New music for a new time...

Richard Arnest holds degrees in composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the University of Hawaii. An accomplished flutist and player of Renaissance winds, he was Artist-In-Residence in the mid-70s and early 80s for the Arkansas Arts Council and the State Arts Council of Oklahoma, for whom he presented concerts, performed in schools, created classical music programming for Arkansas Educational Television, and taught woodwinds at the Arkansas Governor's School.

After an 18-year hiatus, he returned to his first love and began composing music again in 2003. His Liquescence for flute and strings won the 2004 EPICmusic competition and was recorded by Enzo Caroli with the Symphony Orchestra of the Adriatic. He received ASCAPLUS awards in 2005 and 2006, and belongs to ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, the American Federation of Musicians and the American Music Center. His latest project is Music Under Construction, a fledgling service bureau for composers and new music in the Midwest.

A native of Richmond, Virginia, he lives and composes in Cincinnati, where he is an Artist in Residence with the Ohio Arts Council's Arts in Education program and sings with the May Festival Chorus.

In addition to ACF he belongs to ASCAP, the American Federation of Musicians and the American Music Center. He is an Artist in Residence with the Ohio Arts Council Arts In Education program. You can buy his flute music (including many arrangements) from FluteWorld.com, who named him their 'Featured Composer' in 2006. His music is published by Amber Waves Music Publishing and Music Under Construction.


Awards
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2005 - 2007 ASCAPLUS Award
2004 EPICmusic competition: First Prize
Liquescence
1985 Ohio Federation of Music Clubs: First Prize
Quintet for Winds


Honors
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Flute World - Featured Composer at FluteWorld.com
National Endowment for the Arts - Music Program Fellow


Recent Performances
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Entreat Me Not - 8/2007
Wind from the Shore - 6/2007
Between Two Hills - Carolina Concert Choir 5/2007 and Piccolo Spoleto 2007
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Cincinnati Camerata 5/6/2007
Chiese Serenissime - Enzo Caroli (Venice) 2/3/2007
Yorkshire Wassail - May Festival Chorus (Carolfest) 12/2006
Midwinter - Cincinnati Camerata (Marian Concert) 12/2006
Lily of a Day - Cincinnati October Festival Choir, 10/2005
Star Spangled Banner - (arr. for string quartet) Cincinnati Reds, 9/2005
Liquescence - Enzo Caroli (Symphony Orchestra of the Adriatic (Strassoldo, Venice, Mirano), 6/2005
All Wrapped in Grief - Mary Magdalene choir, 4/2005
Carol Fantasia - Cincinnati Camerata, 12/2004 and St. John's Choir (Wytheville, VA), 12/2003


Other Media
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21st Century Flute Concertos (CD)
2006 Enzo Caroli and the Orchestra Sinfonica Adriatica directed by Paolo Pessina

Haworth Suite (CD)
2008 Czech Radio Philharmonic directed by Robert Ian Winstin (post-production)

1981 Vox Balaenae* (TV/AETN)
1981 Three Poems of Lily Peter (TV/AETN)
1980 The Second Coming (TV/AETN)
1979 An Evening of Flute and Guitar* (TV/AETN)
1972 A Medieval and Renaissance Christmas* (TV/KHET)
Producer for all television programs
AETN: Arkansas Educational Television Network
KHET: Hawaii Educational Television
* performer only

My music is characterized by lyrical counterpoint, accessible harmony and flexible rhythms. I'm committed to accessible music that can be enjoyably performed and heard by professionals and amateurs.

Original Music
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Maria zart von edler Art
10/2008
SATB Chorus
Premiere pending, Cincinnati Camerata 12/2008

Things are Looking Up
9/2008 (60")
60x60 project

A New Year?s Beginning
9/2008
Poem by Susan Arnest
SATB Chorus

We Listen For the Voice of God (Psalm 85)
8/2008
Adaptation by Nancy Arnest
Two voices with Flute and Piano

The Christmas Call
7/2008
Poem by Susan Arnest
Horn withy SATB Chorus

Per Aspera Ad Astra
(Le Tombeau de Roland)
3/2008 (3')
4 C flutes
Flute and Piano
(Creative Commons license - download and perform for free

Children of Light
2/2008 (18')
Woodwind trio (F;ute, Clarinet and Bassoon)

the present of time
12/2007 (10'48")
Piano quartet (Violin I & II, Cello and Piano)

My radiance indwelling
12/2007 (60")
60x60 project

Sueño despierto
12/2007 (2'7")
SSA with flute

Occam's Laser
9/2007 (9'51")
Recorder quartet

Entreat me not
8/2007 (3'10")
AB voices with flute and piano

souvislosti
7/2007 (7'48")
Clarinet and Piano

Wind from the Shore
6/2007 (3'35")
Flute and Piano

68181
60x60 Project
5/2007 (60")

Vixen!
Piano opera
5/2007 (22'58")
SATB with piano

The Queen of Air and Darkness
variations on tune by O'Carolan
4/2007 (5'11")
Flute and Harp

Jacob's Ladder
3/2007 (10'30")
Flute Quartet with piccolo, alto and bass doubles

Their Mouths Struck Dumb
Chamber Ensemble
2/2007 (9'34")
Fl/cl/pcs/pno/vn/vc

Blooming with Brazen Light
2/2007 (4'34")
Brass Quintet with Organ

Quiet Confidence
Text from the Book of Common Prayer
Kent School Choir
1/2007 (2'45")
SATB Chorus

Between Two Hills
Poem by Carl Sandburg
Carolina Concert Choir
1/2007 (3'04")
SATB Chorus

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1/2007 (5'34")
SATB chorus with wind quintet

Négociation
9/2006 (10'01")
Chamber Orchestra

Haworth Suite
9/2006 (22'0")
Recorded by Czech Radio Philharmonic
Chamber Orchestra

Chiese Serenissime
8/2005 (20'00")
Fl/ob/pno
Premiered at Venice, 2/3/2007

String Quartet
6/2005 (15'00")

Nunc Dimittis
6/2005 (3'15")
SATB choir and organ

Dark Wing
Symphonic Band
5/2005 (14'00")
Concert band.

