Travis J. Weller

On the horizon – Pirates! (a 2009 J.W.Pepper’s Editor’s Choice) and Irish Jig for Young Feet will be available this summer from FJH Music.  Irish Jig for Young Feet is a delightful little 6/8 jig with some call and response between the percussionists and the winds players (and their feet!).  My thanks goes out to Tad Greig who was the first colleague to really give this suite (Pirates!) a boost of confidence when his wind ensemble did a recording for me (BTW – his Wind Ensemble played at the 2009 PMEA State Conference and they were ridiculously good!).  A second thank you to Brian Balmages – Brian really challenged me to develop the second movement beyond what I originally wrote.  He asked me great questions during the revisions, and I am really proud of what I created in the second movement.  A final thank you to Drew Fennell - Drew has handled several of my pieces now with some honor bands and the RCYBB.  He has been a good friend and supporter of the suite.  I started writing Pirates in 2006 – for it to finally find a home and get published for me personally is really special.   Read more…