"White Pines" - Michael Burritt

Featuring McKayla Phillips (soloist), JR Alberto, Cary Anderson, Stephen Karukas, Jacob Lipham, John Tadlock, and Chia-Lin Yu
Program Notes:
White Pines was inspired by the energy, crispness, and majesty of these snow-covered trees in the winter months near my home in New York. It is scored for solo marimba with both keyboard and battery percussion.
White Pines is originally the second movement to a larger three-movement work titled Home Trilogy and is dedicated to and commissioned by the internationally renowned percussion group Nexus. It was premiered on a concert dedicated to sustainability and environmental awareness at the Eastman School of Music on May 1, 2015. (Burritt)
The sextet version of White Pines was orchestrated for the Inaugural All-Star International Collegiate Percussion Ensemble performance at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) 2015, originally performed by Michael Burritt (soloist), McKayla Phillips, Mitchell Gribbroek, Colleen Bernstein, Cameron Leach, Daniel Janca, and Eric Roundy.