Recordings
THE MERCURIAL GUITARIST - Volkmar Zimmermann
Release Date: 11/28/2025Label: Gateway Music(Released as a single)Written for the guitarist Volkmar Zimmermann, The Mercurial Guitarist by Faye-Ellen Silverman consists of five short movements of changing moods (Lyrical, Mysterious, Angry, Mysterious, Lyrical). In a bow to the composer Béla Bartók, this work is in arch form. Throughout the work, several guitar techniques, such as pizzicato, harmonics, sul tasto, and ponticello are used to color the work.
Volkmar Zimmermann studied guitar at Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main and at The Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen, where he graduated with a concert-diploma in 1988. He has performed throughout Europe, Russia and North America both as a soloist and in collaboration with numerous classical and contemporary ensembles. Volkmar Zimmermann has appeared on several recordings since his album-debut with German contemporary jazz-rock band PSI in 1977.
SELF PORTRAIT - Sergio Puccini
Release date: 04/18/2025Label: Dreams Records
This recording includes Processional by Faye-Ellen Silverman, written for Sergio Puccini, and works by Alan Broadbent, Maurice Ravel, and Germán Cáceres. Here are Silverman’s program notes:
“I met the guitarist Sergio Puccini in the mid 1990s, when he came to New York City as a guest soloist with Music Under Construction, a cooperative of member composers. At this meeting, he asked me to create a work for solo guitar. Processional, the result of this request, was written in 1996. As the name implies, Processional is based on the idea of a parade. Chordal sections (the first of which uses double dotted rhythms) alternate with non-chordal, contrapuntal sections derived from typical guitar techniques. Both chordal and non-chordal sections get shorter and the tempi faster as the work progresses. Each of the first three non-chordal sections moves higher than the last one, while the fourth stays in the higher range established by the third. In keeping with this progression, the first of these sections has the melody mainly in the lower voice, while the fourth has the melody in the upper voice. At the end, the work comes full circle - the closing resembling the opening.”
TIME LINGERS - Todd Rewoldt
Release Date: 09/01/2023
Label: Composers Concordance
Catalogue number: COMCON0082
Saxophonist Todd Rewoldt, accompanied by Lesi Mai, has released a CD containing works by Seth Boustead, Dan Cooper, Debra Kaye, Mark Kostabi, Faye-Ellen Silverman, Peter Jarvis, and Gene Pritsker. Faye-Ellen Silverman's work, Interval Untamed: Five Movements, is for solo alto saxophone. The CD is distributed by Naxos recordings. Recognized for his virtuosity and seductive sound, saxophonist Todd Rewoldt has established himself as a vital member of the modern music community. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Todd is equally comfortable performing in the styles of classical, modern, electroacoustic and jazz. His hundreds of performances have taken him throughout the United States and to important concert venues in Sweden, Germany, Slovenia, Italy, Mexico, China, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, Ireland, and Australia. Dr. Rewoldt regularly performs as a first-call saxophonist with the San Diego Symphony, in duo recitals with the brilliant pianist, Lesi Mei, and as saxophonist with the internationally acclaimed SWARMIUS Ensemble (of which he is a founding member). Todd is a Selmer Artist and performs on Selmer Saxophones exclusively.
MUSIC FOR ENGLISH HORN ALONE - Jacqueline Leclair
Release Date: 09/01/2020
Label: New Focus
Oboist Jacqueline Leclair releases a collection of premiere works for English horn that covers a wide range of stylistic territory and explores the rich, penetrating voice of this beguiling instrument. Featuring music by Meera Gudipati, Hannah Kendall, Faye-Ellen Silverman, Jenni Brandon, Karola Obermüller, Lisa Bielawa, and Cecilia Arditto, Leclair's virtuosity, flexibility, and lyricism abound in these major contributions to the English horn repertoire. Oboist Jacqueline Leclair is Associate Professor of Oboe at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. She is a member of Ensemble Signal, and can frequently be heard performing solo and chamber music concerts internationally. She was a member of Alarm Will Sound for eight years until resigning in 2011. Dr. Leclair was on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music (NYC) and was Assistant Professor of Oboe at Bowling Green State University (Ohio) from 2007 to 2012. During her last two years at BGSU she also served as the Director of the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music.
STORIES FOR OUR TIME - MUSIC FOR TRUMPET BY WOMEN COMPOSERS
Release Date: 11/11/2016
Music Publishers: Universal Music MGB Songs [1-3]; Seesaw Music [4-6, 18-20]; Anne Guzzo [7-9]; Brass Wind Publications [10-16]; Oxford University Press [17].
Label: MSR Classics
Catalog number: MS1589
World Premiere Recordings
The title track, by New York composer Faye-Ellen Silverman, features an array of coloristic devices, including contrasting dynamics, articulations, trills, flutter tonguing and mutes. The first movement begins with a dramatic proclamation showcased by wide interval leaps. The second movement is more lyrical, although the interval structures from the opening movement return at the end. The final movement is lively in character and, this time, more consonant.
Performers: THOMAS PFOTENHAUER, trumpet
VINCENT FUH, piano
ZIGZAGS - Joanna Ross Hersey
Release Date: 1/23/2015Produced by Joanna Ross Hersey & William BendrotEngineered/Mastered by William BendrotJoanna Ross Hersey’s second solo album, Zigzags, features four new compositions which place the tuba and euphonium in an electronic music setting featuring collaboration through both composition and improvisation. The album also contains a new arrangement by Joanna of the music of Hildegard von Bingen, as well as a solo for unaccompanied tuba, entitled Convent Window, composed for this album. The title track, composed in 1988, is a ten minute unaccompanied tuba solo by New York composer Faye-Ellen Silverman.
