Samuel Hazo
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For the author and poet, see Samuel John Hazo.
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Samuel Robert Hazo (born 1966) is an American composer of primarily music for concert band.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Partial list of composed works
- Perthshire Majesty— winner of the 2003 NBA William D. Rivelli Memorial Composition Contest
- Sevens
- Ride
- Rush (Noted in the score by Hazo to be Ride Part II)
- Fantasy on a Japanese Folk Song
- Diamond Fanfare
- Novo Lenio
- In Heaven's Air
- Olympiada
- Exultaté
- Sky is Waiting
- Ascend (Movement III of Georgian Suite)
- Today is the Gift
- Three Minnesota Portraits: (Commissioned by the Edina High School Concert Band)
- Movement One: Hennepin County Dawn (Shrouds of Snow)
- Movement Two: Rest
- Movement Three: Across the Halfpipe
- Echoes
- Chorus Angelorum (Commissioned by Hereford High School in memory of Joey and Audrey Baseman)
- Southern Hymn (Commissioned by Providence High School Wind Ensemble, Charlotte, NC in memory of Neil Rasmussen)
- Bridges (Commissioned by Virginia Tech in memory of the victims of the Virginia Tech Massacre in 2007)
- Their Blossoms Down
- Voices of the Sky
- Sòlas Ané (Yesterday's Joy)
- Arabesque (Commissioned by the Indiana Bandmasters' Association for the 2008 All-State Honor Band)
- Psalm 42
- Our Kingsland Spring
- Our Yesterdays Lengthen Like Shadows (Commissioned by the South Carolina Band Director's Association for the 2008 All-State Honor Band)
- The Quest
- As Winds Dance
- Each Time You Tell Their Story
- Keltic Variations
- Rivers (Movement II of Georgian Suite)
- In Flight
- Blessings
- Our Kingsland Spring (Movement I of Georgian Suite)
- Rising Star
- Three Concert Fanfares
- Minuet
- Whisper to Their Souls (based on Greensleeves)
- ...GO
- Autumn on White Lake (Hazo's most recent piece, premiered December 14, 2008 by Lakeland High School Wind Ensemble by whom the piece was commissioned. Publishing date has not been determined.)
- Themes from "Handel's Water Music"
- Themes from Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusick"
- Síoraí September (Commissioned by the Notre Dame Concert Band, to be premiered May 11, 2010 at Carnegie Hall)[1]
- Parkour (Commissioned by the East Winds Symphonic Band, premiered November 6, 2011)
- Blue and Green Music (Based on the painting by Georgia Okeeffe)
