PATRICIA SPENCER FLUTE
Written for PAT
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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.
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