Brassica
5/2005 (3'52")
Canzona for brass quartet
premiered St. Barnabas Day 06/05

I am the resurrection and the life
Biblical quotations from the Episcopal service for the dead.
4/2005 (2'45")
Baritone with ob/eh/handbells

Prologue to a time that is not itself
Poem by Eunice Odio, translated by Martha Collins
3/2005 (6'10")
Five movements for SATB chorus plus fl/ob/vib

All Wrapped in Grief
St. Mary Magdalene choirs
Poem by Patricia Clark
3/2005 (3'51")
Church setting of an Easter poem; premiered 4/05

Soldier for the Queen
Poems by A.E.Housman
1/2005 (18'00")
Eight-song cycle of military poems for baritone, euphonium, piano, drums, TTBB chorus.

Lily of a day
Cincinnati Camerata
Poem by Ben Jonson
12/04 (2'45")
SSAATB
premiered 10/05 October Festival Choir

O beautiful power
Translated by Neil Parker
10/2004 (2'53")
SATB setting of a prayer from the Egyptian Book of the Dead

Evocation
9/2004; (5'45")
Chamber Ensemble
fl/vc/harp.

Coplas del aprender
9/2004 (8'40")
SATB chorus with 2pc/eh/bn/percussion
premiered 5/08 Cincinnati Camerata

Liquescence
9/2004 (9'37")
Solo flute and string orchestra
Premiered by Enzo Caroli and the Orchestra Sinfonica Adriatica
EPICmusic winner, 2004.

Flos campsis
9/2004 (6'54")
Solo trumpet and string orchestra.

Villagers all
Carol setting of a poem by Kenneth Grahame
8/2004 (2'19")
Recorder with SATB chorus
Flute choir

Clap your hands (Psalm 47)
6/2004 (2'43")
Soprano with SATB choir, organ, percussion

Present for the Creation
5/2004 (48")
Flute alone

Epithalamion
5/2004 (57")
Viola alone

Then a voice came from the throne
5/2004 (2'58")
Baritone solo with SATB choir, organ and timpani

My beloved spake
2/2004 (5'37")
Soprano with flute, organ and alto

Livre d'orgue
1/2004
5 short organ works
Performances:
2/2004 St. Barnabas (Postlude)
3/2007 St. Peter In Chains (Prelude sur Picardie)
3/2007 St. Peter In Chains (Éclore Éclairé)

Et Volavit
9/2003 (3'00")
SATB chorus

Carol Fantasia
8/2003 (9'37")
SATB chorus with fl/vn/va/vc/trp/organ
Performances:
12/2003 St. John's/Wytheville VA
12/2004 Cincinnati Camerata/Covington, KY

Sonata for Viola and Piano
7/2003 (18'21")
viola and piano

I wonder as I wander
11/2003 (3'15")
SAA + flute

Variations on I wonder...
11/2003 (4'38")
flute alone

Wind Quintet No. 2
7/2003 (13'41")
Fl/ob/cl/hn/bn

Brazen Music from the Late Post-Sixteenth Century
Completed 7/2003
Brass quintet

In Nomine
7/2003 (4'11")
Brass quartet
St. Barnabas Day, 2004

Arrangements
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À Chiu (Riu riu chiu)
Flute Choir

Deus in adjutorium
Kyrie
Agnus Dei
Ecce bonum
Ludwig Senfl
Recorder Quartet

Aisleann an Oigfear (Danny Boy)
Flute Choir

Patientiam muss ich han in 5 parts
Ludwig Senfl
Recorder Quintet
Brass Quintet

Wild Mountain Thyme
Flute and Piano
Flute and Harp

HuayñoNavideño
Peruvian Christmas carol
SATB Chorus with Organ

See Weasels. Go Pop.
Flute Choir

Orfa Grand Polka
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Brass Quintet

Morning Has Broken
Gaelic Tune Bunessan
Flute trio

Psallite
Praetorius
flute and string trio

Away in a manger
High voice with Flute and Piano

Sussex Carol
Flute trio and handbells

If I had flutes
Flute Choir
If I had brass
Brass Quintet
Saint-Saens (Organ Symphony finale)

In Dulci Jubilo
Christmas carol
SATB chorus with organ

Personent Hodie
Christmas carol
SATB chorus with organ

Three Ships
Christmas carol
SATB chorus with organ

Midwinter
SSAATB chorus

Sherburne
Based on a Shape-note tune
SATB Chorus

Star Spangled Banner
String Quartet
Brass Quartet

The Entertainer
Scott Joplin
Flute choir

An English Christmas
Flute, Cello and Harp

Noel Nouvelet
Flute, Cello and Harp

Wexford Carol
SATB Chorus with Organ

Holly and Ivy
SATB Chorus with Organ

In Dulci Jubilo
SATB Chorus with Organ

Machs Mit Mir


O Filii et Filiae
Trumpet, Trombone and Handbells

Fairy Queen
O?Carolan
Harp alone

Denn Alle Fleisch
Johannes Brahms
Flute and Piano

Adagio
Samuel Barber
Viola and Organ

A substantial body of work composed prior to 1986 is not included in this list..