Profile:Seann Branchfield

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Composer and Performer

Seann Branchfield (b. 1984) is a composer of pieces ranging from solo to large ensembles. He has been composing seriously since 1998 and has had private piano instruction for 15 years. Other instruments that he has performed on include oboe, trumpet, violin, guitar and bass guitar. His style of composition has many influences and many of his pieces may be considered "cross-genre". The following list of works is accurate up to 2006. A few later works are listed. In the recent years, Branchfield has composed many piano and flute duets.

Works

Piano

• Enon (2007)
• Frozen Treescape (2006)
• Philosophies Shift (2004)
• Quiet Fabrication (2004)
• 18i + 19 (2004)
• Dawning Restoration (2004)
• Ageum (2003)
• Sonata of Reaffirmation [Sonata No. 3] (2003)
• Diminished Tranquility (2002)

Woodwind Quintet

• Spontaneous Bassoon Fabricatior (2006)
• When 50 = 6 (2005)
• Metalwinds (2005)
• Umfproru’s Travels (2004)
• The Atomic Valley Greenhouse (2004)
• Woodwind Quintet No. 2 (2003)
• March of the “Anti-ixodic Ization” (2002)

Other Chamber Music

• Sonata for English Horn (2008)
• Sonatina for Oboe (2006)
• The Procrastinator [violin] (2006)
• Fugish Metal Waltz [string quartet] (2006)
• Style Displacement [horn, vibraphone, violin, cello] (2006)
• Pendulum Fixation [horn, cello, bassoon] (2005)
• Titania’s Call to Humanity [soprano, piano] (2005)
• Hasib Discovers the Queen of Serpents [guitar, recorder, piano] (2005)
• Bob vs. the Vending Machine [violin, viola, snare drum, slapstick, temple blocks, empty soda can] (2005)
• The Angry Farmer and His Apathetic Dog [violin, cello] (2005)
• Archaic Sunrise [piano, oboe] (2005)
• 1:40 Sat [piano, clarinet, ocarina] (2005)
• We Can Survive Without Television [bass guitar, guitar, soprano, tenor, 2 clarinets, trumpet, percussion] (2004)
• Springflight [flute, piano] (2004)
• Jumping and Through the Grass [oboe 1,2,3, English horn, bassoon] (2004)
• Prism [piano, oboe, cello] (2004)
• The Ancient Quest [brass quintet] (2004)
• Reinstitution for Woodwind Trio [flute, oboe, bassoon] (2004)
• To Faraway Place and Time [baritone, piano] (2004)
• Lyrical March [clarinet, piano] (2004)
• Duet for Cello and Piano [piano, cello] (2003)
• Sonata for Oboe [piano, oboe] (2002)
• Three Oboe Trios (2001)

Choir

• Going is Coming; Coming is Going (2006)
• Beyond Empiricism (2006)

Orchestra

• Overture of Dreams (2008)
• Symphony of Time (2005)
• Concertino for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra [oboe and chamber orchestra] (2004)
• Peril Awake (2004)
• Serenade for String Orchestra (2004)

Concert Band

• Rising from the Obvlivion (2007)
• Ragnarok (2005)

Jazz Band

• In Finding (2007)
• In Search of Places (2005)

In addition to traditional concert pieces, Seann Branchfield has also composed a significant number of contemporary songs.

Contact

E-mail: eselbeus@gmail.com
Myspace: myspace.com/seannbranchfield