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1967
1/9 Piano Sonata
Saluting
Elliott
Carter
Edward Auer, Piano
5/2
Adagio and Canto from Eight Pieces
for Four Timpani (World Premiere)
Jan Williams, Percussion
Cello Sonata
Robert Martin, Cello
Carlos Alsina, Piano
1968
4/14 String Quartet No. 1
Composers String Quartet
1969
2/16 String Quartet No. 2
Juilliard String Quartet
Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and
Harpsichord
1951
12/18 The Defense of Corinth
Harvard Glee Club
C. Wallace Woodworth, Conductor
1953
11/10 Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello,
and Harpsichord (World Premiere)
Claude Monteux, Flute
Harry Shulman, Oboe
Bernard Greenhouse, Cello
Sylvia Marlowe, Harpsichord
1957
4/25, 26, and 28
Holiday Overture
New York Philharmonic
Dimitri Mitropoulos, Conductor
1958
10/23 String Quartet No. 1
Fine Arts Quartet
1959
11/6 Dust of Snow from Three Poems of
Robert Frost
Jeanne Gordon, Mezzo-Soprano
Norman Johnson, Piano
1960
11/17, 18, 19, and 20
Holiday Overture
Piano Sonata
Charles Rosen, Piano
5/8
Steve J. Sherman
A history
of his works
at Carnegie Hall
Karl Kraber, Flute
Charles Kuskin, Oboe
Fred Sherry, Cello
Paul Jacobs, Harpsichord
Gilbert Kalish, Piano
Paul Jacobs, Harpsichord
Contemporary Chamber Ensemble
Arthur Weisberg, Conductor
1970
10/14 Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and
Harpsichord
1961
12/1 Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
New York Choral Society
Martin Josman, Conductor
1962
3/29 Dust of Snow and The Rose Family
from Three Poems of Robert Frost
Tell me where is fancy bred?
Voyage
Alice Esty, Soprano
David Stimer, Piano
1964
2/27 Eight Etudes and a Fantasy
New York Woodwind Quintet
1965
1/12 Tell me where is fancy bred?
Laurence Bogue, Baritone
Stanley Silverman, Guitar
1966
2/9 Variations for Orchestra
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski,
Conductor
2/22 Canaries, March, and Saeta from Eight
Pieces for Four Timpani (NY Premiere)
Double Concerto for Harpsichord
and Piano
Samuel Baron, Flute
Ronald Roseman, Oboe
Alexander Kouguell, Cello
Sylvia Marlowe, Harpsichord
1972
4/22 Variations for Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti, Conductor
1973
1/29 String Quartet No. 1
Composers String Quartet
5/21 String Quartet No. 1
Concord String Quartet
1975
1/13 A Fantasy about Purcell’s “Fantasia upon
One Note” (World Premiere)
Brass Quintet
1976
3/11 Improvisation, Moto perpetuo, and Recitative from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
Daniel Gottlieb Shulman, Timpani
Gordon Gottlieb, Timpani
3/22 Piano Sonata
Ann Schein, Piano
4/20 Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and
Harpsichord
Nadine Asin, Flute
Stephen Taylor, Oboe
Eric Wilson, Cello
Lionel Party, Harpsichord
5/22 Cello Sonata
Daniel Morganstern, Cello
Peter Basquin, Piano
1977
3/24 Duo for Violin and Piano
Rolf Schulte, Violin
Ursula Oppens, Piano
11/13 Woodwind Quintet (“Francophilic Quintet”)
Sonneries Quintet
12/19 Brass Quintet
American Brass Quintet
1978
5/8 Cello Sonata
Michael Rudiakov, Cello
Evelyne Crochet, Piano
10/26 Elegy
Guillermo Figueroa, Viola
Alan Feinberg, Piano
Pastoral
Stephen Taylor, English Horn
Alan Feinberg, Piano
Three Poems of Robert Frost
Susan Davenny Wyner, Soprano
Yehudi Wyner, Piano
Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and
Harpsichord
Harvey Sollberger, Flute
Stephen Taylor, Oboe
Eric Bartlett, Cello
Paul Jacobs, Harpsichord
Voyage
Warble for Lilac-Time
Susan Davenny Wyner, Soprano
Yehudi Wyner, Piano
American Brass Quintet
2/20
Woodwind Quintet (“Francophilic Quintet”)
Arioso Woodwind Quintet
2/23 Piano Concerto (NY Premiere)
Samuel Lipman, Piano
American Symphony Orchestra
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Conductor
Courtesy of Elliott Carter
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Richard Dufallo, Percussion
Jan Williams, Percussion
New York Philharmonic
Carlos Chavez, Conductor
12/22 String Quartet No. 2
Lenox Quartet
Carter and his wife Helen Frost-Jones at their home in
