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Current Projects
Trombone Quartet
Skirmishes for String Quartet
5 Pieces for Violin and Piano
Recently Completed
Nocturne for Solo Cello, a meditation
Serenade for a summer evening
an electroacoustic work
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Selected Compositions
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Rememberance
for solo harp
This recording is a sampled realization
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Burst
fl,pno, string quartet
1str performance Oct 6, 2008, Cleveland Chamber Collective, Cleveland State University
Check out a video of the ensemble. Navigate to Burst after reaching the video player.
above: The Cleveland Chamber Collective rehearsing Burst
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Kickstart
Solo piano
This recording is a sampled realization
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Lech
Lecha
fl/pno/string quartet
dur. 15 min. Written for the Cleveland Chamber
Collective. Available at Amazon.com
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Spring
Music (for Orchestra)
dur. 5.5 minutes 1st performance by the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra,
David Stock, conductor, Katowice, Poland. Available at MMC Recordings, and Amazon.com
Spring Music by Gary Philo manages to be showy while avoiding . . . more predictable apporaches, opting instead for an unusual juxtaposition of Impressionist and Expressionist writing.
David Cleary , 21st Century Music
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Bagatelles for Orchestra
(2.2.2.2./4.2.2.1./hp/3perc/strings)
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Three Pieces for Piano
1st performance Weill Recital Hall, NYC, Nicholas Underhill, pno. Available on Capstone Records and Amazon.com
Gary Philo's Three Pieces are compact musings on atmosphere and poetic gesture, with rhythmic surprises, sudden silences and lyrical sighs to keep the movements in arresting motion.
Donald Rosenberg, Gramophone
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Music for 15 Instruments
(fl/ob/cl/b.cl/hn/tpt/tbn/b.tbn/1 perc/pno/2vlns/vla/vc/cb)
dur 14 mins.
1st performance Tanglewood Music Center, Marin Alsop, conductor
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Sonata for Viola and Piano
(vla/pno) National Endowment Commission dur. 17 min.
1st performance Jordan Hall, Boston, Massachusetts. Marcus Thompson,
vla; Judy Gordon, pno
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Three
Impromptus
(fl/ob/cl/bsn/hn/tpt/tbn/perc/piano/vln/vla/vc/cb) dur. 9 mins.
1st performance, Wellesley Composers Conference, Efrain Guigui, conductor
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String Trio
(vln/vla/vc) dur. 10 mins.
1st performance McMillin Theatre, NYC
Gary Philo's String Trio is a knotty, closely argued and not immediately prepossessing work in two movements. . .
Tim Page, The New York Times |
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Sonatina for Viola Solo
Written for Marlow Fisher, viola
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Killifish
(vln/vla/cb) dur. 11.mins.
Written for Mary Rowell, vln, Marlow
Fisher, vla, Jonathan Storck, cb,
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Three Dances for Solo Viola
dur. 9 min.
1st performance, Bloomington Indiana. Rebecca Henry, vla
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Boomerang
(fl/cl/vln/vla/vc) dur. 13 min.
1st performance Wellesley Composers Conference, Efrain Guigui, conductor
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Bagatelles and Adagio
(4 percussionists) dur. 11 mins.
1st performance Greenwich House, NYC Charles Descarfino, conductor
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Fantasia For Violin Solo
dur 9 mins.
1st performance by Mary Rowell, McMillin Theatre
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Two Songs
(mezzo/pno) dur. 5 min.
1st performance Amy Zorn, mezzo, Amy Reich, pno, Greenwich House,
NYC
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Summers End
(tape/dancers) dur. 20 mins
Commissioned by Bicycle Shop Dance Company 1st performance Bicycle Shop
Dance Company Ohio Theater, NYC
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Shemayim (tape)
dur. 6 mins.
1st performance Ohio Theater, NYC
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A Changing Life (2/2/2/2,/2/1/1/2
perc/hp/strings)
dur. 14 mins
1st performance Boston Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Gunther Schuller,conductor Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA.
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Impromptus (trbn solo)
dur app. 8 mins.
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Spring Scenes
(alto sax/pno) dur. 10 mins.
Commisioned by Rick Stone 1st performance Boston MA. Rick Stone,
alto sax, David Bieri, pno.
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Three Pieces for Orchestra
(2/2/2/1/;1/2/0/0/; timp/; strings) dur. 10 mins.
Commissioned by the New England Conservatory Youth Orchestra 1st performance
New England Conservatory Youth Orchestra, James Bergin, cond.
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Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano
(cl/vln/pno) dur. 14 mins.
Commissioned by the Harvard-Radcliffe Chamber Ensemble 1st Performance
Sanders Theater, Cambridge, MA
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Two Pieces for Solo Piano
dur. 11 mins. 1st performance Composers in Red Sneakers
Nicholas
Underhill, pno.
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Outbursts and Reflections
(2/2/2/2/;4/2/3/1/; 1 perc/;harp/pno/strings) dur. 7 mins.
Commissioned by the Vermont Philharmonic 1st performance Montpelier,
VT.
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Out on Maneuvers
(fl/cl/vln/vc) dur. 10 mins. 1st performance Composers in Red Sneakers,
Cambridge, MA
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Septet
(fl/cl/perc/pno/vln/vla/vc) dur. 14 mins
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Three Short Ones
(solo viola) dur. 3 mins.
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Two Pieces for Children's String
Orchestra
dur. 6 mins.
1st performance Concord, MA. James Bergin, conductor
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Winterset
(pno solo) dur. 12 mins.
1st performance New England Conservatory, Nicholas Underhill, pno.
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Black Elk
(viola solo) dur. 5 mins.
1st performance James Bergin, New England Conservatory
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Etude for Solo Tenor Saxophone
dur. app. 4 mins.
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