Peter Gilbert

ELECTRONIC WORKS:

(17:36) allen den stillen
Geschwistern im
Winde der Wiesen All the quiet siblings in the wind of the meadows

(5:00)
(1:13)
(0:31)
(0:26)
(1:17) Blow, Bugle, Blow
- Pod A
- Pod B
- Pod C
- Pod D Morph of Epigrams (2000). "Send the wild echoes flying."

(18:49) The Bold Arch
of Undreamt Bridges Dissolving into light

(16:36) Songs of the
Hanging Gardens (#1) Live Improvisation (voice & electronics)

(5:10)
(1:06)
(0:45)
Hyperburn
- Pod A
- Pod B Morph of Burn (2002). Otherwise known as "Electrical Burn"

(1:44) Interlude Surrealist Landscape

(1:31) The Lamentation excerpt from music for Sweet Bird of Youth (Tennessee Williams)

(1:44) Macbeth Morping Rituals with some Shakespeare

(1:24) Northern Lights Morph of Ballade (2002). Shimmering, glowing ripples in the stratosphere.

(1:08) Ohm Overtones overarching deep vibrations

(1:10) Prelude Fantasy #2 Morph of Prelude #2 (2001). The virtuosity of the virtual viola

(1:10) Prelude Fantasy #3 Morph of Prelude #3 (2001). The sensuality of the virtual viola

(5:10) Rituals

(0:56) Stop the Presses A wild romp across some sort of deranged typewriter.

(2:06) Toward Onomatomusic for dance.

(6:39) We felt the spirits so near Just beyond our sight, just within our reach.

CONCERT WORKS:

(1:58) Ballade Harvard Group for New Music, Steven Drury, conducting.

(7:50) Be Your Tears Wet Beverly Shin, violin

#1 (0:26)
#2 (1:06)
#3 (0:26)
#4 (0:53)
#5 (0:24)
#6 (1:09)
#7 (0:47)
#8 (0:26)
#9-10 (1:10)
Epigrams for Solo Trumpet Terry Everson

(5:07) Intrada So Percussion Group

A) (8:20)
B) (8:20) Introduction and Passacaglia A) Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, Harry Marenstein conducting.
B) Illinois Wesleyan University Civic Orchestra, Steven Eggleston conducting.

#1 (4:16) Meditations Mostly Modern Chamber Music Society, Orianna Webb conducting.

#1 (7:25) revealing distant cities White Rabbit, Eric Hewitt conducting.

(5:11) Untitled for piano Peter Gilbert, piano.

#1 (2:23)
#2 (1:29)
#3 (1:46)
Three Preludes Dustin Budish, viola (I,II). Mary Ruth Ray, viola (III)

PERFORMANCES:

(11:28) Stockhausen: Auf dem Sieben Tagen
Unbegrenzt - Take 1 The Shana's Mango Experience
Lou Bunk & Peter Gilbert, electronics

(12:00) Stockhausen: Auf dem Sieben Tagen
Unbegrenzt - Take 2 The Shana's Mango Experience
Lou Bunk & Peter Gilbert, electronics

(0:28) J.S.Bach: Chorale #1 "Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesus Christ"
PG, piano

(1:20) J.S.Bach: Chorale #2 "Ach Gott, erhor mein Seufzen!"
PG, piano

(0:31) J.S.Bach: Chorale #3 "Ach Gott und Herr"
PG, piano

(1:20) J.S.Bach: Chorale #366 "Wer Gott vertraut, hat wohlgebaut"
PG, piano

(0:59) Claude Sermisy:
"Tant que vivray" excerpt Peter Gilbert Singers

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Sustenance [New Focus Recordings]

Vineet Shende: Sonetos de amor
Peter Gilbert: Passage I
Orianna Webb: Sustenance Variations
Peter Gilbert: Passage II
Adam B Silverman: Three Fell Swoops
Peter Gilbert: Passage III
John Link: For Irving Lippel
Peter Gilbert: Passage IV
Joe Pereira: Bento Box
Peter Gilbert: Passage V
Seung-Ah Oh: So-Ri 1
Peter Gilbert: Passage VI

Daniel Lippel, producer. Ryan Streber, engineer
Peter Gilbert & Adam B. Silverman & Orianna Webb, session producers

ELECTRONIC WORKS:

We felt the spirits so near. 2008. (Instruments, Live Electronics)

Hear as the night hollows. 2008. (Clarinet, Electronics)

Elegie. 2008. (Flute, Live Electronics)

Elegie. 2008. (Recorder, Live Electronics)

allen den stillen Geschwistern im Winde der Wiesen. 2007. (Saxophone, Live Electronics)

the bold arch of undreamt bridges. 2006. (Fl, Cl, Sax, Bsn, Tpt, Vln, Vla, Vc, Perc, Live Electronics)

the palm of your hand touches my body. 2006. (Recorder, Live Electronics)

as it now becomes us. 2006. (String Quartet, Live Electronics)

Interior Steps. 2004. (Stereo Play)

The Bourges Pods. 2004. (Quad or Stereo Play)
Stop the Presses, Northern Lights, Ohm

Prelude Fantasies. 2004. (Quad or Stereo Play)

