Kerry Turner

The American Horn Quartet, formed in 1982, features 4 award winning American hornists who perform in well known European orchestras. As individuals, members of the quartet have won prizes in competiti...

Commissioned by the horn ensemble "aHorn," composed in May, 2011 in Luxembourg The grand cathedral pipe organ has always been one of Mr. Turner's favorite instruments. The huge range of dynamics and s...

Kaitsenko était une société guerrière exclusive des Indiens Kiowa. Les Kaitsenko se juraient les uns aux autres de ne mourir qu'au combat contre leurs ennemis. Le compositeur souhaitait retranscrire l...

2 trompettes, 2 cors, 3 trombones, tuba

In the summer of 1979, I was employed on the Mayan Ranch in Bandera, Texas, located about sixty miles south of San Antonio. It was there that I encountered all of the excitements as well as the hard w...

The Pocono Mountains of northern Pennsylvania have always been a rich source of creative inspiration for me. The basic concepts of many of my works germinated there during quiet weeks spent on vacatio...

The Casbah of Tetouan The Casbah of Tetouan is a tone poem for Brass Quintet composed by Kerry Turner in an arrangement for 5 horns for the American Horn Quartet. It is 12 minutes of spectacular virtu...

Ricochet is a ten minute work for advanced quintet. A gauranteed crowd-pleaser, it is composed of three sections which are loosely associated with the following themes: Ricochet, Repose and Rodeo. Whi...

Soundings on the Erie Canalwas composed in 1984 and is based on the well-known American folk song "Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal". The piece is written to be light-hearted and fun rather than a seri...

I chose the title "Improvisation" because of the circumstances in which the piece was written. At the time of receiving the commission by the Loraine Brass Quintet, I was doing quite a lot of travelin...

Instrumentation: Piccolo Trumpet/Flugel Horn, 3 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 2 Trombones, Tuba, Tympani, Snare Drum, Maraccas, Wind Machine, Syspended Cymbol, Cymbals, Tam-tam Heros, a three movement tone-poem...

Instrumentation: 3 Trumpets, 2 Horns, 2 Trombones & Tuba Adaptation of the work originally written for string orchestra but made famous in the version for 8 horns. Theme and variations of a traditiona...

The Labyrinth fo large brass ensemble was commissioned by Susan Salminen and the Bethany Brass Ensemble at Bethany College in Lindsburg, Kansas. The composer’s conception of the piece came out of a dr...

The Berceuse for the Mary Rose for woodwind quintet was composed in February 2004. The inspiration for the piece came from a visit to the Mary Rose ship hall in Portsmouth, England. The composer was a...

Commissioned by the Mill Ave Chamber Players Escape from Winter has begun To such remoteness must I go. Across the sea to find the sun, On the road to Tasartico. Across the sea and over the pass, So d...

Voix de ténor, cor, violon et piano Thème de Jack Bride (1'47) - 1. Auschwitz (1'36) - 2. Texas on a Sunday (3'46) - 3. The Bounty (1'38) - 4. Le Groenland (4'38) - 5. Sermon sur la montagne (2'58) -...

Catalonian Serenade by Kerry Turner 1. Alba a Barcelona (Dawn in Barcelona) 2. Mitjanit al Barri Gotic (Midnight in the Gothic Quarter) 3. Bal a la Posta del Sol (Dancing in the Sunset) Commissioned b...

Composers of the 1980's and 90's are striving more and more to communicate with their audiences. The modern horn player is, on the other hand, constantly searching for new music that is challenging bo...

Every night around four fifteen I awaken. It is neither sudden nor brought on by a bad dream. Usually my mind is quite blank when I drift out of a deep sleep. Then, as if on cue, the first haunting th...

Rhapsody was meant to recreate, with music, four vivid yet fleeting memories in the life of the composer. The scenes which flashed into Mr. Turner’s mind were both full of character and color, indeed...