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CRAIG ALBERTY
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Craig Alberty has over forty published compositions and arrangements in the catalogs of six publishers that are in international distribution.  His works have been featured at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Conference in Chicago, The World Saxophone Congress in Montreal, and other state and regional meetings including the North American Saxophone Alliance. His concert band compositions are included on several contest performance lists in the U. S. and Australia.
A Jubilant Flourish – Band World magazine included this original work for concert band on the 2006-07 list of top 100 new publications out of 850 entries.  It was performed at the Western International Band Conference in Seattle, 2006 and again at the American Band College Director's clinics in June, 2007.
Palm Coast Romp – This fun Latin chart is written for young jazz band.  The demo features a killer trumpet solo by Ken Brader, Phil Woods’ lead player on several recordings.
Quietly Come and Whisper – This simple setting of the French carol Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella is scored for young concert band –  published by FJH.
Bloozberry Jam – In its Spetember 2006 issue, The Instrumentalist magazine reviewed this original work for jazz band and recognized it as “music that is highly recommended."
Full Publication List
Books
C.L. Barnhouse Company
        Jammin'  (jazz improvisation method)
Jazz Band
Educational Programs Publications, JPM Music
Coffee Coolata
The Big Cheese
Horse Feathers
Song for Johann
Kanon
Palm Coast Romp
Rush!
 The Vax Report
Sunday's Preachin'
Uptown Sneakers
Fussin'
Flashpoint
That Ain’t No Way To Do
Bloozeberry Jam

Concert Band
TRN Music Publishers
Crawford Creek Overture
Joyant Proclamation
 Sheba
Horizons West
Counterpoint Music Publishers, RBC Music
A Celtic Ballad
Dakota Morn
Intrada Jubiloso
March on a Welsh Air
American Reel
Great Plains Impressions
 Cumberland Overture
Aire Imperial
Aztec Carnival
Afton Fantasy
The Fox and the Tomten
Variants on an Australian Song
Educational Programs Publications, JPM Music
Albion Jubilee
Air from County Derry
Queen City Facets
A Jubilant Flourish
 The Wizard and the Leprechaun
Ludwig's Groove
Tanglefoot March
FJH Music Publisher
 Quietly Come and Whisper
Ed Sueta Music Publications
 Prairie Images
Brass Ensemble
Ed Sueta Music Publications
         Two Handel Sketches
 Presto Marcato

Additional Works and Performances
  • May 2005 – The Florence Symphony Orchestra commissioned I Feel Dizzy, a medley of Dizzy Gillespie works.  I performed as saxophone soloist with Harry Watters, guest trombone artist.  Harry is trombone soloist with the Army Blues jazz band and trombonist in the Army Band Brass Quintet.
  • 2004 – Mid-West Clinic, an International Band and Orchestra Conference, Chicago, Illinois: the Army Field Band Jazz Ensemble from Washington D.C. performed Bloozeberry Jam.
  • January 2004 conducted the Roosevelt High School Band, Sioux Falls, SD in the premier performance of  Queen City Facets, a commissioned work for concert band.
  • 2003 Mid-West Clinic, an International Band and Orchestra Conference, Chicago, Illinois: the Army Blues Jazz Band from Washington D.C. performed The Vax Report.
  • Fall 2001 completed Struttin' With Some Bradercue, a commissioned work for Philadelphia jazz artist Ken Brader that was supported by a grant from the Florence Regional Arts Alliance.
  • Fall 2000 completed The Vax Report, a composition written for trumpet virtuoso Mike Vax that has been published by Educational Programs Publications.
  • World Saxophone Congress in Montreal, July 2000, included performances of Sonata for Saxophone and Percussion (premier) and Bricodeth, a composition for saxophone and recorded accompaniment that was also performed at the North American Saxophone Alliance convention in Gainesville, Florida (1996).
  • 2000 Mid-West Clinic, an International Band and Orchestra Conference, Chicago, Illinois: the Holub Middle School Jazz Band from Houston, Texas, performed Palm Coast Romp.
  • 1999 Mid-West Clinic, an International Band and Orchestra Conference, Chicago, Illinois: the Space Center Intermediate School Symphonic Band from Houston, Texas, performed Horizons West.
  • 1995 Mid-West Clinic, an International Band and Orchestra Conference, Chicago, Illinois: the Laing Middle School Band from Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, performed Cumberland Overture.