Next Performances:
March 15, 2010
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March 22-25, 2010
March 26, 2010
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March 29, 2010
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Current Projects
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NEW PIECE FOR SOLO TIMPANI
David is currently working on a new piece for virtuoso timpanist
David Herbert of the San Francisco Symphony. The piece will be scored
for the extended range timpani set up that was originally created
for William Kraft’s “Timpani Concerto No. 2”.
NEW WORK FOR PERCUSSION QUARTET
Commissioned by Mark Ford and the University of North Texas Percussion
Department.
NEW WORK FOR SOLO MARIMBA
Commissioned by Michael Burritt.
NEW WORK FOR FLUTE, CLARINET, VIOLIN, CELLO, PIANO AND PERCUSSION
Commissioned by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
Percussion Ensemble (5-10 players)
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From In Contact - for 10 percussionists (2007) 10 minutes; $60
Commissioned by John
Parks and the Florida State University Percussion Ensemble.
Premiered in November 2007 at the Percussive Arts Society
International Convention in Columbus, OH.
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Unknown Kind - percussion quintet (2007) 6 minutes; $40
This piece was premiered
in Carnegie Hall in spring of 2007 by John Parks and the Florida
State University Percussion Ensemble, for whom the piece was
written. The latest installment in the "Whispers"
series.
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Whispers - for 9 percussionists (2005) 9 minutes
Part of a larger series of works which
share the "Whispers" title. This piece won 1st prize
in the 2005 Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest.
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Purchase Score through Keyboard Percussion Publications.
Percussion Quartet
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Fanfare for a New Audience (2009) 5 minutes; $40
Commissioned by Deborah Sobol and the Rush Hour Concert Series in Commemoration of their 10th anniversary season, this piece was premiered by Third Coast Percussion in August 2009.
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Love Songs – Book One (2009) 16 minutes; $60
For pianist and percussion quartet. Commissioned by Mark Ford and the University of North Texas Percussion Ensemble. In varying shades of simplicity and complexity, consonance and dissonance, levity and weight, these songs attempt to go deeper into a uniquely human emotion.
View Excerpts: Mvmt 1 |
Mvmt 2 |
Mvmt 3 |
Mvmt 4
In Contact (2006) 18 minutes; $60
Commissioned by the Spindrift
Percussion Quartet, this three movement work tests the limits
of its compact instrumentation.
Listen: Mvmt
2 | Mvmt
3
View Excerpt: Mvmt
1 | Mvmt
2 | Mvmt
3
Ritual Music (2004) 7 minutes; $40
An exciting “overture”
for percussion. Go to www.thirdcoastpercussion.com to order
the debut recording of this piece.
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Strobes (2004) 7 minutes; $40
Written for the Chicago-based
dance company, Raizel Performances. A sick groove and a haunting
melody.
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Echoes (2003) 10 minutes
A two movement work that packs a big punch
in a very compact setup of instruments. 2nd Prize winner of
the 2004 Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest.
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Purchase through Keyboard Percussion Publications
Percussion Duo
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Sonata for 2 Marimbas (2004) 8 minutes
A virtuosic piece written for Peter Martin and Clay Condon. Scored for two 5.0 octave marimbas.
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Jade Circles (2003) 20 minutes
Five songs for 5.0 octave marimba and vibraphone. Sometimes sweet, sometimes dirty. Sometimes sad, sometimes funky.
Listen: Prologue
| Dance
| Blues
| Rondo
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Whispers 2 (2002) 3 minutes; $20
This quiet miniature is the first in a series of pieces for percussion using the "Whispers" title. Scored for 4.3 octave marimba and vibraphone.
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Solo
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Requiem – for solo percussionist (2009) 10 minutes; $40
(Available January 2010). Commissioned by Omar Carmenates and co-commissioned by Owen Weaver, this piece looks at the troubling dependence of professional percussionists on the use of non-renewable resources in the manufacture of our instruments.
An Argument or a Question? (2006) 6 minutes; $20
A virtuosic solo timpani piece designed in part as an exploration of the sound world of these unique instruments.
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