Demetrius Spaneas |

Recent Works | 2010

• please…tell her; chamber orchestra (2 flutes, clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, trumpet, strings, bass drum); performance TBA
• Love Letters in the Ether; flute, soprano saxophone, violin, cello, piano 4-hands; written for the Rome, Italy based ensemble Piccola Accademia degli Specchi; premier in 2010, TBA

Recent Works | 2009

• With Boundless Glory, She Transforms the World (a hymn to Usha); soprano saxophone and guitar; premier by me and Robert Ward, guitar; Northeastern University Music at Noon Concert Series; The Fenway Center, Boston, MA; December 2, 2009, 12PM
• …no longer to his father…; solo saxophone; premier by me as part of my Metanoia program; The Lily Pad, Cambridge, MA; September 10, 2009, 7PM
• Supplication and Exuberance; concert band; premier by the Northeastern University Concert Band, me conducting; The Fenway Center, Boston, MA; November 22, 2009, 4PM
• Ilium; 2009; fanfare for brass (3 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, euphonium, tuba) and percussion (snare drum, bass drum, cymbals); performance TBA
• whisper…to me; 2009; chamber ensemble (2 flutes, bassoon, fluglehorn, didgeridoo, gongs, cello, double bass); premiered by members of the Bay Area Chamber Symphony on a benefit concert for the AIDS/LifeCycle – San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Young People’s Symphony Orchestra, Orinda Community Church, Orinda, CA; April 5, 2009, 4PM
• Moonlight of Lost Dreams; 2009; soprano, clarinet, and piano; text by Jaquelyn Familant; premiered by the Sapphire Ensemble (Elaine Kwon, piano, and myself) with Ms. Familant, soprano, at the ICO Gallery in New York City, NY; March 18, 2009
• The Ballad of Olga D.; 2009; pre-recorded electronics

Recent Works | 2008

• The Cold, Barren Way; 2008; film score/live performance; film by Sukhrob Nazimov; soprano saxophone and electronics; to be premiered at Black Box Music and Vision Festival, Tashkent, Uzbelistan; February 25, 2009
• Artrip1 (an Ode to the Eye); 2008; film score/live performance; film by Eri Skyrgianni; soprano saxophone with chamber orchestra (woodwinds, strings, piano, percussion); to be premiered at Black Box Music and Vision Festival, Tashkent, Uzbelistan; February 25, 2009
• Three Graces; 2008; for clarinet solo; premiered by me at Forecast Music concert, Tenri Cultural Center, NYC, NY; November 1, 2008
• Spakoinoi Nochi, Vesna (Good night, Spring); 2008; film score/live performance; film by Sukhrob Nazimov; soprano saxophone and electronics; to be premiered at Black Box Music and Vision Festival, Tashkent, Uzbelistan; February 25, 2009
• Udar Solntse (Sunstroke); 2008; film score/live performance; film by Sukhrob Nazimov; alto flute/tenor sax, piano, acoustic guitar, double bass, and percussion; premier TBA
• The Carefree Princess; 2008; film score (animation)/multimedia; film by Andrei Efi; vocal/alto saxophone (one player) and electronics, with original lyrics; to be premiered at Art Concept Festival, GEZ21/Pushkinskaya 10, St. Petersburg, Russia; June 29, 2008
• Castor and Pollux; 2008; lead sheet/unspecified instrumentation; premiered at Rimsky-Korsakov School, St. Petersburg, Russia; May 11, 2008
• Odysseus; 2008; lead sheet/unspecified instrumentation; premiered at Center for Creative Development and Education in the Arts in a special exhibition and performance on Greek themes; St. Petersburg, Russia; April 29, 2008
• Europa; 2008; lead sheet/unspecified instrumentation; premiered at Center for Creative Development and Education in the Arts in a special exhibition and performance on Greek themes; St. Petersburg, Russia; April 29, 2008
• Minotaurus; 2008; lead sheet/unspecified instrumentation; premiered at Center for Creative Development and Education in the Arts in a special exhibition and performance on Greek themes; St. Petersburg, Russia; April 29, 2008
• Spoken Origins; 2008; saxophone and electronics; premiered at Mihal Chemyakin Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia; February 20, 2008
• Paleo-Rock; 2008; alto flute and electronics; premiered at Mihal Chemyakin Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia; February 20, 2008
• Elastic Stronghold; 2008; film score, version for live chamber ensemble; film by Justin Heim; to be premiered at Black Box music and Vision Festival, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; February 27, 2008; American premier at Sound of Silent Film Festival by ACM, Chicago; March 26
• Elastic Stronghold; 2008; film score for saxophone soloist and electronics; film by Justin Heim; premiered by me at DOM Art Space; Moscow, Russia; February 7, 2008
• Gymnopaedia; 2008; clarinet and piano; premiered at Beethovenhaus, me with Susanne Kessel, piano; Bonn, Germany; April 20, 2008
• Define Intervention; 2008; score to the film by Justin Heim; premiered at Black Box Music and Vision Festival, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; February 27, 2008

