Selected Works
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Solo
Improvisations for solo instruments (2020)
Improvisation for Violin, Untitled
Fast Scherzo, for trumpet
Night Music: Lullaby, for piano
Rasp, for piano
Chant of the Old Cedar, for Bassoon
Fanfare and Response, for tenor trombone - listen with score
Character Piece, for tin whistle in D
Garden Meditation, for vibraphone - listen with score
Simple Meditations, for vibraphone - listen with score
Improvisation for Flute and Injured Hand (2016)
Gilgamesh Descends (to the Underworld) for Solo Cello and Live Electronics (2013) - listen to an audio excerpt
Piano Preludes for Developing Performer (2011)
Soft Thunder, Light Rain
Variations on 8 notes
Can Can Variations
My Country 'Tis
Episode I
Episode II and IIa
Episode III
Caprice for Tuba and Piano (2010) - listen with score
Three Miniatures for Solo Clarinet (2010) - listen with score
Dialogue for Solo Trumpet (2008)
Chamber (2-10 performers)
Untitled Set of Variations for Octet (2013) - listen with preview score
Fl, ob, clar/bass cl, perc, pno, vla, cello, bass
Duet for Two String Basses (2012) - listen with score
Horn Quintet No. 1 (2010)
F hn, vln, vla, vla, cello
One Movement for Octet (2009) - listen with preview score
4 F hn, string quartet
Jazz Band
Sweet 16 (2015/16) - PDF preview score - listen
Wind Ensemble
Dream Casting (2016) - preview score
The Days of Wine and Roses, Pops Arrangement (2015) - listen with preview score
A New Adventure, for beginning band - listen with preview score
Simple Gifts, for beginning band
Untitled Wind Ensemble Piece in Three Movements (2010)
Orchestra
Dream Casting (orchestrated 2019) - preview score
Prelude I for Orchestra (2011)
Voice
Bonuses, for high voice and chamber orchestra - listen with preview score
Intrada for the Holiday Season for SATB choir
Film
Title Theme for "Eugene Cubed" Animated Series, Commissioned by Josh Spencer Green, Verda Runner Studios (2022) - Listen
Artist Spotlight, 4 minute short film (2020)
60 Second PSA (2020)
Di Pahter Cards of the Underworld, dir. Zenoc Hernandez (2017) - listen to an excerpt
Don't Go In, dir. Zenoc Hernandez (2016) - listen
Demo: "Space Ambush" - watch with soundtrack audio only - watch with soundtrack and sound effects
Pops
Across the Stars from Star Wars Episode II, for trombone choir (6 tenor, 2 bass, 1 contra, harp or synth harp, 2021)
Batman Theme for Trombone Choir, Tuba, and Aux Instruments (6 tenor, 2 bass, contrabass, tuba, 8 aux perc/keyboard/synth, 2020) - listen
The Mandalorian Theme for Trombone Choir (2 bass trombones, 2020) - listen
The Days of Wine and Roses, Pops Arrangement for Wind Ensemble (2015) - listen with preview score
Service
PHS Alma Mater - listen with preview score
Oh Holy Night for Alto Saxophone and Piano
Oh Holy Night for Organ
Folk
Album: "Originals" featuring The Brass Barn Polka Band (2022). This album features 10 tracks (roughly 30 minutes of music); 5 original polkas and 5 original waltzes written by Adam Berndt. Listen to the album here, available for purchase on itunes and other digital providers.
Tracks:
The Simple Polka
Finnegan's Shenanigans
The Simple Waltz
Into The StrALTOsphere
Little Turns Polka
Great Lakes Waltz
A Minor Detour Waltz
Spritely Bellows Waltz
Petrushka Polka
Somnolent Waltz
Album: "Holidays with The Band" (2017) featuring The Brass Barn Polka Band, arr. by Adam Berndt - listen to the album here
available for purchase on itunes and other digital providers.
Tracks:
Jolly Old St. Nicholas
I Saw Three Ships
Jingle Bells
Up on the House Top
God Rest Ye
O Tannenbaum
Deck The Halls
Silent Night
Instrumentation: alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet 1/2, trombone, tuba, accordion, electric piano, drum set.
Selected Lectures and Interviews
Lecture for High School Students, Introduction to Film Scoring (2018)
Lecture for Elementary Jazz Students, Introduction to Jazz History (2018)
Interview for Composers’ Corner, Through a Different Lens by guest contributor Jacob Polancich (March 2018)
Guest Lecture, Why do composers sound the way they do: John Williams. Interlochen Arts Academy, Michigan (Summer 2010)