Solo Repertoire + Works List

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Solo Repertoire + Works List -

The Famous People commissioned for Gil Shaham, by the Virginia Symphony and Eric Jacobsen

VIOLINIST:

Concerto Repertoire | The American Recital | Multimedia Recital

COMPOSER:

Original Works for: Solo Strings | Chamber Music | Orchestra

all engagements may include tailored

Residencies and Outreach

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Concerto Repertoire

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Original Works

  • Vivaldi / Stewart | Seasons of Change | recomposition of Vivaldi's Four Seasons | Violin + Strings, and optional video/audio | 2024 premiere with the Phoenix Symphony | 40’ (12’ - 12’ - 8’ - 8’) - PURCHASE

  • Curtis Stewart | Violin Concerto | (1 -1-1-1-1-pno -perc-strings) | 2023 | 24’ - PURCHASE

  • Curtis Stewart | Embrace | Violin + Strings, and optional public conversation/video/audio | commissioned by the American Composer’s Orchestra | 2022 | 12’ - PURCHASE

  • Curtis Stewart | Circumvent | Violin + Orchestra | commissioned by Key to Change in partnership with the Seattle Symphony | (2-2-2-4-2-1-perc-strings) | 2023 | 6’ - PURCHASE

  • Dvorak / Stewart | “The Famous People” | Violin + Orchestra | recompositions of 5 of Dvorak’s “Slavonic Dances” fused with traditional American Slave dances | commissioned by the Virginia Symphony | (2 -2-2-2-4-2 -0 -1-perc-strings) | 2023 | 2’-20’ - PURCHASE

  • Coleridge-Taylor / Stewart | 3 Selections from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 24 Negro Melodies | Violin + Strings | 2022 | 15’ - PURCHASE

  • Bologne / Stewart | KNIGHT Music | Violin + Strings | recomposition of Joseph Bologne, the “Chevalier de St George” Violin Concerto #9 Op 8 in G major | 2022 | 11 - PURCHASE

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Concerto Repertoire by Canonized Composers

  • Samuel Barber | Violin Concerto | Violin + Orchestra | 1939 | 25’

  • Bela Bartok | Roumanian Dances | Violin + strings/orchestra | 1915 | 6’

  • Leonard Bernstein | Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) | Violin + Strings, Harp, Percussion | 1954 | 25’ 

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | Ballade | Violin + Orchestra | 1895 | 13’

  • Missy Mazzoli | Dark with Excessive Bright | Violin + Strings | 2018 | 13’

  • Julia Perry | Violin Concerto | (2222 -3220 -hrp -pno- perc-strings ) | 1977 | 25’

  • Igor Stravinsky | Violin Concerto | Violin + Orchestra | 1931 | 22’

  • Roberto Sierra | Carribean Rhapsody | Violin, Saxophone + Strings | 2008 | 15’

  • Stuff Smith (realized Dave Soldier) | Violin Concerto | (2222 -2220- timp -perc - strings) | 1963 / 2022 | 15’

  • Ralph Vaughn Williams | The Lark Ascending | Violin + Orchestra | 1914 | 15’

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Works for Orchestra

  • The Famous People | recompositions of 5 of Dvorak’s “Slavonic Dances” | for orchestra, violin + orchestra (mvt 2), cello + orchestra (mvt 4) | commissioned by the Virginia Symphony (2 -2-2-2-4-2 -0 -1 -perc-strings) | 2023 | - 2’-20’ - PURCHASE

  • Fantasy and Interludes on Going Home | short fantasy on the spiritual Going Home inspired by Alice Coltrane’s album “Lord of Lords” | 2222-2221-3 perc - pno - hrp - strings - samba percussion ensemble | for American Composers Orchestra | 2025 | 8’ - PURCHASE

  • Essay #1 Leave the People | for strings | commissioned by the Next Festival of Emerging Artists | 13 ‘ | 2024 - PURCHASE

  • The Forest’s Touch | recomposition of Schubert’s Erlkonig | for small sinfonietta and solo voice (1 -1-1-1-1-1 -1 -0 -drum set-piano-strings) | commissioned by La Jolla Society | 2022 | 7’ - PURCHASE

  • Toward America | symphonic fantasy on Dvorak’s American Quartet | (1 -1-1-1-2-1 -0 -0 -timp- perc-strings) | commissioned by the Knights | 2023 | 25’ - PURCHASE

