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Written for PAT​

For more than 150 chamber music works, see DaCapoChamberPlayers.org

Eric Chasalow, Flute Concerto (Three Love Poems) (2005)

solo flute with chamber ensemble

Merkin Concert Hall, November 26, 2006

NY premiere

 

Noel Da Costa, Blue-Tune Verses (1997)

solo flute

Look and Listen Festival, ACE Gallery, NYC, March 2002

Premiere

 

Brian Fennelly, Sock Monkeys (2007)

for two flutes, written for Patricia Spencer and Tara Helen O’Connor

Merkin Concert Hall, December 2008

Premiere

 

Ge Gan-ru, Hao

flute and piano

 

Miriam Gideon, Eclogue +

flute and piano

 

Peter Golub, Now Be Witness Again

solo flute and actors

 

Stephen Jaffe, Three Figures and a Ground *

flute and piano

 

Louis Karchin, Fanfare / Pavane +

solo flute

 

Shirish Korde, Lalit

flute and tabla

Leo Kraft, Third Fantasy

flute and piano

Arthur Kreiger, Intimate Exchanges +

flute and electronic sounds

 

Salvatore Martirano, Phleu *+

flute and electronic sounds

 

Thea Musgrave, Narcissus (1987) *+

flute and digital delay

Merkin Concert Hall, 1988

US Premiere

 

Judith Shatin, Kairos +

flute, computer, and live electronics

 

Harvey Sollberger, Riding the Wind I +

solo flute with clarinet, violin, cello, piano

 

Louise Talma, Conversations +

flute and piano

 

Joan Tower, Hexachords +

solo flute

 

Yehudi Wyner, Sweet Consort +

flute and piano

 

Daniel Zlatkin, Guardian (2017)

bass flute and piano

 

+ Recorded by Patricia Spencer

* Written for Patricia Spencer, Robert Willoughby, Wendy Rolfe, and Harvey Sollberger, with a Consortium Commissioning grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Premieres
MAJOR PREMIERES PERFORMED BY PATRICIA SPENCER

Elliott Carter, Flute Concerto   

Alice Tully Hall, NYC, September 28, 2011

with the Mannes Orchestra conducted by David Hayes.

New York premiere

 

Shulamit Ran, Voices  

concerto for flute, alto flute, piccolo and orchestra 

National Flute Association Convention August 2000, Columbus, OH, conducted by Ransom Wilson

World premiere

 

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kathinka’s Chant as Lucifer’s Requiem  

Miller Theatre, NYC, May 20, 1991

US premiere

Thea Musgrave, Narcissus

for flute and digital delay + 

Merkin Concert Hall, NYC, March 1988

US premiere

 

Eric Chasalow, Flute Concerto (Three Love Poems)

for flute with ensemble

Merkin Concert Hall, NYC, November 2006

New York premiere

 

Elliott Carter, Enchanted Preludes + 

for flute and cello

Merkin Concert Hall, May 16, 1988

with André Emelianoff, cello 

World premiere

Harvey Sollberger, Riding the Wind I + 

for amplified flute with chamber ensemble
Alice Tully Hall, April 25, 1974

with the Da Capo Chamber Players

World premiere

Ge Gan-ru, Fairy Lady Meng Jiang (flute concerto)

Shanghai Oriental Art Center, November 1, 2013, with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, for the Shanghai International Arts Festival, conducted by Zhang Liang. 

Chinese premiere

 

Joan Tower, Looking Back

for the Da Capo Chamber Players

September 9, 2018, Cary Hall/DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th St., NYC

September 16, 2018, Sosnoff Hall/Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

World premiere

George Walker, Tangents

(1999; arr. 2020 by David Sanford)

Premiere of transcription for Da Capo Chamber Players.

February 12, 2020, Merkin Concert Hall, NYC

World Premiere

+ Recorded by Patricia Spencer

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