Ted Babcock

Works

Large Ensemble | Chamber | Solo | Large Projects


Large Ensemble

Pulse, Echo – for Orchestra (7′)
Commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival, 2023
Selected for American Composer’s Orchestra Earshot Program in partnership with Indiana University, 2024

Soul Chords – Orchestra (6’)
Read at the Brevard Music Center, 2019

Nocturnal Clockwork – Orchestra (6’)
Performed at Boston Conservatory, 2019

Color Field – Wind ensemble (8’)
Commissioned by the Philadelphia Wind Symphony, 2017

Humble Songs of Days Gone By – Chamber orchestra and three female vocal soloists (28’)
Performed at the Curtis Institute of Music, 2014


Chamber

Either/Or – Pierrot ensemble and baritone soloist (7’)
Performed on the ITCH new music series, Brevard Music Center, 2019

Re:Longdistance – Percussion Trio, Piano, and Mezzo Soprano (5’)
Performed on composer’s recital series, Boston Conservatory, 2019

Formations – Saxophone quartet (15’)
Performed by the H2 Saxophone Quartet at Boston Conservatory, 2018

Songs of Transformation – Lyric mezzo-soprano and piano (11’)
Recorded at Curtis Institute, 2017

String Trio – (16’)
Performed by Bicycle Trio at Concord City Auditorium, NH as part of Avaloch Farm Institute, 2017

Elegy – Brass sextet (4’)
Recorded by The Brass Project, 2017

Wind Quintet – (10’)
Readings at the Curtis Institute, 2016

Gentle Wind, Fractured – Percussion ensemble and flute soloist (10’)
Commissioned and performed by Shiqi Zhong and University of Nanjing, 2015

Still Life – Mixed chamber ensemble (10’)
Commissioned by FringeArts and performed by ensemble39, 2015

By the Sea – Percussion duo (8’)
Performed by arx duo at Michigan State University, 2014

Freight – Six contrabasses (12’)
Recorded and coached at the Curtis Institute, 2014

Junctions – String quartet (18’)
Performed at the Curtis Institute Community Artist Project in collaboration with eighth blackbird, 2014


Solo

Ascension – Solo vibraphone (6’)
Recorded at the Boston Conservatory, 2019

E.P.D. – Solo drum set and electronics (5’)
Performed and commissioned by Evan Chapman, 2017

The Other Day in Question – Solo piano and electronic processing (4’)
Commissioned by World Café Live Philadelphia, 2015

Cha – A composed improvisation for cymbal and Max patch (7’)
Curtis Institute Young Artists Summer Program faculty concert, 2014


Large Projects

Mont Blanc – Works for violin, piano, percussion and electronics (ca. 45’)
Performed by Ted Babcock (percussion/electronics), Michael Djupstrom (piano), Shannon Lee (violin) in Cambridge, MA, and Philadelphia, 2016-2017

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