Gilad Cohen, Composer Videos

Excited to fly to San Diego for Camarada Ensemble's concert on Saturday featuring two pieces of mine: Firefly Elegy* for clarinet, harp and string trio, and Three Goat Blues** in a new version for flute and string trio! Here's the Israeli Chamber Project shredding a moment from Firefly Elegy. * Commissioned by the Adele and John Gray Endowment Fund for the Israeli Chamber Project הפרויקט הקאמרי הישראלי. Rocking out in the video: Sivan Magen, Tibi Cziger, Michal Korman, David McCarroll and Nitai Zori. ​** Commissioned by Houston Arts Alliance for Apollo Chamber Players.

I was so moved to have my piece A Dark Matter* performed at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ by Exponential Ensemble on Princeton Symphony Orchestra's season. Princeton is very close to my heart, not only for the years I had spent there studying and exploring musical paths, but also as the place where I met my wife Erin, and it felt very appropriate to be able to share this piece with the Princeton community. I'm always moved by Kemp Jernigan's "crying solo" (in the middle of this excerpt from the Princeton concert)... Anna Urrey Pascal Archer Amir Farid Department of Music at Princeton University And thanks Stuart Breczinski for the beautiful recording! * "A Dark Matter" has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Mellon Foundation, and with additional support from the Composers' Guild of New Jersey.

My piece "Trio for a Spry Clarinet, Weeping Cello and Ruminating Harp" will be performed by Sivan Magen and the Israeli Chamber Project at the American Harp Society National Conference next week, where I'll be giving a series of lectures. See full video in the comments. Israeli Chamber Project הפרויקט הקאמרי הישראלי American Harp Society, Inc. Sivan Magen Tibi Cziger Michal Korman #AHS60th #AHSConference #HarpConference #harps #harpist #harfe #arpa #harp #harpe #HarpSociety #harplife #chambermusic #contemporarymusic

My new quartet "A Dark Matter" explores the notion that our mind often circles around an intangible “dark matter”; an indefinable worry, regret, or fear that can occupy us for a long time and coloreverything else in dark shades. Scored for alto flute, oboe, clarinet and piano, it's characterized by dark tones and reflects sad times I experienced while composing it last fall. Here it is beautifully played by Exponential Ensemble: Anna Urrey, Alto Flute; Kemp Jernigan, Oboe; Pascal Archer, Clarinet; and Amir Farid, Piano. "A Dark Matter" has been made possible by the Chamber Music America's Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and with additional support from the Composers' Guild of New Jersey.