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Schocker Gary
Aitken, Robert
Amirov, Fikret
Amlin, Martin
Amram, David
Andriessen, Jurriaan
Arnold, Malcolm
Arrieu, Claude
Auric, Georges
Babbit, Milton
Bacchus, Peter
Bacri, Nicolas
Baker, Michael Conway
Baksa, Robert
Barber, Samuel
Barrere, Georges
Bartók, Béla Viktor János
Baton, René-Emmanuel
Beaser, Robert
Bennet, Richard Rodney
Berg, Gunnar
Berio, Luciano
Bernofsky, Lauren
Bernstein, Leonard
Bloch, Ernest
Bolling, Claude
Bon, Maarten
Bonis, Mel
Boughton, Rutland
Boulanger, Marie-Juliette
Boulez, Pierre
Bourdin, Roger
Bournonville, Armand
Bowen, Edwin York
Bozza, Eugène Joseph
Bréville, Pierre
Brings, Allen
Brotons, Salvador
Brown, Elizabeth
Brun, Georges
Burkhard, Willy
Burton, Eldin
Büsser, Henri
Camus, Pierre
Carmichael, John
Carter, Elliott
Casella, Alfredo
Chaynes, Charles
Clarke, Ian
Colgrass, Michael
Colquhoun, Michael
Copland, Aaron
Corigliano, John
Cortese, Luigi
Currier, Sebastian
Dahl, Walter Ingolf Marcus
Damase, Jean-Michel
Davidovsky, Mario
De Lorenzo, Leonardo
Debussy, Claude
Del Tredici, David
DeLaney, Charles Oliver
Delerue, Georges
Denisov, Edison
Dèsbriere, Jacques
Dick, Robert
Dinicu, Grigoraș
Dodgson, Stephen
Dohnányi, Ernő
Dubois, Pierre Max
Dukas, Paul
Durey, Louis
Dutilleux, Henri
Enescu, George
Farkas, Ferenc
Feld, Jindřich
Ferroud, Pierre-Octave
Flothuis, Marius
Folio, Cynthia
Foote, Arthur
Foss, Lukas
Françaix, Jean
Fukushima, Kazuo
Gade, Jacob
Gál, Hans
Gaubert, Philippe
Genzmer, Harald
George, Thom Ritter
Ghidoni, Armando
Gieseking, Walter
Glass, Philip
Glière, Reinhold
Golovin, Andrei
Gordeli, Otar
Grier, Lita
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson
Grinblat, Romuald
Grovlez, Gabriel
Guarnieri, Mozart Camargo
Gubajdulina, Sofia
Hahn, Reynaldo
Hailstork, Adolphus
Halphen, Fernand
Hanson, Howard Harold
Harberg, Amanda
Harbison, John
Harsányi, Tibor
Harty, Hamilton
Heiss, John
Heith, David
Henze, Hans-Werner
Higdon, Jennifer
Hindemith, Paul
Holliger, Heinz
Holmboe, Vagn
Honegger, Arthur
Hoover, Katherine
Hosokawa, Toshio
Hovhaness, Alan
Hüe, Georges Adolphe
Hurel, Philippe
Ibert, Jacques
Ichiyanagi, Toshi
Ittzés, Gergely
Ives, Charles
Jacob, Gordon
James, Bob
Jemnitz, Sándor
Jirák, Karel Boleslav
Jóhannsson, Magnús Blöndal
Jolivet, André
Jongen, Joseph
Karg-Elert, Sigfrid
Kay, Ulysses
Kelterborn, Rudolf
Ķeniņš, Tālivaldis
Kennan, Kent Wheeler
Kennedy, Martin
Kernis, Aaron Jay
Khachaturian, Aram
Kocsár, Miklós
Kodaly, Zoltan
Koechlin, Charles
Kornauth, Egon
Kraft, Leo
Krzywicki, Jan
Kupferman, Meyer
La Montaine, John
Lauber, Joseph
Lavista, Mario
Lee, Eugene
Leeuwen, Ary van
Levinson, Gerald
Liebermann, Lowell
Loudova, Ivana
Mack, Dieter
Mahler, Gustav
Maresz, Yan
Martin, Frank
Martino, Donald
Martinů, Bohuslav
Meltzer, Harold
Messiaen, Olivier
Mihalovici, Marcel
Milhaud, Darius
Mouquet, Jules
Mower, Mike
Muczynski, Robert
Nielsen, Carl
Norby, Erik
Nordenstrom, Gladys
Offermans, Wil
Olsen, Carl Gustav Sparre
Paget, Daniel
Perle, George
Petrovics, Emil
Piazzolla, Astor
Piston, Walter
Poulenc, Francis
Prokofiev, Sergey
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Ran, Shulamit
Raphael, Günter
Rautavaara, Einojuhani
Ravel, Maurice
Reynolds, Verne
Riegger, Wallingford
Rivier, Jean
Rodrigo, Joaquin
Rota, Nino
Rotaru, Doina
Rouse, Christopher
Roussel, Albert
Rutter, John
Saariaho, Kaija
Sancan, Pierre
Schmidt, Ole
Schocker, Gary
Schulhoff, Erwin
Schwantner, Joseph
Sciarrino, Salvatore
Shostakovich, Dmitri
Sibelius, Jean
Smit, Leo
Tailleferre, Germaine
Takemitsu, Tōru
Taktakishvili, Otar
Tansman, Alexandre
Tomasi, Henri
Tower, Joan
Uébayashi, Yuko
Varèse, Edgar
Vasks, Pēteris
Weigl, Vally
Weinberg, Mieczysław
Wilder, Alec
Williams, Ralph Vaughan
Yi, Chen
Yun, Isang
Zgraja, Krystof
"Erev Shalom" for flute and piano
Sonata No. 1 for Flute and Piano
Sonata No. 3 for Flute and Piano
"In Memoriam" for flute and piano
“Sonata for Short Attention Spans” for piccolo and piano
Outside my window: BIRD for Piccolo and Piano
