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Sound Performance for Young Musicians

43 Flexible Solos, Duets, and Trios

This versatile resource by Chris M. Bernotas and Jim Palmer features a diverse selection of music that can be performed as solos, duets, or trios, with or without piano accompaniment. Designed to inspire confidence and musicality as well as musical independence, the selections are arranged for students who are toward the end of their first year of instruction and beyond.

Featuring a diverse mix of folk songs, classical themes, holiday favorites, and patriotic tunes, these arrangements are ideal for solo performances, chamber concerts, or as a refreshing addition to regular concert programs. Notes and rhythms are limited to those used in most beginning method books.

This collection is an essential addition to any library, providing a fun and rewarding experience for students of all ages!

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Books in the Winds/Percussion Series:

Flute / Oboe
Clarinet / Bass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone / Baritone Saxophone / Alto Clarinet
Tenor Saxophone
Trumpet / Euphonium T.C.

Horn in F
Trombone / Bassoon / Euphonium B.C.
Tuba
Percussion
Piano Accompaniment
Teacher's Score

Books in the Strings Series:

Violin
Viola
Cello / Bass
Piano Accompaniment
Teacher's Score

Because of grade-level considerations regarding keys and instrument ranges, the arrangements in the wind/percussion instrument series are not compatible with those in the string instrument series.

How Does It Work?

Each song is arranged so students can play the top part (Part A) to play the solo, another student can join on the second part (Part B) to make it a duet, and the third part (Part C) completes the trio. Each of these variations can be played with or without piano accompaniment.

Classical Themes

The books will familiarize your students with essential classical themes such as “Ode to Joy” (Symphony No. 9), “Spring” (The Four Seasons), “Theme” (Swan Lake), “Habanera” (Carmen), and more.

Folk Songs

Diverse folk songs have been carefully selected to provide a variety of styles and cultural representations, including “Los Pollitos Dicen” (Chilean Folk Song), Las Mañanitas (Mexican Folk Song), “Botany Bay” (Australian Folk Song), and many more.

Holiday & Patriotic Songs

Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and patriotic songs are all included in this collection, providing a variety of tunes for holiday concerts and celebrations. Songs include “Danse Macabre,” “Sevivon,” “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,” “Jolly Old St. Nicholas,” “We Gather Together,” “You’re a Grand Old Flag,” and many more.

Piano Accompaniment Books

Piano accompaniment books are available for both the strings books and the winds/percussion books, and include the solo line. The piano accompaniments are easy enough for directors to play, regardless of their experience level. Chord labels are included for an even easier accompaniment option.

Exclusive Content Is Available Free with SI Online

Each Sound Performance book includes access to the free practice tools in SI Online, featuring full performance recordings, piano accompaniments, and minus-one tracks for playing along as a solo or part of a trio. Tracks can be slowed down, sped up, and looped for playing difficult sections. The minus-one tracks are real instruments (not MIDI) in order to emulate the proper sound.

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Sound Performance performance and accompaniment tracks available on SI Online are audio featuring real musicians, not MIDI. This is important so students learn how to emulate the sound and musicality of professional musicians.

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Ada Brooks, Euphonium
Before securing her position with the West Point Band in 2024, Ms. Brooks served as a member of the Air National Guard Band of the Southwest and the Dallas Brass Band, while maintaining a studio of more than 30 private students. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Texas, where she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in euphonium performance.

Jordan Fusco, Viola
Violist Jordan Fusco is an active performer, freelancer, and teacher, as well as co-founder of Chamber Music Society of North Jersey. Jordan holds a bachelor’s degree in violin and an artist diploma in viola from Montclair State University, studying with members of the Shanghai Quartet. She obtained her master’s degree in viola performance from Mannes College under the tutelage of Paul Neubauer.

Sean Hack, Trumpet
Sean G. Hack is a freelance trumpet player and composer in the NJ tristate area. He has a degree from Illinois State University in trumpet performance. His credits include the national tour of Les Mis, the Princeton Brass Band, Eastern Wind Symphony, The Count Basie Theatre, and many more, as well as on recordings with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony.

Timothy Hanley, Bass Clarinet
A freelance performer and teacher in New York and New Jersey, Mr. Hanley is the bass clarinetist of Voyager Reed Quintet. Career highlights include performing as Principal Clarinet in the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra and Principal Clarinet in the OperaMaya. He holds a B.M. from the University of Houston and an M.M. at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and is pursuing a DMA at Rutgers University.

Diana Dohyung Kim, Violin
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Diana Dohyung Kim was accepted into The Juilliard Pre-College Division at seven years old. She attended the Yale School of Music, The Juilliard School, and the DePaul University School of Music—all on scholarship. Diana joined the IHL Summer Music Program in China as a faculty member in 2017. She is currently getting her doctorate degree at Rutgers University.

Judy Yin-Chi Lee, French Horn
Judy Yin-Chi Lee is a commercial and classical musician in the New York Metropolitan area, having performed and/or recorded with more than 20 Broadway shows, with musicians like Ray Charles and Harry Connick Jr., and on many Netflix, Paramount, and Warner Brothers movies. She has also performed with many orchestras including the New York City Ballet, the American Symphony Orchestra, and many more.

Alicia “Lish” Lindsey, Flute
Alicia “Lish” Lindsey is the principal piccoloist with the Capital Philharmonic Orchestra of NJ, principal flutist with the Eastern Wind Symphony, resident flutist with Random Access Music and Endless Mountain Music Festival, contrabass flutist with UpTown Flutes, and is the director and ryūteki performer with the Columbia Instrumental Gagaku Ensemble of NY. Lish is an adjunct music professor at Columbia University.

Gregory Marsh, Clarinet
Mr. Marsh is adjunct professor of woodwinds at Rowan College at Burlington County where he has coached woodwind chamber ensembles, given woodwind sectionals, taught ear-training classes, and seen many of his students become music teachers and performers. He also maintains a private woodwind studio and is currently attending the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University to obtain a Doctor of Musical Arts degree.

Mark Serkin, Cello
Cellist Mark Serkin is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at Rutgers University where he studies with cellist Jonathan Spitz. Mark has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, and various other venues. He received his Bachelor's and Masters' degrees with honors in cello performance at Mannes School of Music, studying with Barbara Stein Mallow and Jeffrey Zeigler.

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