Edward Smaldone Compositions

•Cimelio – for Orchestra – (2024) (15 min.)

3,2,3,2;4,3,3,1;timp.,2;harp;strings. (American Concert Editions)

Maryland Youth Orchestra, Premiere, May 2024, Strathmore Theater, Bethesda, MD. Simeone Tartaglione, conducting.

•Prendendo Fuoco (Catching Fire) for piano and orchestra (2023) – (21 min) 1/picc,1/E.H.,1,Bcl,1;2,1,1,1;timp.,1;pn.solo;strings) 

Premiere May 2023, Miller Theater, Columbia University, NYC. 

Niklas Sivelöv, piano; League/ISCM Orchestra, Edward Smaldone, conductor.

Studio Recording:  https://youtu.be/F-NG8HMhsf0?si=iQFsBgomgDt3umz6

•Murmurations– concerto for clarinet and Wind Orchestra (2020) Commissioned by Søren-Filip Brix Hansen and Den Kongelige Livgardes Musikkorps. Premiered June 2021 at the KLANG! Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Studio Recording: https://youtu.be/EcgQAhnl4yk?si=cI7bU22cbxwLDfYr

The Beauty Within Arms’ Reach – 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; two bass clarinets; 4 horns; 2 bassoons; Contra Bassoon; Double bass; percussion. Composed for the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen, Denmark. First performance, RDAM, Max Artved, conductor; October 29, 2017  -

Live Performance - LeFrak Hall, Edward Smaldone conductor. https://youtu.be/oBPQkSEiHWY?si=kX0qnW_6r-4FdQOC

•The Beauty of Innuendo for orchestra – Oratorio Sinfonica Japan, Daijiro Ukon, Conductor, Tokyo, Japan. March 14, 2013 (other performances in Chicago, New York, Brno and Beijing) (13 minutes) (Released on ABLAZE Records, 2014) 

Studio Recording:  https://youtu.be/bf2xlqHZAFg?si=2ilq6Je5jjN1RxJD

Live Performance: https://youtu.be/IovrWv6SAcI?si=O9V_dU_uIxKnO5-0

•June 2011 – for orchestra. Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Mikel Tom, conductor.

Studio Recording:  https://youtu.be/sUqplget70E?si=IoOdIvG0M0uq7aeu

•Sinfonia for Strings (1986/2010), The New York Classical Players, Donsgmin Kim, conductor, LeFrak Hall, Oct. 31, 2010 (Recorded by the Brno Philharmonic, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2013) (10 minutes) 

Studio recording: 

https://youtu.be/nejn8STryxo?si=2QlGJ6nSGAt5op2T

•Suite, for violin and 12 Instruments, (rev. 2007). (20 minutes) Premiere of revision, April 1, 2007. Amos Fayette, violin and the Peabody Camerata, Gene Young Conductor, Baltimore, MD.

•Trio Concertante No. 1, for violin, French horn and piano soli, and string orchestra. Sept. 2005 (18 minutes)

•Fantasy Overture – Chamber Orchestra. Commissioned by the Queens Philharmonic, Tito Munoz, conductor. First performance, LeFrak Hall, Flushing, NY, September 19, 2003. (12 minutes)

•The Table - for orchestra. The Queens College Composers Orchestra, Edward Smaldone Conductor. LeFrak Hall, Flushing, NY, February 6, 2003. (12 minutes)

•Life Imagined, Life Engaged,(Concerto for Piccolo and Chamber Orchestra), Jill Sokol, piccolo and Gene Young Conductor, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, MD. Premiere Feb. 17, 2001  (18 minutes)

Studio recording: 

Mvt. 1 - https://youtu.be/J48RiS40j0U?si=LqT1wDSHNN7GXlZn

Mvt. 2 - https://youtu.be/115QMBQeukg?si=WJnAOd1w61G6MGhn

Arranged for piccolo and piano:

https://on.soundcloud.com/SuN9jwsLHZdrN4bill

Spiritual Fantasies. Queens Symphony Orchestra. Edward Smaldone, conductor. August 7, 9, and 10, 1997, Flushing, Kew Gardens and Brooklyn NY. 

•Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra 2,2,2,2;4,3,2; 2 perc.; piano solo; strings. Commissioned by the Queens Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fagen, Music Director. Premiere April 25, 1993 with Michael Boriskin as soloist

Studio Recording: Munich Radio Orchestra.  https://youtu.be/Mgsm9XgMU6c

•Django's Dance, for orchestra. Commissioned by the Queens Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fagen, Music Director. Premiere performances, February 26, - 28, 1991. 

  •Transformational Etudes, piano solo. Commissioned by Michael Boriskin and premiered at the 1990 Festival of New American Music, California State
University at Sacramento, November 7, 1990. Other Recent performances: January 23, 1993, Mendel Hall, University of Chicago. Abraham Stokman, pianist. Also February 18, 1992, Arnold Schoenberg Institute, Los Angeles; February 6, 1992, Univ. of Mass, Dartmouth; February 9, 1992, Massapequa, NY; February June 25, 1991, the Chelsea Center, Muttontown, NY; April 23, 1991 University of Rhode Island, Michael Boriskin, pianist. 

Studio Recording: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7olmgFcCopNWNZZHFh6I9M?si=eUaP4M4_Sw67wVT7w_awkQ

•A Certain Slant of Light - for organ. commissioned by Benjamin Hall, Chichester England. First performance December 2002, Oscana, Czech Republic (10 minutes)

Studio Recording: 

https://youtu.be/mY9lArLWaaE

•Three Scenes from"The Heartland"(1994), for solo piano. First performance, Donald Pirone, piano. Merkin Hall, NYC, October 26, 1997. 

Studio Recording: https://youtu.be/jpexoKFd0QU

Solo Sonata, for violin (1980). Premiered at Carnegie Recital Hall, Sept. 1980, Curtis Macomber, violin. 

Studio Recording: https://youtu.be/UFBG90dADsw

 •Sareri Hovin Mernem – for cello and piano. (2023)

Live performance: Marcy Rosen, cello and Sahun Sam Hong, piano

https://www.youtube.com/live/P46kPkNCvTI?si=tx_Fcdz8Ietho6L0&t=1745

•While the Sand Still Runs, (2024) for piano Trio (also arranged for violin and accordion)

Excerpt from first movement, The Herbert Piano Trio

https://youtu.be/D-OFbScsjIQ?si=tbOZTdPFgEpRU4_t

2nd Movement in violin and accordion arrangement: 

https://youtu.be/gJbsr9NuO4E?si=ky1QTizKdpzG50tV

•House Music– for clarinet, viola and piano – Commissioned by Keglebanetrioen, Copenhagen Denmark. Premiere, Copenhagen, December, 2019

https://on.soundcloud.com/epayStPkQeVcDW3Kc2

•Chensū – for flute, clarinet, sheng, erhu, violin, cello, piano and percussion. Composed for the New York New Music Fusion Festival, Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC. October 25, 2018

•Water Margin, - for Zhongruan, flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion. Composed for the New York New Music Fusion Festival, Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC. December 18, 2017 

•Duke/Monk  for clarinet and piano; Charles Neidich, clarinet, Morey Ritt, piano; China Conservatory, Beijing, May 26, 2011 (13 minutes) 

Studio Recording: 

Duke: https://youtu.be/9t4nS1Gqmvw?si=K87ZsZB7aYYovFRU

Monk: https://youtu.be/M-SyNyc3fjk?si=7jJZW7NItstMClB8

•Transformational Etudes (1990/2010), for two pianos. Saar Ahuvia and Stephanie Ho, pianists, Park Avenue United Methodist Church, NYC, Oct. 13, 2010 (8 minutes) 

•Monk/Duke for flute and piano (2009) - Mary Fukushima, flute and Michael Kirkendall, piano Rael Joyce Concerts, Kansas City, MO, November 14, 2009 (13 minutes) 

Suite for violin and piano, (1992/2001) First performance, Victor Schultz, violin; Mary Jo Carrabre, piano, Brandon, Manitoba (CA), 1992. 

