My first piece for Flute Choir is now available! KALEIDOSCOPE was composed for Solo Flute with Flute Choir accompaniment (4 Flutes, Alto Flute, Bass Flute). I wrote this for the Kansas Flute Society, and it was premiered today (10/12/25) at Emporia State University (Emporia, KS).
To learn more and order the sheet music, CLICK HERE!!
From now until September 1st, you can order my solo trumpet piece Deadline at 40% off! After your safe and secure online purchase, you will be sent access to the PDFs of the music (piano and trumpet).
Regular Price: $25
Discount Price: $15 (through 8/31/2025)
Scan the QR Code below, or click here!
What a fulfilling and refreshing past few days! My first experience at the International Trumpet Guild Conference was nothing short of terrific. I met some wonderful performers, teachers, composers, and even an old Bears fan from Iowa! There were high school musicians, retired musicians, and everything in between. I heard some great new classical music, and some glorious jazz improvisation.
Most of all, it was great to spend time with my high school buddy, Dr. Chris O'Hara, who premiered my new piece, Dead…
Read moreI was pleased to learn that my new piece for beginner string orchestra was selected as a J.W. Pepper “Editors' Choice!”
I wrote Bringing to Light shortly after my editor at Kjos asked if I had ever written anything for beginner level strings. And I hadn't, but I asked if I could try! This piece was the result, and after composing we collaborated on choosing a name. You just never know how a new piece may come into the world!
Click here to preview the score and listen to (an excellent!) live recording. Please…
Read moreKjos Music has just released three new pieces of mine for string orchestra. Listen to each piece below; click on the title to order the sheet music!
Bringing to Light (Grade 1.5)
“Composed to use light through music to inspire beginning level players. Teichler believes that light is often connected with optimism & hope, and music can draw us to light in so many rich ways including key centers, sweeping crescendos, various textures, and much more. G Major.”
Persevering (Grade 3)
"Persevering will give…
The consortium model for commissioning music is a win-win for composers, ensembles, conductors and organizations. I have greatly enjoyed the consortia I've organized in recent years, and I'm excited to announce my next one: a multi-movement work for concert band
Cinema Suite is a tribute to film music. Each movement will be based on a popular cinematic trope:
I. The Hero
II. The Villain
III. The Love
IV. The Battle
To learn more and join the consortium, CLICK HERE!!!
Excited to share that my piece Welcome Home has been published by Kjos Music!
Kjos had some really nice things to say about the piece, here's their product description:
This ballad-style work features long, soaring melodic lines. It awakens a sense of nostalgia and a longing for what being home really means. Gorgeous. D Major.
To preview and order the sheet music from Kjos, click here. To order from J.W. Pepper, click here.
Many thanks to Mr. Adam Keller and the Smoky Valley High School Symphonic Band for their recent performance of Hoopla, my latest work for band. Mr. Keller and Smoky Valley High School were part of the consortium of 10 schools that co-commissioned the work last summer, and I was thrilled to have such an historically strong Kansas band program be part of the commissioning. Check out their performance below!
I'm excited to announce three consortium opportunities for the upcoming year! Each consortium has multiple buy-in levels that take into consideration budgets and time commitments to each project. Here is a brief overview of each.
The first is a multi-movement work for brass quintet will be released in early May of 2024. The total length will be around 10-12 minutes, and will explore various timbres and textures of the brass instruments. For ensembles that join early in the composing process, I would…
Read moreComposers Arthur Breur, Garrett Hope and myself make up TPC Collective.
We have recently released a list of our newest works for band and orchestra, which we are making availalbe for performers at this years Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, but we also want to make them available for anyone else to view as well! If you're interested, you can view them here!
I'm happy to share a new consortium opportunity for a grade 3 band piece: Hoopla!
There are two options available for joining the consortium:
Click here to learn more and to register! Please share!! Thanks!!
I'm excited to be putting together a commission consortium for a new SATB and piano anthem for Easter. Day of Wonder, Day of Gladness will be a perfect opener/call to worship/processional for Resurrection Sunday. While 4-part, much of the choral writing will be 2-part and even unison, so it will be easier to learn and put together. Choirs of all sizes will be able to perform this new work successfully!
Only $75 to join. Click here for more info and to join the consortium! Thanks!
