Chamber Music Written for the Da Capo Chamber Players
Composer • Title • Commission • Venue • Premiere Date
George Walker
Tangents (1999; arr. 2020 by David Sanford) – World Premiere
of transcription for the Da Capo Chamber Players
'Remembering George Walker'
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
February 12, 2020
Joan Tower
Looking Back (2018) – World Premiere
Sosnoff Hall/Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
September 16, 2018
Cary Hall/DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th St., NYC
September 9, 2018
Dylan Mattingly
Ecstasy #3 (2018) – World Premiere
'The Exploding New York Musical Spectrum'
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
June 4, 2018
Jonathan Dawe
On Again, Ockeghem (2018) – World Premiere
'Celebrating Charles Wuorinen’s 80th Year'
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
April 12, 2018
Christian Li
Loop Music (2017) – World Premiere
Mike Bono
Sunday (2017) – World Premiere
Scott Lee
Bottom Heavy (2014) – NY Premiere
Pascal Le Boeuf
Media Control (2017) – Premiere of Revised Version
'Young Composers Abound II'
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
September 18, 2017
Martín Gendelman
Shapes of the Wind (2016)
Premiere of revised version
'On the Verge series'
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
September 20, 2016
Tania León
One Mo’ Time (2016) – World Premiere
'Gala 45th Anniversary Concert'
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
May 23, 2016,
David Fulmer
Cadenza
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
October 1, 2015
Erica Lindsay
Further Explorations
Bitó Conservatory, Bard College
March 9, 2015
Daniel Zlatkin
Dvash
Bitó Conservatory, Bard College
March 9, 2015
Kevin Hickey
Pretense
Bitó Conservatory, Bard College
March 9, 2015
Noach Lundgren
if blues were green
Bitó Conservatory, Bard College
March 9, 2015
Sid Richardson
Astrolabe (2014)
Rehearsal, recording of pieces by Duke University
graduate composers
Duke University, Durham, NC
November 10, 2014
Clint Needham
Toccatas, Recits, & Aria
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
June 8, 2014
Jack Gulielmetti
Pipe Dream
Merkin Concert Hall
June 8, 2014
Valerie Coleman
Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes
Symphony Space, NYC
April 7, 2014
Leo Kraft
To Whom It May Concern
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
February 16, 2014
Chinary Ung
Singing Inside Aura
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
September 28, 2013
Mohammed Fairouz
Pierrot lunaire
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
June 6, 2013
Daniel Sonenberg
Delve
Bitó Conservatory, Bard College
March 11, 2013
Diana McIntosh
For Your Tomorrow
Groundswell New Music Now, Winnipeg, Canada
May 11, 2012
Dan Visconti
The Clear Light
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC
May 2, 2012
Hannah Lash
Subtilior, Lamento
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC
May 2, 2012
Jose Agustin Sanchez
Negra Nochezzolla
Bard Hall, Bard College
February 22, 2012
Stephen Jaffe
Cameo
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
October 10, 2011
George Tsontakis
Gravity
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
June 2, 2011
Greg D’Alessio
Al Segno
Cleveland Institute of Music
October 28, 2010
Keith Fitch
Midnight Rounds
Cleveland Institute of Music
October 28, 2010
Carl Schimmel
Four Nocturnes from “The Oblivion Ha-ha”
Merkin Concert Hall
June 2, 2010
Richard Teitelbaum
SoundPaths
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
June 1, 2009
Lydia Ayers
Pearls
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
June 1, 2009
Judith Shatin
Spring Tides
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
June 1, 2009
Conor Brown
Cloud Forest
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
September 15, 2008
Alla Borzova
Merry Hour
(texts by Mikhail Lermontov)
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
February 19, 2008
Louis Karchin
The Gods of Winter
Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University
February 9, 2008
Igor Golubev
Sparkling Thirds
Dom Kompositorov, Moscow
November 26, 2007
Kati Agócs
Immutable Dreams
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
January 28, 2007
Su Lian Tan
Creature to Man
Tribeca Performing Arts Center, NYC
December 2, 2006
Gene Pritsker
Self Laceration
Merkin Concert Hall
November 21, 2006
Eric Chasalow
Flute Concerto
Merkin Concert Hall
