Gary Schocker
Gary Schocker is an accomplished flautist, composer and pianist of outstanding versatility. He has composed sonatas and chamber music for most instruments of the orchestra.
He has also written several musicals, including Far from the Madding Crowd and The Awakening, both available on original cast recordings. The shows won the Global Search for New Musicals in the UK and were performed in Cardiff, at the Edinburgh Festival, and in New Zealand; in New York they received ASCAP music theatre awards. He has won numerous prizes, including the National Flute Association’s annual Newly Published Music award.
Artist's website: www.garyschocker.com
Compositions by Gary Schocker appear on
Continental Drift
Continental Drift features compositions for two bass flutes and cello. As the Earth’s continents drift across the ocean floor, new music makes its own slow migration around the globe, across time and space into various lands and cultures.
Sonorous Sonatas
Peter Sheridan set out to bring the larger, lower flutes to centre stage, testing their sound and colour within one of Western music’s most traditional forms: the sonata. Commissioned works and substantial duo writing put alto, bass, contrabass and subcontrabass flutes in the foreground.
Monologues & Dialogues
This recording features the resonant, meditative colours of modern low flutes. Austere, breathy and at times eerie, these deep registers open a sound-world still little explored in woodwind writing, and invite a wide range of musical imaginings.
Below: Music for Low Flutes
This charming and rare recording features predominantly commissioned chamber music for low flutes, written to showcase their lyrical and colourful tonal qualities and to expand a small yet growing repertoire.