It's always a exciting to be at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic; I've been attending most years since 2001, and exhibiting with some colleagues for the past four years (minus 2020 for covid). Arthur Breur, Garrett Hope and myself make up TPC Collective, which is a hub for finding our music for band and orchestra. From there, we have links to our individual websites.
This year was the first time I've had a piece selected for one of the reading sessions: Heroes Return for beginner bands.
Midwest always…
Hot off the press! My newest Christmas carol setting for solo piano, Still, Still, Still, is now available! Suitable for church services or recitals, this is a stark, yet inviting setting of the Austrian carol. Click here to preview and order.
I recently learned that my beginner band piece Heroes Return will be on the Band New Music Reading Session at this year's Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. This is the first time I've had a piece selected for a Midwest reading session, and I couldn't be happier!
The session will be Monday, December 19 at 10:30 - Noon in W178 (McCormack Place). For a demo/preview of the piece, click here.
If you're at Midwest, I'd love to see you there!
For a limited time, buy the sheet music PDF for only $10, and print however many you need for your ensemble! Click here for more info and to claim this offer! (through my BuyMeACoffee page)
Preview the piece here:
I let it slide for a few years, but now I'm getting back to it!
On my Gumroad page, you can buy many of my compositions as E-Print only (no physical products to ship). Everything is PDF delivery and instant. I'll also run the occasional deal on sheet music, for example: discounting Christmas music in the months leading up to the holidays.
The main hub to order my sheet music is through J.W. Pepper, one of the largest sheet music distributors in the world. You can get to my page by visiting https://www.jwpepper.com/myscore/composerchris, or by clicking here! (<---shorter way :D )
To any fellow composers looking for sheet music distribution for your self-published works, I HIGHLY recommend you check out MyScore!
I'm excited to introduce Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus and Gentle Mary Laid Her Child to you! Both were written with church choirs in mind in regards to technique, but both also allow for a broad range of expression for school and university choirs.
Follow the links to preview both of them, sheet music is available through J.W. Pepper.
Thanks!
I'm pleased to announce a consortium for new music! If you're unfamiliar with a consortium in the context of commissioning new music, it basically is a way of sharing a commission with other ensembles and performers. This benefits the musicians, as they don't have to carry the commission fee alone, and it benefits the composer, because he/she gets more performances! It's really a win-win.
This consortium is for Incarnation, which will be for SATB choir and concert band. It will be a sacred Christmas work…
Read moreHot off the press! My newest piece for string orchestra is now available. Persevering is meant to convey a sense of continuing on through adversity. The COVID-19 Pandemic was the impetus for writing this piece, but the sentiment certainly expands beyond that to different times and types of adversity.
The sheet music is available from J.W. Pepper, and you can preview the score and listen to a demo recording. Please feel free to share with your string educator friends! Thank you!
Composed last year, for Dr. Greg Zielke and the Tabor College Concert Choir. "13" is a musical setting/meditation on the text of Psalm 13.
The choir produced this video, written and directed by Tabor alum Austin Calam. The video also features pianist Jennifer Epp and flutist Sarah Teichler.
I recently learned that my concert band piece Gateway Overture was name an Editor's Choice selection by J.W. Pepper, one of the largest sheet music distributors in the world. This is my sixth Pepper Editor's Choice selection, and second for band. While it is an honor under any circumstance, I am especially proud of this, because I composed Gateway Overture for my junior high alma mater, Blackhawk Middle School (Bensenville, IL), and premiered it (amazingly) 30 years to the day that I started attending the…
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This past October, I had the privilege of conducting my new band piece Hope and a New Dawn with the Arlington Heights Community Concert Band (Arlington Heights, IL). They recently sent me a recording of the performance, which you can find here!
Hope and a New Dawn was the product of a consortium with five high school and community bands. If you or a director you know would be interested in co-commissioning a work or heading up a consortium for a new work, please let me know!
For a limited time, I'm making my settings of Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence and Angels We Have Heard on High available in one collection (click on the above titles for more info on each piece, including recordings).
Normally $20 for both, you can now get them for only $10!
Click here to purchase, download and print both for only $10.
If you know any trumpet players that are looking for music to play this holiday season, please feel free to share this with them!
This deal ends soon, so take advantage…
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