Musical Biography:
For thirty-five years Gary Robert Buchanan has been Music Director with Cosolargy International – (see: www.cosolargly.net) in Reno, Nevada. In that position, the Rev. Dr. Buchanan composes all liturgical music and that for litanies, plays organ, and conducts all community ensembles, i.e., the Jamilian Hand Bell Choir & Singers, The Sinfonietta, and teaches and lectures in the Jamilian Parochial School and the Jamilian University of the Ordained (see: http://jamilian.org/ ).
In the northern Nevada community Dr. Buchanan serves as a regular Composer & Conductor with several organizations, e.g., The Foundation Orchestra (of the Andean Explorers Foundation), the Northern Nevada Concert Orchestra Association and Ruby Mountain Symphony, the Carson City Symphony Orchestra, Tuba Christmas, and the Reno Pops Orchestra. With the Reno Pops Buchanan plays French Horn and is the Staff Composer & Arranger. From all the above organizations he has received and fulfilled dozens of commissions since 1979.

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Compositional Listings:
(Most works available from The Music Guild, 16026 South Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89521, U.S.A. - unless otherwise noted.)
Four Pieces for Piano, 1978
Marinera (Piano), 1997
Sonata for Unaccompanied Flute, 1969 (Composed for Ransom Wilson)
Canto, nella mezza voce (Horn & Pianoforte/Orch.), 1970
Las Damas Callao (Violin & Piano), 1997
Sections for Oboe & Piano/Orch., 1969 (Revised 2006)
Sonata for Flute & Pianoforte, 1969
(Commissioned by Ransom Wilson)
Song in the Key of Light (Soprano & Pianoforte/Strings), 1978
Sunatina (Cornet/Alt. & Pianoforte), 1995
Sunflower (Blake/Soprano & Pianoforte-Strings), 1997
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Bourdillon/Soprano & Pianoforte), 1967
What Soft Cherubic Creatures (Dickinson/Soprano & Pianoforte), 1969
The Habit of Perfection” (Setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem for two Sopranos and Sextet), 2006. (Premiere at the N.C. School of the Arts, Jan. 2007)
Ceremonious Music (Brass Quintet), 1969
For Beatrice (Flute & Bassoon), 1976
GRAND SUITE for BRASS (Quintet/7 movements), 1989
(Commissioned by the Great Basin Brass Quintet)
May Quintet (cl/bsn/violin/hn/bass viol), 1969
My Dear Chabuca (Voice & Pianoforte/Orch.), 1989
PASSACAGLIA on “Acceptabis Sacrificium” for BRASS NONET
(Winner of the 1977 J. Alberts & Sons Publishers, Ltd. Composition Competition held at the University of New South Wales, Australia.)
Primitive Visions (voice/fl/trp/trbn/marimba/perc.), 1976
Quartet (Clarinet, Trombone, Violoncello & Pianoforte), 1978
(Commissioned by EMUsica, Brisbane, Australia)
Quickstep for the Young (Brass Quintet), 1968
(Commissioned by the Winston-Salem, N.C. Symphony)
Sierranade (Trumpet, Horn & Piano), 1995
SUNFLOWER String Quartet, 1978
SWEETS for Woodwind Quintet (E.C. Schirmer), 1966
Three Carols for Brass Quintet, 1989
(Commissioned by the Great Basin Brass Quintet)
Sierranade, 2005
Sinfonia (Antiphonal Wind Ensembles), 1972
(Commissioned by the NCSA Foundation and Dr. James & Mary Semans for premieres in Siena, Italy.)
