This month, to help ring in March Winds, I took a trip to visit Trevco Music in Middlebury, CT. The drive was easy from my home in Brooklyn and was oddly convenient on the run to play some music for shakuhachi choir in the afternoon. After the visit, I can truthfully confirm there’s no place better to find and purchase chamber music for winds, and specifically arrangements for double reeds and new compositions as Trevco music is! I will mention I am biased now, but I hope you will test my claim for yourself.

Trevco Music houses more than 15,000 titles of wind chamber music alone. The range of pieces is astounding and will always include classical canon, and treasures of operatic transcriptions, and joyful tunes. One of Trevco’s greatest successes has been to publish more than 4000 titles.

My first experience with Trevco Music was with their arrangements, which I have been listening to and finding new favorites of over the past 15 years I have attended at the Glickman-Popkin Bassoon Camp. I shouldn’t say the music was new to me then, as I had already attended a university double reed day, which should of course always end triumphantly with a double reed band. When music is need for such an occasion, Trevco is the place to go!

You can find a range of publications there, created in collaboration with Splotch, the ever-faithful machine which prints your scores from Editions Viento, Bocal Music Edition, Weait Music, Emerson Editions, Bruyere Music Publishers Edition, T.D. Ellis Music Publishing, and of course Trevco Music Publications.

This work is all made possible by Mr. T.D. Ellis, owner-operator of Trevco Music. Mr Ellis brings together his work as a bassoonist, arranger, and publisher at Trevco and I feel lucky to have met him, alongside past owners Trevor Cramer and Eric Varner at the Glickman-Popkin Bassoon Camp. You can read more about the history of the business here.

One of the great benefits of this community, aside from connecting through love of an instrument and bringing together students and adult players of all skills, is that Trevco is there to supply sheet music for browsing and playing in the afternoon concert series. The mountain top is always humming with joyful arrangements like Ice Cream Truck by Amber Ferenz, and opera favorites reimagined for varied numbers of bassoons like this Meistersinger arrangement by William Spencer and performed here by an ensemble of veteran bassoon campers.

For an instrument that doesn’t have much repertoire of its own, arranging is a tremendous gift. It also allows any ensemble to access rewarding music that can be immediately enjoyed, such as in these flexible wind trio arrangements: The Entertainer, Petit Trio, or a very oldie but a goodie, the 12^th century carol Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day. For more accessible arrangements, I would recommend browsing publications by Bocal Music. Their collection contains a wide range of beloved mainstays from Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, and of course Haydn.

If you happen to be located in the Northeast, you will be relieved to know Mr. Ellis even offers pickup service for anyone in driving distance of the business in Middlebury, CT.  The bins are browsable by appointment, so look no further for your next chamber winds program.

As a gift to ACMP members, Mr. Ellis has offered a discount of 5% off sheet music available until March 31 2026, to those who add a comment to their orders “ACMP MarchWinds.” The discount will apply manually to sheet music purchases the order is completed.

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