INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC FOR LARGE ENSEMBLES

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC FOR LARGE ENSEMBLES
Works for eight or more performers, excepting choral and vocal music

	Between Thought and Thing Scored for flute, trumpet, horn, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion. Written in 2006 for the Contemporary Music Ensemble of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. World Premiere November 9-10, 2006, Tenri Culture Center, New York. read more Score: 11 x 8.5 Landscape format, 67 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $20.00 Set of Parts $60.00 Shipping $3.95 View the complete score

	Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Written in 1980. Winner of the Prometheus Orchestra's 1982 composition competition. Score: 11 x 14 Portrait format, 63 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $30.00 Shipping $3.95 Parts available as rental only

	Cheville, for orchestra Written in 1976. World Premiere March 13-14, 1977, Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley, by the University Symphony Orchestra, Michael Senturia conducting. Score: 17 x 11 Landscape format, 12 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $10.00 Shipping $3.95 Parts available as rental only

	Concerto for Piano and Nine Instruments Written in 2007. Scored for piano solo with flute, clarinet, trumpet, horn, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, and percussion. commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trust for Network for New Music. World Premiere April 20, 2007, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and April 21, 2007, Third Street Settlement School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with pianist Charles Abromovic and conductor Jan Krzywicki. read more "..vibrant... interwoven with elegiac piano solos." - Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times Score: 11 x 17 Portrait format, 46 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $25.00 Shipping $3.95 Parts available as rental only View the score of the first movement

	Equinox, for Clarinet Solo and Chamber Orchestra Written in 2008. Scored for clarinet solo with piano, harp, percussion and strings (5-4-3-3-1). Commissioned by the American Composers Forum for the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. World Premiere performances Feb. 5-8, 2009 in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Berkeley, with Dimitri Ashkenazy, clarinet, and Benjamin Simon, conductor. "Festinger writes in an atonal idiom, striving for a lyrical sound similar to Alban Berg's... Varying textures and patterns for different instruments give variety and interest to the strings. Rhythmic figures were passed around and elaborated on. Such moments are a delight to the intellectual ear." - San Francisco Classical Voice Score: 11 x 17 Portrait format, 66 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $25.00 Shipping $3.95 Parts available as rental only View the complete score

	La Vue du Pont Marie, for Orchestra Written in 2001. Commissioned by the Redwood Symphony Orchestra. World Premiere February 10, 2002 at the College of Notre Dame, Belmont, California, Eric Kujawsky conducting. Score: 11 x 17 Portrait format, 59 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $30.00 Shipping $3.95 Parts available as rental only

	Octet Written in 1991. Scored for flute/piccolo, oboe/English horn, clarinet/bass clarinet, horn, violin, viola, cello and piano (1991), commissioned for Parnassus by the Jerome Foundation. World Premiere April 16, 1991 at Merkin Hall, Hebrew School for the Arts, New York, by Parnassus, Anthony Korf conducting. "Richard Festinger's Octet, played Monday night by the expert ensemble Parnassus, was deft and pretty." - New York Times Score: 11 x 17 Portrait format, 42 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $20.00 Set of Parts $60.00 Shipping $3.95

	Paysages Modernes, for Orchestra Written in 1983, for large orchestra. Unperformed and unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation for the University of California, Berkeley Score: 11 x 17 Portrait format, 48 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $30.00 Shipping $3.95 Parts available as rental only Shipping $3.95

	Violuminescence, for Violin Solo and Chamber Orchestra Written in 1985. World Premiere November 13, 1995 by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, with Joseph Edelberg, violin; winner of the 1995 Boston Chamber Ensemble competition, performed September 28, 1996 at the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Bela Keyes, violin. Winner of the Riverside Symphony Third International Competition. read more "[Violuminescence] is full of interesting effects - unusual groupings of violin with solo instruments or groups of instruments... But it is more than a string of effects; it is music, colorful, closely argued, dramatic and interesting." - Boston Globe Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 81 pages Available from C.F.Peters Publishing Price: Score $33.00

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