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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

 

  Selected Compositions

Compositions with in the title may be found in the player at left.
 
 

Rememberance
for solo harp

This recording is a sampled realization

 

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.

Cleveland Chamber Collective

above: The Cleveland Chamber Collective rehearsing Burst

 

Kickstart
Solo piano

This recording is a sampled realization

 

Lech Lecha
fl/pno/string quartet
dur. 15 min. Written for the Cleveland Chamber Collective. Available at Amazon.com

 

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

 

Bagatelles for Orchestra
(2.2.2.2./4.2.2.1./hp/3perc/strings)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Sonatina for Viola Solo
Written for Marlow Fisher, viola

 

Killifish
(vln/vla/cb) dur. 11.mins.
Written for Mary Rowell, vln, Marlow Fisher, vla, Jonathan Storck, cb,

 

Three Dances for Solo Viola
dur. 9 min.
1st performance, Bloomington Indiana. Rebecca Henry, vla

 

Boomerang
(fl/cl/vln/vla/vc) dur. 13 min.
1st performance Wellesley Composers Conference, Efrain Guigui, conductor

 

Bagatelles and Adagio
(4 percussionists) dur. 11 mins.
1st performance Greenwich House, NYC Charles Descarfino, conductor

 

Fantasia For Violin Solo
dur 9 mins.
1st performance by Mary Rowell, McMillin Theatre

 

Two Songs
(mezzo/pno) dur. 5 min.
1st performance Amy Zorn, mezzo, Amy Reich, pno, Greenwich House, NYC

 

Summers End
(tape/dancers) dur. 20 mins
Commissioned by Bicycle Shop Dance Company 1st performance Bicycle Shop Dance Company Ohio Theater, NYC

 

Shemayim (tape)
dur. 6 mins.
1st performance Ohio Theater
, NYC

 

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.

 

Impromptus (trbn solo)
dur app. 8 mins.

 

Spring Scenes
(alto sax/pno) dur. 10 mins.
Commisioned by Rick Stone 1st performance Boston MA. Rick Stone, alto sax, David Bieri, pno.

 

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.

 

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

 

Two Pieces for Solo Piano
dur. 11 mins. 1st performance Composers in Red Sneakers
Nicholas Underhill, pno.

 

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.

 

Out on Maneuvers
(fl/cl/vln/vc) dur. 10 mins. 1st performance Composers in Red Sneakers, Cambridge, MA

 

Septet
(fl/cl/perc/pno/vln/vla/vc) dur. 14 mins

 

Three Short Ones
(solo viola) dur. 3 mins.

 

Two Pieces for Children's String Orchestra
dur. 6 mins.
1st performance Concord, MA. James Bergin, conductor

 

Winterset
(pno solo) dur. 12 mins.
1st performance New England Conservatory, Nicholas Underhill, pno.

 

Black Elk
(viola solo) dur. 5 mins.
1st performance James Bergin, New England Conservatory

 

Etude for Solo Tenor Saxophone
dur. app. 4 mins.