Online Library

Steven R. Gerber

AboutCompositions

Contact Info

Steven R. Gerber was born in Washington, D.C. in 1948 and now lives in New York City. He has degrees from Haverford College and from Princeton University, which awarded him a 4-year fellowship for graduate studies. Two CDs of his orchestral works were released in 2000 on the Chandos and KOCH International Classics labels, to rave reviews throughout the United States and Great Britain. He has written for some of the major performers of our time, including a Viola Concerto for Yuri Bashmet, a Cello Concerto for Carter Brey, a Violin Concerto for Kurt Nikkanen, and String Quartet #4 for the Fine Arts Quartet. Recent works include a fanfare commissioned by Voice of America for its 60th anniversary, a Clarinet Concerto written for Jon Manasse, and "Spirituals" for clarinet and string quartet, commissioned by Concertante Chamber Players and premiered by them in 2001 at the Library of Congress and in New York City and Harrisburg. A new version of Spirituals has been arranged for the St. Petersburg Quartet. In the 2002-2003 season Gerber’s Symphony #1 received its U.S. premiere by the Louisville Orchestra, and Dirge and Awakening will receive its U.S. premiere by the Skokie Valley (Illinois) Symphony. In 2003 KOCH International will release a new CD of his solo and chamber works, featuring violinist Kurt Nikkanen.

Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
Fanfare for the Voice of A-M-E-R-I-C-A	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2002	03:00:00
Three Folksong Transformations	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2001	03:00:00
Spirituals	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2000	06:00:00
Gershwiniana	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1999	06:00:00
Viola concerto	Orchestra	1996	00:19:30
Piano concerto	Orchestra	1992	00:22:30
Elegy on the name Dmitri Shostakovich	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1991	00:04:00
Piano quintet	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1991	00:15:00
Six songs of William Shakespeare	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1988	00:09:00
Four elegiac songs	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1986	00:09:00
Duo in three movements for violin and piano	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1984	00:17:00
Words for music perhaps	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1984	00:16:00
Desert places : 5 poems of Robert Frost	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1982	00:11:30
Songs from The wild swans at Coole	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1982	00:11:00
String quartet #2	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1981	00:12:00
Harmonium : six poems of Wallace Stevens	Orchestra	1981	00:20:00
Dreamwork	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1978	00:15:00
High wood	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1978	00:04:00
Voices	Keyboard	1976	00:09:30
Voices	Keyboard	1976	00:10:30
Black hours : 5 sonnets	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1975	00:00:00
Two lyrics on Gerard Manley Hopkins	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1975	00:07:30
Three poems of Ezra Pound	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1974	00:10:00
String quartet #1	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1973	00:13:00
String quartet	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1973	00:13:00
Ceremont after a fire raid	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1973	00:07:00
Illuminations	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1972	00:07:00
Dylan Thomas settings	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1972	00:09:00
Variations for piano	Keyboard	1970	00:08:30
Duo for violin and cello	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1969	00:10:00
Woodwind quartet for flute, oboe ...	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1967	00:08:00

New Music USA Online Library

Explore

Steven R. Gerber

New Music USA Online Library

Explore

Login

Steven R. Gerber