Waccabuc, NY, circa 1962
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10/13 Night Fantasies
11/4 A Mirror on Which to Dwell
Ursula Oppens, Piano
Carmen Pelton, Soprano
Rachel Rudich, Flute
Wesley Nichols, Oboe and
English Horn
Matthew Goodman, Clarinet
William Trigg, Percussion
Erica Keisewetter, Violin
Veronica Salas, Viola
Madeleine Shapiro, Cello
Victor Kioulaphides, Contrabass
Claire Heldrich, Conductor
Adagio, Canaries, March, and Saeta from
Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
William Trigg, Timpani
Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and
Harpsichord
Rachel Rudich, Flute
Wesley Nichols, Oboe
Madeleine Shapiro, Cello
Martin Goldray, Harpsichord
Courtesy of Elliott Carter
11/5 Woodwind Quintet
Carter with Leonard Bernstein
3/7
Michael Boriskin, Piano
Donna Prokupchuk, Flute
Melanie Feld, Oboe
Todd Palmer, Clarinet
Peter Sharmon, Horn
Lois Steinberg, Bassoon
1979
3/20 A Symphony of Three Orchestras
Orchestra of the 20th Century
Arthur Weisberg, Conductor
12/11 Holiday Overture
National Orchestral Association
Ronald Schweitzer, Conductor
3/20 Piano Sonata
Charles Abramovic, Piano
4/22 A Mirror on Which to Dwell
Canaries and Moto Perpetuo from
Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
Garner Yvonne, Timpani
1981
2/12 Syringa
Barbara Martin, Mezzo-Soprano
Thomas Paul, Bass
New Music Consort
Harvey Sollberger, Conductor
3/16 Elegy
Da Capo Chamber Players
3/30 Brass Quintet
American Brass Quintet
9/24 Piano Sonata
David Holzman, Piano
William Rothstein, Piano
Lauren Weiss, Flute
Pamela Epple, Oboe
Christine Gummere, Cello
Linda Kobler, Harpsichord
1985
2/14 Cello Sonata
David Shamban, Cello
Jeffrey Middleton, Piano
5/18 Woodwind Quintet
West Side Madrigalists
6/16 To Music
Gregg Smith Singers Chamber
Ensemble
Gregg Smith, Conductor
Linda Quan, Violin
Aleck Karis, Piano
Crystal Garner, Viola
Russell Woollen, Piano
2/28 and 12/6
Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and
Harpsichord
5/20 Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
3/13 Duo for Violin and Piano
9/23 Elegy
Pastoral
New York Woodwind Quintet
4/14 Woodwind Quintet
Da Capo Chamber Players
Lieurance Woodwind Quintet
Claudia Stevens, Piano
1984
2/3 Woodwind Quintet
Lucy Shelton, Soprano
New Music Consort
Harvey Sollberger, Conductor
12/17 Eight Etudes and a Fantasy
1980
1/26 Woodwind Quintet
Woodwind Quintet
12/5 Piano Sonata
9/22 Voyage
Kurt Ollmann, Baritone
Donald St. Pierre, Piano
9/23 and 9/25
Warble for Lilac-Time
New American Woodwind Quintet
Rosewood Chamber Ensemble
9/23 Night Fantasies
Stephen Drury, Piano
Piano Sonata
Alwin Bar, Piano
12/12 Night Fantasies
Gilbert Kalish, Piano
1986
5/15 Canto, Improvisation, and Moto Perpetuo
from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
Daniel Druckman, Timpani
1987
1/29 Esprit rude / esprit doux
Rachel Rudich, Flute
Robert Yamins, Clarinet
2/10 Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi
Rolf Schulte, Violin
4/7
Warble for Lilac-Time
Margaret Cusack, Soprano
Howard Lubin, Piano
9/21 Warble for Lilac-Time
Carolyn G. James, Soprano
Howard Lubin, Piano
9/22 Voyage
Mary Ann Hart, Mezzo Soprano
Dennis Helmrich, Piano
Warble for Lilac-Time
Carolann Page, Soprano
Susan Almasi, Piano
9/26 Voyage
Mary Ann Hart, Mezzo Soprano
Dennis Helmrich, Piano
9/24 Night Fantasies
Hakon Austbo, Piano
Piano Sonata
Duane Hulbert, Piano
Margaret Cusack, Soprano
Howard Lubin, Piano
1983
1/19 Piano Sonata
Robert Hairgrove, Piano
3/6
Holiday Overture
American Symphony Orchestra
Paul Lustig Dunkel, Conductor
4/10 Night Fantasies
Charles Rosen, Piano
9/23 and 9/25
Duo for Violin and Piano
Courtesy of Elliott Carter
12/12 Piano Sonata
Aspen Wind Quintet
Maryvonne Le Dizes-Richard,
Violin
Jean-Claude Henriot, Piano
1982
2/18 String Quartet No. 2
Evan Paris, Violin
Linda Quan, Violin
Lois Martin, Viola
Madeleine Shapiro, Cello
Carter with Pierre Boulez, circa 1970s. Boulez premiered Carter’s A Symphony of Three Orchestras
with the New York Philharmonic on February 17, 1977.
