George Boziwick has had works performed by organizations and ensembles, which include The National Association of Composers, the Newport Music Festival, and the Dorian Wind Quintet. He has received grants form Meet the Composer, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and the American Music Center. In 2005 he was the composer in-residence for the Goliard Ensemble's Southeastern Music Festival. His composition Magnificat has been published by C.F. Peters, and his music has been recorded on the Opus One label.

*George Boziwick also holds a Master of Library Service degree from Columbia University and is Chief of the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. He has contributed articles to NOTES

The Journal of the Music Library Association, American Music, the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Blues.

He is also a blues harmonica player and has performed with a variety of groups and individuals including Bob Gaddy, Larry Dale, and Roscoe Gordon.

Out of the Blues "melts pentatonic melody naturally into hints of blue note scales."
-- Bernard Holland, The New York Times
First Dance for piano and marimba is "an elegant duet. This is music for everyone."
-- James North, Fanfare

Scores and performance materials are available from:
  Red Skies Music
614 10th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215-4402
(718) 768-1411
gboziwick@nyc.rr.com



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** Chamber music: winds Top
  * The Calling
for solo oboe (3 minutes)
  * Out of the Blues
for bassoon quartet (5 minutes)
  * Third Dance
for woodwind quintet (10 minutes)
  * Woodwind Quintet
(12 minutes)
  * Super Collider
for solo flute (4 minutes)
 
** Chamber music: brass Top
  * Brass Vignettes  notes RealAudio 161KB   Score sample (in pdf format)
for brass quintet
Performers on the audio clip: The Modern Brass Quintet
  * Second Dance
for brass quintet (with bass trombone or tuba) (13 minutes)
  * Éclat pour Notre Dame
for brass quintet (with bass trombone) (8 minutes)
  * Lament
for solo horn (3 minutes)
  * The Calling
for solo trumpet (3 minutes)
  * Summer Fanfare
for two trumpets, horn, tenor trombone (3 minutes)
 
** Chamber music: mixed Top
  * First Dance  notes RealAudio 93KB
for piano and marimba (9 minutes)
Recorded on Opus One CD#162 The Sonorous Landscape
Performers on the audio clip: Loretta Goldberg, piano, Kory Grossman, marimba
  * Suspensions in Autumn
for violin and piano (7 minutes)
  * Red Skies at Night
for two pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart and oboe (7 minutes)
Recorded on Opus One CD#135 Tone Over Tone
  * Fabliau of Florida
for oboe (or clarinet), violin, viola, 'cello and piano (10 minutes)
  * Quartet for Oboe and String Trio
(10 minutes)
 
** Orchestral music Top
  * Points of Departure
for chamber orchestra (15 minutes)
1-1-1-1, 2-2-1, marimba/percussion(1), strings
  * Etude
for large orchestra
2/picc-2/eh-2-2, 4-2-1-1, vibraphone/percussion(2), harp, strings
 
** Solo keyboard music Top
  * Boats against the Current
for piano (6 minutes)
Recorded on Opus One CD#162 The Sonorous Landscape
  * Perpetual Chant
for organ (6 minutes)
 
** Crossover music Top
  * Out of the Blues
for toy piano (6 minutes)
Also available for woodwind quintet or bassoon quartet
  * Emily Dickinson Then and Now
vocal quartet and chamber orchestra
This work pairs a traditional hymn and fuguing tune with a soft swinging rhythm and blues setting of two elegant thought provoking Dickinson poems. The second setting incorporates a beautiful harmonica solo which can be provided by the composer, making this lush work a unique crowd pleasing experience.
 
** Vocal music Top
  * Beyond the Last Thought  notes RealAudio 161KB   Score sample (in pdf format)
for soprano, oboe, bassoon and marimba (13 minutes)
on texts of Isabella Gardner, Wallace Stevens, and Emily Dickinson
Recorded on Opus One CD#162 The Sonorous Landscape
Performers on the audio clip: Carmen Pelton, soprano, Gerard Reuter, oboe, Cyndee Iverson, bassoon, Kory Grossman, marimba
  * When Time is Over  notes RealAudio 118KB   Score sample (in pdf format)
Five Poems of Emily Dickinson
for high or medium voice and piano (12 minutes)
Performers on the audio clip: Patricia Magnuson, soprano, Joan Harkness, piano 
* Choral music Top
  * Earth is Short
Poems of Emily Dickinson
for unaccompanied voices SATB (15 minutes)
  * Perpetual Surfaces
for unaccompanied voices SATB
on three texts by Wallace Stevens (10 minutes)
 
** Sacred music Top
  * Anima Christi
from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola
for unaccompanied voices SATB (5 minutes)
  * The Lamb
for unaccompanied SATB, text by William Blake,
a setting Appropriate for Christmas or other sacred occasions.
Price: $10 per score $8 for five or more.
  * Panis Angelicus
for eight part choir acapella
  * Magnificat (Canticle of Mary)
responsorial setting for choir, organ and congregation.
  * Mass
for choir and organ with congregational responses
  * Mass of Celebration
for choir, organ, brass (optional guitar, bass, drums) and congregational responses
  * Three Sacred Meditations
for unaccompanied voices SATB

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