Music of Steven Watkins 
   
     The Auburn University horn studio is hosting this music at our site as a service to the community of horn players. We are grateful to Mr. Watkins for creating original works for our instrument, and for sharing them with us in this way. We have provided the music in several formats to make it available to the widest possible audience. If it is your first time here please read the information the composer has provided on the uses of his music and his bio, then select the format you prefer from the list below.

THE MUSIC
   
    The only thing that the music on this page has in common, apart from the composer, is that there is in every piece either a dominant or at least significant role for the horn. There will be music for Wind quintet, Brass quintet, Horn and piano, Horn and strings Horn quartet etc. If there is anything that you would like particularly please let me know Watkins@T-Online.de. The more specific you are the more likely I am to be able to write what you are looking for.

     Most of the music here is original. There will be a few arrangements but these will generally be of works not otherwise available for the instruments for which they are arranged.

The music on this page is available for free download on the acceptance of a few simple conditions.
  
1) Photocopying is allowed but photocopies are subject to the same conditions as originals that are downloaded.
  
2) Performance rights are granted with the music but the rights for commercial recordings and broadcasts are reserved by the composer. One off recordings for audition purposes or demos are perfectly OK. All I am concerned about is that although I do not mind not making money out of my music I don't want anybody else to make some without giving me some of it! In practice this means that if you want to use something for a broadcast please let me know. I would be VERY unlikely to say no!
  
3) The music must not be arranged for forces other than those in which it is offered. If you would like the music in a different arrangement please contact me.
   
4) If you download my music please drop me an email to let me know where it is being used, and, if you make any ad hoc recordings, I would very much like a copy.  These are requests rather than conditions
  
Downloading music implies acceptance of these conditions
  

I should like to express my sincerest thanks to William Schaffer and Auburn University for hosting this project for me.
   

THE COMPOSER
     
     Stephen Watkins was born in 1954 in Tripoli. His father was a trombone player in the Welsh Guards Band. Steve is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music in London where he studied, among other things, trombone with Denis Wick and composition with Patric Standford.

     A series of medical and artistic crises have led through a number of instruments and he now considers himself a composer/conductor who plays horn, piano violin and recorder.

Currently Steve is Director of a Music School run for the children of British forces based in Germany.
   

Get the Music
  
     The music is available in both Adobe® PDF and Postscript files. A MIDI file of each piece is also included so you can hear them before downloading. For simplicity that is now all on the same page at this link.