RICHARD CARRICK

COMPOSITIONS with date of premiere

Discography and Published Articles below.  For list by ensemble size, click here.

MUSIC with VIDEO and/or ELECTRONICS

European Images

in three movements

Swedish Water

Franfurt Window

Holland Train

(solo cello with video with pre-recorded audio) [2007, 12 min]

Premiere January 12, 2007 by Michael Finckel, Scarsdale, New York

Cosmicomics

commissioned by the Eiler Foundation

(male singer/narrator, fl, ob, b.clar, vn, va, vc, tbne, perc, multiple video, electronics)
Italo Calvino-text. Four Movements and Three Interludes  [2005, 30 min]

Premiere January 12, 2005 by Sequitur Ensemble, Merkin Hall, New York

Solidarity

(clarinet, string quartet, percussion)

music for a film by Nancy Kiang [2005, 9 min]

The Gold Medal for Excellence at the Park City Film Music Festival 2007.

The Mayor's Award of the Heart of Gold International Film Festival 2006, AUSTRALIA

Containment - 8 Layered Piano Improvisations

(CD of pre-recorded piano tracks)

1. Slow Together 2. The Line, 3. Levity, 4. Lemon, 5. Stereo, 6. 2 and 4, 7. For, 8. Four  [2002, 14 min]

Pianos

(solo piano with prerecorded audio playback) [2002, 9 min]

Premiere March 2002 by Richard Carrick at the Banff Center, Canada

Phosphéne

(Violin duo, video, pre-recorded electronic sounds) [2001, 9 min]

Premiere April 2001 by János Négyesy and Päivikki Nykter in San Diego

The Fall

commissioned by Sonor

(tpt, tbn, pno, perc, ob, 2vns, va, vc, db, fl, b.clar, organ, video projection, three conductors) [2001, 15 min]

Premiere February 2001 by SONOR Ensemble, San Diego

"Ruby, My Dear"

(piano and three TV monitors with prerecorded and live video and audio) [1997, 8 min]

Premiere April 1997 by Richard Carrick, MATA festival, New York City

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

Find the Devil’s Lead - orchestral version

(Orchestra 3333 4221 2perc strings) [2008, 12 min]

Two Moments for Orchestra

(2222 2200 2perc, strings) [2005, 9 min.]

LARGE CHAMBER ENSEMBLES - 10 or more players (conducted)

Find the Devil’s Lead

commissioned by Wet Ink Ensemble (soprano, fl, clar, t sax, accordion, e guit, tpt, perc, vn, va, vc) [2008, 14 min]

Premiere May 3, 2008 by the Wet Ink Ensemble, New York City

The Fall

commissioned by Sonor

(tpt, tbn, pno, perc, ob, 2vns, va, vc, db, fl, b.clar, organ, video projection, three conductors) [2001, 15 min]

Premiere February 2001 by Sonor Ensemble, San Diego

The Veins of Marble

commissioned by the Nieuw Ensemble

(fl, ob, clar, pno, mandolin, guitar, hp, perc, vn., va, vc, db) [2000, 10 min]

Premiere January 2000 by the Nieuw Ensemble, Grand Theatre, Groningen, The Netherlands

Two Circles

(fl, clar, ob, bsn, tpt, hn, 2 vn, va, vc, perc) [1994, 17 min]

Premiere September 1994 by the UCSD Ensemble, Harvey Sollberger, conductor, San Diego

LARGE CHAMBER ENSEMBLES  8 to 10 players (conducted)

Cosmicomics

commissioned by the Eiler Foundation

(male singer/narrator, fl, ob, b.clar, vn, va, vc, tbne, perc, multiple video, electronics)
Italo Calvino-text. Four Movements and Three Interludes  [2005, 30 min]

Can be performed as singer and chamber ensemble work without video or electronics

Premiere January 12, 2005 by Sequitur Ensemble, Merkin Hall, New York City

Identities...Graduals 2332 3212

(fl, ob, clar, bsn, tpt, hn, tbn,db) [1996, rev. 1999, 7min]

Premiere July 1999 by the Wellesley Composer’s Conference, Efrain Guigui conductor, Massachusetts

