David Schober - Compositions

Large Instrumental Ensemble

Split Horizon

Concerto for Sextet and Orchestra (2003), 29 minutes

1. Glacial Exhalations
2. Circular Current
3. Interlude: Silken Threads
4. Razor Sleet, Shrapnel Hail

Soloist group: fl/picc/a.fl, cl/b.cl, vn/vla, vc, pno, perc;
Orchestra: 2222, 2221, timp + 1 perc, strings

Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for eighth blackbird; performed with the Oberlin Orchestra, 12 Dec 2003; New York premiere with the American Composers Orchestra, 10 Mar 2004 at Carnegie Hall; to be performed with the IRIS Orchestra, Germantown, Tenn., 12 Feb 2005. First movement to be broadcast on public radio's St. Paul Sunday (with composer performing orchestral reduction), 2004

AUDIO Sample: II. circular Element 2,686 KB MP3 sample file performed by eighth blackbird and the Oberlin Orchestra.

leaping greenly spirits

For symphonic orchestra (1999), 8 1/2 minutes

Instrumentation: 3333, 4331, timp + 3 perc, pno/cel, hp, strings

Commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra, Eiji Oue, music director; premiere performances at Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis (27, 29, 30 Jan 1999)

Impure Elements

For symphonic orchestra (1998), 13 minutes

Instrumentation: 3333, 4331, timp + 3 perc, cel, hp, strings

Read and recorded by the Minnesota Orchestra under Scott Terrell as part of the Perfect Pitch Orchestral Reading Sessions, 14 Apr 1998

Cell 264

For 16-string ensemble or string orchestra (1996), 11 minutes

First performed at the Oberlin Conservatory (3 May 1996); subsequently read and recorded by the Minnesota Orchestra under Akira Mori as part of the Perfect Pitch orchestral reading sessions (23 Oct 1996). Recipient, ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award, 1997

Instrumental Music: Solo & Chamber

Shorelong Voiceless

For flute, oboe (doubling English horn), and piano (2005), 9 minutes.

Commissioned by the whooosh Flute Resource Fund for Cheryl Gobbetti Hoffman (fl), Cheryl Bishkoff (ob), and Jacob Greenberg (pno); performances at SUNY Fredonia (6 Feb 2006), University at Buffalo (22 Feb)

Taepoong

For solo marimba (2002), 9 minutes.

Commissioned by the BMI Foundation/Carlos Surinach Fund for Makoto Nakura; performances at Oji Hall, Tokyo (3 Mar 2003); Matsukata Hall, Kobe (8 Mar); Hoam Arts Center, Seoul (15 Mar); New York premiere at Merkin Hall, 28 Oct 2003. Released on Helicon Records, fall 2004

String Quartet

(2000), 19 minutes

1. The Garden
2. Scherzo and Trio
3. Constellations
4. Encircled

Commissioned by the Naumburg Foundation for the Miró String Quartet; first performed in London (3 Mar 2001) and Kitchener-Waterloo (4 Mar), Ontario, and Alliance, Ohio (15 Mar). New York premiere at Alice Tully Hall (26 Mar)

Empty shells

For violin and piano (2000), 10 minutes

Composed for Gregory Fulkerson; performed in Oberlin (3 Mar 2001) and Philadelphia (23 Mar). New York premiere at Merkin Concert Hall, New York (26 Mar). Performed by Esther Noh at the University of Michigan (8 Apr) and at the Brave New Works Festival, Ann Arbor (11 Apr)

Variations

For flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, piano (1998), 9 minutes

First performed at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival by the AUROS Group for New Music (4 Jul 1998); subsequently performed at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (17 Oct and 5 Nov 1998); Midwest Composers' Symposium at the University of Iowa (7 Nov 1998); performed by the Earplay Ensemble, San Francisco (10 April 2000; recipient, Wayne Peterson Prize in Music Composition, San Francisco State University, 1999). Eight performances in Korea and more than 30 performances in the U.S. by eighth blackbird (the first in Cincinnati, 22 Jun 1999), plus national broadcast on St. Paul Sunday; part of the ensemble's first-prize performance in the 2000 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition;. Performed 19 Mar 2002 by Music from Copland House, Merkin Concert Hall, New York

AUDIO Sample: Variations 332 KB MP3 sample file performed by eighth blackbird.

Recording by eighth blackbird released on Cedille Records, spring 2003 (Thirteen Ways, CDR 90000 067)

small hole at the top of the sky

For clarinet and piano (1997), 5 minutes

Performances in Barnesville, Ohio (29 Jul 1997); University of Michigan (16 Mar 1998); Oberlin Conservatory (11 Apr 1998); Norfolk, Conn. (29 Jun 1998); Michigan State University, East Lansing (3 Dec 1998); DePauw University, Chicago (30 May 1999); St. Bride's Church, London (29 Sep 1999) and Oxford, UK (17 May 2000)

Higher Ground

For flute and piano (1997), 4 minutes

Based on a Korean version of an American missionary hymn Performances at the Oberlin Conservatory (27 Apr 1997); Barnesville, Ohio (22 Jul and 1 Aug 1997); Ann Arbor, Michigan (24 May 1999, 18 Feb 2000 and 17 Aug 2001)

Playground of Numberless Universes

For solo piano (1994), 5 minutes

Performances by the composer at the Oberlin Conservatory (Dec 1994); Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition, Chicago (Mar 1995); St. Mary's College, Winona, Minn. (Mar 1995); Oberlin Conservatory Orientation Recital (Aug 1996); Midwest Composers' Symposium, Indiana University at Bloomington (Nov 1996); Oberlin Conservatory (27 Apr 1997)

Mind Mirage

For violin, viola, cello, oboe, clarinet, horn (1993), 4 minutes

Performances at Oberlin (Student Composers' Concert, Nov 1993; Conservatory Honors Recital, 3 Dec 1993) Recipient, BMI Student Composer Award, 1994

Rhapsody

For solo piano (1991), 9 minutes

Performances at the University of Wisconsin--LaCrosse (30 Mar 1991); St. Mary's College, Winona, Minn. (Apr 1991); Rushford, Minn. (May 1991); broadcast in special interview feature on Minnesota Public Radio (Sept 1991). Recipient, BMI Student Composer Award, 1991

Choral and Vocal Music

God be in my head (orison/benediction)

For SAB choir and organ (2001), 1 1/2 minutes

Composed for the choir of the Church of the Holy Communion, St. Louis; first performed Dec 2001

Three Settings of Yu Chi-Whan

For high soprano and piano (1997), 10 minutes

Performances at the Oberlin Conservatory (27 Apr, 1 May, and 23 May 1997)

O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

For SATB choir and piano (1996), 5 minutes

First presented at First Baptist Church, Oberlin (17 Mar 1996) Subsequently presented at Northside Community Church, Ann Arbor (29 Mar and 8 Apr 1998, 10 Mar 2002)

Electronic Music

Unraveled

For stereo tape (2000), 4 minutes

Realized at the University of Michigan studios; performed with live electronics at the Electronic Music Micro-Festival, Ann Arbor (15 Feb 2001)

Updated 15 March 2006
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