CRAIG  MICHAEL  DAVIS | Composer

LARGE | ENSEMBLE

My Darling Lucy (2021) 60 min

Dance Film

Libretto & Choreography by Megan Kudla

Piano Concerto No. 1 (2020) 60 min

Piano + Strings

Written for Sohyun Park

Work in Progress (2018-19) 10 min

Orchestra (3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/2hrp.pno.timp.3perc./2.2.2.3.2strings)

Commissioned and Premiered by the Indiana University Symphonic Orchestra (TBD)

War Against the Soul (2017) 7 min

Wind Band

Commissioned and Premiered by Eric Smedley and the Indiana University Symphonic Wind Band

I Never Saw the Point of Breathing (2017) 8 min

Saxophone Ensemble: 12 Saxophones

Commissioned and Premiered by the Indiana University Student Composers' Association, April 2018

Letters to a Terrorist (2016-2017) 60 min

SSA, Flute, B. Clarinet, Piano, Perc., E. Guitar, VC, DB

Excerpts Premiered at the "Breaking the Fourth Wall" New Music Festival 2017

Floating Cities (2017) 7 min

Guitar Orchestra: 12 Classical Guitars

Placed "Finalist" in the 2017 ASCAP Young Composer Awards 2017

Commissioned and Premiered by Daniel Duarte and the Indiana University Guitar Ensemble

Imaginary Spaces (2016) 8 min

Flute, B. Clarinet, Piano, Perc., E. Guitar, VC, DB

Premiered at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in NYC, 2016

Where I Am Now (2016) 10 min

Flute, B. Clarinet, Piano, Perc., E. Guitar, VC, DB

Premiered at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in NYC, 2016

Re-Creation (2015, 2016) 49 min

String Orchestra

Placed "Finalist" in the Sacrarium Composition Competition for Sacred Music 2015

Premiered by the L'viv Philharmonic Orchestra, May 2015 

Death Has Friends (2015) 8 min

Flute, B. Clarinet, Piano, Perc., E. Guitar, VC, DB

Premiered at the Firehouse Space in Brooklyn, 2015

The Ground Beneath My Feet (2015) 6 min

Flute, B. Clarinet, Piano, Perc., E. Guitar, VC, DB

Premiered at the Firehouse Space in Brooklyn, 2015

CHAMBER | ENSEMBLe

Simple Strings (2020-21) 35 min

Piano + Delay Pedal, Guitars, Percussion: (Electronic Drums, Drum Set, & Bass Drum), and Strings (2 vlns, 1 vla, 1 vc, 1 db)

Simple Strings #1 | On The Slowing of Light

Simple Strings #2 | The True Vine

Simple Strings #3 | Living Water

Simple Strings #4 | All That Remains

Simple Strings #5 | All Other Ground Is Sinking Sand

Simple Strings #6 | And The Days Turn To Years

Simple Strings #7 | Broken Vessel

Simple Strings #8 | Sleepless Nights

TRIO (2021) 40 min (Album Released April 15th, 2021)

Piano + Delay Pedal, E. Guitar, Drum Set

1. Industry

2. All Other Ground Is Sinking Sand

3. Sleepy Giant

4. Ataraxia

5. Floating

6. Half Life

7. I Never Saw the Point of Breathing, Part 1

8. I Never Saw the Point of Breathing, Part 2

9. I Never Saw the Point of Breathing, Part 3

10. Sleepless Nights

11. Empty Spaces

CLOCKWORK (2020-21) 12 min

Flute, Oboe, and Bassoon

Commissioned by Elicio Winds

For Marion (Horn Quartet No. 2) (2020) 12 min

French Horn

Commissioned by Craig Alan Stewart for Marion’s 63rd Birthday

INDUSTRY (2019) 3 min

Piano, Electric Guitar, and Drumset

Recorded by core members of the Craig Michael Davis Ensemble

Harmonic Counterpoint (2018) 8 min

Wind Quintet

Premiere: Commissioned by Æther Quintet

Nuclear Weapons (2018) 6 min

Percussion Quartet + Video

Premiere: Commissioned by the Oregon Bach Festival's Composers Symposium "New Sound Worlds 2018" in July 2018

Ever So Slightly The World Changes (2018) 12 min

7 Harps

Written for and dedicated to Carolyn Anderson  

I Never Saw the Point of Breathing (2017) 8 min

Version for Saxophone Quartet

Commissioned and Premiered by the Indiana University Student Composers' Association, April 2018

Gasping For Air (2017) 6 min

Fl, Cl, Cello, Percussion, Piano

Premiered at the "Breaking the Fourth Wall" New Music Festival 2017

Forgetting Faces (2016) 5 min

String Quartet No. 2

Commissioned and Premiered by the Indiana University Student Composers' Association, March 2017

Innocent Bystander (2015) 5 min

String Quartet No. 1

Commissioned and Premiered by the JACK Quartet  

The Space Between Spaces (2014) 3 min

String Trio  

Resonance (2014) 8 min

Snare Drum Quartet

Commissioned and Premiered by the NYU Percussion Ensemble 

Cayucos (2013) 6 min

Vln, VC, DB, Vibes, Piano, E. Guitar, Trombone, Clarinet, or Available Instruments

Biting The Apple (2013) 5 min

Piano and Tenor

Poem by Jeanie Greensfelder

White Noise (2013) 4 min

Piano, Vibraphone, Cello 

Refracted (2013) 25 min

Cello Trio

Black Light (2013) 20 min

Electric Guitar Quartet  

Entropy is a Property of the System (excerpt) (2013) 8 min

Clarinet, B.Cl., Vln, VC, E.Guitar, Vibes, Marimba, E.Organ

Drone 8 (2012) 5 min

Four Pianos

Perspective (2012) 10 min (excerpt) 