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Courtesy of the Carnegie Hall Archives
9/12 Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and
Harpsichord
Carter gave Carnegie Hall this musical quote from Enchanted Preludes, performed at Weill Recital Hall on
March 15, 1989, by Madeleine Shapiro, piano, and Dominique Soucy, flute.
Triple Duo
Marianne Gythfeldt, Clarinet
Michael Parloff, Flute
Rolf Schulte, Violin
Fred Sherry, Cello
Daniel Druckman, Percussion
Tara Helen O’Connor, Flute
Melinda Newman, Oboe
John Whitfield, Cello
Sara Laimon, Harpsichord
11/7 Elegy
4/18 Enchanted Preludes
Tara Helen O’Connor, Flute
John Whitfield, Cello
Wesleyan Camerata
Vadim Mazo, Conductor
1994
2/6 Triple Duo
6/12 Fragment
New Music Consort String
Quartet
New Millennium Ensemble
5/25 Piano Sonata
Christopher Oldfather, Piano
1998
10/31 Clarinet Concerto (NY Premiere)
Charles Neidich, Clarinet
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
11/5 Pastoral
New Music Consort
Alan Thomas, Guitar
11/19 Eight Etudes and a Fantasy
Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and
Harpsichord
Sylvan Winds
Jennifer Patti, Flute
Douglas Keith, Oboe
Nita Karpf, Cello
Idele Hitchcock, Harpsichord
1988
2/24 Woodwind Quintet
4/25
Chelsea Chamber Ensemble
Pastorale (World Premiere)
Heinz Holliger, English Horn
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
1990
1/18 Three Occasions (NY Premiere)
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, Conductor
4/30 Woodwind Quintet
Manhattan Wind Quintet
5/29 Heart not so heavy as mine
12/4
Bemidji Choir
Paul Brandvik, Conductor
Oboe Concerto (NY Premiere)
Heinz Holliger, Oboe
San Francisco Symphony
Herbert Blomstedt, Conductor
Piano Concerto
Ursula Oppens, Piano
American Composers Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
1989
3/15 Birthday Flourish
John Abbracciamento, Trumpet
James Donato, Trumpet
Raymond Mase,Trumpet
Ben Neill, Trumpet
Susan Radcliffe, Trumpet
Aaron Kernis, Conductor
5/12 Cello Sonata
Diane Chaplin, Cello
Phillip Bush, Piano
10/28 Cello Sonata
Joshua Gordon, Cello
Joy Michele Cline, Piano
Enchanted Preludes
Dominique Soucy, Flute
Madeleine Shapiro, Cello
3/27 Elegy
Rozanna Weinberger, Viola
James Barbagallo, Piano
9/18 Duo for Violin and Piano
Joan Berkhemer, Violin
Christopher Oldfather, Piano
11/13 Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and
Harpsichord
Mindy Kaufman, Flute
Sherry Sylar, Oboe
Mark Shuman, Cello
Gerald Ranck, Harpsichord
1995
2/25 Symphony No. 1
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Patricia McCarty, Viola
Martin Amlin, Piano
10/25 Adagio tenebroso (NY Premiere)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis, Conductor
12/1
Crystal Garner, Viola
Robert Kopelson, Piano
Violin Concerto (NY Premiere)
Ole Bohn, Violin
American Composers Orchestra
Michael Gielen, Conductor
Brad Lubman, Piano
Con leggerezza pensosa
3/2
3/5
Figment
Fred Sherry, Cello
Gra
Marianne Gythfeldt, Clarinet
Daniel Druckman, Percussion
3/9
Patricia Spencer, Flute
Jo-Ann Sternberg, Clarinet
Andre Emilianofff, Cello
Two Diversions (World
Premiere, Carnegie Hall commission)
Kirill Gerstein, Piano
What Next? (NY Premiere)
Lynne Dawson, Soprano
Michael John Devine,
Boy Soprano
William Joyner, Tenor
Hanno Muller-Brachmann,
Bass-Baritone
Simone Nold, Soprano
Hilary Summers, Contralto
