COMPOSITIONS
by Evan Ziporyn
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Clarinet/Bass
Clarinet
Hive (2007) clarinet quartet - 2 clarinets, 2 bass clarinets (17 minutes)
Drill concerto for solo
bass clarinet with wind ensemble (2002) - premiered by EZ and
MIT Wind Ensemble, Fred Harris, director (10 minutes)
Four Impersonations
for solo clarinet (1999): 'Honshirabe' (4:00),
'Bindu Semara' (5:30), 'Thum
Nyatiti' (2:30), 'Pengrangrang
Gede' (5:30) (18 minutes)
Partial Truths for
solo bass clarinet (1997) (17 minutes)
Tsmindao
Ghmerto for solo bass clarinet and wind ensemble
(1995) - commissioned and premiered by Nederlands Blazers,
New Years Day 1996 (7 minutes)
Tsmindao Ghmerto for
bass clarinet (1992) (5 minutes)
Walk the Dog for
bass clarinet and electronics (1992) (25 minutes)
Be-In for
bass clarinet and string quartet (1991) (11 minutes)
What She Saw
There for bass clarinet (or cello) and 2 marimbas
(1988) (15 minutes)
Waiting By
The Phone for solo clarinet (1986) (15 minutes)
Two Obsessions for
solo clarinet (1980) (15 minutes)
Gamelan
Bayu Sabda Idep (2007) for Just Intonation slendro chamber gamelan and chamber string orchestra. For I Wayan Loceng. (27 minutes)
CuBaliBre (2007) for gender wayang duo. For Brad Endicott. (3.5 minutes)
Sabar Gong for Balinese gamalen with Senegalese Sabar drummers, lead by Lamine Toure (2005) (5 minutes)
Aradhana for
Balinese gamelan with Pipa'st Wu Man (2004) (15 minutes)
Ngaben
(for Sari Club) for Balinese gamelan & orchestra
(2003) - commissioned by the New England Conservatory;
world premiere Jordan Hall, Boston, March 12, 2003
by Gamelan Galak Tika and the NEC Symphony, Dante
Anzolini, conductor (15 minutes)
Kebyar Kebyar for
Balinese gamelan (2002) (6 minutes)
Amok! six
movements for Balinese gamelan, double bass, sampler (1996);
commissioned by
Readers Digest/Meet the Composer, for Gamelan Galak Tika and
Basso Bongo (Robert Black, bass, and Amy Knoles, percussion)
(32 minutes)
Tire
Fire for Balinese gamelan, two electric
guitars, electric bass, and keyboard (1994); commissioned
by Rockefeller Multi-Arts Program, premiered (25
minutes)
Aneh
Tapi Nyata for chamber ensemble and Balinese percussion
(1992); commissioned by Rockefeller Multi-Arts Program for Gamelan
Sekar Jaya; premiered at the Bali Arts Festival, 1992 (14 minutes)
Kekembangan for
saxophone quartet and Balinese gamelan (in collaboration
with I Nyoman Windha) (1990) (16 minutes)
Night Bus for
Sundanese gamelan (1990) commisioned by the Toronto
Border Crossings Festival for the Evergreen Club (12
minutes)
Theater
Oedipus
Rex Greek choruses and onstage incidental music
the American Repertory Theater production of the original
Sophocles tragedy. Directed by Robert Woodruff, Loeb
Theater, Cambridge, MA (90 minutes)
ShadowBang full-length
theater work for Balinese dalang (shadow puppeteer) and Bang
on a Can Allstars. Commissioned by Rockefeller Multi-Arts Program
for I Wayan Wija and Bang on a Can Allstars; premiered October
2001 at MIT Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge, and MassMOCA, North
Adams, MA (90 minutes)
Orchestra
War
Chant (2004) -
commissioned by Boston Modern Orchestra Project, to be premiered
May, 2004, Jordan Hall, Boston, Gil Rose, director (15 minutes)
Ngaben
(for Sari Club) for Balinese gamelan & orchestra
(2003) - commissioned by the New England Conservatory;
world premiere Jordan Hall, Boston, March 12, 2003 by Gamelan
Galak Tika and the NEC Symphony, Dante Anzolini, conductor
(15 minutes)
Frog's
Eye (2002) commissioned and premiered by Boston Pro
Arte Orchestra, Isiaiah Jackson, conductor, October 2002 (13
minutes)
Filling Station (1986) -
premiered by UC Berkeley Symphony, EZ conductor, October 1986
(12 minutes)
Pleasureville,
Pain City (1985) - premiered by UC Berkeley Symphony,
John Sackett, conductor, February 1985 (6 minutes)
Wind Ensemble
The Ornate Zither and the Nomad Flute for solo soprano and wind ensemble (2005) - premiered March 2005 by Anne Harley with MIT Wind Ensemble, Fred Harris, director (15 minutes)
Commissioned by Richard Nordlof.