Studio Recording: Daniel Phillips, violin, Morey Ritt, piano. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4y82LAbZMTitjOJb70Roq0?si=XjcsIqtvSUqBhMHXhU4Syw

Two Sides of the Same Coin, (1990) for clarinet and piano. Premiere performance May 20, 1990 Edward Gilmore and Donald Pirone, PS 1, Long Island City. https://youtu.be/g70qHJ7W6jQ

•What no one else sees…  Woodwind Quintet. Composed for the Opus Zoo Quintet; first performances in Copenhagen, Denmark, additional performances in NYC. 

Studio edit of live recording: 

https://on.soundcloud.com/6YvZe17E1eXbkqXD1K

https://on.soundcloud.com/tqQmRwAbrh9TLaKt2z

https://on.soundcloud.com/GvAvUGQ64jLbNrBFgX

•Stand! for Saxophone Quintet.(SAATB). For Roberto Todini, Conservatorio di Perugia. First performance, World Saxophone Congress, Zabreg, Croatia, July 12, 2018. (Also arranged for Clarinet Quintet)

for saxophones: https://youtu.be/9zU-gDk5I68?si=k19OWfFvG6thyCJo

for clarinets: https://youtu.be/oZ7uBS338zg?si=umUpL9PcGHhZqF5j

Funkifize for saxophone quartet. Perugia Conservatory Saxophone Quartet, Spoleto, Italy, June 2013 (8 minutes) 

Live performance: https://youtu.be/IQqwrD_vwZ0?si=kJhwmOK8ltpEi5B9

•Sweet Song/Hard Truths, for flute Quartet. La Femmes Four, LeFrak Hall, September 25, 2008. (8 minutes)

Double Duo, (1987/2006) for flute, clarinet, violin and cello. The Long Island Composers Alliance, LeFrak Concert Hall, Flushing, NY. May 1, 2006 (8 minutes) 

https://open.spotify.com/track/3kwOEcw8Qrj1mRFn4nUKlq?si=hXiCfJY1T5yLiS35FsxWfw

•Segreto di Pulcinella, for six cellos (2007). Premiere performance May 24, 2007, at Chipping Campden Festival, Richard Markson, conductor, Chipping Campden, England. (16 minutes) 

https://youtu.be/ZlyjlZG3te8

https://youtu.be/t3vaQwEY6mg

https://youtu.be/f7VJLzDeUW4

•String Quartet No. 3, Carpentier String Quartet, LeFrak Hall, Flushing, NY April 2005 (20 minutes)

•Three Episodes for Percussion Quartet. Commissioned by Talujon, first performances March 9, 1992 at Aaron Copland School of Music and April 3, 1992 at SUNY at Stony Brook. Other recent performances: Mannes Percussion Ensemble at Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, MD, February 12, 1995 and Talujon at St. Mary's College of Maryland, January 28, 1999. 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1fO0gAKx4PGM1H46EFcw6y?si=I1WaIgABTIyc-ahaskbgIA

•Rituals: Sacred and Profane (1996). First Performance February 21, 1997 by the Faculty New Music Ensemble of Temple University, Cynthia Folio, flute; Jeffrey Solow, cello and Charles Abramavic, piano; Rock Hall, Philadelphia. Washington Square Contemporary Music Society; Merkin Hall, NYC, October 15, 2001. 

Studio recording:

https://open.spotify.com/track/5rnDfZMjSRrP16Zn1Irqal?si=XUvjrPGCRw2wPOJYOFrtjg

String Quartet No. 2 (1986), premiere at the Sounds from the Left Bank Series, PS1, Long Island City, May 1986.

Studio Recording with the Meridian String Quartet: 

https://on.soundcloud.com/K7n4LfQQgrRzR8YZDn

Trio, Dance and Nocturne. (1984) for clarinet, violin and cello, premiere by the Da Capo Chamber players, CUNY Graduate Center.

Studio Recording: https://youtu.be/Amh6c3HMIXU