David Smooke - Composer

MEDIA

Empty Every Night
(for alto saxophone and harp), 11 min., 2009

Pictures on Silence: Noah Getz, saxophone and Jacqueline Pollauf, harp (10’03”)

Hurricane Charm
(two pianos and two percussionists), 20 min., 2009.

Shirley Yoo and Stephen Buck, pianos; Victor Caccese and Terry Sweeney, percussion. (21'12")

blades
(female voice & cello; video projection), 8 min., 2007.

Victoria Bass, voice and cello (7’40”)

Requests
(solo piano), 4 min., 2003.

Amy Briggs, piano (2’56”)

Trompe l'oeil
(wind quintet), 13 min., 2008.

Quintet Attacca (live on WFMT, Chicago) (10’58”)

Some Details of Hell
(soprano, alto flute, clarinet, piano, cello), text by Lucie Brock-Broido, 15 min., 2006.

Ensemble Dal Niente (14’26”)

Dance Music
(for flute/violin or soprano saxophone and guitar), 4 min., 2000.

Duo Vita: Lynn Kuo, violin and John Oliver guitar (3’37”)

Hazmats Sextet
(flute (alto, piccolo), clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, cello),
8 min., 2005.

Queens College New Music Ensemble, Michael Lipsey, conductor (6’39”)

Stillness and Occurrence
(flute (picc.), ob, cl, hn, tpt, tbn, vn I, vn II, vla, vc, cb),
15 min., 2005.

Members of the Fifth House Ensemble and Merit School of Music Faculty, Amy Briggs, conductor (12’57”)

Breathing the Water
(2,2,2,2;2,2,2,0;1 perc (no timp),pno;strings), 15 min., 2004.

excerpt #1—middle of the piece (2’11”)

excerpt #2—end of the piece (3’41”)

L’EDGE
(for string quartet), 10 min., 1999.

Pacifica String Quartet (9’58”)

Castles in the Sky
(two violas and toy piano), 2 min., 2004.

David Smooke, toy piano, Sharon Chung and Rachel Goff, violas (1’47”)

Anna Liffey
(mezzo-soprano and piano), text by Eavan Boland,
28 min., 1999.

Anna Liffey: I. Life, the story goes (3’05”)

Anna Liffey: II. Dusk is coming (5’39”)

Anna Liffey: III. A river is not a woman (3’49”)

Anna Liffey: IV. An ageing woman (2’49)

Anna Liffey: V. Autumn rain is (5’34”)

Anna Liffey: VI. In the end (5’37”)

Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano and Amy Briggs, piano.