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim, Conductor
Allegro scorrevole
Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Daniel Barenboim, Conductor
12/12 Tempo e Tempi
Lucy Shelton, Soprano
Ensemble Sospeso
Stefan Asbury, Conductor
Rhonda Rider, Cello
Lois Shapiro, Piano
1992
5/31 Voyage
Warble for Lilac-Time
Eric Malson, Piano
Anna Patrick Singer, Soprano
11/9 Eight Etudes and a Fantasy
Sylvan Winds
1993
2/2 Night Fantasies
Gloria Cheng, Piano
3/30 Night Fantasies
Sonia Rubinsky, Piano
The Rose Family and Dust of Snow
from Three Poems of Robert Frost
Lauren Wagner, Soprano
Frederick Weldy, Piano
7/17 Piano Sonata
Samuel Brodsky, Piano
2000
1/8 Enchanted Preludes
Esprit rude / esprit doux
Marianne Gythfeldt, Clarinet
Rolf Schulte, Violin
Fred Sherry, Cello
Canaries, Canto, and Saeta from Eight
Pieces for Four Timpani
Pastoral
Naomi Drucker, Clarinet
Marilyn Sherman Lehman, Piano
Hana Kim, Clarinet
1996
3/22 90+
12/10 Cello Sonata
5/5
Grace Lin, Cello
4/4
12/17 Gra
Tammy Lum, Piano
1991
11/17 Elegy
Pastoral
1999
2/12 Figment
4/23 Elegy
12/2 Piano Sonata
Duo for Violin and Piano
Rolf Schulte, Violin
Martin Goldray, Piano
Daniel Purgason, English Horn
Peter Mendelsund, Piano
12/9 Changes
Photograph by Geek Zwetsloot, courtesy of Elliott Carter
10/9 Canon for 4, Homage to William
Carter with John Cage in Amsterdam, 1987
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4/27 Woodwind Quintet
12/17 Tempo e Tempi
Ariel Winds
Susan Narucki, Soprano
The MET Chamber Ensemble
James Levine, Conductor
Cello Sonata
Carter Brey, Cello
Benjamin Pasternack, Piano
5/21 Woodwind Quintet
2007
1/17 Cello Sonata
Darrett Adkins, Cello
J. Y. Song, Piano
Sylvan Winds
9/21 In Sleep, In Thunder: Six Poems
of Robert Lowell
Triology: Bariolage
Bridget Kibbey, Harp
Figment
Figment No. 2 (Remembering Mr. Ives)
Min-Young Kim, Violin
Adrienne Kim, Piano
1/28 In Sleep, In Thunder: Six Poems of Robert
Lowell
Fred Sherry, Cello
Hiyoku (World Premiere)
The MET Chamber Ensemble
James Levine, Conductor
Charles Nedich, Clarinet
Ayako Oshima, Clarinet
10/17 Two Diversions
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Cello
Elena Bashkirova, Piano
Kelly Ricks, Trumpet
Johannes Pfannkuch, Trombone
Svetoslav Stoyanov, Vibraphone
William Anderson, Mandolin
Daniel Lippel, Guitar
Bridget Kibbey, Harp
Oliver Knussen, Conductor
Four Lauds
Rolf Schulte, Violin
Quintet for Piano and Winds
Marianne Gythfeldt, Clarinet
Jacqueline Leclair, Oboe
Daniel Grabois, Horn
Peter Kolkay, Bassoon
Ursula Oppens, Piano
10/2 Tempo e Tempi
Susan Narucki, Soprano
Peggy Pearson, Oboe and
English Horn
Charles Neidich, Clarinet and
Bass Clarinet
Curtis Macomber, Violin
Fred Sherry, Cello
John Harbison, Conductor
Cello Sonata
Joel Krosnick, Cello
Gilbert Kalish, Piano
Steep Steps (World Premiere)
Virgil Blackwell, Clarinet
10/18 Cello Concerto (NY Premiere)
Yo-Yo Ma, Cello
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim, Conductor
2002
4/14 Variations for Orchestra
10/12 Symphony No. 1
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
10/20 Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and
Harpsichord
American Composers Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
4/24 Asko Concerto
Timothy Munro, Flute
Ariana Nella Ghez, Oboe
Carol McGonnell, Clarinet
Michael Norsworthy, Bass Clarinet
Peter Kolkay, Bassoon
Borgar Magnason, Contrabass