Recent Works | 2007

• Just Another Night on Plastic; 2007; for saxophone and electronics; premiered by me at American Center, Moscow, Russia; February 4, 2008
• APXE (pronounced ar-che); 2007; a theater work for dancers, musicians (flute/alto flute/saxophone, cello, percussion, didjeredoo, overtone vocalists), and lasers; to be premiered as the center work of the APXE Greco-Russian Festival; dates and location TBA
• Episodes; 2007; cello and piano; premiered by Susanne Friedrich at New England Conservatory (faculty concert), Boston, MA; March 9, 2008
• Angels Praise Thee; 2007; female voices (5 parts); premiered by Second Breath at Agora Art Space, St. Petersburg, Russia; December 16, 2007
• The Dance of the Delosian Ladies; 2007; 2 flutes, alto flute, and cello; comissioned by the San Francisco Flute Quartet; premiered at the World Flute Fest, Oakland, CA; November 3, 2007
• Interlude 3 (Ascension); 2007; solo saxophone and electronic drone; premiered by me at the AmBul Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria; October 13, 2007
• Romance and Rondo;  2007; English horn, trumpet, and piano;  writen for Laura Motley and Geoffrey Shamu; performances TBA
• Cityscapes; 2007; clarinet and violin; premiered by the Lumina Ensemble at East/West Festival, Kazan, Russia; October 2007
• In Celebration of Sunrise; 2007; film score for soloist (flute and alto saxophone)and electronics; film by Nikolay Leonov; premiered at Music and Vision Festival, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; February 27, 2008
• Fantasia; 2007; solo flute and chamber orchestra (2nd flute, piano, percussion, strings); premiered by the Bay Area Chamber Symphony, Oakland, CA; August 2, 2007; Carol Alban, flute soloist.
• Elysian Dreams; 2007; alto saxophone and piano; premiered by the Sapphire Ensemble at The Knitting Factory (NYC); June 28, 2007.
• Margarita’s Dance; 2007; lead sheet/unspecified instrumentation;  premiered by Percussia at The Stone (NYC); April 26, 2007.
• Prelude, Romance, and Tango; 2007; Chamber Orchestra (woodwind and string sections); premiered by Bay Area Chamber Symphony, Oakland, CA; April 1, 2007; Demetrius Spaneas, conducting.
• Evocation 1; 2007, alto flute/clarinet (one player) and kalimba/triangle/Indonesian drum (one player); 2007; premiered at the New Directions in Percussion Festival at Cornell University, February 11, 2007 by Percussia.
• Interlude 1 (Intension) and Interlude 2 (Reflection); 2005; solo saxophone; recorded and released on From a Far-off World (Capstone Records, 2006); first live performances at Apositsia Forum (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Long Arms Festival (Moscow, Russia), September 2007.