CHAMBER MUSIC 4 to 6 players (unconducted)

Adagios for String Quintet

(2 violins, viola, ‘cello, double bass) [2009/10, 14 min]

Premiere May 16, 2010 by the Toomai Quintet in Jersey City, New Jersey

Adagios for String Quartet

commission by the Eiler Foundation

[2009, 14 min]

Premiere April 17, 2010 by the JACK Quartet, Carlsbad, California

la scène miniature quartet

violin (or flute), tenor saxophone (or bass clarinet), piano, musical saw (or cello) [2009, 8 min]

Premiered May 23, 2009 by Either/Or in New York City

Towards Qualia Sextet

(flute, tenor saxophone (or bass clarinet), violin, cello, piano, vibraphone) [2008, 14 min]

Premiere April 4, 2008 by Either/Or at the MATA Festival, Brooklyn, New York

Hamsah “Quartet”

commissioned for the Hoff-Barthelson Contemporary Music Festival

String Quartet and offstage Trumpet [2008, 8 min]

Premiere May 4, 2008 in Scarsdale, New York

Towards Qualia

(violin, cello, piano, vibraphone) [2007, 16 min]

Premiere April 7, 207 by Either/Or in New York City

Solidarity

(clarinet, string quartet, percussion) [2005, 10 min]

The Gold Medal for Excellence at the Park City Film Music Festival 2007,

and The Mayor's Award of the Heart of Gold International Film Festival 2006, AUSTRALIA

Snow, Silence, Sleep

(piano, string quartet) [2002, 8 min]

Premiere March 2002 by Richard Carrick and The Flinders at the Banff Center, Canada

Paralléle-Parallaxe

(oboe and harp soloists, violin, viola, cello) two movements [1999, 14 min]

Premiere February 2000 by Ernest Rombout and Ernestine Stoop in Tillberg, The Netherlands

Linear Intersections

(video and up to six improvisers) [1996, 11 min]

No score, this work is an edited video work for performers to improvise with.

Premiere May 1996 at the Korzo Theatre in Den Haag, The Netherlands

CHAMBER MUSIC  3 players

“a cause du soleil” Flow Cycle String Trio 

(string trio) [2009/10, 12 min]

Premiere March 26, 2009 by Jennifer Choi, Dov Scheindlin, Alex Waterman at Merkin Hall, New York City

Balagan

(saxophone, electric guitar, accordion) [2007, 15 min]

Premiere July 13, 2007 by Riot (Michael Ibrahim, Oren Fader, Eric Wubbles) in New York City

L'idée sans l'deal

(piano, violin, 'cello) four movements  [2005, rev 2007, 20 min]

Premiere of final version on January 2007 by Andrea Schultz, Michael Finckel, Richard Carrick in New York

Notebook, Bedside

(soprano, percussion, piano) [2004, 13 min]

Premiere March 2004 by Either/Or in New York City

FmlrSmblNcs

written for Nouvel Ensemble Moderne

(oboe, piano, percussion) [1997, 8 min]

Premiere September 1997 by Nouvel Ensemble Moderne at Voix Nouvelles Summer Festival in Royaumont, France

DUO MUSIC

la scène miniature

commissioned by Carin Levine and Rohan de Saram

(piccolo and cello) [2009, 8 min]

Premiere May 10, 2009 by Carin Levine and Rohan de Saraam at the Edenkoben Ars Nova Festival in Baden-Baden, Germany

Duo Flow

(violin and cello) [2007, 12 min]

Premiere November 7, 2008 by Andrea Schultz and Alex Waterman in New York City

Nezilat ha Balagan

commissioned by Mary Oliver and Rozmarie Heggen

(violin, doublebass, with improvisation) [2007, 12 min]

Premiere Fall 2007 by Mary Oliver and Rozmarie Heggen in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Phosphéne

(Violin duo, video, pre-recorded electronic sounds) [2001, 9 min]

Premiere April 2001 by János Négyesy and Päivikki Nykter in San Diego

Sculpture Idle Ceremony

(violin, percussion) [1997, 8 min]

