Works

Dates are composition dates. Where a work has a published score it is marked. Scores are available here, and nine of them are also carried by Sheet Music Plus under my own imprint, UreMusic, with catalogue numbers, so any band director can buy them the usual way.

Brass band and brass choir

Bloom, 2023. British brass band. Score published.

Fanfare for Uncommon Brass, 2023. Brass band. Performed 2023. Score and parts on Sheet Music Plus, 25 pages.

Scrooge's Last Dream, 2022. British brass band, five sections on quotations from Christmas tunes and a lament theme. Score published. Performed twice, 2023.

Pavor Nocturnus, 2002. Brass choir, later brass band. Score published.

A Medieval Fantasy, 1999. Tuba and euphonium choir. Performed 2002.

Hornettes Nest. British brass band with E-flat horn duet. Score published. Performed, conducted by the composer.

Wind ensemble and orchestra

The Fool's Journey, 2019. Wind ensemble with strings. Score published.

The Fool's Journey, 2007. Orchestra. The earlier version of the work above.

The Nine Moods, 2007. Wind ensemble.

Samsara, 2006. Orchestra and trumpet. Commissioned for the Las Vegas Centennial Celebration.

Strings

String Quartet No. 1: Monsoon, 2006.

October for Strings, 2004. String orchestra. Score published. Commissioned by Charles Jackson for the Silverado Chamber Ensemble.

Chamber

Queen Mab, 2007. Violin and piano.

Burned, 2006. Oboe and bassoon. Score published.

The Garden Tower, 2003. Violin and piano. Score published.

The Beast of Gevaudan, 2002. Small ensembles, including brass choir, piano and euphonium. Recorded 2003.

Solo instrumental

The Ladder, 2023. B-flat clarinet.

Chilled, 2007. Solo flute. Score on Sheet Music Plus.

Pitch and Heave. Unaccompanied tuba, written for Daniel Sanchez. Score published.

Solo piano

Eternal Autumn, 2021. Score published. Performed 2021.

406, 2010. Score published.

Soliloquy, 2008. Score published.

The Trees, 2006. Four movements. Score published.

2 Short Pieces for Piano, 2003 and 2007.

La Llorona, 2001 and 2009. Score published.

Further works

Nosferatu, 2023.

Fly Away, 2012.

Autumnal Fanfare, 2010.

For performance, recording or broadcast licensing, write to me at contact@kevinure.com and I'll sort it out.

Music written to teach

Original compositions with a pedagogical purpose. They are different forms and I would rather keep them apart than pile them into one heap.

Etudes

Technique Builder: Etudes for Aural Training, Volume I. The Mirror Exercises are a numbered cycle, one per interval, running to twelve, from the Perfect Fifth through to the Minor Second. Technical etudes written for the inner ear rather than the fingers. The etude is an old compositional form and these sit inside it.

Pedagogical melodies

Eighty-four original melodies written for one-part dictation, each to a specified key, metre and length. Short, and built to be heard once and written down.

Character pieces for children

Baby Ear Training: Stage 1. Nineteen pieces, each built on a key and a character. C Major with Cat, G Minor with Giraffe, E Major with Elephant, B Minor with Bear, and the Adventures pieces that follow in D, F and A. The Friends Rondo is a rondo on C, E, G and B. Released as an album.

Long-form immersion pieces

Baby Ear Training: Immersion Audio. Seven pieces built on sustained key centres, running about an hour each. The Interval Meditations belong here too, six to ten minutes apiece, one per interval and several combining them.

Most of this is distributed through CDBaby and sits on the Kevin Ure Topic channel next to the concert albums.