Tim Rohwer: Composer

In an effort to get my music more visible, I've created a new wix website to organize the different pieces I've been arranging and publishing.  Eventually, this will take the place of the page on this blog for string arrangements .  For now, I'll keep both up to hopefully start selling some of these arrangements to give me more time to spend working on new arrangements and new compositions.  Check out the new website: Rohwer Music Studios I've also created a facebook page and a pinterest board to help promote my music.  Check them out! Rohwer Music Studios on Facebook Rohwer Music Studios String Quartet Sheet Music on Pinterest Soon to come over the summer months: -An article on the Problem Solving Process for Practicing -New free resources for teachers and students -An Update on Minerva (to be premiered June 1!) -News on the Music Theory for Composition course

I recently did an arrangement for my orchestra students of "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons.  I've put a lot of work into making the arrangements I use for my class useful but accessible.  I feel that this arrangement works really well, and I'm excited to see it performed by my class. We've been rehearsing it to get it ready for our next gig which will be a recording session.  I'm excited to see how it goes! For my class, I've been trying to get every piece we're playing recorded so that all of the students have the capability to hear the piece performed.  Here is the recording for my string quartet arrangement of "Radioactive:" The sheet music is also available for purchase at sheetmusicplus.com: Radioactive I'm going to continue doing different arrangements for my orchestra group each semester, so let me know if there's something that you'd like me to arrange for string orchestra!

I have been putting together some arrangements for my students in the Summer, and for the orchestra class I've put together a string quartet arrangement of The Infernal Galop, commonly known as the Can-Can, by Offenbach.  All of the parts are put together, and we should be playing it for summer time.  I also put together a recording of it so that my students can have something that they can listen to in preparation, and here it is: The Infernal Galop (Can-Can) by Jacques Offenbach As I put together more arrangements I hope to keep putting recordings and eventually make the parts and scores available to by for any string teachers who might be interested.  Other arrangements soon to be put up here: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Garland Waltz, also by Tchaikovsky (I have a student who loves Tchaikovsky) I also put together a violin solo with piano accompaniment of the Garland Waltz that is a little longer than the string quartet arrang...

I was looking through some of my old compositions and came upon a piano fantasy I started when I was 14: Piano Fantasy No. 1: Really fun to look back on these older works of mine and see what I was doing at 13, 14 and 15.  It's also nice to see the contrast between this and later works that are a little bit more developed. On that note, I have put up some more piano music on Lulu.com, including this piano sonata.  It's now up for sale, so go check it out! :) Two Piano Fantasies by Timothy Rohwer