Gary Schocker

My Summer Vacation, for flute, cello, & piano, is a series of short movements all in a light, summery mode. It is very audience-friendly, and especially suitable for festivals or summer concerts.

Flute, cello and guitar is an unusual combination. The piece is mysterious and evocative, like early 20th century French music.

Pas de Deux is a short poignant piece for flute and cello, to celebrate the wedding of two friends.

This is one of my favorite chamber pieces. I love that the bassoon is allowed to be so much more than continuo. 'The flute and bassoon are basically in agreement in this piece, ' Gary said. 'And the p...

Water Music allows both flute and horn to soar in this wonderfully melodic composition which would make either a great start or finish to a chamber concert. The piece sounds like the ocean to me and t...

Cherry Blossoms is a neo-romantic canvas that fuses English modal qualities with French post-impressionism; belying the Japanese implications of its title. Schocker uses the string quartet and the two...

September Morn brilliantly captures a cool, crisp fall morning. It is very easy to play, and has Schocker's signature melodic style. For intermediate level players.

The piccolo sings above a string quartet accompaniment in the liquid; melodic; sometimes challenging writing that signifies a Schocker work. For advanced performers.

A set of four short works for tenor voice, flute, and piano from the prolific Gary Schocker focuses on a central theme: fleeting time. Dynamic and melodic in a contemporary sense, Always and Forever c...

The amuse-bouche; not an appetizer; per se; is an offering intended to set the table; prepare the palate; for a main course to follow. In this vein; Schocker's three short tastings will set up a progr...

Schocker's Sextet was written for and dedicated to Jenny Cline (flute) and the Monmouth Winds, who premiered the work in 2014. The Sextet, Cline writes, sounds at times delicate and intimate and at ot...

For Flute and Harp

For Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello. Score and parts. Composed 2000. Duration 8:30.

Airspace is an 11-minute work commissioned by the Monmouth Winds; for whom Schocker's Sextet for wind quintet and piano was also composed. Evoking four contrasting outdoor spaces (titled 1. Atrium; 2....

Views from Falls House was commissioned by and dedicated to The Nashua Flute Choir, Inc. is a 5 movement work. The piece is only moderately difficult requiring no extended techniques. Audiences are su...

Flutum Mysterium has a certain essence of ancient music in it, hence its title which is a riff on o magnum mysterium. The first half sounds like church music but the second half is purely pagan.

An ikebana is meant to be a poem told by flowers, and takes form in the shape of lovely, meticulously placed flower arrangements. Gary Schocker has written a dreamy, beautiful piece about the ikebana,...

Meaning 'gentle zephyr' in Italian, this piece depicting a gentle wind was written for Salvatore Lombardi and the Falaut Flute Orchestra in Italy. For advanced ensembles.

Five Rags and a Boogie, composed during the interesting year that was 2020, by Gary Schocker. Selections include: That's a Drag Rag, Waiting for the Polls to Close, That Mindless Rag, Chase that Covid...

An album of 22 works for piano composed by award-winning American composer Gary Schocker. Recorded on Centaur Records (CRC #3818: Music for Introverts). Selections include: Mist, 11-12-13, Simple Pray...

Flute Flower for flute choir is a charming vignette dedicated to the 2018 Judith Lapple Summer Music Festival Flute Choir, under the direction of Jennifer Lapple. Open intervals of fourths and fifths...

Entre Nous' is a four-movement suite for Flute and Harp, premiered in the Salle Cortot concert hall (Paris, France) in October 2017. The movements are titled: Promenade, A Gaspar, Une Baignade, and On...

Angelsong' is a four-movement suite for Flute and Harp, consisting of free-floating, modal tone poems, exploring the beauty of sound. The movements are titled: Cassiel (Angel of Tears), Phanuel (Angel...