Flute, Alto Sax, Vln, VC, DB, Piano or Available Instruments

The Manifesto (2012) 10 min

Available Instruments

SOLO | DUO

WORKS FOR SOLO PIANO

All That Remains (2020) 2 min

Instrumentation: The Glass Piano

The True Vine (2019) 2 min

Instrumentation: The Glass Piano

Volumes of Thought (2019) 40 min (Album Released December 1st, 2019)

The Glass Piano + Delay Pedal (Solo Piano Album No. 2)

1. Broken Vessel (Day 97)

2. Sleepless Nights (Day 88)

3. The Weight of the World (Day 56)

4. Strange And Beautiful (Day 101)

5. All Other Ground is Sinking Sand (Day 136)

6. Empty Spaces (Day 86)

7. And the Days Turn To Years (Day 15)

8. Circles (Day 4)

9. The Grand Design (Day 85)

10. Poor Music (Day 143)

11. What is Man That You Are Mindful of Him? (Day 91)

12. You Don’t Even Know My Name (Day 157)

| Official Music Videos FOR Volumes of thought |

*All Videography by Davenport Records; Choreography by Megan Kudla and Maddie Grande

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (2017) 60 min

Solo Piano & Film

12 Etudes (2016) 60 min

Solo Piano Album No. 1

Placed "Finalist" in the 2016 ASCAP Young Composer Awards 

1. The Girl Speaks

2. The Ground Beneath My Feet

3. The Delusion of Will

4. To: Philip Glass

5. To: Erik Satie

6. To: Michael Gordon

7. Innocent Bystander Part 1

8. Innocent Bystander Part 2

9. Light Waves

10. S.L.O. Down

11. What You See Isn’t Always What You Get

12. The Ballerina

 The Raven (2012) 11 min

Piano & Spoken Word

Annabel Lee (2012) 6 min

Piano & Spoken Word

Meditations (2012) 8 min

Prepared Piano

Life Cycle (2012) 12 min

Solo Piano and ebow

Indigo Bliss (2012) 3 min

Solo Piano

 San Francisco Parade (2012) 5 min

Solo Piano & 5 ebows

 Mirage (2012) 3 min

Toy Piano  

WORKS FOR SOLO PERCUSSION

WORKS FOR SOLO GUITAR

Fractured Glass (2019) 3 min

Classical Guitar | Commissioned by Mike Reardon

WORKS FOR SOLO HARP

Ever So Slightly the Wold Changes (2018) 12 min

Harp + 6 Pre-Recorded Harps

WORKS FOR SOLO CELLO

Reflected Light (2018) 7 min

Cello + Fixed Media

WORKS FOR BASS CLARINET DUO

S.L.O. Down (2015) 5 min

Bass Clarinet Duo

OPERA | Ballet | Dance | THEATER

Ascension (2019) 25 min

Electronics + Modern Dance

Choreographed by Elizabeth Shea & Company;

Premiered at the grand re-opening of the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, IN, November, 2019

Letters to a Terrorist (2017) 75 min

SSA, Flute, B. Clarinet, Piano, Perc., E. Guitar, VC, DB

CHORUS | VOCAL

Selah (2015) 5 min

SSATTB, Piano, Glockenspiel, Bass Drum, Double Bass

50 States project

WORKS inspired by the 50 united states

ALABAMA

CLOCKWORK (2020-21) 12 min

Flute, Oboe, and Bassoon

Commissioned by Elicio Winds

CALIFORNIA

Cayucos (2013) 6 min

Vln, VC, DB, Vibes, Piano, E. Guitar, Trombone, Clarinet, or Available Instruments

NEW YORK

ARRANGEMENTS

Harmonic Counterpoint (2018) 8 min

Horn Quartet

Premiere: Commissioned by Mikayla McCommas for her undying support for new music

I Never Saw the Point of Breathing (arr. Reed Quintet)(2018) 8 min

Oboe (& English Horn), B-Flat Cl, Alto Sax. (& Sop. Sax), Bassoon, B. Clarinet

I Never Saw the Point of Breathing (arr. Sax Quartet)(2018) 8 min

Soprano Sax, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (J.S. Bach)(2016) 7 min

Flute, B. Clarinet, Piano, Perc., E. Guitar, VC, DB

Lost Illusions (Felix Mendelssohn) (2016) 5 min

Flute, B. Clarinet, Piano, Perc., E. Guitar, VC, DB

The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I & II (excerpt)(2013) 120 min

Arrangement for Strings

MULTI-MEDIA 

FILM & Radio

Official Film Reel* (2018) 4.5 min

Samples From Most Recent Projects

One Track Interview (2018) 45 min

Interview by One Track Radio

IU GPSG Podcast (Ep. 7) (2017) 27 min

Radio Show Produced by Rick Brewer

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927) (2017) 62 min

1927 Silent Film by Walter Ruttmann

The Strong Man (2017) 6 min

1926 Silent Film

The Run Through (2016) 3 min

Documentary Short

The Midnight Screening (2012) 75 mins

Various Compositions and Foley

Raising Ryan (2012) 22 min

Documentary Film

Chosen (2012) 1 min

Animation Trailer

*recordings available upon request

ELECTRO-ACCOUSTIC

Ascension (2019) 25 min

Fixed Media + Contemporary Dance Choreography

Reflected Light (2018) 7 min

Cello + Fixed Media

Ever Be Deconstruction (2017) 6 min

Fixed Media

Safe Haven (2017) 6 min

Piano + Electronics           

Quiet Music (2016) 7 min

Music Concrete     

All The Sound We Cannot Hear (2016) 6 min

Music Concrete

For Your Convenience (2013) 4 min

Music Concrete

Tuning Fork Etude (2013) 7 min

Tuning Forks and Two E. Pianos

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