November 21, 2006
Chandler Carter
Conversation Piece
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
November 21, 2006
Shirish Korde
Song Cycle on the Life of Phoolan Devi
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
June 6, 2006
Alexander Radvilovitch
Pierrot’s Dreams
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
March 7, 2006
Boris Filanovski
We Can’t Perform It
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
March 7, 2006
Dmitriy Riabtsev
Enchanted Lake II
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
March 7, 2006
Elena Antonenko
Words
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
March 7, 2006
Kirill Umansky
Winter Landscape
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
March 7, 2006
Kyle Gann
The Day Revisited
Knitting Factory, NYC
January 24, 2006
John Harbison
Songs America Loves to Sing
Commissioned with an award from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University. (A joint commission with the Atlanta Chamber Players)
Merkin Concert Hall
November 16, 2004 (NY premiere)
Chinary Ung
Oracle
Commissioned by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
November 16, 2004
Daniel Wohl
5 Chemical Elements
Olin Hall, Bard College
April 21, 2004
Serge Tcherepnin
look up firefly the night is calling
Olin Hall, Bard College
April 21, 2004
Harold Farberman
Games
Olin Hall, Bard College
April 21, 2004
Martin Bresnick
My Twentieth Century
(text by Tom Andrews)
A Millennium Commissioning Project of CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA
Miller Theatre, NYC
March 4, 2002
Louis Karchin
Fanfare/Pavane
Written for Patricia Spencer
The Knitting Factory, NYC
November 11, 2001
Harold Meltzer
Exiles
Written for Paul Sperry and the Da Capo Chamber Players
The Knitting Factory, NYC
November 11, 2001
Penka Kouneva
Climbing the Ladder of Unraveling Rope
Commissioned with a grant from MEET THE COMPOSER
The Knitting Factory, NYC
November 11, 2001
Jonathan Leshnoff
Riverend
The Great Hall of the Cooper Union, NYC
October 23, 2000
Philippe Bodin
Peal
Washington Square United Methodist Church, NYC
June 1, 2000
Larry Wallach
Canzona
Olin Hall, Bard College
May 7, 2000
Paul Lansky
Odd Moments
for George Perle for his 85th Anniversary
The Great Hall of the Cooper Union, NYC
November 30, 1999
Carlos Carillo
De la brevedad de la vida
Anthology Film Archives, NYC
April 6, 1999
Louis Karchin
American Visions (two songs on poems of Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
Commissioned with a grant from New York University
Olin Hall, Bard College
January 29, 1999
Shirish Korde
RASA
Chamber opera for soprano, chamber ensemble, tabla, tape, chorus, dancers, and actors. Co-produced with Holy Cross College theatre ensemble and the New York Virtuoso Singers.
Miller Theatre, NYC
October 25, 1998
David Lang
Dance Drop (Revised instrumentation)
Christ & St. Stephen’s Church, NYC
December 10, 1997
Su Lian Tan
Invention and Sinfonia
Trio for flute, cello, piano
written for the Da Capo Chamber Players
CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
May 22, 1996
Joan Tower
Très lent
For cello and piano
Written for André Emelianoff
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
May 8, 1994
David Sanford
From Behind a Red Light
For solo cello, narrator and dancer
written for André Emelianoff
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
May 8, 1994
Peter Golub
Now Be Witness Again
For solo flute and actors
written for Patricia Spencer
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
November 14, 1993
Jeffrey Mumford
a diffuse light that knows no particular hour
Quintet commissioned for Da Capo by the Amphion Foundation
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
November 25, 1991
Gerald Levinson
Dreamlight
Trio for cello, piano, and percussion
commissioned by André Emelianoff
Kathryn Bache Miller Theatre, NYC
March 11, 1992
Richard Wilson
Affirmations
Quintet for Da Capo
commissioned by Chamber Music America
92nd Street Y, NYC
March 7, 1991
Shulamit Ran
Mirage
Quintet
commissioned for Da Capo by National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Commissioning Program
92nd Street Y, NYC
March 7, 1991
Gunther Schuller
Paradigm Exchanges
Quintet
commissioned for Da Capo by the New York State Council
on the Arts
92nd Street Y, NYC
March 7, 1991
John Gibson
In-Between
Quintet
commissioned by the Jerome Foundation
92nd Street Y
March 7, 1991
Bruce Adolphe
Encore!