Performers: Joanna Ross Hersey - Tuba; William Bendrot - Synthesizers, Theremin, Drum and Percussion Programming
TRANSATLANTIC TALES -
Faye-Ellen Silverman
Release Date: 3/11/2011Label: Albany RecordsCatalog number: TROY 1250
This recording is a symbol of cross-ocean friendship between composer Faye-Ellen Silverman and guitarist Volkmar Zimmermann and includes two pieces commissioned by Zimmermann and his Corona Guitar Kvartet. All the works feature guitar and range from works for solo guitar, guitar quartet and works for voice with guitar.
Performers: Volkmar Zimmermann, guitar; Per Dybro Sorensen, Kristian Gantriss, Mikkel Andersen, guitars; Malene Bichel and Sara Fiil, soprano; Maria Sook Garmark, clarinet; Jan Lund, tenor; and Ninnie Isaksson, viola.
Works: Processional (guitar), 3 Guitars (idem), In Shadow (soprano, clarinet, guitar), Wilde's World (tenor, viola, guitar), Danish Delights (soprano, guitar), and Pregnant Pauses (4 guitars).
MANHATTAN STORIES -
Faye-Ellen Silverman
Release Date: 10/01/2008Label: Albany RecordsCatalog number: TROY 1155
“I have had a life-long love affair with the borough of my birth — Manhattan — in the city of New York. Here many of my friends live, and here the compositions on this CD originate. Each piece tells its own story.”
Performers: Lisa Albrecht, trombone; Mary Barto, flute and alto flute; Andrew Bove, tuba; Kari Jane Docter, cello; Bruno Eicher, violin; Ann Ellsworth, horn; Jeanne Corinne Goffi-Fynn, soprano; David Jolley, horn; Michael Lipsey, marimba; and Jo Williamson, mezzo-soprano.
Works: Dialogue (horn & tuba), Dialogue Continued (horn, trombone & tuba), Translations (violin & cello), Protected Sleep (horn & marimba), Love Songs (soprano & flute/alto flute), Left Behind (mezzo.soprano & horn) and Taming the Furies (flute).
POINTS OF ENTRY: The Laurels Project, Vol. II
Release Date: 08/24/2008Label: Capstone RecordsCatalog number: CPS-8806
Contemporary Works for solo flute by American women composers.
Performers: Nancy Stagnitta, Nina Assimakopoulos, Bryan Guarnuccio, Terri Sundberg, and Katherine Kemmler.
Composers: Joyce Hope Suskind, Binnette Lipper, Jane Brockman, Cynthia Van Maanen, Laura Kaminsky, Melinda Wagner, Anne Le Berge, Elizabeth Verco, Faye-Ellen Silverman (Taming the Furies, performed by Bryan Guarnuccio), Marti Epstein, Ruth Schontal, Tania Gabrielle French, Libbey Larsen and Nancy Galbraith.
MUSIC FOR VELVET
Velvet Brown (Composer), Neal Corwell (Composer), Eric Ewazen (Composer), Alice Gomez (Composer), Verne Reynolds (Composer), Faye-Ellen Silverman (Composer), Henri Tomasi (Composer), Neal Corwell (Performer), Roberto Arosio (Performer), and Velvet Brown (Performer) .
EWAZEN: Tuba Sonata;
REYNOLDS: Tuba Sonata;
CORWELL: 2 AM;
BROWN: Te Dago Mi;
SILVERMAN: Zigzags;
GOMEZ: Bonampak;
TOMASI: Danse Sacree Velvet Brown, tu;
Neal Corwell, eu; Roberto Arosin,
Release Date: 05/16/ 2003Label: Crystal RecordsCatalog number: CD693
WORKS BY FAYE-ELLEN SILVERMAN AND RALPH SHAPEY
Release Date: 12/09/1992Label: New World RecordsCatalog Number: NW 355Composers: Ralph Shapey and Faye-Ellen Silverman
Performers: Joel Krosnick, Gilbert Kalish, Ronald Anderson and David Shostac
Conductors: Ralph Shapey (Shapey's works)
Stephen Mosko (Silverman's works)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Contemporary Chamber Players University of Chicago, Aspen Music School Faculty
Ralph Shapey: Kroslish Sonate, Concertante No.1 for Trumpet and 10 Players
Faye-Ellen Silverman: Restless Winds, Speaking Alone, Passing Fancies
CONTEMPORARY OBOE: THREE ASPECTS - James Ostryniec
Released: 1982 (LP)Label: Finnadar
Catalog number: 90008-1
(LP recording)
This work contains a recording of Oboe-sthenics by Faye-Ellen Silverman, along with works by Gunther Schuller and Vladimir Ussachevsky. The name Oboe-sthenics is a play on the term calisthenics, since the difficulty of the work creates a major work-out for the oboe. The work was created for James Ostryniec, who wanted a composition that would include the extended techniques developed by the oboist Lawrence Singer. James Ostryniec was one of the foremost exponents of contemporary oboe technique in America. Joseph McLellan of the Washington Post called him “an oboist for all seasons and styles” and Joseph Horowitz of The New York Times described him as “clearly a sensitive, expert performer.”