Advanced Repertoire

Unaccompanied

  • Britten, Benjamin – Six Metamorphoses after Ovid – (originally for oboe) alto – advanced – Boosey & Hawkes
  • Erb, Donald – Music for Mother Bear – alto or bass – advanced – Merion
  • Giles, Vincent – Different Dialogues – bass, prerecorded low flutes – advanced – vgiles.net
  • Gottsche-Niessner, Friedgund – Walpurgis – alto – advanced – Zimmerman
  • Gunn, David – Lunar Mural 1 – alto, soundtrack – advanced – davidgunn.org
  • Gunn, David – Lunar Mural 2 – bass, soundtrack – advanced – davidgunn.org
  • Jolivet, Andre – Incantation – alto – advanced – Billaudot
  • Liberman, Lowell – Eight Pieces – picc/c flute/alto/bass – advanced – Presser
  • Lutz, Greg – Some Low ‘n Slow Blues  – alto(bass, contrabass) – advanced  – greglutzmusic.com
  • Lutz, Greg – Action Jack – alto(bass, contrabass) – advanced – greglutzmusic.com
  • Potes, Alba – Traces/Homage to Bach – bass – advanced – albapotes.com
  • Rogers, Emma – The Big Picture: Etudes for Alto Flute – alto – advanced – Wirripang
  • Shapiro, Alex – Below – contrabass, electronics – advanced – Activist Music
  • Sheridan, Peter – And the Giant Began to Dance – subcontrabass – advanced – lowflutes.com

Solos with piano or guitar

  • Boehm, Theobald – Andante Op. 33 – alto, piano – advanced – Theobald Boehm Archive
  • Burnette, Sonny – In the Shadow of the Great Sphinx – bass, piano – advanced – Pine Castle
  • Giovannini, Caesar – Morocco – alto, piano – advanced – RBC Publications
  • Harwood, Alexandra – Sonatina – alto, piano – advanced – Progress Press
  • Hoover, Katherine – Two for Two (What Goes Around) – alto, piano – advanced – Papagena Press
  • Hoover, Katherine – Two for Two (Tango) – bass, piano – advanced – Papagena Press
  • Kvandahl, John – Da Lontano Fantasy – alto, piano – advanced – NMO
  • Lewis, Paul – Russian Scenes – alto, piano – advanced – Roberton Publications
  • Lich, Michael – Four Pieces – alto, guitar – advanced – michaellich.com
  • Mower, Mike – Sonnets – alto, piano – advanced – Itchy Fingers
  • Schwantner, Joseph – Black Anemones – bass, piano (originally c flute) – advanced – Schott
  • Schocker, Gary – Small Sonata for a Large Flute – bass, piano – advanced – Falls House
  • Shocker, Gary – Sonata for a Lost Planet – alto, piano – advanced – Presser

Pieces for Two

  • Bach, J.S. arr. Rees – Inventions – piccolo, alto – advanced – tetractys.co.uk
  • Bach, J.S. arr. Potter – Four Bach Fugues for Two Flutes – alto (c flute, bass), alto (c flute, bass)– intermediate/advanced – Falls House Press
  • Cohen, Jonathan – Just Below the Rainbow – combinations of c and g instruments – intermediate/advanced – Falls House Press
  • Dahl, Ingolf – Variations on a Swedish Folktune – c flute, alto – advanced – Presser
  • Di Maggio, Dan – Experiment 52 – 2 altos – advanced – tetractys.co.uk
  • Dresner, Laurence – My Contra Blues – 2 contrabasses – advanced – laurencedresner.com
  • Dresner, Laurence – Sauntering down the Boulevard – any combination of C and G instruments -intermediate/advanced – laurencedresner.com
  • Dunleavy, Houston – Six Clumsy Dances – piccolo, subcontrabass – advanced – Wirripang
  • Ford, Andrew – Spinning – alto, marimba – advanced – Australian Music Center
  • Gourlay, Karen – Beyond Them, The Constellations Falling – 2 contrabasses – advanced – karengourlay.co.uk
  • Grier, Jon Jeffrey – Attitudes – 2 altos – advanced – tetractys.co.uk
  • Hoffman, Stanley – Meditations and Memories – 2 altos – advanced – stanleymhoffman.com
  • Keeley, Rob – Low Life III – 2 basses or 2 altos – advanced – tetractys.co.uk
  • Kesselman, Lee – Duo Mythologique – c flute/alto, double bass – advanced – Progress Press
  • Nixon, Roger – Duo – c flute, alto – advanced – Galaxy
  • Potes, Alba – Evening Conversations – 2 basses – advanced – albapotes.com
  • Rosiak, Michal – Shadow Game – alto, bass – advanced – mrflute.com.au
  • Schocker, Gary – Underwater Flowers – 2 basses – advanced – Falls House

