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Bands - Brass Quintet - Classical/Eclectic - The Dwellings - Lip Service

Bands

Seven recordings from The Court and Spark/Hiss Golden Messenger

"Duchess"
The trumpet enters at :58 in the track. I multi-tracked many parts on this song.


"Balthazar"
This is a string trio arrangement I composed/recorded for Hiss Golden Messenger's album Poor Moon.


"Blue Country Mystic"
Another string arrangement I composed/recorded for Hiss Golden Messenger's album Poor Moon.


"Out On the Water"
The trumpet enters at about 1:09 in the track. I multi-tracked 3 parts on this song. The part is repeated later in the song.


"Birmingham to Blackhorse Road We Wandered"
The trumpet plays right at the beginning. This part is repeated later in the song. I also do the whistling on this track!


"Double Roses"
The trumpet is muted with a copper harmon.


"Rooster Mountain"
This is the first song I recorded with the C&S. (Carry Campbell, French Horn & Marc Bolin, Trombone)

Two recordings from The Wolfkings - Top

"Winter Streets"
The trumpet enters at about 2:35 and repeats again at 3:25. Be sure to listen to the end, where I did some multi-part recording.


"Gray Day"
Trumpet enters at 1:09. Includes multi-tracking. Repeats throughout song.


Brass Quintet - Top

West Coast Enigma & Tamalpais Brass
The West Coast Enigma is an LA based brass quintet I played with from 2004-2011. It's core members included:
Graham Taylor, Rich Candelaria, & Dusty McKinney (trumpets), Steve Mahpar (horn), Jeremy Swem (trombone), & Robert Krizo (tuba).
Tamalpais Brass is a Bay Area based quintet started in May of 2012. It's core members include:
Graham Taylor, and Ari Micich (trumpets), Alison Sawyer (horn), Katie Curran (trombone), & Tiffany Bayly (tuba).

5 Selections from the 2011 South Bay Music Symposium
"Lights Camera Action!" arr. Steve Mahpar
A Medley of golden age film music...and some other things:)


"Canzona per Sonare No. 4", Giovanni Gabrieli, arr. Robert King
Italian brass music from the Renaissance.


Pavane, Gabriel Faure, arr. Steve Mahpar


"Malaguena", arr. Steve Mahpar
Originally the sixth movement of the Suite Andalucia by Ernesto Lecuona


"Showcase Five", by Humphreys


3 Selections from the Raphael Mendez Brass Institute, 2005

"Toccata", by Johann Jocob Froberger, arr, Egil Smedvig


"Quintet for Brass Instruments" by Alvin Etler (1963)

Movement 1

Movement 2

Classical/Eclectic - Top

"Let the Bright Seraphim" by G.F. Handel
With Stephanie Young, Soprano
Mark Salters, Piano


"Appalachian Song"
With Wendy Allen, vocals
Charles Rus, Organ
*The track begins very quietly with a hand-made pump organ, then the voice enters at about :30.
The trumpet part enters at 1:00 and is very minimal yet moving.


Music for Brass and Percussion, Steve Mahpar (2008) 2nd movement
*Features myself (onstage) and Eric Vismantes, trumpet(offstage).


“Meditation and Decision” for solo Trombone and Brass,  Steve Mahpar (2010)
Dusty McKinney & Myself (trumpets) Steve Mahpar (horn) Steve Suminski (trombone) Shelly Suminsky (euphonium) Adam Robles (tuba)

Movement 1

Movement 2

Movement 3

The Dwellings - Top

Once upon a time there was a very special brass group callied The Dwellings.. It's core members were Dan Eastwood (trumpet), Alison Sawyer (horn), and myself. Many others contributed to our holiday-themed album "Sprinkles Welcome". Here are a few selected tracks:

Handel's "Messiah" for 3 Horns & 3 Trumpets


"Feliz Navidad" (beats by Mr. Erik Kistel)


"Tchaikovsky Bells" (more beats by Mr. Erik Kistel)

"Improvisation No. 3"