Drill concerto for solo
bass clarinet with wind ensemble (2002) - premiered by EZ and
MIT Wind Ensemble, Fred Harris, director (10 minutes)
Tsmindao
Ghmerto for solo bass clarinet and wind ensemble (1995)
- commissioned and premiered by Nederlands Blazers, New Years Day
1996 (7 minutes)
Houtman's Men
in Buleleng (1996) for Orkest de Volharding,
premiered at Ijsbreker, Amsterdam (15 minutes)
Chamber Music
Standard Ensembles
Speak, At-man! (2006) - alto flute and piano
Breathing Space (2003)
- three movements for string quartet, commissioned and premiered
by Ethel, Miller Theater, New York, April 2003 (20 minutes)
Typical Music (2000)
three movements for piano trio; commisioned by Readers Digest/Meet
the Composer and the Sun Valley Center for the Arts for the
Arden Trio, premiered Ketchum, ID, January 2001 (30 minutes)
Melody Competition for
percussion sextet (1999, rev. 2000) - commissioned and premiered
by red fish blue fish, Steven Schick, director; UCSD, La Jolla,
CA, May 1999 (21 minutes)
Dreams of a
Dominant Culture for flute, clarinet, percussion,
electric piano, violin, cello (1997); commissioned and premiered
by Boston Musica Viva, Richard Pittman, conductor;
Longy School, Cambridge, October 1997 (20 minutes)
Eel
Bone for string quartet (1996); commissioned and premiered
by Kronos Quartet, San Francisco, May 1996 (13 minutes)
Kebyar Maya for
cello octet (1995); commissioned by Rockefeller
Multi-Arts Program for Maya Beiser (14 minutes)
Be-In for
string quintet (1991) (11 minutes)
Bossa Nova for
brass quintet (1991); commissioned by MIT for the inauguration
of President Charles Vest (3 minutes)
Dog Dream for
flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, cello,
electric guitar (1990); commssioned and premiered by California
EAR Unit, LA County Museum (12 minutes)
Ten String
Quartets (1979) (10 minutes)
Non-standard Ensembles
Sulvasutra (2006) for string quartet, pipa, and tabla. Commissioned by the Silk Road Project (18 minutes)
Belle Labs (2006) for violin, clarinet, and robotic xylophone (Heliphon); commissioned by Ensemble Robot and Boston Museum of Science, to be premiered January 25, 2005 by Evan Ziporyn and Todd Reynolds (20 minutes)
Thread (2005) clarinet, alto and bass flute, violin, cello; commissioned and premiered by Dinosaur Annex, Cambridge, MA June 2005 (25 minutes)
No Return (2002) 4 movements
for violin, clarinet, and sounds of the Salmon River; commissioned
by Sun Valley Center for the Arts and premiered by Todd Reynolds
and Evan Ziporyn, Ketchum, ID, January 2003 (30 minutes)
More Songs About Telephones
and Dogs (2002)
4 movements for mixed ensemble - 'Iris in Furs' 'Jubilee of
Indifference' '...no messages...' 'Dog Heaven'; commissioned
by The Kitchen for Kitchen House Blend, premiered December
2002 (20 minutes)
Tight Fitting
Garments for violin and clarinet: "It Is
And It Isn't," "Illusions of Purity," "Jubilee
of Indifference" (15 minutes)
Serenity Now for
wind nonet (1998); commissioned by Chamber Music Conference of
the East, Bennington, VT (5 minutes)
Pay Phone (1993) for
violin, viola, electric guitar, bass clarinet, keyboard; for