Pieces for Three

  • Bach, J.S. arr. Potter – Flute Sonata No. 1 Presto – 2 altos, bass flute (opt. contrabass) – advanced – chrispotterflute.com
  • Gunn, David – Trio for Two Altos and Bass – advanced – davidgunn.org
  • Morris, Carolyn- Forest Over Sea – alto, bass, piano – intermediate/advanced – carolynmorris.com.au
  • Neher, Patrick – City Vignettes – contrabass, double bass, piano – advanced – ISG Publications
  • Previn, Andre -The Giraffes Go to Hamburg – Soprano (voice), alto, piano – advanced – Schirmer
  • Ryerson, Ali – Harvest Moon – alto, 2 basses – advanced – ACR Music (available for purchase at alialto@aol.com)
  • Scarborough, Russell – Willows – c flute, bass, harp – advanced – russellscarbrough.com
  • Wigglesworth, Frank – Trio – 3 basses – advanced – AMC

Pieces for Four

  • Barber, Samuel – Adagio – 2 c flutes, alto, bass – advanced – Schirmer
  • Charke, Derek – Rage Cha – 2 altos, bass, contrabass – advanced – charke.com
  • Loeb, David – Concertino for Four Bass Flutes – 4 basses – advanced – ALRY
  • Liszt, Franz arr. Long – Angelus! Priere aux Anges Gardiens – 4 low flutes – advanced  contraflute.com
  • Molnar-Suhajda, Alex – Labyrinths of Lowness – alto, bass, 2 contrabasses (opt. double contrabass flute) – advanced – ALRY
  • Rosiak, Michal – Quasi Latino – alto, bass, contrabass, double contra – advanced -mrflute.com.au

Pieces for Five

  • McAlley, Vaughn – Serenade and Burlesque – 2 c flutes, alto, bass, contrabass – advanced – mcalley.net.au

Flute Choirs (6 or more) Includes low flutes solo with choir

  • Bach, J.S. arr. Lowe – Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 – 3 altos, 3 basses, contra alto, 3 contrabasses – advanced – jameslowe605@btinternet.com
  • Burnette, Sonny – Stone Suite (In the Shadow of the Great Sphinx) – solo bass, flute choir – advanced – Pine Castle Music
  • Cohen, Jonathan – Deep-Space Heat Wave – 4 altos, 6 basses, 2 contrabasses – advanced – Tetractys.co.uk
  • Dresner, Laurence – Concerto for Double Contrabass – solo contrabass, piccolo, c flute, alto flute, bass flute – advanced (solo)/intermediate – laurencedresner.com
  • Hoover, Katherine – Lowdown – alto, bass, contra alto, contrabass, sub in G, double contra – advanced – cpotter@mac.com
  • Molnar-Suhajda – Voices from the Deep – 3 altos, 2 basses, contrabass, opt. contralto, F contra, subcontra in G, double contra – intermediate/advanced – flute.net
  • Rogers, Emma arr. Sheridan – Winter’s Twilight – 6 altos, 4 basses, 2 contrabasses, sub contrabass, hyperbass – advanced –Tetractys.co.uk
  • Wagner, Richard arr. Potter – Introduction to the Tannhauser Overture – 6 altos, 4 basses, contrabass, sub in G – advanced – chrispotterflute.com

Miscellaneous large groups

  • Japanese Folk Song, arr. Yuko Hoshi – Sakura Sakura – piccolo, alto, bass, contrabass, piano, bass, drums – advanced – Japan Jazz Flute Big Band