Music by David Drexler

Mixed Chamber Ensembles

[sound] Battipalo (2006), for clarinet, horn, basson, cello, and bass. Commissioned by Con Vivo.

[score] Microcast (2005), for flute, baroque violin, viola da gamba, and harpsichord. Commissioned by L’Ensemble Portique.

[score] [sound] Tiny Cheesehead Music (2005-2014), for various instrumentations. Written for the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, the Chicago Miniaturist Ensemble, ThingNY, and other groups.

[score]Twenty-Four (2002), for narrator with flute, oboe, clarinet, and cello. Commissioned by the Madison Chapter of the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers.

[score] De Profundis (2001), for clarinet, cello, and piano.

[sound] Liberal Media (1999), for flute, viola, and bass. Commissioned by the Madison Chapter of the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers.

[score] [sound] Devil's Lake (1998), for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. Commissioned by Music St. Croix.

[score] Finding Time (1995), for English horn, clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), horn, and contrabass. Commissioned by the Oakwood Chamber Players.

[score] Forgotten at dawn . . . (1994), for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello. Commissioned by the Madison Chapter of the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers.

[score] [sound] Snowflakes (1990), for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano.

[score] Perspectives (1988), for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano.

[score] Gorham Nocturne (1990), for flute, alto saxophone, horn, tuba, viola, and cello. Commissioned by David Spies.

Y2K Bugs (1999), for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano.

Millennial Stew (1999), for clarinet, violin, horn, bass, piano, drum set, and narrators.

[score] As Incredible As Is America (1997), for soprano voice, tenor saxophone, marimba, violin, and bass.

Strings

[score] [sound] Improvisation (2008), for solo viola. Written for Martina Skalova.

Woodwinds

[score] Electricity (1987), for solo flute. Winner of the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers Student Composition Contest, 1989. Honorable mention in the Ear & Now Competition, 1997.

[score] Four or Five Studies (1993), for woodwind quintet.

Brass

[score] Dig This, _____* (1989), for solo tuba.

[score] Echoes (1989), for tuba quartet. Winner of the Wisconsin Tuba Quartet Composition Contest, 1989.

[score] Fanfare: Christ ist erstanden (1997), for three trumpets, or two trumpets and horn.

[score] Turmmusiken (1987), for two trumpets.

Keyboards

[score] Black Water (1997), for carillon.

Choral

[score] Slepe Softly Now (2005), for SATB chorus with violoncello.

[score] I Look From Afar (2001), for SATB chorus with soloists.

[score] Puer Natus in Bethlehem (2002), for SAB chorus with organ and handbells.

Large Ensembles

[score] Blues for Charlie (1988), for jazz ensemble.


[score]Scores in Adobe Acrobat format available for download. You will need Adobe's free Acrobat Reader to look at them.

[sound] Recordings in MP3 format available.