Concert Music
Creating, commissioning, performing and touring electro-acoustic chamber music is a key part of the Paul Dresher Ensemble’s mission and goals. Our main performing group is the seven-person Electro-Acoustic Band. We have two smaller ensembles that commission new work: the Double Duo and the Dresher-Davel Invented Instrument Duo, both of which tour annually across the US and internationally.
Paul Dresher is a remarkable musician and thinker… he is out there serving as both a lightning rod and seismograph for his colleagues … Dresher’s own Concerto for Violin and Electro-Acoustic Band…. is a serious and ambitious contribution to the concerto repertory…” —Tim Page, The Washington Post
…The ensemble’s performance, as ever, was a marvel of rhythmic and harmonic precision….” —Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
Commissioned Works
- John Adams, Disappointment Lake (1992)
- John Luther Adams
Coyote Builds North America (1990)
The Light That Fills the World (1999-2001) - Samuel Adams, Walking, Mirror, Sibelius (2008)
- Mark Applebaum
Martian Anthropology 7*8*9* (2006)
Scipio Wakes Up (1996) - Dan Becker, Through a Window (2006)
- Eve Beglarian, Creating the World (1997)
- Martin Bresnick, Fantasia on a Theme by Willie Dixon (2001)
- Lisa Bielawa, Ego Sum (2015)
- Ryan Brown, Gangbusters (2010; rev. 2012)
- Jay Cloidt
What is Missing? (2015)
Life is Good (and People are Basically Decent) (1997)
Kole Kat Krush (1990)
Karoshi (1996) - Cindy Cox, Into the Wild (1997)
- Conrad Cummings, At the Window (2015)
- Alvin Curran
Fault (1996)
Pittura Fresca (1998) - Sebastian Currier, Artificial Memory (2014)
- Anthony Davis
Blue Funk Into Darkness (2000)
Walk Through the Shadow (1982) - Paul Dresher
- Moving Parts (2016)
- A Picture Stands in Solitude (2015)
- Family Matters (2014)
- Moving Light (2012, Dresher/Davel Invented Instrument Duo)
- Time Passes (2008)
- Unequal Distemperament (Cello Concerto) (2001; rev. 2008)
- Glimpsed from Afar (2006)
- Elapsed Time (1998)
- Cage Machine (1st movement of Violin Concerto) (1996)
- Chorale Times Two (2nd movement of Violin Concerto) (1996)
- Din of Iniquity (1994)
- Double Ikat (1990)
- Fail Safe (1993)
- Dark Blue Circumstance (1985)
- Channels Passing (1981)
- Robert Erickson, Pacific Sirens (1989)
- Fred Frith
If I could (2015)
Rocket Science (2012) - Guillermo Gallindo, Blood Bolero (2015)
- Paul Hanson
Pull of the Gold Rope (1999)
Inner Openings (1993) - Carla Kihlstedt, Gathering Storm (2015)
- Bun Ching Lam, Qin 2000 (1994)
- David Lang
Follow (1996)
***Fault (1996) - Keeril Makan, Threads (2002)
- Ingram Marshall, In Deserto Black Rock (2004)
- James Mobberley, Fusebox (2004)
- Amy X Neuburg, Is it Conflict Free and Were Any Animals Harmed in the Making of It (2015)
- Bruce Pennycook, For Joe Z (2012)
- Jack Perla, Pretty Boy (2012)
- Gyan Riley, Minor Distractions (2008)
- Terry Riley, Banana Humberto 2000 (1999)
- Roger Reynolds, Submerged Memories (2006)
- Neil Rolnick, Plays Well With Others (2004)
- John Schott, Together at Last
- Carl Stone, Ruen Pair (1993)
- Ayuo Takahashi, ***Alien Zero (1993)
- Ken Ueno, Secret Meridian (2015)
- Koji Ueno, Connotations (1993)
- Lois V Vierk, Deep Water Waves (2001)
- Randall Woolf, Angel Dust (1998)
- Pamela Z, 17 Reasons Why