Alma Mater (for the Jamilian Parochial School), 1993
Early Spring (SSAA), 1994
In the Midst of the Heavens (SATB), 1978
Judaeo-Christian Trumpet Descanter, The (72 selections for Organ, SATB & Trumpet/Alt. Descant), 1992
Ode 27 of Solomon (SATB), 1978
Snow White, The Opera (3 Acts),1988
The Inkling (3-Act, Libretto by Fred Chappell & Robert Sauve), 1976
Arabian Moonrise (Ensemble), 1986
Gran Vilaya Suite (fl/cl/recorder/horn/trpt/harp/handbells/strings) 1990
Israel Suite (7 mvts - fl/cl/recorder/horn/trpt/harp/handbells/strings), 1990
KUELAP (fl/cl/recorder/horn/trpt/harp/handbells/strings), 1988
Peruvian Sunrise (fl/cl/recorder/horn/trpt/harp/handbells/strings), 1988
Yom Kippur (Chamber Orchestra), 1973
Adagio for Cors Anglais & Orchestra, 1978
(Commissioned by Michael Byrne & The Queensland Symphony Orchestra/ABC Global Broadcast)
Canto, nella mezza voce (Horn & Orchestra), 1970
Chan Chan, The Creation (Orchestra & Native American Narrator), 2004
Cinco de Mayo Overture (Orchestra), 2003
Concerto for Flute, Pianoforte & Orchestra, “Hannigan,” 2000
(Commissioned by the Northern Nevada Concerto Orchestra Association for premiere, The Ruby Mountain Symphony, Mary and Barry Hannigan.)
Concerto for Flute, Violoncello & Orchestra, 1993
(Commissioned by Patrick & Marie Newman.)
Concerto for Pianoforte & Orchestra, 1969
Concerto for Soprano Saxophone & Orchestra, 1994
(Commissioned by David Ehrke.)
Concerto for Trumpet & Orchestra, 1991
(Commissioned by Mark Lord.)
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra, 1996
Four Dances & Songs of Native America (Orchestra), 2003
Mark Twain Suite (Narrator & Orchestra), 1997 (Commissioned by the Northern Nevada Concert Orchestra Association for premiere, The Ruby Mountain Symphony, with McAvoy Layne as Mark Twain.)
Peruvian Sunrise (various orchestrations since), 1988
(Commissioned by the Andean Explorers Foundation.)
Sagebrush Suite (Narrator & Orchestra), 1994
(Commissioned by the Northern Nevada Concert Orchestra Association for premiere, The Ruby Mountain Symphony, with Sue Wallis, Cowgirl Poet.)
Sections for Oboe & Orchestra, 1969 (Revised 2006)
Symphony No. 1, “The Age of Light,” 2004
Symphony No. 2, “Voyage of the Feathered Serpent,” 2005
SUNDANCER (Orchestra), 2005
Triumphal March, “The Spirit of Exploration,”1988
(Commissioned by the Andean Explorers Foundation.)
Two Navajo Songs (Orchestra), 2004
Development of the English Language, N.C. Department of Education, 1967
Music for “Thieves Carnival” (Anouilh), N.C. Festival Theatre, 1968
Music for “A Taste of Honey” (Delaney), Festival Theatre, 1968 N.C.
Royal Roads To Discovery, (documentary/97 minutes), AEF & OSC, 1993
Secrets from the High Andes of Peru (documentary/30 minutes), AEF&OSC, 1993
Mystery of the Essenes of Old Israel (documentary/30 minutes), AEF&OSC, 1993
MU-SING, synthesized selections, 1998
XIN, “Five Events in the Life of an American Indian” (Trombone, Prepared Pianoforte and Electronic Enhancements), 1978
(Commissioned by EMUsica, Brisbane, Australia.)
Concerto for Tuba, Electronic Tape & Orchestra, 1971
(Commissioned by David Lewis.)
From 1969 through 1975 - numerous scores for dance band, radio & television commercials/productions, studio albums, i.e., with The Burt Massengale Orchestra (some 200 arrangements), Crescent City Sound Studios & Cotillion Orchestra Agency; Greensboro, N.C.; T.S.O.R. (The Sound of Richmond)/Black & White Records, Richmond, Virginia.
“Kemo-Sabe” (for dance band), 1970
“The Jugglers” (jazz nonet), 1976
Compositions & Conducting:
A more complete biography on Gary Robert Buchanan, including a select listing of compositions, may be visited online at:
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Musical publications online are available from J.W. Pepper at:
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“Sweets for Woodwind Quintet” (originally published by Galaxy - E.C. Schirmer) is now available from J.W. Pepper, and on Amazon.com:
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Two dozen You Tube videos featuring Buchanan conducting and performing his own music may be viewed at:
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Additional You Tube videos by Buchanan and The Music Guild, featuring Cymatic visualizations and music, may be viewed at:
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