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Stephen Jaffe

Mary D. B. T. and James H. Semans Distinguished Professor of Music Composition
Music
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
079 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708

Exhibitions, Screenings, & Performances


String Quartet No. 2 ("Aeolian and Sylvan Figures")

Occidental Center for the Arts, Occidental, CA · March 31, 2012

String Quartet No. 2 ("Aeolian and Sylvan Figures")

Sunset Concerts, Los Gatos, CA · March 30, 2012

String Quartet No. 2 ("Aeolian and Sylvan Figures")

Duke University · March 24, 2012 Borromeo Quartet; also a masterclass involving two student quartets playing movements from the quartet.

Cameo

Merkin Hall NY · October 10, 2011 Da Capo Chamber Players

Offering

Rice University · November 18, 2009

Offering

August 6, 2009 - August 7, 2009 two performances, week of August 6-7 and recording, August 10.

Ballade: Quartet from Arch

Walden School, Dublin New Hampshire · July 24, 2009

SONATA (in Four Parts) for cello and piano

Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center · May 17, 2008 SONATA (in Four Parts). Kennedy Center Chamber Players.David Hardy, cello, Lambert Orkis, piano.

Ci­thara mea (Evocations): Spanish Music Notebook for Orchestra

January 1, 2008 Ci­thara mea (Evocations): Spanish Music Notebook para orquesta/for orchestra. Grant Llewellyn conducted the orchestra in three performances of this 18' work, October 2-3-4, 2008. The commission was by the North Carolina Symphony and the Nasher Museum of Art

String Quartet No. 2 ("Aeolian and Sylvan Figures")

Page Auditorium · November 18, 2007

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra

Peabody Inst. of Music · April 28, 2007 Concerto for Cello and Orchestra. David Hardy, cello,Teri Murai, cond.

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra

January 11, 2007 Concerto for Cello and Orchestra. David Hardy Cello, Toshiro Yonezu, cond.

Poetry of the Piedmont (Poesis Piementosa)

January 1, 2007 Grant Llwellen conducted the first performances in January, 2007.

A Nonesuch Serenade

Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, NY · November 21, 2006

Three Figures & A Ground for flute and piano

St Mary's College of Maryland · November 11, 2006 Lucille Goras, flute/Eliza Garth, piano

String Quartet No. 2 ("Aeolian and Sylvan Figures")

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and other venues · March 1, 2006 - April 1, 2006

Cut-Time Shout

Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, NY and other venues · January 1, 2006

Cut-Time Shout

Hirschorn Museum, Washington, DC · December 10, 2005 In conjunction with the Hirschorn's Hiroshi Sugimoto Exhibit and in Honor of Mozart's 250th birthday. Lisa Emenheiser and Audrey Andrist, pianos.

Con Sordino for violin and piano

Weill Recitial Hall, Carnegie Hall · November 22, 2005 Performed premiere of CON SORDINO for Violin and Piano; and CONCERTO for Violin and Orchestra (piano reduction) with Gregory Fulkerson, violin/ Stephen Jaffe, piano

Three Figures & A Ground for flute and piano

School of Music, University of North Carolina, Greensboro · November 10, 2005 Sue Anne Kahn, flute, Andrew Willis, piano

Homage to the Breath: Instrumental and Vocal Meditations for Mezzo soprano and Ten Instruments,

Hirschorn Museum, Washington, DC · November 4, 2005 Milagro Vargas, mezzo-soprano. http://residentassociates.org/perf-arts/consort.asp

Three Figures & A Ground for flute and piano

June 8, 2005 Sue Ann Kahn, flute, Christopher Oldfather, piano

Offering

Cincinnatti Conservatory of Music · April 2, 2005 Christine Gustafson, flute, Yoram Youngerman, viola, Gillian Benet Sella, harp

Offering

East Carolina University School of Music · March 28, 2005 Christine Gustafson, flute, Yoram Youngerman, viola, Gillian Benet Sella, harp

Offering

Beth El Synagogue · March 26, 2005 Yoram Youngerman, viola, Christine Gustafson, flute, and Gillian Benet Sella, harp

CUT TIME for Orchestra

Fayetteville, Greenville, Raleigh, Greensboro, Boone, Spindale, NC · January 1, 2005 Six performances by the National Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slaktkin and Emil de Cou, cond.

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra

January 8, 2004 - January 10, 2004 Concerto for Cello and Orchestra.David Hardy, Cello, National Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, Music Director

Designs, for flute, guitar and percussion

East Carolina University · January 1, 2003

Offering

St. Louis. · May 1, 1997 First performances.

Offering

Durham · May 1, 1997 First performances.

Offering

January 1, 1996 Offering, for flute, viola and harp. Mallarme Chamber Players (Durham, NC) and Auréole (New York)

Songs of Turning

Eugene, Oregon · January 1, 1996 Cantata for Soprano and Baritone soloists, SATB Chorus and Chamber Orchestra (25'). (1996) (Texts by the composure, Anonymous (Ann Landers), Harold Kushner, Mary Oliver, David Rosenberg, Denise Levertov and the Books of Psalms

Double Sonata for two pianos

Alice Tully Hall · January 1, 1989 http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/28/arts/review-concert-2-commissioned-works-and-a-bit-of-tapping.html

Artistic Works


DESIGNS II

Musical Composition January 1, 2012

Summer Voices

Musical Composition January 1, 2012 Silent Partners

Cameo

Musical Composition January 1, 2011 da Capo Chamber Players

LIGHT DANCES

Musical Composition January 1, 2008 Light Dances, Digital Only

Guitar in USA

Audio Recording January 1, 2008

By the Grace of Others

Choreography Dance Production January 1, 2007

String Quartet No. 2 ("Aeolian and Sylvan Figures")

Musical Composition January 1, 2006

Designs and Three Figures and A Ground

Audio Recording January 1, 2006

Four Pieces Quasi Sonata for Viola and Piano

Musical Composition January 1, 2006

Poetry of the Piedmont (Poesis Piementosa)

Musical Composition January 1, 2006

Con Sordino for violin and piano

Musical Composition January 1, 2005

CUT TIME for Orchestra

Musical Composition January 1, 2005

Designs, for flute, guitar and percussion

Musical Composition January 1, 2001

Spinoff

Musical Composition January 1, 1997 Published score, Theodore Presser Co.

The Now and Present Flute

Audio Recording January 1, 1994 iTunes

American Music for String Quartet

Audio Recording January 1, 1993 iTunes

Triptych for piano and woodwind quintet

Musical Composition January 1, 1992

First Quartet

Musical Composition January 1, 1990 Theodore Presser Company

Four Songs With Ensemble

Musical Composition January 1, 1988

Three Yiddish Songs (Chamber Version)

Musical Composition January 1, 1987

Autumnal for Orchestra

Musical Composition January 1, 1985

A Nonesuch Serenade

Musical Composition January 1, 1982

Partita for cello, piano and percussion

Musical Composition January 1, 1980

Three Images for Chorus and Instruments

Musical Composition January 1, 1979

Centering

Musical Composition January 1, 1978 Schott

Un Dialogo Possibile

Musical Composition January 1, 1976