PETER WINKLER (b. 1943)

 

CONCERT WORKS  (And principal performances)

 

The Darkling Spring: Fantasia a5 for Low Consort (low viols: 1 tenor, 2 bass, 1 G violone, 1 Viennese Bass) (2006) (8 min.)  Low Groove, Joseph Carver, director; Staller Recital Hall, April 25. 2006

 

Walnut Hill (violin and piano)  Premiere: Dorothea Cook, violin; Peter Winkler, piano; Methow Music Festival, Twisp, WA  Aug. 4, 2005

 

Gathering Reel / Departing Reel Chamber orchestra (2-2-2-2 2-2-2 2 perc. Timp Str)  (2004-05)  Gathering Reel Premiere: Stony Brook Summer Music Festival, Staller Recital Hall, Aug. 8, 2004; Departing Reel premiere: Stony Brook University Orchestra, May 3, 2005

 

Remembering  (text by Wendell Berry)  Voice and piano or guitar. (2003) (7 min.)  Premiere: Cordelia Cenault, soprano, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stony Brook, November 2005

 

Betty's Creek  (waltz for violin and piano) (2003) 6 min.  Premiere: Dorothea Cook, violin; Peter Winkler, piano; Methow Music Festival, Twisp, WA  Aug. 4, 2005

 

Gili's Music (bassoon and cello) (2003) (8 min) Premiere: Gili Sharret, bassoon; Lawrence Zoerning, cello; Center For Jewish History, New York, NY Aug. 3 2004

 

A Midsummer Overture (Orchestra, 2-2-2-2-4-3-3-1, 3 perc., harp, strings) (2002, revised 2003) (9:30 min)  commissioned by Midsummer Musical Retreat.  Premiere: Midsummer Musical Retreat Orchestra, conducted by Roupen Shakarian, Cordiner Hall, Whitman College, Walla Walla WA Aug. 3, 2002.  Revised version premiered by Philharmonia Northwest, Roupen Shakarian conducting, Seattle, April 6, 2003.

 

Partita (Baroque Ensemble) (25 min.) (2001) commissioned by the Stony Brook Baroque Ensemble, Arthur Haas, director.  Premiere: Stony Brook, May 5, 2002

 

Blue Ridge Samba (violin, piano) (3 min.) (2001) Premiere: Whitman College, Walla Walla WA Aug. 2, 2002

 

Requiem Aeternam (in memory of the victims of September 11, 2001) Chorus or vocal ensemble, SATB (2001) (6 min.) Premiere: Stony Brook, N.Y., (vocal quartet) October 18, 2001; Choral premiere: Midsummer Mujsical Retreat Chorus, conducted by Robert Scandrett, Cordiner Hall, Whitman College, Walla Walla WA Aug. 3, 2002;  Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble, conducted by Loren Pontn., Seattle, WA Sept. 11 and Oct. 29, 2002.

 

Sonata per Cembalo (harpsichord solo) (2001)(7 min.) Premiere: Gabriel Shuford, harpsichord, Stony Brook, January 29, 2002

 

Returning to the Root (1999-2000) (11 min.) (horn and piano) Honorable Mention, International Horn Society 2003 Composition Contest.   Premiere: Paul Basler, horn; Margaret Kampmeir, piano; Stony Brook, N.Y. Apr. 22, 2004.   Jeff Forden, horn; Christine Dore, piano; Stony Brook Summer Music Festival, Aug. 1, 2004

 

Cowgirl Rag  (1998) (7 min.) (2 violins and piano)  Premiere (as Midsummer Rag)) Midsummer Musical Retreat, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash. Aug. 1, 1998

 

Serenade for String Orchestra (1998) (23 min.) commissioned by the Kammergild Chamber Orchestra, Lazar Gosman, musical director.  Premiere: Chesterfield, Mo., April 19, 1998. 

Performed by Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia  Feb. 28,2000;  Centennial Hall, Haverford, Pa. Feb. 29

 

Nine Waltzes (Piano Trio) (1997)(21 min.) commissioned by the Guild Trio.  

Premiere: The Guild Trio, Stony Brook, April 10, 1997.  New York premiere: Hunter College, June 8, 1997. 