Quintet
written in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the
Da Capo Chamber Players
92nd Street Y, NYC
March 7, 1991
Stephen Albert
Rilke Song
Quintet and soprano
written in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the
Da Capo Chamber Players
92nd Street Y, NYC
March 7, 1991
Yehudi Wyner
Changing Times
Quintet
written in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the
Da Capo Chamber Players
92nd Street Y, NYC
March 7, 1991
George Perle
Andante Tranquillo
Quintet written in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the
Da Capo Chamber Players
92nd Street Y, NYC
March 7, 1991
Bruce Adolphe
Machaut is my Beginning
Quintet, based on Machaut's Ma fin est mon commencement
Bard College
February 7, 1990
John Harbison
November 19, 1828
Quartet
commissioned by National Endowment for the Arts
Consortium Commissioning Program
Bard College
February 7, 1990
Leo Smith
Afrikan Genesis
Quintet
Bard College
December 6, 1989
John Corigliano
For Joan on her 50th +
Quintet
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
October 24, 1988
John Harbison
Minuet from Short Suite +
Quartet
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
October 24, 1988
Bruce MacCombie
Fifty Bars for Joan +
Quintet
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
October 24, 1988
Joseph Schwantner
Tower Power +
Quintet
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
October 24, 1988
Tania León
Parajota Delaté +
Quintet
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
October 24, 1988
+ The above five works were commissioned by the Da Capo Chamber Players as musical greetings for composer Joan Tower,
in celebration of her 50th Anniversary.
Nicholas Maw
Ghost Dances: Imaginary Ballet for Five Players
Dedicated to the members of the Nash Ensemble of London and the Da Capo Chamber Players of New York, for whom it was jointly written
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
May 16, 1988
Louis Pelosi
Elegiac Quintet
West Virginia University, WV
April 11, 1988
Elie Yarden
Entering New Spaces
written for the Da Capo Chamber Players on the occasion
of the dedication of the F. W. Olin Humanities Building,
Bard College
October 9, 1987
Roger Briggs
Chamber Music
written for the Da Capo Chamber Players in celebration of the
bicentennial of Franklin and Marshall College
Franklin and Marshall College
April 10, 1987
Bruce Adolphe
Ballade
Written for the Da Capo Chamber Players with assistance from
the C. Michael Paul Foundation
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
May 4, 1987
Joseph Schwantner
Distant Runes and Incantations
Written with an NEA Consortium Commissioning Award to the
Da Capo Chamber Players, the Twentieth Century Consort, and the Boston Musica Viva for piano, flute (picc, alto), clar (b cl), percussion and string quartet.
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
May 4, 1987
David Chaitkin
Quintet
Commissioned with grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and from Broadcast Music, Inc.
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
January 31, 1986
Louise Talma
The Ambient Air
Quartet
Symphony Space, NYC
October 16, 1984
Theodore Antoniou
Aphierosis
Quintet
written for concert celebrating George Perle's 70th birthday
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
January 18, 1985
Charles Porter
Cyclic Celebration
Quintet
written for concert celebrating George Perle's 70th birthday
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
January 18, 1985
William Thomas McKinley
March Symphony
Quintet
Jordan Hall, Boston
January 21, 1985
Alvin Brehm
La Bocca della Verita
Quintet
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
May 1, 1984
Judith Shatin Allen
Werther
Quintet
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
May 1, 1984
Stephen Jaffe
A Nonesuch Serenade
Quintet
commissioned by Warner Communications
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
May 1, 1984
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Intrada
Quintetmcommissioned by Chamber Music America
with assistance from the Mary Flagler Cary Trust and the
Jerome Foundation
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
May 1, 1984
James Greeson
Fantasy
Quintet commissioned with a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
May 1, 1984
Elie Yarden
"...(and yet, what if knowledge itself were delicious?)."
