Oddities for Six

INSTRUMENTATION
2cl, vla, vc, pno, marimba

DURATION
3’15

YEAR COMPOSED
2025

PREMIERE
2025

PERFORMANCES
2025 UW-Whitewater Student Composers Recital

RECORDING – 2025 UWW Student Composers Recital
Christian Ellenwood (conductor), Ben Pintar & Savannah Giebel (clarinets), Benji Hruska, Eleri Beal (cello), Josef Krista (piano), Michael Saskowski (percussion)

PROGRAM NOTES
‘Oddities for Six‘ started as an exercise in expressing an unconventional character for four instruments that quickly became six. The idea was to write something with an undeniable character, such as any of the characters that can be found in Sibelius’s first Tempest Suite.