Composer

As a composer, Dawson has written works for solo, chamber, orchestral, and choral ensembles. His compositions have been premiered and performed by universities, churches, schools, international events and performance halls.

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Works List

Dawson writes both original compositions and arrangements for solo piano, orchestra, and many different instrument combinations. He specializes in hymn arrangements that are written with the classical musician in mind: works that provide both a challenge and an avenue for musical expression.

Compositions

Piano Solo

• Two Etudes for Piano

• Mindless

• Sonata for Piano

• Fond Memories

Piano Four Hands

• Theme and Variations on An Original Theme for Piano Four Hands

Eight Hands

• Octagonal Rag

Piano Duo

• Fantasy for the Dawn of the New Millennium

  • Chord Alternation

Chamber

• Sonata for Clarinet & Piano (2024)
• Sonata for Trumpet & Piano (2025)
• Sonata for Cello & Piano (2025)
• Poplar Avenue (oboe & piano) (2025)
• Piano Trio (2026)
• Drift (violin & piano) (2003)

• Trio for Violin, Cello, & Piano

• Theme & Variations for Clarinet & Piano

• Fanfare & Overture for Brass Ensemble

• Polyphony

• Elegy for Strings, Woodwinds, and Piano

• Rhapsody for the Working Clarinetist

Orchestra

• Northern Lights (2024)

• Suite in Three Movements

• Woodlawn Overture

• Bicycle

• Piano Concerto No. 1

Vocal

• Psalm Cycle for Tenor Voice & Piano

Choral

• Pie Jesu

• Psalm 100

Arrangements:

Piano Solo

• Nothing But The Blood of Jesus

• Blessed Assurance

• I Sing The Mighty Power of God

• It Is Well With My Soul

• Oh, How I Love Jesus

• Savior Like A Shepherd Lead Us

• The Church’s One Foundation

• Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted

Clarinet & Piano

• Great Is The Lord

• Theme and Variations on “He Lives”

• ‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus

• It Is Well with My Soul

• All Is Well

• Come Ye Sinners Poor And Needy

• Be Thou My Vision

• Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

• Of The Father’s Love Begotten

• What Wondrous Love Is This

• Amazing Grace! How Sweet the Sound

• One Small Child

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Piano

• We Three Kings of Orient Are

• Good Christian Men Rejoice

• Day by Day

• Breath of Heaven

• Mary Did You Know

• One Small Child

Flute, Clarinet, Piano

• Nearer, My God To Thee

Clarinet and Viola

• Be Still My Soul

Piano Four Hands

• Away In A Manger

• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

• How Great Our Joy

• O Sing A Song of Bethlehem

• Sing We Now of Christmas

Piano Six Hands

• What A Friend We Have in Jesus

Piano Duo

• The Last Jingle (A Star Wars Christmas, Episode II)

• Christmas Movies Suite

• Cantina Carols (A Star Wars Christmas)

• When I Survey The Wondrous Cross

• What Child Is This?

• Carol of the Bells

Three Pianos

• We Three Kings

Choral

• Praise Him! Praise Him!

• Savior Like A Shepherd Lead Us

• Like A River Glorious

Orchestra

• Blessed Assurance

• To God Be The Glory

• Christ The Lord Is Risen Today

• Worthy Is The Lamb

• Forever Reign

• Living Hope

Handbells

• Russian Easter (transcribed from Rachmaninoff Suite for Two Pianos No. 1)

• Excerpt from The Rite of Spring

• When They Ring The Golden Bells