Bard College
May 17, 1984
Preston Trombly
...The Trumpets of Solitude...
Quintet
commissioned by the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
McMillin Theatre, NYC
December 8, 1982
George Perle
Sonata a quattro
Quartet
commissioned with a Consortium Commissioning Award
from the National Endowment for the Arts
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
May 17, 1982
Chester Biscardi
Di Vivere
Quintet
commissioned with a National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowship
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
May 17, 1982
Les Thimmig
Concerto for Six Players
Lawrence University
March 5, 1982
Joan Tower
Wings
Solo Clarinet
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
December 4, 1981
Philip Glass
Modern Love Waltz *
Quintet
Alice Tully Hall, NYC
March 23, 1980
George Perle
Scherzo *
Quartet
Alice Tully Hall, NYC
March 23, 1980
Shulamit Ran
Private Game *
Duo for clarinet and cello
Alice Tully Hall, NYC
March 23, 1980
Joseph Schwantner
Wind, Willow, Whisper... *
Quintet
Alice Tully Hall, NYC
March 23, 1980
Joan Tower
Petroushskates *
Quintet
Alice Tully Hall, NYC
March 23, 1980
Charles Wuorinen
Joan's *
Quintet
Alice Tully Hall, NYC
March 23, 1980
* The above six works were written for the 10th Anniversary of the
Da Capo Chamber Players with commissioning grants from the
Fromm Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and
Meet the Composer.
Ursula Mamlok
When Summer Sang
Quintet
Rutgers University
April 27, 1980
Ronald Roseman
Three Psalms
Quartet plus soprano
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
April 18, 1979
Louise Talma
Diadem
Quintet plus tenor
Carnegie Recital Hal, NYCl
April 18, 1979
Miriam Gideon
Voices from Elysium
Quintet plus tenor
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
April 18, 1979
Bruce Taub
Extremities
Quintet
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
February 14, 1979
Joan Tower
Amazon
Quintet
commissioned by the Contemporary Music Society
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
January 11, 1978
Shulamit Ran
For an Actor – Monologue for Clarinet
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
May 10, 1978
Leo Kraft
Dialectica
Quartet plus electronic sounds
commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore
Baltimore Museum of Art
May 15, 1977
Francis Thorne
Head Music
Trio
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
May 4, 1977
Elie Yarden
Septentrion
Trio
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
May 4, 1977
Andrew Thomas
How the News Was Spread
Quintet
commissioned by the Thorne Fund for Music and the
New York State Council on the Arts
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
March 16, 1977
Robert Helps
Quintet
National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowship
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
January 12, 1977
Preston Trombly
The Windmills of Paris
Quintet
National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowship
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
April 12, 1976
Paul Lansky
Crossworks
Quintet
National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowship
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
April 12, 1976
Claudio Spies
Shirim Le Hathunatham
Quintet plus soprano
National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowship
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
April 21, 1976
Joan Tower
Breakfast Rhythms
Clarinet solo plus five instruments
Town Hall, NYC
February 4, 1974
Elaine Barkin
Prim Cycles
Quintet
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
December 20, 1973
Jeffrey Kresky
Aria Da Capo
Quintet
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
December 20, 1973
Rolv Yttrehus
Quintet
Town Hall
February 4, 1974
Milton Babbitt
Arie Da Capo
Quintet
commissioned by the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation
for the winners of the Chamber Music Award
Alice Tully Hall
April 25, 1974
Harvey Sollberger
Riding the Wind I
Solo flute with four instruments,
commissioned by the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation
for the winners of the Chamber Music Award
Alice Tully Hall, NYC
April 25, 1974
Bruce Taub
Quintet I
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
February 9, 1973
Erik Lundborg
Trio
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
May 4, 1973
Thomas James
String and Wind Quartet
Greenwich House, NYC
March 30, 1972
Joan Tower
Hexachords
Solo flute
New York University, NYC
February 26, 1972
Stanley Persky
Symbiosynthesis
Quintet plus electronic sounds
Greenwich House, NYC
February 24, 1972
Joan Tower
Prelude for Five Players
Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
October 22, 1971