Patrick Burns (b. 1969) is an American composer and music educator. He has written extensively for wind bands at all levels. He founded the Bloomfield Youth Band in New Jersey when he was 17, and continues to direct that group today, along with the New Jersey City University band. He also founded and runs Bandworks Publications. He is much in demand as guest conductor around the country.
Burns wrote Enchanted Night in 2004 for the Hanover Wind Symphony, a community band in New Jersey, to help celebrate their 19th anniversary. The piece is based on a novella of the same title by Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Steven Millhauser.
Patrick Burns page at Bandworks – includes a full biography.
Information on the Millhauser novella that inspired Burns’s music at Amazon.com.
An excerpt of the novella on the New York Times.
A preview of the novella on Google Books.
Enchanted Night on YouTube, part of Patrick Burns’s YouTube channel:
The composer conducted the Columbia University Wind Ensemble in this piece at the Columbia Festival of Winds on 3/1/2009.