Kelly Daniels, Horn
Kelly Ricks, Trumpet
Johannes Pfannkuch, Trombone
Aiyun Huang, Percussion
Molly Morkoski, Piano
Bridget Kibbey, Harp
Miranda Cuckson, Violin
David Fulmer, Violin
Richard Yongjae O’Neill, Viola
Mike Block, Cello
Oliver Knussen, Conductor
12/3
Michael Parloff, Flute
John Ferrillo, Oboe
Jerry Grossman, Cello
Gerald Ranck, Harpsichord
Au Quai (NY Premiere)
Maureen Gallagher, Viola
Peter Kolkay, Bassoon
Retracing (World Premiere)
Peter Kolkay, Bassoon
2003
1/18 Gra
Paul Wybraniec, Clarinet
4/20 Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi
Bernhard Hartog, Violin
4/22 Elegy
Kazakh National Academy of Music
String Quartet
Phoenix String Quartet
Rivendell Quartet
Semetai Quartet
Scott Williamson, Tenor
Scott Beard, Piano
3/4
Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Soprano
The MET Chamber Ensemble
James Levine, Conductor
12/12 String Quartet No. 5
Juilliard String Quartet
2004
5/17 Two Diversions
Night Fantasies
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano
5/22 Enchanted Preludes
Cheryl Gobbetti Hoffman, Flute
Jonathan Golove, Cello
12/4 String Quartet No. 5
Arditti Quartet
12/10 String Quartet No. 5
Daedalus Quartet
2005
1/23 Variations for Orchestra
The MET Orchestra
James Levine, Conductor
2/13 Luimen
The MET Chamber Ensemble
James Levine, Conductor
10/10 Three Illusions (NY Premiere)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
James Levine, Conductor
10/30 Dialogues (NY Premiere)
Nicolas Hodges, Piano
The MET Chamber Ensemble
James Levine, Conductor
11/4 Soundings (NY Premiere)
Daniel Barenboim, Conductor and Piano
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
A Mirror on Which to Dwell
Lucy Shelton, Soprano
The MET Chamber Ensemble
James Levine, Conductor
10/19 A Mirror on Which to Dwell
Luimen
Ursula Oppens, Piano
Sylvia Rosenberg, Violin
2/15 Voyage
10/16 Cello Sonata
Carter with Juilliard String Quartet
2001
1/13 Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi
1/30 Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi
4/1
Diversions No. 1
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano
4/18 Duo for Violin and Piano
Yosuke Kawasaki, Violin
Vadim Serebryany, Piano
5/13 Dialogues
Three Illusions
Nicolas Hodges, Piano
The MET Orchestra
James Levine, Conductor
10/28 Tempo e Tempi
Susan Narucki, Soprano
The MET Chamber Ensemble
James Levine, Conductor
2008
2/27 Piano Quintet
Thomas Sauer, Piano
Brentano String Quartet
3/12 Piano Sonata
Helene Wickett, Piano
3/20 Caténaires
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano
5/22 Variations for Orchestra
The MET Orchestra
James Levine, Conductor
6/13 Asko Concerto
Ensemble ACJW
Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor
10/7 Esprit rude / esprit doux
Erin Lesser, Flute
Romie de Guise-Langlois, Clarinet
2006
3/12 Figment
Adrian Fung, Cello
4/2
Con leggerezza pensosa
Benjamin Lulich, Clarinet
David Fulmer, Violin
Christopher Gross, Cello
5/5 Intermittences (NY Premiere,
Carnegie Hall co-commission)
Peter Serkin, Piano
10/15 In the Distances of Sleep (World
Premiere, Carnegie Hall commission)
Michelle DeYoung,
Mezzo-Soprano
The MET Chamber Ensemble
James Levine, Conductor
12/11 Caténaires (World Premiere)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano
Jeff Herman
Donald Hunstein
The MET Chamber Ensemble
James Levine, Conductor
Eliott Carter, 2003