Chamber Music | Kile Smith • composer

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...

Melomanie CD Release Party, includes Nobility of Women

by Kile Smith | Aug 31, 2014 | Chamber Music, new music

Mélomanie’s new CD Excursions is about to be released, with my dance-suite sextet for Baroque instruments, The Nobility of Women on it; the release party/concert is Saturday, September 13th, in Wilmington. All the edits have been finished for about two weeks,...

The Nobility of Women

by Kile Smith | Jun 25, 2014 | Baroque music, Chamber Music, Dance Music, new music

The Nobility of Women 2011; Baroque fl, ob, vn, viola da gamba, Baroque vc, harpsichord; 20′ Commissioned and premiered by Mélomanie This 20-minute work takes its name from the 1600 dance instruction manual Nobiltà di Dame by Fabritio Caroso. The name of the book...

Bremen in Harrisburg March 29th

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

Wish I could be there! My children’s piece for narrator, violin, and cello, The Bremen Town Musicians, is being played Saturday morning at 11, March 29th, at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg, Pa., as part of the big Book Festival there. The players...

The Bremen Town Musicians Come to Harrisburg

by Kile Smith | Feb 1, 2014 | Chamber Music

I’m happy to report that Market Square Concerts in Harrisburg, Pa., has programmed my children’s work The Bremen Town Musicians for a performance on Saturday morning, 29 Mar 2014, at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 11 am. It’s part of a big book...

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2020 GRAMMY Classical Producer of the Year, Blanton Alspaugh, Canticle, Vocal Arts Ensemble, Craig Hella Johnson

2020 Estonian Recording of the Year, A Birch in Winter CD with Where Flames a Word, Voces Tallinn, David Puderbaugh

Oct. WFMT Chicago Fall Fund Drive pledge gift Live Art CD incl. Where Flames a Word. Chicago Chamber Choir, Christopher Windle

2 Oct. Fleisher Discoveries podcast. The Un-Classical Janáček Sinfonietta

3 Oct. The Dawn’s Early Light. Classical New Releases, WRTI Philadelphia, Mark Pinto

4 Oct. The Heavens Declare. St. Mary’s Episcopal, Richmond, Ryan Tibbetts

10 Oct. Host, interviewer, Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra livestream

11 Oct. The Dawn’s Early Light. Going Beyond Words, KVNO Omaha, Stanley Schmidt

18 Oct. Go Forth into the World in Peace. Premiere, Knox Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, Earl Rivers

24 Oct. Everyone Sang, Chicago Chamber Choir virtual concert, Christopher Windle

25 Oct. Completed Blue Lobster, baritone, piano, commissioned by Benjamin Flanders

26 Oct, week of. The Singing Guitar Classical Album of the Week, including The Dawn’s Early Light. WRTI-FM Philadelphia

29 Oct. The Dawn’s Early Light. WRTI-FM Philadelphia, Debra Lew Harder

1 Nov. Reflection. Kurt Knecht, St. Paul’s Episcopal, Kansas City, MO

2 Nov. Everyone Sang, Loyola University Chicago Choir virtual concert, Kirsten Hedegaard

2 Nov. Fleisher Discoveries podcast. The Idea of America in the Ives Holidays Symphony

7 Nov. Host, interviewer, Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra livestream

16 Nov. Completed America the Beautiful, commissioned by iSing Silicon Valley Girl Choir

18 Nov. Scott Tucker & Kile Smith, subscriber-only interview on Rise Up Shepherd, and Follow, Choral Arts Society of Washington, 5:00

22 Nov. Singing City Webinar Panel, 2:00, The Composer’s Craft in Choral Music, with Jeffrey Brillhart, Melissa Dunphy, Jay Fluellen

11–16 Dec. The Consolation of Apollo and The Waking Sun. Recording with The Crossing and Quicksilver

20 Dec. The Consolation of Apollo and The Waking Sun. The Crossing @ Christmas, Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia

Recent CDs

The Arc in the Sky. The Crossing. 2020 Grammy nomination, Best Choral Performance

Canticle and Alleluia. Vocal Arts Ensemble. 2020 Grammy, Classical Producer of the Year, Blanton Alspaugh

In This Blue Room, other songs. Lyric Fest

The Nobility of Women. Mélomanie

The Stars Shine, from The Consolation of Apollo. The Same Stream

Vespers. Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, and The Crossing

Where Flames a Word. The Crossing

Where Flames a Word. Khorikos

Where Flames a Word. Voces Tallinn. 2020 Estonian Recording of the Year

Where Flames a Word. Chicago Chamber Choir

Selected publications

Alleluia. SATB, 6′. Hal Leonard

The Consolation of Apollo. SATB, perc, 35′. MusicSpoke

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day. SATB, bells, 3′. Hal Leonard

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. SATB, org, 3′. Concordia.