A colleague from another university contacted me recently to ask for some recommendations about low brass trios (horn, trombone, tuba). Having just performed a program featuring music for this ensemble at the International Trombone Festival and the International Horn Symposium, I was interested to see what other repertoire might be out there. Based on a cursory search of my favorite online music retailers (and a few other places), here’s what turned up. It’s a more limited selection than the high brass trio, but more than I thought would be readily available. *This list only includes original works, not arrangements or transcriptions. I haven’t performed very many of these, although several of them look promising based on what I know of the composers’ other works. As I mentioned in my presentation at IHS 50, low and high brass trios are ripe for scholarship and creative activity in the form of recordings, commissions, arrangements, etc. If you have an interest in brass chamber music beyond the standard quintet, give the brass trio a serious look.

• Anderson, Eugene: Fugue for Low Brass Trio
• Bartholomew, Greg: Black Pool
• Bartholomew, Greg: Three Cowboys Poolside
• Benavides, Nick: Prelude & Fugue on “Old Friends”
• Brown, Rayner: Six Fugues
• Buss, Howard J. Jazzical No. 4 (with piano)
• Clay, Danny: de profundis
• Gulino, Frank: Reflections (with piano)
• Jones, Roger: Trio for Horn, Trombone and Tuba (unpublished)
• Hidas, Frigyes: Trio for Horn, Trombone and Tuba
• Hilfiger, John Jay: Locomotion
• Krol, Bernhard, Cathedrale Op.85
• McMillan, Benjamin: Fleeting Visions (bass trombone)
• Naulais, Jérôme, My First Trios (collection)
• Payne, Matthew Joseph: Tolerances
• Phillips, Drew: Motivic Moments
• Raum, Elizabeth:  Relationships (bass trombone)
• Rito, Justin: An International Folk Trio
• Saglietti, Corrado Maria: Atmosfere
• Schmidt, William: Sonatina
• Schneider, Daniel Wum: Himmelstrio
• Stevens, John: Triangles
• Strobel, Ray: Donnerblitz Trio
• Tignor, Scott: Spiders
• Wiggins, C.D.: Fragments I, Op. 164
• Wiggins: C.D.: Parting Shot op. 144
• Xenakis, Iannis: Linaia-Agon
• Yee, Lillian: The First Six