Walden Hughes' Piano Ensemble Compositions

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Dr. Walden Hughes has written 88 compositions and transcriptions for his university piano ensembles, and by commission for performing pianists and piano faculty in the United States and Europe. These works have been performed widely in 49 different countries by various performing ensembles.   The compositions can be heard below as MIDI files. 

The full scores can be attached to email for instant delivery & printed with Acrobat Reader, which is a free download if you don't have it already - or with 'Finale Notepad' which is also a free download (click on Finale Notepad icon below for the free download). 

For information concerning how to obtain performance scores of the compositions represented by the MIDI files below, contact Dr. Hughes through E mail at (or go to this web site for availability - http://myweb.cableone.net/wdhughes):

walden.hughes@juno.com

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QUARTET (2 pianos 8 hands)

notes5.gif (95 bytes) RagTime Dancenotes5.gif (95 bytes) NEW Sabbatical 2004

notes5.gif (95 bytes) Albeniz Preludenotes5.gif (95 bytes) NEW Sabbatical 2004 Watch a VIDEO Performance of the NNU Piano Quartet
Commissioned by University of Louisiana at Monroe Piano Faculty for the Louisiana Music Teacher's Convention.

notes5.gif (95 bytes) Faure's Berceuse from Dolly Suitenotes5.gif (95 bytes) NEW Sabbatical 2004

notes5.gif (95 bytes) Beethoven's "Turkish March" MIDI notes5.gif (95 bytes) 

notes5.gif (95 bytes) Copland's "Hoe-Down" MIDInotes5.gif (95 bytes) Watch a VIDEO performance of NNU Piano Quartet reunion at a homecoming concert Thanksgiving evening 2006 at NNU (Julia Ganske, Ryan Ketchum, John Fraley, Brad Jahn)

notes5.gif (95 bytes) Dvorak's "Slavonic Dance in C Major" MIDInotes5.gif (95 bytes) 

notes5.gif (95 bytes) Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" MIDI notes5.gif (95 bytes) Watch a VIDEO Performance of I Got Rhythm NNU Piano Ensemble

notes5.gif (95 bytes) Liszt's "2nd Hungarian Rhapsody" MIDI notes5.gif (95 bytes) Watch a VIDEO performance of NNU Piano Quartet performing Thanksgiving evening 1997 (Julia Hoffman, Brandon Hoffman, John Burton and Heather Olson)

notes5.gif (95 bytes) Milhaud's "Brazileira" MIDI notes5.gif (95 bytes) Watch a VIDEO performance of  NNU Piano Quartet performing Thanksgiving evening 1999 (Bob Van Allen, John Burton, Brandon Hoffman, and David Stillman

notes5.gif (95 bytes) Prokofiev's "Troika" MIDI (from the Lieutenant Kiji Suite)notes5.gif (95 bytes) Watch a VIDEO performance of NNU Piano Quartet performing Thanksgiving evening 1995 (Julia Hoffman, John Fraley,Ryan Ketchum and Heather Olson)

QUARTET (4 pianos 8 hands)

notes5.gif (95 bytes) Joy to the World arranged by Dr. Hughes for 4 pianos 8 hands MIDI notes5.gif (95 bytes) 

Listen to an 8-piano version of the same piece below: 

notes5.gif (95 bytes) Joy to the World arranged by Dr. Hughes for 8 pianos 16 hands MIDI notes5.gif (95 bytes) 


SEXTET (2 pianos 12 hands)

notes5.gif (95 bytes) Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance" MIDInotes5.gif (95 bytes) Watch a VIDEO Performance of the NNU Piano Quartet

notes5.gif (95 bytes) Strauss' "Radetzky March" MIDInotes5.gif (95 bytes) Watch a VIDEO performance of the NNU Piano Ensemble

Trios (1 piano 6 hands)

Duets (1 piano 4 hands)

Quartets & Sextets (2 pianos 8 hands,  2 pianos 12 hands, 4 pianos 8 hands & 8 pianos 16 hands)

Duos (2 pianos 4 hands)

Original Compositions

VIDEO performances of Hughes arrangements & Hughes students' performances


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