Annual American Composers Update

Living in Jonesboro, AR, SAI National Associate Jared Spears serves as Professor of Music (composition) at Arkansas State University.

BRAVO! was premiered at the Association of Concert Bands International Convention in Lafayette, LA on Apr. 5, 1996, with the composer conducting the Convention Band. The first performance of A Kensington Portrait was given by the Arkansas State University Trombone Choir, conducted by Neal King Bartee, during the May 1997 International Trombone Choir Festival at the University of Illinois, in Champaign-Urbana. Commissioned by the Barton County Community College and funded in part by the Kansas Art Commission, Jubilation Overture was introduced Sept. 27, 1997, during the college's 1997 Prairie Winds Honor Band Concert in Great Bend, KS. The Adventurers, for symphonic band, will be played first Feb. 7, 1998, with the Northeast Oklahoma Band Directors Association Symphonic Honor Band, conducted by the composer, in Tulsa.

Images Diabolique; symphonic band; Band Music Press/Carl Fischer, Inc.; Dance Diabolique; string orchestra; Neil A. Kjos Music Co. The Brass Ring; symphonic band; Hal Leonard Publishing Corp. A Kensington Portrait; trombone quartet; Grand Mesa Publishing Co..

Ceremonium; Windstone Suite; Bayport Sketch; Caccia Caper; Cameo Suite; Country Variations; Proclamations; Mosaics; Woodworks; Collidescope; Scamper; Collisions; Ragtime Renegades; all for percussion ensembles of various sizes, by The Washington Winds Percussion Ensemble on Walking Frog Records Mosaics -- The Percussion Music of Jared Spears CD.