Evan Fellman Music

Providing private and group instrumental instruction

Suite Eire No 3 Suite Caledonia, Loch Lomond

05/17/2024

Ok, I think I got the mix correct for this, but I admit I didn’t listen through my studio monitors. If there are major balance issues I’ll re-do it.

This piece took much longer to write, including soliciting and receiving amazing assistance from a harpist for the harp part, which I think is now playable.
It also was more serious in content, and I really tried to bring the gravity to the source material.
Loch Lomond is from the perspective of a dead soldier, who takes the “low road” home to Scotland. The Last March is the middle “breakdown” tune, continuing the marching motif, and The Minstrel Boy is the 3rd melody (not necessarily in that order), with further poignant source material.

Suite Eire No 3 Suite Caledonia, Loch Lomond Movement number 3 in the Celtic Suite Loch LomondThe Last MarchThe Minstrel BoyConcert bandSymphonic windsHarpEnglish horn soloIrishScottish

10/25/2023

Something I composed recently. Hopefully it’s the final version. The Last Minute, for Concert Band. The theme and some of the motifs are from a college assignment long ago, but most of this is new.

02/28/2023

Haha, dug out my ancient composition files. This predates my deeper understanding of music theory, obviously. I was maybe 15 when I wrote it? Titled “splotch”. I loved the sound of bassoon.

02/20/2022

Busking Downtown Sutter Creek. Kids do it for the tips.

02/19/2022

Make sure to NOT be chatting with a friend while setting up for the gig.

02/19/2022

Basic instrument repair is an essential skill for music educators. Geology, spatial reasoning, eyeballing the dimensions.

02/12/2022

10/14/2021

Been practicing Horn pretty consistently for a couple years. It’s one of those niche sort of instruments that’s really hard to get to sound right and is not forgiving at all when you get it wrong. That said it’s a fun (masochistic) sort of personal growth project. The eventual goal is to take this Mozart concerto in D and record myself playing all the orchestral parts and the horn solo. Maybe by my 40th birthday?