    With Soloist

  • Circumvent | Violin + Orchestra | commissioned by Key to Change in partnership with the Seattle Symphony | (2-2-2-4-2-1-perc-strings) | 2023 | 6’ - PURCHASE

  • Drill | concerto for prepared drum set and string orchestra | (prepared kit - 44442) | Commissioned by the Sphinx Organization, Carnegie Hall and the New World Symphony | 2023 | 8’ - PURCHASE

  • Embrace | Violin + Strings, and optional public conversation/video/audio | commissioned by the American Composer’s Orchestra | 2022 | 12’ - PURCHASE

  • FUTURES | Violin + Orchestra | (1 -1-1-1-1-pno -perc-strings) | 2023 | 24’ - COMING SOON

  • Resonance | Violin + Orchestra | (1 -1-1-1-1-pno -perc-strings) | commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Music NOW | 2023 | 24’ - PURCHASE

  • Seasons of Change | recomposition of Vivaldi's Four Seasons | Violin + Strings, and optional video/audio | 2024 premiere with the Phoenix Symphony | 40’ (12’ - 12’ - 8’ - 8’) - PURCHASE

  • when they go low… | Bass Concertante | (1-1-1-1-1-0-0-0-perc (2)- pno-strings) | 2024 | 10’ - PURCHASE

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Chamber Music

  • Do you see the Flag | for Voice, Piano + Triggered Sound Samples | paraphrase of all verses of the US National Anthem - Commissioned for the NY Festival of Song | 2020 | 5’ - PURCHASE

  • Invention #1: Double Down | duo for two violins | commissioned by the Sphinx Organization | 2024 | 6’ - PURCHASE

  • Invention #2: Work Songs | duo for violin + cello | commissioned by Juilliard Prep Division - PURCHASE

  • Invention #3: Threat | duo for viola + cello | commissioned by the Chamber Music America Artistic Projects grant | 2024 | 8’ - PURCHASE

  • Mangas | by Elektra Kurtis | for String Quintet (bass) | commissioned by Sybarite5 (string quartet + bass) | 2021 | 5’

  • The Gilded Cage | piano quintet | based on the music of the residents of Newport, RI | commissioned by The Newport Classical Festival | 2023 | 10’ - PURCHASE

  • Work Monologues: i. Futility | string quartet, electronics | commissioned by IlluminArts | 2024 | 6’ - PURCHASE

  • The Pavement Pounding Rose | improvising string quartet | commissioned by PUBLIQuartet and New Music USA from Reflections on Beauty Project celebrating the life of Madame CJ Walker | 2019 | 4’

  • Call / Response | improvising string quartet | commissioned by Carnegie Hall: Play USA along with 3 other commissions by members of PUBLIQuartet | 2019 | 3’

  • Bird in Paris | improvising string quartet | based on Charlie Parker’s Blues for Alice and works of Claude Debussy | 2015 | 5’

  • LiberTango | improvising string quartet (and expanded ensemble) | arrangement of Astor Piazzola’s iconic song | 2014 | 5’

  • We The Messiah | improvising string quartet, electronics, optional MC’s, improvisations from the Messiah | 2021 | 60’

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Works for Solo Strings
with optional electronics, video AND/OR Piano

  • 24 American Caprices - virtuosic solo violin works based on recorded American music - COMING SOON

  • Lament - Concert Etude for Cello + Piano commissioned by the Eastman Cello Institute and Daniel Ketter (2021) - PURCHASE

  • Seattle Etudes - commissioned by the Key to Change for beginner and intermediate violinists/violists (2022) - PURCHASE

  • Gone - for solo violin

  • Grief Monologues - commissioned by WQXR - community submitted voice memos on stories of grief scored for Solo violin and Electronics - PURCHASE

  • We who Seek - commissioned by the Experiential Orchestra - paraphrase + verse on the original spiritual, with remix of the Julia Perry / Jannina Norpoth setting of the hymn - for solo violin, optional voice, optional string quartet - PURCHASE

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Residencies and Engagement


All appearances may include a residency component.

  • Community conversations, including talkback with community leaders

  • Masterclasses for standard repertoire, chamber music, composition, or improvisation

  • Improvisation or Composition workshops

  • Session on “A Place for the Blues in Classical Music” - Reviewed in Violinist.com from the Starling Delay Symposium

  • Recorded interactions with community for optional inclusion and trigger in performance.

 

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