Current Projects
Supplication and Funk
for Solo Trombone
(A piece in 2 parts)
Written for
William Lang
Skirmishes
for String Quartet
Recently Completed
I Must Study
Politicks and War Written for
Loadbang
3 Pieces
for
Violin and Piano
Written for
Mary Rowell
and
Geoff Burleson
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SELECTED COMPOSITIONS
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Trombone Quartet (in 3 movements)
1. Leap of Faith 2. Swirl 3. Rumination
Written for The Guidonian Hand
The Guidonian Hand premiering Trombone Quartet at INTAR in NYC, July 5, 2011
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Three Pieces for Violin and Piano
Written for Mary Rowell and Geoff Burleson
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I Must Study Politicks and War
Baritone voice, Trumpet, Trombone, Bass Clarinet
Text by John Adams
Written for Loadbang
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Early Darling Morning, for solo harp
This recording is a sampled realization
A score is here
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Nocturne for Solo Cello, a meditation
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Serenade for a summer evening
electronic sounds |
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Rememberance
for solo harp
This recording is a sampled realization
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Burst 2
(alternate version with Clarinet) (2009)
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
The ensemble rehearsing Burst
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Kickstart
solo piano
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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 approaches, opting instead for an unusual juxtaposition of Impressionist and Expressionist writing. Philo's aforementioned style mix is handled expertly well, somehow managing to let its two approaches coexist smoothly. And the work's structural sense is both expertly outlined and unusual.
— David Cleary , 21st Century Music
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Three Pieces for Piano (Click on the titles below to listen)
1st performance Weill Recital Hall, NYC, Nicholas Underhill, pno. Available on Capstone Records and Amazon.com
1. Tumble
2. Meditazione
3. III
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 (Click on the titles below to listen)
(fl/ob/cl/bsn/hn/tpt/tbn/perc/piano/vln/vla/vc/cb) dur. 9 mins.
1st performance, Wellesley Composers Conference, Efrain Guigui, conductor
1. Impromptu 1
2. Impromptu 2
3. Impromptu 3 |
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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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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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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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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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Two Pieces for Children's String
Orchestra
dur. 6 mins.
1st performance Concord, MA. James Bergin, conductor |
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Black Elk
(viola solo) dur. 5 mins.
1st performance James Bergin, New England Conservatory |
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Winterset
(pno solo) dur. 12 mins.
1st performance New England Conservatory, Nicholas Underhill, pno. |