the Michael Gordon Philharmonic (10 minutes)
Esto House (1993) for
violin, viola, electric guitar, bass clarinet, keyboard; for
the Michael Gordon Philharmonic (10 minutes)
Tree Frog (1990) for
bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, trombone, percussion,
keyboard, violin; commissioned by Toronto Border Crossings Festival
for Sound Pressure, premiered at the Music Gallery, Toronto,
May 1990 (25 minutes)
Twine (1985),
three movements for soprano, two saxophones, bass clarinet,
violin, viola, percussion (12 minutes)
LUVTime (1984),
three movements for bass clarinet, baritone saxophone,
trombone, percussion, piano (15 minutes)
Piano Solo
In Bounds (2004) - solo piano
Pondok (2000)
- four movements - 'Fragrant Forest' (4:30), 'Tree Trunk'
(3:45), 'Ginoman' (2:00), 'Gebyog (Husk)' (10:00), commissioned
and premiered by Sarah Cahill (21 minutes)
Fractal-Head (1987) (15
minutes)
Some Coal,
ten movements (1985) (30 minutes)
The Water's Fine (1983);
premiered by Michael Orland (30 minutes)
Weltscenen (1981); premiered
by Christopher Oldfather (20 minutes)
Solo Pieces for
Other Instruments
Hval (2007) - solo bass, commissioned by Robert Black
Current Rate (1999)
for solo Chinese pipa and pre-recorded CD(or two pipa); commissioned
and premiered by Wu Man at Bang on a Can Women and Music,
Henry
Street Settlement (15 minutes)
Kebyar Maya (1995) for
solo cello and prerecorded CD; commissioned by Rockefeller
Multi-Arts
Program for Maya Beiser
(14 minutes)
Studies in Normative
Behaviour, Vol 1 (1991) for solo percussionist;commissioned
and premiered by Daniel J. Tunick (10 minutes)
The Motions (1990) for
solo viola (or viola and CD); premiered by John Lad (9 minutes)
China Spring for
oboe and piano (1991); commisioned and premiered by Peter Cooper
and Evan Ziporyn (15 minutes)
Arrangements
(all for Bang On A Can All-stars - clarinet, cello, doublebass,
e-guitar, piano/keyboard, percussion) except when otherwise noted
B-52s: "Dead Beat Club" for solo piano
Conlon Nancarrow: Four Studies
(2a, 3a, 3c, 11) (2002) - premiered at Queen Elizabeth Hall,
London, October 2002 (15 minutes)
Kurt Cobain: "Lithium"
Brian Eno: "Music
for Airports 2/2"
Brian Eno: "Burning
Airlines Gives You So Much More"
Brian Eno: "Everything
Merges Into Night"
Hermeto
Pascoal: " Arapua"
Hermeto
Pascoal: "Ilha
das Gavotas"
Hermeto
Pascoal: "Quiabo"
Robert
Schumann: "Canon"
Transcriptions
(please write for
more specific information about transcriptions)
Jazz Piano
various
works by Thelonious Monk (originals and standards), Lennie
Tristano (E. 32nd and Line Up), Hampton Hawes,
and Keith Jarrett
Saxophone and Clarinet
various
works by Buddy DeFranco, Steve Lacy,and Sonny Rollins
Balinese gamelan
Gender Wayang
complete repertoire from Sukawati Village (as taught by I Wayan Loceng),
various pieces from Kayu Mas Denpasar (as taught by I Wayan Suweca
and I Wayan Konolan)
Gong Kebyar
various works, including Taruna Jaya (ISI and Perean versions), Oleg
Tambulilingan, Kebyar Duduk, Kebyar Ding, Panyembrama, Jagra Parwata,
Liar Samas, Sekar Gendot, Simbar, Kapi Raja, Panji Semarang, etc.
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