For live performance samples of Lois' piccolo with orchestra and chamber orchestra as well as commercially available recordings, visit The American Music Center's Website. This is a link for Lois' New Music Box article,
"Escaping the Nutcracker Suite: Composing for the 21st Century's Piccolo Player".

Work

Composer

MP3 Sample

Written

Instrumentation

Performance

The High and the Mighty

Michael Daugherty

1.3 MB

2000

Lois Herbine, piccolo &
Charles Abramovic, piano

Premiere commercial recording

"Daugherty's wonderful The High and the Mighty uses a variety of tunes and jaunty attitudes to exhilarate the imagination."
&ndashGramophone North American Review sub-titled "A high-flying recital which shows that the piccolo can do more than tootle" by Laurence Vittes, January, 2005 (Take Wing, Crystal 713)

"Herbine's portrayal of the Daugherty is especially appealing and impressive &ndash this work is destined to become a standard in the literature for piccolo with such vivid and artistic performances as this."
&ndash Flute Network Recommends, February, 2005 (Take Wing, Crystal 713)

"Another leading wind soloist takes flight &ndash or in Crystal's rubric takes wing &ndash in a recital of contemporary American music. Lois Bliss Herbine is clearly a committed exponent of such music, having commissioned and performed it with a number of ensembles and in a wide variety of media. She's joined by some able colleagues in a programme that is entertaining and wide ranging."
&ndash MusicWeb International Record Review by Jonathan Woolf, December, 2004 (Take Wing, Crystal 713)

CD713 recording copyright Crystal Records 2004. Used here with permission. Unauthorized reproduction is not permitted.
For detailed information on "Take Wing" go to Discography page.

ENCORE!
Sicilienne by Maria Theresia von Paradis

Information on piccolo solos premiered in 2008:

David Finko's Piccolo Concerto

Joseph Hallman's Piccolo Sonata

Lois' listing of repertoire selections for piccolo: Lois' top ten "Piccs"

New- Piccolo Ringtones

Updated on 6/18/09