Arrangements and orchestrations

Greg Smith’s experience as a composer and chamber musician means that he is comfortable scoring in a variety of styles and instrumental forces:
– chamber (e.g., piano, cello and piano, string quartet)
– choral
– orchestra
– wind orchestra
Greg can arrange in a variety of styles, from classical to jazz.

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ARRANGMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONS, AND HARMONIZATIONS (select list)

A tear hangs there (Sleza Drozhit) Cello and piano Pytor Il’yich Tchaikovsky 2008
Advance Australia Fair SATB & Organ Peter Dodds McCormick 2008
Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol) SATB, Brass quartet & organ Rowland Prichard 2010
An Die Musik Cello Quartet Franz Schubert 2005
Ballad of Dependency (Threepenny Opera) Flt, cl., ob, bsn, hrn, pf, vlns 1 &2, vla, vlc, db Kurt Weill 2010
Barbara Song (Threepenny Opera) Flt, cl., ob, bsn, hrn, pf, vlns 1 &2, vla, vlc, db Kurt Weill 2010
Beauty around us Piano (easy) Greg Smith 2011
Beauty around us Piano (advanced) Greg Smith 2011
Bunessan SATB Gaelic Melody 2008
Canon in D Violin, cello, and piano Johann Pachelebel 2011
Cradle Song Trombone and piano Mikhail Glinka 2010
Dance of the Knights” from Romeo and Juliet Cello and piano Sergei Prokofiev 2007
Du bist die Ruh (You are my rest) Trombone and piano Franz Schubert 2010
Ein Schwan Cello and piano Edvard Grieg 2008
Ellen’s Song III: Hymn to the Virgin (Ave Maria); (Ellens Gesang III
Hymne an die Jungfrau)
Violin, cello, and piano Franz Schubert 2012
Etude, op. 10 no. 6 Cello Quartet Frederic Chopin 2005
Fantasia on “I Saw Three Ships Trombone and piano Trad. carol 1999
Fantasia on Ding Dong Merrily on High Cello and piano 2008
Forgive (Prosti) Cello and piano Pytor Il’yich Tchaikovsky 2008
Ganymed Cello and piano Franz Schubert 2007
Great is Thy Faithfulness Piano William Marion Runyan 2009
Gymnopedes No. 1 Cello and Quartet Erik Satie 2005
Impromptu Trombone and piano Jean Sibelius 2010
Intermezzo, op. 118, no. 2 Cello and piano Johannes Brahms 2008
Intermezzo, op. 118, no. 2 Cello Quartet Johannes Brahms 2005
La Rejouissance Violin, cello, and piano George Frederick Handel 2012
Lasst mich allein (Leave me Alone) Cello and piano Antonin Dvorak 2008
Last Spring (Letzter Frühling; Våren) from Two Elegaic Melodies (Deux mélodies élégiaques), Op. 34 Trombone and piano Edvard Grieg 2010
Lord You Give the Great Commission (Abbot’s Leigh) SATB, Brass quartet & organ Cyril Taylor 2010
Love came down at Christmas  Piano Greg Smith 2010
Love is his Word SATB Anthony Milner 2007
Mack the Knife (Threepenny Opera) Flt, cl., ob, bsn, hrn, pf, vlns 1 &2, vla, vlc, db Kurt Weill 2010
Mary’s Boy Child Trombone and Piano Jester Hairston 2004
Meditation II Trombone and piano Greg Smith 2010
Melodie Meditative Trombone and piano Leopold Godowsky 2010
O for a heart to praise my God SATB Tune: St. Columbia (Gaelic Trad.) 2008
O Fortuna” from Carmina Burana Two-part choir and concert band (lower key) Carl Orff 2008
O Holy Night Sop., SATB, piano Adolphe Adam 2009
October from The Seasons Cello Quartet Pytor Il’yich Tchaikovsky 2005
Of the Father’s Love Begotten  SATB 11 cent. chant 2009
Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte Cello Quartet Maurice Ravel 2005
Poème Trombone and piano Zdenko Fibich 2010
Prayer of Thanksgiving to the Trinity Advanced Piano Greg Smith 2010
Prayer of Thanksgiving to the Trinity Concert Band Greg Smith 2010
Prayer of Thanksgiving to the Trinity  Piano Greg Smith 2010
Prelude, op. 11, no. 4 Cello and piano Alexander Scriabin 2008
Preludes (op. 31 no. 2 & op. 57 no. 1) Cello Quartet Anatol Liadoff 2005
Près de la Mer (Near The Sea) Trombone and piano Anton Arensky 2010
Purer than Gold from At the Reading of a Psalm Cello and piano Tanyev 2007
Reverie Trombone and piano Alexander Glazunov 2010
Romance Trombone and piano Johan Svendsen 2010
Schlaflos Cello and Piano Nicolas Medtner 2009
Sérénade Trombone and piano Saint-Saëns 2010
Spanish Dance Cello and piano Moritz Moszkowski 2007
Sure on this Shining Night Cello and piano Samuel Barber 2008
The Blue Danube Cello and piano Johann Strauss 2008
The Perfect Hour Trombone and piano Reynaldo Hahn 2010
The Queen Stands At Your Right Hand  Piano Greg Smith 2010
The Stars Looked Tenderly Upon Us (Nam zvyozdy krotkiye siyali Cello and piano Pytor Il’yich Tchaikovsky 2008
Twilight Cello and Piano Nicolas Medtner 2009
Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty Cello and piano Pytor Il’yich Tchaikovsky 2008
Wexford Carol SATB and organ 12th cent. Irish carol 2009
Wexford Carol  SATB and piano 12th cent. Irish carol 2009
Widerstehe doch der Sünde Piano Johann Sebastian Bach 2008
Wie Melodien zieht es mir Cello and piano Johannes Brahms 2007

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