David Smooke - Composer

 

PROJECTS

[In order to commission a new piece from David Smooke, please contact him at ]

Current Commission:
League of the Unsound Sound—new work for bassoon and piano, for winter 2012
Great Noise Ensemble—toy piano concerto for myself as soloist, for spring 2012
Atlantic Guitar Quartet—multimedia work, for spring 2012

Recordings:
Introspection #11,072 recorded by Jeffrey Weisner in January 2011, to be released in 2011.
Empty Every Night recorded by Pictures on Silence in October 2010, to be released in 2011.
Requests, recorded by Amy Briggs, piano, release by Ravello Recordings on a disc of contemporary tangos, October 26, 2010.

Recent Awards:
Sequenza 21/Manhattan New Music Project call for scores winner
2011 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award
Ensemble Périphérie call for scores winner (for Some Details of Hell), 2011


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David Smooke
Photo credit: Britt Olsen-Ecker

 

NEWS

PROJECTS

PAST EVENTS

 

EVENTS 2011-2012

July 29, 2011
Empty Every Night performed by Pictures on Silence at the World Harp Congress, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

October 5–6, 2011
International Symposium on Synchronous Distance Learning Conference. Co-coordinator and representative from Peabody Conservatory, along with host sites at Manhattan School of Music (New York), Royal College of Music (London), and Yong Siew Toh Conservatory (Singapore)

October 13, 2011
Dance Music performed as part of Bowling Green State University’s New Music Festival, “Method in Madness”, on the “Downtown Music” concert, Cla-Zel Theater, Bowling Green, OH, 9:30pm, free.

October 25, 2011
Requests performed by ACME as part of the Sequenza21/MNMP concert at Joe’s Pub, New York, NY, free.

October 29, 2011
Empty Every Night performed by Pictures on Silence as part of University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s LiveWire Festival

December 3, 2011
Solo Toy Piano Improvisations as part of Phyllis Chen’s Toy Piano UnCaged Festival, Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY

December 8, 2011
Extraordinary Rendition performed by singing violist Wendy Richman at the Strathmore Center, Bethesda, MD

January 14, 2012
League of the Unsound Sound (LotUS) concert on the Music on the Edge Series, including the world premiere of a new work for bassoon and piano, and improvisations, at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

April 29, 2012
Solo Toy Piano Improvisations on Andrea Clearfield’s Salon Series, Philadelphia, PA

May 11, 2012
Great Noise Ensemble world premiere of concerto for toy piano and ensemble, with the composer as soloist, Atlas Center Theater, Washington, DC


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