Contemporary Ensemble Rep

[Elizabeth Huston]

I’m applying to Bang on a Can for this upcoming summer, and they want you to list chamber rep you’re interested in doing. Bang on a Can is all about contemporary music, mostly by living or recently passed composers, so I’m not familiar with a lot of the chamber music that I’m sure is out there. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[patricia-jaeger]

Elizabeth, If a composer who died in 1857 (M. Glinka) would not be considered contemporary, then I guess your group would not consider Der Zweifel, a trio by him for flute, violin, and harp, that I have. You can find a complete list of his compositions at http://www.classicalarchives.com/composer/7393.html.
More possible might be works by Philip Glass Kepler , born in 1937; Benjamin Britten (d. 1976) who has Folk songs on Hyperion CDs scored for harp, guitar, two sopranos, and 1 tenor. Also consider Luigi M. Tedeschi (1867-1944) whose 8 chamber music compositions, many with harp are on Tactus CD: TC862001. Find him at http://www.classicsonline.com where the audio can be previewed and even downloaded at $.99 or $1.99 each, I have his Fantasia Opus 48 for harp and violin, published in Padua Italy by Zanibon and it is very harpistic.

[diane-michaels]

George Crumb- I had a blast performing both Ancient Voices of Children and Madrigals. Berio’s Circles might be up their alley, too. All of these require a soprano.

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

If you check Canadian Music Centre’s web site, they will have a catalogue of chamber music, with the instrumentation. In 1983, Frederick Schipizky wrote a very nice Quintet for harp, oboe, violin, viola and bass, which I premiered. http://old.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=score.FA_dsp_details&bibliographyid=8232&dsp_page=1 If you type “harp” into the keyword window, you will find a lot of things.

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

There is an Intermezzo for flute and harp by Michael Conway Baker. http://www.michaelconwaybaker.com/compositionslistedbyinstrument.html#Harp

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