Premiere April 1997 by Vanessa Tomlinson and Päivikki Nykter in San Diego

Masculin-Feminin

(violin duo) [1996, 9 min], also available on CD

Premiere February 1996 by János Négyesy and Päivikki Nykter in San Diego

A Slow Duet

(soprano, flute) [1995, 3 min]

Premiere May 1995 by Virginia Sublett and Elizabeth McNutt in San Diego

Manic, Frustration, Music Box, Pinocchio and Fiona, Cabaret

[2007, 10 min] Set of Piano Duets for young players 9 and up

Premiered Summer 2006 by Students at Hoff Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, New York

SOLO MUSIC

Les Scènes Acoustiques

commissioned by  Magnus Andersson

(solo classical guitar) [2009, 12 min]

Premiere December 3, 2009 by Magnus Andersson in Stockholm, Sweden

Moroccan Flow (unfolding from unity)

(solo cello) [2008, 10 min]

Premiere February 20, 2008 by Alex Waterman at the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City

Shadow flow

(solo viola) [2007, 10 min]

Premiere September 19, 2007 by Petra Ackermann at the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City

European Images

in three movements

Swedish Water

Franfurt Window

Holland Train

(solo cello with video with pre-recorded audio) [2007, 12 min]

∞ + 1

(solo piano) [2006-7, 9 min]

Premiere April 6, 2007 by Richard Carrick at the Either/Or Spring Festival in New York City

Shadow fragments

(solo viola) [2006. 6 min]

Premiere November 2006 by Chi-Chi Lin Bestmann in Scarsdale, New York

"in flow"

(solo violin) [2006. 8 min]

Premiere April 7, 2006 by Andrea Schultz in New York City

entre nous

(violin solo, with vocal sounds, one player) [2004, 2min]

Premiere 2005 by Patricia Kopatchinskaja throughout Switzerland

Natural Behaviour

(percussion) [1998, rev. 2004, 11 min]

Premiere of final version on March 2004 by David Shively in New York City

Légèreté

(piano) [2002, 4 min]

Premiere March 2002 by Luciane Cardassi in Parte Allegre and Sao Paolo, Brazil

Pianos

(solo piano with two prerecorded piano tracks on CD) [2002, 9 min]

Premiere March 2002 by Richard Carrick at the Banff Center, Canada

Containment - 8 Layered Piano Improvisations

(CD of pre-recorded piano tracks)

1. Slow Together 2. The Line, 3. Levity, 4. Lemon, 5. Stereo, 6. 2 and 4, 7. For, 8. Four  [2002, 14 min]

"Ruby, My Dear"

(piano and three TV monitors with prerecorded and live video and audio) [1997, 8 min]

There is no score to this work.  The pianist performs Monk’s tune alongside two other performances that have been prerecorded.

Premiere April 1997 by Richard Carrick at the MATA Festival, New York City

Slowness and Tight

(piano) [1996, 3 min]

Premiere 1996 by Guy Livingston in Johannesburg, South Africa

DISCOGRAPHY

Solidarity, music for film by Nancy Kiang
DVD release in Australia, 2007

Masculin-Feminin
Dedications to János Négyesy and Päivikki Nykter - Works for Two Violins
Aucourant Records, AUREC0010-1, released 2000

Slowness
Don’t Panic! 60 Seconds for Solo Piano - Guy Livingston
Wergo Records, WER 66492, released 2001

Containment - Layered Piano Improvisations

Extensive improvisations recorded over a 10 week residency at Banff Centre for the Arts.  Each track of the CD is a multi-track layering of different, and sometimes unrelated, improvisations.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Spotlight Session, “In the Zone with Richard Carrick.”  Published by NewMusicBox.org April 22, 2010

Featured Composer in the Swedish Journal Nutida Musik Journal, May 2008.  “Young Americans” written by Mika Pelo

Featured composer in the magazine of Chamber Music America, December 2005,
"The Multi-Media Challenge" by Randy Nordschow, vol. 22, no. 6, p.28.

Working with Video: A Primer, by Richard Carrick. Published by NewMusicBox.org July 19, 2005