Chamber Music | Kile Smith • composer

Adieu, Adieu

by Kile Smith | Mar 7, 2018 | Broad Street Review, Chamber Music, Fleisher Collection, new music

A tune came to me one morning as I walked down the hallway, about to turn the 180 degrees into the stairwell leading up to the third floor. That’s where I compose. I mention the tune coming to me because it hardly ever happens. It may happen to other composers, but...

Fanfare on Ein feste Burg

by Kile Smith | Oct 23, 2017 | Brass Music, Chamber Music, Early Music, new music

Fanfare on Ein feste Burg. Two versions. 1’30” A. For 7 Renaissance instruments: 2 Soprano Shawms, Alto Shawm, 2 Sackbuts, Quartbass Dulcian, large Tabor B. Brass Quintet with optional large Drum Commissioned and Premiered 20 Oct 2017 by Piffaro, the...

Nobility & Melomanie on WWFM

by Kile Smith | Jan 29, 2015 | Chamber Music, Dance Music, new music, Radio

David Osenberg interviews my friends in the Baroque/new music chamber group Mélomanie tonight on WWFM’s Cadenza, Thursday at 10 pm Eastern, with a rebroadcast at 7 am Saturday January 31st. Two movements from my dance suite The Nobility of Women will air. This...

Nobility of Women in Chamber Music America

by Kile Smith | Jan 8, 2015 | Baroque music, CDs, Chamber Music, new music

The Baroque/New music group Mélomanie is featured in the current Chamber Music America magazine, coinciding with the release of their new CD Excursions. The CD includes my work for them, The Nobility of Women (with guest-artist Priscilla Herreid), and the article...

In Rio

by Kile Smith | Nov 16, 2014 | CDs, Chamber Music, new music

The Brazilian composer Sergio Roberto de Oliveira, holding the poster for Mélomanie‘s concert in Rio de Janeiro on November 22nd, during the international four-day festival Compositores de Hoje. I was honored to meet Sergio in Wilmington at our release party for...

Network for New Music's Exquisite Corpse

by Kile Smith | Oct 28, 2014 | Chamber Music, new music

I was honored to be asked to celebrate Network for New Music’s 30th anniversary by composing, with 29 others, an exquisite corpse, along the lines of the literary parlor game of a whisper-down-the-lane story construction. Each of us had 48 hours last summer to...

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19 Aug. “When the stars begin to fall” from American Spirituals, Book Two. David Bennett, cello. Sixth Presbyterian, Pittsburgh

16 Sep. “Conversation in the Mountains” from Where Flames a Word. The Crossing, Philadelphia Fringe Festival

19 Sep. “Conversation in the Mountains” from Where Flames a Word. The Crossing, Park Avenue Armory, NYC

20 Sep. “Conversation in the Mountains” from Where Flames a Word. The Crossing, Park Avenue Armory, NYC

11–13 Oct. The Consolation of Apollo. Red Shift, Trey Davis, cond. College Music Society Conference, Vancouver

13 Oct. The Stars Shine from The Consolation of Apollo. Auckland Youth Choir

20 Oct. The Stars Shine from The Consolation of Apollo. Choral Arts Society of Washington, two performances

3 Nov. my son my son. Khorikos. Shrine Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, 154 Sullivan Street, New York City.

Dec. The Consolation of Apollo. Red Shift, Trey Davis, cond. Baton Rouge

7 Dec. The Consolation of Apollo. Ars Nova Singers, Thomas Edward Morgan, cond. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Boulder

9 Dec. The Consolation of Apollo. Ars Nova Singers. St. Paul Community of Faith, Denver

13 Dec. The Consolation of Apollo. Ars Nova Singers. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Boulder

15 Dec. The Consolation of Apollo. Ars Nova Singers. First Congregational Church, Longmont

20 Jan 2019. New commissioned work. Arcadian Trio. Abington Presbyterian Church, Abington, Pa., 3:00

20 Jan 2019. The Consolation of Apollo. Charlotte Symphony Chamber Choir, Davidson, NC

27 Jan 2019. New commissioned work. Arcadian Trio. First Presbyterian Church, Moorestown, N.J.

12 Feb 2019. The Consolation of Apollo. Charlotte Symphony Chamber Choir

10 Apr 2019. New commissioned work. Arcadian Trio. Penn State Abington, 7:30