Joseph Schwantner

"If there's any more gorgeous contemporary music than Joseph Schwantner's I've yet to hear it...for sheer beauty of sound it's unsurpassed."
– Mark Lehman, The American Record Guide
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Joseph Schwantner

Works

Everything works to create the desired sensuous and emotional effusion."
–Mark Lehman, The American Record Guide
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Recent & Upcoming Events

Nov 22, 2026 7:30 pm
New Morning for the World "Daybreak of Freedom"
Orchestra Hall, , Chicago, Illinois, ,
Chicago Youth Symphony
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New Morning for the World will be performed by the Chicago Youth Symphony on their New Horizons concert, November 22, 2026 in Orchestra Hall in Chicago. Conducted by Michael Lewnanski and narrated by LaRob K. Rafeal.

New Releases

Palindrome's Dance

2024
Robert Blocker, piano

Daydreams... "Reverie" for Violin, Vocal Quartet and Glass Harmonica

2019
Yevgeny Kutik, violin Voice and Glasses: Michael Barrett, Corey Hart, Sarah Moyer, Carey Shunskis

Shades of Sound: Chamber Music for Flute and Piano

2018
Lisa Garner Santa Nataliya Sukhina

Alchemize

2017
The University of Southern Mississippi Wind Ensemble Catherine a. Rand, Conductor

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FAST TRACK "Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble"
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Leonard Slatkin, Yevgeny Kutik, Joseph Schwantner
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Schwantner: Concerto for Percussion - The University of Texas, Jerry Junkin; Thomas Burritt - soloist
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Joseph Schwantner - Luminosity - UT AUSTIN Wind Ensemble 05.01.2016
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UMich Symphony Band - Joseph Schwantner - ...and the mountains rising nowhere (1977)
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Joseph Schwantner: Sparrows
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Schwantner Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra (1995) - Texas Festival Orchestra, Vladimir Kulenovic
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Sojourn "Reflections on Thoreau" The Palm Beach Symphony Gerard Schwarz-Conductor
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Velocities
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...And the Mountains Rising Nowhere By Joseph Schwantner
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Daydreams, "Reverie" for Violin, Vocal Quartet and Glass Harmonica