Compositions Catalog

Mark Alun Anderman
Compositions and Arrangements

All works published by TMRW Media (BMI) unless noted

Orchestra and Symphonic Band

For Us All

Comissioned for the grand re-opening of Burbank Auditorium, Santa Rosa CA
Premiered by the SRJC Symphonc Band and Concert Choir (March 7, 2020)

Lost for a Moment
Thursday Rain

Premiered by the SRJC Orchestra at the Remembrance concert
in memoriam of the 2017 Sonoma County wildfires
Jackson Auditorium, Santa Rosa CA (October 20, 2018)
Later versions released on the Confluence album

Night Visions

Suite in 3 movements for small orchestra (1996)

Overture for the Festival of Carols and Lights

Comissioned for the Los Altos United Methodist Church annual Christmas festival
Premiered by the LAUMC Orchestra (December 18, 1994)

Jazz Band

Winter Ain't What it Used to Be

 A quodlibet / mashup of Winter Wonderland (by Bernard & Smith) and seven Duke Ellington tunes.
Premiered by the SRJC Jazz Band, Burbank Auditorium (December 11, 2015)
© 1934 Wc Music Corp, and © Famous Music Corporation (unpublished arrangement)

Pieces of Yesterday

 Revised version performed at the Green Music Center by the Sonoma State University Jazz Ensemble
for the Twinge faculty composer concert (April 12, 2013)
Original premiere by the SRJC Jazz Band, Burbank Auditorium (October 25, 2006)

Dancing in Golden Gate Park

 from the Double Vision album, arranged for jazz band
Revised version performed by the SRJC Jazz Band, Burbank Auditorium (December 18, 2011)
Original premiere by the SRJC Jazz Band, Burbank Auditorium (May 14, 2003)

Ascension

from the Ascension album, arranged for jazz band
Premiered at the SRJC Faculty Jazz Concert, Newman Audiorium (March 7, 2008)

Blues for D. S.

Dedicated to Daniel Sullivan
Perfomed by the Millikan High School Jazz Band (Long Beach, CA)
at the MHS Jazz Clinic (December, 1989)

Choral / Vocal

For Us All

Comissioned for the grand re-opening of Burbank Auditorium, Santa Rosa CA
Text by Mark Alun Anderman and Edna St. Vincent Millay
Premiered by the SRJC Concert Choir and Symphonc Band (March 7, 2020)

Music, Do Not Cease!

 Adaptation of the poem "On Hearing a Symphony of Beerthoven" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
for choir and piano in honor of the 100th anniversary of Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Premiered by the Santa Rosa Symphonic Chorus for Songs of Earth and Sky (May 15, 2024)

Delirious

 by Prince, arranged for The Oak Tones vocal jazz ensemble by M. A. Anderman (2016)
© 1982 Controversy Music (unpublished arrangement)

Lullaby of Birdland

 by George Shearing and George David Weiss, arranged for vocal jazz ensemble by M. A. Anderman
Premiered by The Oak Tones at SRJC Jazz Night (May 15, 2015)
© 1952 Adam R. Levy & Father, Inc. (unpublished arrangement)

In a Baby's Eyes

 Song for voice and guitar, dedicated Abby Anderman (2001)

Fifty Years Ago

 Song for voice and piano, dedicated to Alun and Florence Jones
Premiered at Los Altos United Methodist Church (December 16, 1989)

Other Works

Elegy

 by Jean M. Davis in memory of Chod Harris
Comissioned arrangement for woodwind quintet by M. A. Anderman
Premiered at Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA (June 27, 2024) 
© 2024 Jean M. Davis

Inside
Para Armando
Unspoken

 for guitar, piano, flute, clarinet, and percussion
Premiered at SRJC Forsyth Hall (April 28, 2023)
Later versions released on the Horizon album

Project Wingman: Landing

 by Jose Pavli arranged for piano by M. A. Anderman
Premiered at the Montgomery High School Spring Piano Recital (March 16, 2022)
© 2021 Neïwa Interactive (unpublished arrangement)

Blues for Bryce

 for jazz combo, dedicated to Bryce Anderman
Premiered at Forsyth Hall, SRJC (April 17, 2015)

Animal Healing Arts

 Radio jingle by Dr. Lisa Pesch and Mark Alun Anderman (2015)

Emis the Brave

 for bagpipes, composed for Duayne Emis (2002)

Vashti

 for solo guitar
Premiered at Higher Grounds Cafe, Santa Rosa, CA (August 11, 1996)

One Hand, One Heart

 by Leonard Bernstein arranged for flute and string quartet by M. A. Anderman
Premiered at Faith Lutheran Church, Santa Rosa, CA (January 4, 1997)
© 1956 Jalni Publications (unpublished arrangement)

Kimberly

 for solo guitar, dedicated to Kimberly Wolfard
Premiered at Higher Grounds Cafe, Santa Rosa, CA (July 10, 1996)

Moments

 Impressions for piano (1995)
  1. Prelude
  2. The Silent Room
  3. The Night We Never Had
  4. Along the Ocean

Three Scenes

 for solo clarinet (1992)
  1. Andante–Moderato–Andante
  2. Rubato–Presto–Cantabile–Allegro
  3. Allegro–Slower–Allegro
Graduate composition project for San Francisco State University

Alternate Landscapes

 for solo guitar
Premiered at the CSU Long Beach University Telecommunications Center (November 11, 1990)

The Pit and the Pendulum

 for cello, flute, piano, and narrator
text by Edgar Allan Poe
Premiered at California State University, Long Beach (May 8, 1990)

Albums

Horizon

TMRW Media #T1020 (2024)
  1. Horizon
  2. Turning Point
  3. Unspoken
  4. Keep The Change
  5. Para Armando
  6. Inside
  7. So Alive, So In Love
  8. Second Chance
Para Armando is dedicated to the memory of Chick Corea
So Alive, So In Love is for Kathy DeWeese

Confluence

TMRW Media #T1010 (2019)
  1. Phoenix (Rising)
  2. Seven in Six
  3. Lost for a Moment
  4. No Right on Red
  5. Thursday Rain
  6. How Lucky We Are
  7. Blindsided
  8. Almost Home
Thursday Rain was composed in remembrance of the victims, survivors, and heroes
of the October, 2017 Sonoma County wildfires
How Lucky We Are is for Kathy DeWeese

Double Vision

Recorded in Singapore with Bruce MacLeod
Watchful Eye Recordings WE1005 (1997)

Ascension

TMRW Records #T1001 (1995)
  1. What’s it Gonna Take?
  2. Ascension
  3. Like Tears in Rain
  4. Without You
  5. Someday
    6.

Recordings by Other Artists

Darkness
on Early Work by The Bruce MacLeod Quartet
© 2014 Watchful Eye Recordings

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