Performed by Anne-Marie Hoffman, violin; Sally Singer, cello; Molly Morkoski, piano: Nov. 9 (Long Island Composers Alliance), Nov. 30, and Dec. 5 (SCI regional conference) 1998, Sept. 30, 2000 (Earl Kim Memorial Concert), SUNY Stony Brook

Performed by North Shore Pro Musica,  Setauket, N.Y.,  Oct. 17, 1999

 

Fanfare for Stony Brook  (Trumpet Solo) (1995)  Premiere: April 28, 1995  (Inauguration of Stony Brook University President Shirley Strum Kenney)

 

One Light  (Male Chorus, TTBB, Piano, Percussion) (1994) (text: adapted from the Old Testament by Winston Clark) commissioned by the  Connecticut Gay Mens Chorus.  Premiere: New Haven, Hartford, and Southport, Conn., December 1994

 

Saboreando el Gusto Cubano  (Violin, Piano, Percussion) (1994) (5:20 min.) First Hemispheric Conference, International Association for the Study of Popular Music,  Havana, Cuba, Oct. 6, 1994

 

Spiritual  (Viola, Piano) (1994) (4 min.)   Premiere: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Stony Brook, February 1994

 

Sing Out The Old, Sing In the New  (Male Chorus - TTBB, Tuba, Violin obbligato) (text: Winston Clark) (1992) commissioned by the Connecticut Gay Mens Chorus.  Premiere: New Haven, Hartford, and Southport, Conn.,December 1992

 

Waterborne (Violin and Tape) 16 min.(1991)

                  Premiere: Dorothea Cook, violin, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.,March 1991

                  New York Premiere: Dorothea Cook, violin, Eclectix, CAMI Hall, May 22,1996

 

Gospel Hymn  (Violin, Piano) (1990) (7 min.)

Premiere: Dorothea Cook, violin, Peter Winkler, piano, Midsummer Musical Retreat, Port Townsend, WA., August l990. 

 

Solitaire  (Clarinet solo) (4 min.)  commissioned by Philip Rehfeldt for Etudes for the 21st-Century Clarinetist: a Festschrift for Barney Childs 4 min. (1989) Premiere: Redlands, Calif. February 1991

Recording: Michael Lowenstern (bass clarinet) (New World Records, 1996)

 

Wedding Hymn (Fl., Vln, Vla, Vc.) (4 min.) (1989) Premiere: Seattle, Wash. August 1989

                 

No Condition is Permanent (Fl., Cl., Vln., Vc./Electric Bs., Pno., Perc.) (25 min.) (1980-89)  

                  commissioned by the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players

                  Premiere: Merkin Concert Hall, N.Y., March 1989

Performed by LUVME (Lehigh University Very Modern Ensemble), Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.,  November 11, 1992

 

Yaa Amponsah - Fantasy on a Ghanaian Popular Song (Vln., Pno) (10 min.) (1988)

                  Premiere: Port Townsend, WA, August l988

 

Recitativo e Terzetto (Ob., Cl., Bn.) (12 min.) (1980)

First Prize, New England Reed Trio Competition 2000.

Commissioned by the Redlands University Contemporary Music Ensemble.  Premiere: Redlands University, Fall 1980. 

                  New York Premiere: members of the New York Woodwind Quintet,

                  Merkin Hall, December 1988

 

Clarinet Bouquet: Four Concert Rags (Cl., Pno., Bs.) (25 min.) (1976-80)

                  New York Premiere: Jack Kreiselman, clarinet, Peter Winkler, piano, Erik Cohen, bass. Carnegie Recital Hall, Nov. 1980.   This work was used as score for the dance Mnenosyne, performed by the Joan Lombardi Dance Company in New York, March 1982

 

Symphony  (orchestra, winds and brasses by 2's) (40 min.) (1971-78)

                  Premiere: The Stony Brook Symphony, David Lawton, conductor;

                  celebrating the opening of the Fine Arts Center at SUNY Stony Brook, October 1979

                 

Short Suites (Eleven intermediate-grade piano pieces) (15 min.) (1976) Premiere: Stony Brook,               N.Y., 1976

 

Caprice (solo electric guitar) (4 min.) (1973)

                  Premiere: Stony Brook, N.Y., l975

 

Do It!  (2 pianos) (written with Daniel Deutsch) (20 min.) (1973, rev. 1977)  Daniel Deutsch and Peter Winkler, pianos, Stony Brook, May 1973;  William Bolcom and Peter Winkler, pianos, Stony Brook, Feb. 1977

 

Ornithophonic Recrudescence (solo Baroque oboe or Eb clarinet;)  (6 min.) (1973)

(based on Van Eyck's "The English Nightingale") Premiere: Nora Post, oboe, Stony Brook 1973

 

Ragtime Grackle (oboe solo, ad lib. piano and cantus firmus -viola or men's chorus - accompaniment) (1972)  (14 min.) Performances by Nora Post, oboe, in various concerts, including Columbia University, C. W. Post College, Univ. of California at San Diego, and SUNY Stony Brook (1972-73)

 

Christmas Canons  (Canonic variations on Christmas carols) (16 min.)