Piccolo Italiano for Piccolo and Piano
Sonata No. 1 for Piccolo and Piano
Sonata No. 3 for Piccolo and Piano
Sonata No. 4 for Piccolo and Piano
Sonata No. 5 for Piccolo and Piano
Sonata No. 6 for Piccolo and Piano
Sonata No. 7 for Piccolo and Piano
“Regrets and Resolutions” for flute and piano
"Airborne" for flute and piano
"Birthday Music" for flute and piano
"Green Places" for flute and piano
"Erev Shalom" for flute and piano
"Nach Bach" for flute and piano
"À Gaspar" for flute and piano
"Musique Francaise" for flute and piano
Sonata No. 4 for Flute and Piano, "Summer Sonata"
Sonata No. 5 for Flute and Piano
Sonata No. 6 for Flute and Piano, "La Salmonella"
Sonata No. 7 for Flute and Piano
Sonata No. 8 for Flute and Piano
Sonata No. 9 for Flute and Piano
"Blip Blip Blip" for flute solo
A Fond Farewell: "Meditation On September 11"
"Blue Bossa, Red Bossa" for flute and piano
"Prelude, Theme and Free Associations"
"Three Mystery Pieces" for flute and piano
"Soliloquy" for flute and piano
"Ambidextranata" for flute and piano
"Show Tunes" for flute and piano
"Jazzbird!" for flute and piano
"Mockingbird" for flute and piano
"Such Sweet Sorrow" for flute and piano
"Vocalise" for flute and piano
"Wabi-Sabi" for flute and piano
"A Late Summer Night's Dream" for flute and piano
"Conversations" for flute and piano
Xynoglyko "Sweet-Sour" for flute and piano
"Figments" for flute and piano
"Concertino Italiano" for flute and piano
"Viviana" for for flute and piano
"Madrigal" for flute and piano
"Sicilienne" for flute and piano
"Winter Jasmine" for flute and piano
"Coffee Break" for flute and piano
"Inside Out" for flute and piano
Gary Schocker: "Erev Shalom" (Evening of Peace) for flute and piano was written in 1993 and published in 1994 by Theodore Presser Company. The work is dedicated to his mother, to whom he dedicated several of his most melodic and personal works (including Airborne and Birthday Music).
The title "Erev Shalom" is Hebrew for "Evening of Peace." The title and the musical content suggest a connection to Jewish liturgical or folk song traditions, though the melody is an original Schocker composition.
In 1993, while he was writing monster technical works like the Three Dances for Two Flutes, "Erev Shalom" served as a "breathing space", a work designed for purely expressive, cantabile playing rather than athletic display. He was fresh off his debut as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and was becoming the "face" of contemporary flute music in the US.
During this period, Schocker explored his heritage through music. "Erev Shalom" is often cited alongside his "Heilner Songs" as an example of his interest in vocal-style writing and Jewish modalities (such as the Ahava Rabba or Freygish scale).
Gary Schocker (1959) is an American flutist, pianist, harpist, composer and teacher.
Born in Pennsylvania, he started to play flute at the age of 10 and 5 years later he debuted as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, becoming acclaimed performer before attending the Julliard School.
Laureate of many Young Artist competitions in the US, Gary Schocker has gained reputation as a versatile performer, able to fill in, if necessary, even Jean-Pierre Rampal when he had to perform W.A. Mozart concerto with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra on a short notice.
Even though he regularly appears as a soloist or chamber musician throughout the world, he has proven to be a prolific composer. He has written music for almost every orchestral instrument and received multiple recognitions from the National Flute Association, winning twice the annual Newly Published Music Award.
Gary Schocker has recorded 8 CDs as a soloist with versatile repertoire and additional recordings with his recital companions Emily Mitchell (harp) and Jason Vieaux (guitar).
Gary Schocker teaches at the New York University and in his private studios in New York and Easton, Pennsylvania.