 minutes

Party Crashing (2007), 4 minutes

The Bellows (2006; revised 2008) 20-40 minutes

Unaccompanied Saxophone

Fits and Starts (2007), 5 minutes

Hand of The Giant (2006), 5 minutes


Master of Awkward Despair (2006), 5 minutes

Actaeon & Artemis (2005), 4 minutes

Solo with accompaniment
Scherzando (2007), clarinet with piano, 3 minutes

Folk Song (from an imaginary country) (2006) viola with piano, 5 minutes

Solo Piano

Vienna Honkeytonk (2006) 2 minutes

Walking By A Lake (2006) 3 minutes

Duets/Trios

Sulk and Dance (2007) for trumpet and alto saxophone, 5 minutes
     (commissioned by David Bates)
Duet for clarinet and alto saxophone (2007), 5 minutes
Three Brief Gestures, piano trio (2007), 4 minutes

Wind Quartet
Elegy (2006) flute, trumpet, horn, trombone 2 minutes

Other Ensembles

Woman is The Future of Man (2006) string quartet, clarinet, 2 trumpets, percussion
     (commissioned and performed by Music for Life, April 2005)

Jazz

In The Rite Spot (2007)

Minor Desire (2006)

Midnight Moanin' (2005)

Blues To Oslo (2004)

Chelsea (2004)