DAVID S. CARTER

David S. Carter on SoundCloud (selected recordings)

2023

Their Own Lane (2023), video and two-channel fixed media (premiered October 6, 2023, at the Inglewood Public Library in Inglewood, California)

Retracked (2023), for flute and piano

Subalpine (2023), for trombone and marimba (premiered by Spencer Schaffer and David S. Carter April 16, 2023, at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, California)

2022

Con lena affannata (2022), for flute and piano

Running High (2022), for solo cello

2021

Ten on Ten (2021), for two guitarists (premiered live online by David S. Carter and Lee Weisert August 14, 2021)

A Drift, A Thought, A Prayer (2021), for two-channel fixed media (premiered live online August 14, 2021)

2019

Lunar Refraction (2019), for violin and piano (premiered by Juan Carlos Ortega and David S. Carter January 4, 2020, in Columbus, Ohio)

A Wilder Swing (2019), for clarinet and and tenor saxophone (commission by North Park University in honor of Ralph Wilder; premiered by Madeline Widman and Victor Guerrero October 5, 2019, at North Park University in Chicago, Illinois)

Once in My Life (2019), arrangement for seven musicians of the Decemberists’ song (commissioned by Halo; premiered by Jenny Conlee, Kelly Hogan, Nora O’Connor, and members of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras October 12, 2019, at the Halo Awards at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago)

Per l’altrui scale (2019), for guitar (premiered by Eric Escalante live online August 14, 2021)

2018

Sidetracked (2018), for violin and piano (premiered by Juan Carlos Ortega and David S. Carter January 4, 2020, in Columbus, Ohio) | score excerpt

Connect Force (2018), for four performers

The Bones of a Clown (2018), for four performers | score excerpt

Settling Up (2018), for flute and piano (premiered by Daria Binkowski and David S. Carter February 26, 2022 in Azusa, California) | score excerpt

Le papillon agité (2018), for piano (premiered by David S. Carter January 4, 2020, in Columbus, Ohio) | score excerpt

Albacore (2018), for two-channel fixed media | audio

Saturnalia (2018), for two-channel fixed media | audio

Lunar Reflections (2018), for piano (premiered by Alex Carter on September 22, 2018, at the Music Institute of Chicago in Evanston, Illinois) | audio | video | score excerpt

2017

The Temptation of Salome (2017), for two-channel fixed media | audio

2015

Over Juneau (2015), for clarinet, cello, and two-channel fixed media (premiered by Christie Miller and Alyson Berger at Milwaukee’s City Hall as part of Doors Open Milwaukee 2015, September 19, 2015) | audio

A veces, hecho de nada... (2015), for mixed choir (premiered by the Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble on April 20, 2018, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois) | audio

2014

Settling In (2014), for violin and piano (premiered by Juan Carlos Ortega and David Carter at the 2015 Southern Regional Conference of the College Music Society at the Mississippi University for Women February 20, 2015) | audio | score excerpt

Kaddisch (2014), arrangement for solo cello and ensemble of eight cellos of the Maurice Ravel song (premiered April 16, 2017, in Evanston, Illinois, by Wickliffe Simmons and the Northwestern University Cello Ensemble under Hans Jensen; published by Ovation Press) | video

After Morning (2014), for trumpet in C and organ

Descant (2014), for organ (premiered by Mary Ruth Laverty Solem on November 19, 2017, in Dunwoody, Georgia) | audio | score excerpt

2013

Never Past (2013), for chamber orchestra | score

The Slightest Motion (2013), for alto flute, bass clarinet, tenor/alto saxophone, percussion, piano, violin, viola, and cello (premiered in Evanston, Illinois, April 25, 2013, by Ensemble Dal Niente) | audio | score

2011-12

Eight Degrees of Separation (2012), for B-flat clarinet, tuba, and prepared piano (premiered September 7, 2012, at the 2012 Iron Composer competition at Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, Ohio; the performance was broadcast live on Cleveland’s WCLV and wclv.com)

Surface Tension (2011-12), for violin, cello, bass clarinet/clarinet, and piano (dissertation composition; first movement recorded by the International Contemporary Ensemble, February 23, 2011; first movement performed by Ensemble Signal June 6, 2011; second movement premiered as Angle of Refraction by the Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble, March 7, 2012; complete work premiered May 8, 2012, in Regenstein Recital Hall, Northwestern University)  | audio: mvt. 1 | mvt. 2 | score

2010

The Labor of Thought (2010), for mixed sextet (recorded by the Callithumpian Consort, March 30, 2010) | audio | score

2009

Canticle (2009), for mixed choir | score

The Brink of Continuity (2009), for chamber ensemble (premiered June 6, 2009, by the Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University)

Settling a Custom (2009), for three cellos (premiered November 8, 2009, at Northwestern University)

Almost Past (2009), for bass clarinet and chamber orchestra (premiered by the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra with David Halperin as soloist, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University, March 6, 2009) | audio excerpt (m.172-end) | score

2008

Antiphonal (2008), for solo marimba (premiered December 5, 2008, at the Northwestern University Fall Student Composer Concert)  | audio

Plateau (2008), electroacoustic | audio      

Shanty (2008), electroacoustic

A Static Lament  (2008), electroacoustic | audio

A Map of a Line (2008), for string quartet (premiered in Atlanta, Georgia, June 28, 2008)

Once Removed (2008), for trombone (premiered at Northwestern University by Mike Svoboda, May 27, 2008; revised version (2019) premiered by Spencer Schaffer, June 16, 2020)

2007

In Scattered Rings (2007/2012), for carillon (premiered May 24, 2008, by Roy Kroezen on the Van Bergen Carillon in the St. Cunera Tower, Rhenen, the Netherlands; 2012 version for two vibraphones and glockenspiel premiered May 8, 2012, in Regenstein Recital Hall, Northwestern University) | audio: version for carillon | version for two vibraphones and glockenspiel | link to published score (for carillon)

Setting Out (2007), for violin and piano (premiered December 2, 2007, at the Northwestern University Fall Student Composer Concert, Evanston, Illinois) | audio

Emergence (2007), for piano (performed at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, July 8, 2007, and at the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at New England Conservatory, June 20, 2008) | audio

Suspension (2006-2007), for string quartet (recorded by JACK quartet, May 1, 2007; premiered June 13, 2007, at Music07 at the University of Cincinnati (Ohio))

2006

Trellis (2005; revised 2006), for soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano (premiered at Trinity United Methodist Church Concert Series, Wilmette, Illinois, November 1, 2006)

2005

Signs of Life (2005), for flute, marimba, guitar, and viola (conducted the premiere at the UCLA Graduate Composers Concert, Los Angeles, California, March 7, 2006)