                  Book I: Piano solo (Stille Nacht, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)  Book II: Piano 4-hands (In Dulci Jubilo, Lo How a Rose, Jingle Bells, We Three Kings) ; Book III: Double Chorale Prelude, Stille Nacht/Von Himmel Hoch (fl., trb., vln., vc., bells, organ)(1969-72)

 

Humoresque  (piano solo) (32 min.) (1968-70) Finalist, League of Composers/ISCM International Piano Music Competition, 1976 New York premiere: Robert Black, piano, Carnegie Recital Hall, May 1977.  Performances by the composer include Fromm Foundation Series, Harvard University (April 1977), and concerts at SUNY Stony Brook (1972), Brandeis University (1971), and the Composers' Forum, N.Y. (1970)

 

Piano Rags (1970-71):

"Ragtime Nighthawk", "New Fat Fanny Stomp", "Plaster of Paris" (alternative title:"Purity Supreme"), "John's Valedictory", "Matrimony Rag (on themes from Bach's Wachet Auf)", "Wildwood Terrace"

                  Various performances, including broadcast on WBAI, New York (1971)

 

Praise of Silence  (Text: Matthew Cartmill)(soprano solo, chorus, Renaissance ensemble, electronic tape) 11 min.  Commissioned by the Nonesuch Consort, Joshua Rifkin, director (1969)

 

Spring Canons   (Text: Song of Solomon II: 10-13, in Latin Vulgate)(SATB). 10 min. (1967, revised 1998)

                  Stony Brook Chamber Singers, Marguerite Brooks, conducting. Performances at Stony Brook and on tour in Germany (Summer 1985) and Bermuda (Spring 1980)

 

String Quartet  (1965-67) 15 min.

Performances by the Composers' Quartet:  Fromm Foundation Concert, Harvard University, March 1972; Princeton University, May 1967.  Performance conducted by composer, Composers' Forum, N.Y., March 1970

 

Three Canons  (piano solo) (1961-66) (5 min.)

                  Premiere: Princeton, N.J., May l966

 

But A Rose (text: Iva Kroeger)(Countertenor, piano 4-hands)  5 min. (1965)

                  Performances by John Thomas, countertenor, Buffalo Museum of Art (October 1968), Berkeley and San Francisco, Calif. (Spring 1965)

 

Four Excerpts for Orchestra (1964) (4 min.)

                  Premiere: University of California Symphony, Michael Senturia, conducting, May 1964

 

Canzona (organ)(1963)  (7 min.) Premiere: Palo Alto, Calif.  Methodist Church, Aug. 1963

 

Etudes for 2 Horns (1963) (8 min.)

                  Premiere: Douglas Leedy and Nelson Green, horns, Berkeley, Calif., Spring 1964

 

Trio (fl., vc., pno.)(1962) (18 min.)

                  Premiere: Berkeley, Calif., Spring 1962                

 

Seven Short Pieces for Piano  (1961) (6 min.)

                  Premiere: Berkeley, Calif., March 1962

 

Sonata  (vc., pno.) (1959) (7 min.)

                  Premiere: Aspen, Colorado, August 1959

 

 

 

 

ARRANGEMENTS

 

Frederic Chopin: Waltzes and Mazurkas  commissioned by the Guild Trio.

I. Waltz, Op. 70 No. 3;  II.  Mazurka, Op. 50 No. 1; III. Waltz, KK IVb No. 10;

IV. Mazurka, Op. 59 No. 3; V. Waltz KK. IVa No. 15

Premiere: Stony Brook, April 10,. 1997.  New York premiere: Hunter College, June 8, 1997

 

Two Chanukah Songs: Maoz Tzur (Rock of Ages) (traditional) and The Hand That Lights the Candle (Stacy Worth) Orchestra and Chorus.  Commissioned by Warner Bros. records and the Nashville Symphony. Premiere: Nashville, Tenn., November 1992

 

Our Love is Here to Stay (Gershwin) arranged for organ In Stile Antico (a la Buxtehude)(1992)

 

Simon Tov  and  Erev Shel Shoshanim  String Trio. (1989); also Piano Quartet (1993)

 

 

CADENZAS

 

Cadenzas for Mozart's violin concerto, G major, K. 216 (1975)

Cadenzas for Mozart's piano concerto, Eb major, K. 488 (1962)