Hyperburn. 2004. (Quad or Stereo Play)

Blow, Bugle, Blow. 2003. (Stereo Play)

Toward. 2002. (Live Electronics)
Pop, Imaginary Landscapes, Clip-Clop, Toward
Ricochet. 2002. (Guitar and Stereo Play)

Rituals. 2002. (Stereo Play)

Interlude. 2002. (Stereo Play)

LARGE ENSEMBLE WORKS:

Revealing Distant Cities. 2008. (Chamber Orchestra)

Fanfare in Memoriam. 2001. (Brass Choir: 5 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 2 Trombones, Bass Trombone, Euphonium, Tuba)

Pulses. 2001. (Full Orchestra : 2,2,2,2 * 4,3,3,1 * 3 + Timp. * Strings)

Terpsichoros. 1999. (Full Orchestra : 3,3,3,2 * 4,3,3,1 * Timp. * Harp * Strings)

Sculpture I: "The Prisoners". 1999 (Chamber Orchestra : 2,2,2,2 * 2,1,1,0 * 1 + Timp. * Strings)

"Dreams of You". 1999. (A: Soprano, String Quartet. B: Soprano, String Orchestra)
On an original text.

Introduction and Passacaglia. 1998. (Full Orchestra : 3,3,3,2 * 4,3,3,1 * 2 + Timp. * Harp * Strings)

Fanfare. 1997, Revised 1998 (Brass Choir: 5 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 2 Trombones, Bass Trombone, Euphonium, Tuba)

CHAMBER WORKS:

Nenia. 2005. (Mezzo-Soprano, Guitar)

Sailing Twilight for Piano. 2005. (Piano)

"Awake & Shine: Three Hymns of New England". 2005. (Guitar, String Quartet)

"Ballade". 2003. (Flute, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, Percussion)

"Be Your Tears Wet?". 2003. (Solo Violin)

Burn. 2002. (A: Clarinet, Electric Guitar, Cello, Piano, Percussion. B: Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, Percussion)

Xavier's New Friends. 2001. (Xylophone Solo, Percussion Quartet and Narrator) for children's concerts.

Exultation. 2001. (Organ)

Meditations. 2001. (Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Cello, Piano)

Three Preludes. 2001. (Viola)

Intrada. 2001. (Percussion Quartet)

Yellow Roses. 2000. (English Horn and Violin)

Epigrams for Solo Trumpet. 2000.

String Quartet No.1. 2000.

Tracings>. 2000. (Horn and Piano)

Scherzabolique. 2000. (Solo Piano)

Canons for Brass Quintet. 1999.

"Dreams of You". 1999. (A: Soprano, String Quartet. B: Soprano, String Orchestra) - on an original text.

Night Songs. 1994, 1997. Revised 1998 (Bass Voice, Horn).-- on texts of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow."The Day is Done", "The Cross of Snow", "The White Czar", "Nature"

Biography

Peter Gilbert's music has been heard in concerts and festivals across the United States and in Europe in venues ranging from the Kennedy Center to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and played by groups ranging from the Arditti String Quartet to the Bang on a Can All-Stars. His work Ricochet for guitar and electronics was recorded by Daniel Lippel and is now available on the CD "Resonance" from New Focus Recordings. New Focus has also released the CD "Sustenance" which has six independent pieces (by different composers) that are connected to one another using music by Gilbert as bridges (Passage I-VI). The Third Practice Festival, which commissioned Gilbert's Blow, Bugle, Blow in 2003, released a CD on Centaur Records including Gilbert's piece Rituals.

Gilbert's most recent work is intensely interactive. He has been developing works collaboratively with unique, sensitive musicians, merging and interpenetrating acoustic instruments and live-electronics . He has worked with remarkable performers such as Mario Caroli (flute), Jeremias Schwarzer (recorder), Michael Norsworthy (clarinet), Philipp Stäudlin (saxophone), White Rabbit (conductor: Eric Hewitt), and in Fall 2009, Daniel Lippel (guitar). Gilbert also performs as an improviser using live electronics and has taught seminars, workshops and classes on the subject. He can also be found performing with Lou Bunk as The Shana's Mango Experience.

He has been composer-in-residence for the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival and held artist residencies in Ischia (Italy), Bourges (France) and Treehaven (Wisconsin). Gilbert was the recipient of a 2008 Barlow Commission, Hear as the Night Hollows which was premiered at Northeastern University. As a winner of the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art / Bourges, Gilbert held a residency at the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges in 2004. Other recent accolades awarded to Gilbert's music include prizes from the Russolo Foundation, the Look & Listen Festival, and the Washington International Composers Competition.

In 2008-09 he will be teaching music composition at Wellesley College and at Harvard University. He also teaches privately and acts as co-director of the Young Composers Program at CIM (Cleveland Institute of Music), where he teaches each summer. Gilbert has degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Illinois Wesleyan University, and he is in the last stages of doctoral studies at Harvard University. He has previously taught for Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. His teachers have included Julian Anderson, Margaret Brouwer, Mario Davidovsky, Lee Hyla, Bernard Rands, Hans Tutschku, David Vayo and most recently Helmut Lachenmann.