Litton Commission

Announcing: a new commissioning project with Robert Litton!

Overview

Commission Details

I am excited to announce a consortium commissioning composer Robert Litton to write a substantial concerto for tuba and wind ensemble. Litton is a Southern California based composer who divides his time between the Hollywood scoring stage and the concert hall. His writing is inviting, colorful, accessible, extremely well crafted, and invariably tells a gripping story. For this project he wishes to depict the life of a matador leading up to, and culminating with, a bullfight. Designed for those looking for a fresh addition to the tuba and wind band repertoire, this concerto promises to be far more melodic, diverse, and “audience friendly” than most contemporary works and will be ideal for featuring star student, faculty, and guest soloists in recruiting, touring, and on-campus festival performances.

Robert Litton

Robert Litton (b.1978) is an American composer often found exploring the redwoods of California, the canyons of Utah, and the aspen lined mountains of Colorado. His works have been performed by members of almost all the major orchestras located between the San Francisco Symphony and the New York Philharmonic. While an undergrad at CSU Hayward (now East Bay) Litton’s first work, “One for All - a fanfare for wind ensemble”, was the winner of the 2001 H. Robert Reynolds National Composition Competition and received a featured performance in Carnegie Hall. It continues to be
performed around the world by professional, collegiate, and high school honor bands and has been recorded by John C. Carmichael and the South Florida University Wind Ensemble.

CSU East Bay commissioned Litton to compose “Inaugural Fanfare” in 2007 to celebrate the university’s new president. It was recorded the following year by the CSUEB symphonic band at Skywalker Ranch for an album of works celebrating the 50th anniversary of the university. On three separate occasions the American Harp Society has commissioned him to compose solo works for their national competitions and in 2015 he was commissioned by the International Horn Society to compose two
solo alphorn and symphonic band works for their 47th international symposium in Los
Angeles.

Recent commissions include “Ice Breaker - a prelude and fugue for combined woodwind and brass quintets” for the Indiana University, Pennsylvania faculty’s 2015 tour of Russia, “Toboggan - for horn, tuba, and piano” for Eastern Standard, and “The Three Dachshunds - for solo trombone and wind band” for soloist Bruce Tychinski and the University of Delaware wind band conducted by Michael Knight. Currently he is working on a tuba and percussion commission for Jarrod Williams.

After graduating at the top of his class from the USC Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program, Litton has kept an equally busy schedule composing and orchestrating for Hollywood film, TV, and video game projects including the hit A&E series “Bates Motel”, the ABC mini-series “When We Rise”, and “Mission: Space” a ride for Disneyworld’s Epcot. Most recently he composed the rousing orchestral score for Lightbound Studios' fantasy/adventure game “Star Chasers” which is available as a
free download from the App Store and Google Play.

Robert Litton on IMDB
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Bruce Tychinski and University of Delaware Wind Ensemble Performance of "The Three Dauchsunds"

University of South Florida Performance of "One For All."

Difficulty: Wind Ensemble = grade 5 (with probable grade 4 and 6 movements). Tuba
Solo: grade 6.
Length: 10-15 minutes.
Format: Multiple scenes (movements) allowing the piece to be performed as a whole or in selected movements.
Commission buy-in: $500 - Fees may be contributed at this link.
Timeline: Consortium commitments are due by November 1, 2018. The concerto is scheduled to be completed in Fall 2019 when it will be premiered by Zach Collins and the IUP Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Timothy A. Paul, recorded and released on an album by the same group, and with score and parts available to consortium members shortly after this performance.