Chuck Holdeman, composer

Chuck Holdeman Compositions (ASCAP)

1993-2007 eight pieces for woodwind quartet with school audience participation, performed by the Delaware    Symphony Woodwind Quartet, 2.5’ each

2001 “Olympic Tunes” for strings, commissioned and premiered by the Centrum Summer Chamber Music; includes an arrangement of “A Love Circle Song”, by Makah Tribe composer John Hottowe, 8’

2001 “Together and Apart”, commissioned by Marshall Taylor for baritone saxophone and harpsichord premiered at Temple, then Hampden-Sydney College, plus several times by the composer, Phila, and Wilmington, published Trevcomusic, version for bassoon and piano, 10’

2001 “Toy Ploy” for Trimpin’s installation of 9 midi-controlled toy pianos, Orange Co. Museum and Seattle, 5’

2002 “Three Sam Hamill Songs” for voice, bassoon, and harp, commissioned by Centrum; premiered in WA, other performances in IL and Wilmington, 18’

2002  “Bagatelle” for vocalise or soprano instrument, bassoon, and piano, premiere Bethlehem, PA, subsequently Phila. and Wilmington, including on the Delaware Symphony Chamber Series, published Trevcomusic, 6'

2002  “Divertissement” for violin, ‘cello, bassoon, and balaphon, commissioned and premiered by     the Adirondack Ensemble;     subsequently in Wilmington with marimba, 6.5’ It became the middle movement of Quatuor Excentrique (see audio samples page)

2002  “Amitié” for two bassoons, premiered for International Double Reed Society, and subsequently by the Mercury  Ensemble with string accompaniment, Denver, 7’

2003  music for “Negative Memory”, a film by Florence Holdeman, 6’

2003  “Sounds Up and Down,” a song for Headstart teachers and students, Delaware, 1’

2003  “A Ticket is the Key” commissioned song for Sandwich, Illinois Opera House anniversary, 8’

2004  “Transformations” for chamber orchestra, based on Hottowe songs, premiered Denver, Mercury Ensemble, 14’

2004  “The Curse,” commission by Delaware Symphony: music for narrated story; six performances; story by a 12-year-old writing contest winner, 11’

2004  “Agostino and the Puccini Clarinet” opera first scene for St. Anthony’s Festival, 20’

2004  “Sonate en Trio” for fl., vc., and hpschd,  premiered by Melomanie, performed again 2008; recording scheduled for release, fall 2010, 15’

2005  “Verdi a piacere” for 4 bassoons, based on Verdi’s Requiem, for the IDRS, Austin, TX;  recorded 2007 by the North American French Bassoon Quartet, published Trevcomusic, 5’

2005   music for performance poem “A Night on the Town” by Bill Tremblay, Denver, Colorado, 8’

2005-6 “Concerto tre d’uno” oboe, harp, and strings, commissioned by the  Philadelphia Classical Symphony, premiered 3-5-06 by PCS and Richard Woodhams, principal oboe, Philadelphia Orchestra, 20’

2007  eleven songs commissioned for a show as yet not produced “Corporate Zebras” by Kevin Loftus, 26’

2007  premiere of “Agostino and the Puccini Clarinet” one-act light opera with libretto by Vincent Marinelli, produced again in 2008, both productions at the Music School of Delaware, one hour

2007-8  music for the Maya Derin silent film “At Land,” commissioned and performed by Relache, 15’

2007-8  “Trois Homages: Ravel, Pärt, Bach” for bassoon, piano, and strings, premiere Strasbourg, France, 4-20-12, 14’

2006-8  “Adage Fevrier” for bassoon and piano, accepted for premiere by American Composers Forum Philadelphia, 10-31-08, performed by Pascal Gallois and Charles Abramovic.

This work has been augmented by the addition of two outer movements and was premiered by the composer in 2010 as "avant, adage, apres." 12'

2008   “Melomanique” for baroque flute and harpsichord, premiere March 2009, Wilmington, by the ensemble Melomanie, also recorded by the Winterthur Museum, 12’

2008  “At the Bend” 8 songs for baritone and piano to poems suggested by the poet, W. S.Merwin; premier April '09, Roundtop Poetry Festival, Texas, 25’

2008  “Prelude d’Intrigue” for solo harp, composed for harpist Maryanne Meyer, premiere June 2009, Philadelphia, 6.5’

2009 "Quintetto" for bassoon and string quartet, premiered by bassoonist Ludovic Tissus and the Boult Quartet, July '09, for the IDRS, Birmingham, England, 20 minutes

2009 "Petit Concert" (see premieres page)for wind octet, commissioned by the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, 9 minutes

2010 "Six Preludes pour un Nouveau Kingston" dedicated to and premiered by Tracy Richardson, harpsichord, 10 minutes

2011, "Max Takes a Picture," commissioned by Relache to accompany the silent film by Max Linder (for Philadelphia's PIFA Festival.) 13 minutes

2011"Rabbit Nature," music for an animated film by Pahl Hluchan, for the Wilmington in Transition local films screening, May 1, 3 minutes

2011, "Music for Three Poems by Reuben Jackson" for the Vermont Center for Music and Art, 5 minutes

2011-12 "Trio piano et due fiati," for alto sax, bassoon, and piano, as yet unperformed, 20' in four movements

2012 "Sonata Scintillante" commissioned by the flute-harp duo SPARX, premiere 2-21-12, University of Delaware, 18 minutes

2012 "Neighborhood Music" with dancer Jenna Frome and members of Relache, viola, bassoon, and marimba, November 8 at Southwark School and November 14 at Fell School, facilitated by a grant from American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter, with United Communities of Southwest Philadelphia, 11'

In progress, with librettist Bill Bly, "Young Meister Bach" a one-act opera about mishaps in the early career of J. S. Bach, including the altercation with the bassoonist Geyersbach.

Also in progress a suite for solo piano based on Baroque dance suites, some movements arranged for chamber groups.