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"Unlike the garden-variety brand of wind-up performers who dutifully recycle the same sturdy pieces, they exhibited strong individual personalities and a controlled looseness together that gave the music a spontaneity absent from so many recitals." --The Washington Post

Rave reviews from critics and audiences have encouraged Gary Schocker and guitar virtuoso Jason Vieaux to make their first duo recording. Selections include standard flute and guitar works, Schocker's new composition "Dream Travels" and their own arrangements of Latin music.

Order Regrets and Resolutions here

Gary Schocker´s first CD, re-issued on the JDR label, is what one might call a performance history of the modern flute. Tracks range from a work by Theobald Boehm, literally the inventor of the modern flute, to Kuhlau, and through works of Paul Taffanel and Philippe Gaubert who together wrote the ``bible of flute studies.´

The disc ends with Gary´s composition Regrets and Resolutions, extending the long line of works by composer/flutist performers -- Boehm, Kuhlau, Gaubert and Taffanel among them - into later 20th-century techniques and a jazz influenced style.

Selections: Paul Taffanel/Andante Pastorale and Scherzettino, Philippe Gaubert/Madrigal, Theobald Boehm/Grand Polanaise, Gary Schocker/Sicilienne and Scherzo, Johannes Donjon/Etudes de Salon, Philippe Gaubert/Sicilienne, Franz Doppler/Fantasie Pastoral Hongroise Op. 26, Friedrich Kuhlau/Divertissement No. 5, Philippe Gaubert/Nocturne and Allegro Scherzando and Gary Schocker/Regrets and Resolutions

Order Airborne here

Airborne is a CD representing both a fine composer and a brilliant flutist. Hear why the Washington Post wrote ``Schocker dazzled as few artists can... [he] is one of the best - period.´´ The CD, entirely of Schocker compositions, features his own performances on solo flute, as well as with guest artists, and one discovers why the scores to his compositions sell so rapidly through Theodore Presser (his Publisher).


Selections: All compositions by Gary Schocker: Musique Francaise, Vocalise, Airborne, Green Places, In Memoriam, Solosuite, Soliloquy, Three Dances for Two Flutes, and Sleep Song

Order The Awakening and  Far From the Madding Crowd here

This disc features songs from two exciting new musicals recorded by a cast of today's top Broadway performers. Music by Gary Schocker with book and lyrics by Barbara Campbell. The Awakening is based on the book by Kate Chopin; Far from the Madding Crowd is based on the Thomas Hardy novel.

Selections: Gary Schocker, music; Barbara Campbell, book and lyrics. Wonder What She'd Tell Me Now? An Everyday Man, Isn't That The Way? Th'e Game Begins, Fanny, The Wheel Of The Year, A Few Hours More, After All, Weeds, My Wedding Day, Always the Sea, Little Girls, Spirit of the Summer Night, Dimanche Apres-midi, When I Touch The Keys, After Midnight, Fairy Tales, You Are The Sea

Order Gary Schocker's Bach, Handel, Telemann CD here

Featuring works for the flute by Georg Philipp Telemann, George Frederick Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach. The composers were not only three masters of the Baroque period, but also some of the most prolific composers of all time.

Selections: G.P. Telemann/Sonata in F minor from Der Getreue Musikmeister, G.P. Telemann/Canonic Sonata No. 1 in G major, J.S. Bach/Sonata B.W.V. 1034 (E minor), G.F. Handel/Sonata Op. 1 nr. 11 in F major, J.S. Bach/Partita, B.W.V. 1013 (A minor), J.S. Bach/Sonata B.W.V. 1039 (G major)

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Gary Schocker's artistry shines in this recording of the Mozart Flute Quartets with the Chesky String Quartet. The disc also includes of the Quartet for Oboe and Strings. Schocker, who has a special fondness for the second movement of this quartet, has transcribed the virtuosic oboe part for flute and composed a short cadenza as well.

One of America's most distinguished and sought after chamber ensembles, the Chester String Quartet has been called "one of the best and brightest of the country's young string quartets" by the Boston Globe. Their engaging style and deep sense of musical commitment have brought them rave reviews from audiences and critics throughout the United States as well as Latin America and Europe.

Selections: No. 1 in D, KV 285; No. 2 in G, KV 285a, No. 3 in C, KV Anh. 171 (285b); No. 4 in A, KV 298; Quartet in F for Oboe and Strings KV 370 (368b) (Arr. for Flute by Gary Schocker)

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A unique variety of musical forms stretching from light classical to contemporary makes for a stirring presentation by Orquesta Nova (New Orchestra). Aimed particularly at those who enjoy both chamber and salon music, with a touch of world flavor.

Selections: La Muerte Del Angel, Little Village, Oblivion, Drume Negrita, Al Caer La Noche, Serenata, Por Toda a Minha Vida, Amparo, Danza Caprichosa, Retrato Em Branco e Preto, Wapango, Nocturne, Choro No. 1, Atorrante

Order Salon New York here

Salon New York grants a luscious, stress-free listening experience with a passionate array of Latin-American music. Co-led by Argentine composer/arranger/pianist Carlos Franzetti and violist Juliet Haffner, eight classical instrumented musicians (mainly strings) comprise Orquesta Nova on explorations of Latin-American classical, popular, and folkloric musical traditions composed by Astor Piazzolla, Raul Matamoros, Antonio Carlos Jobim and other greats. 

Selections: Lunfardo, Battery Park, El Esquinazo, La Flor de La Canela, Tango For Astor, Son De La Loma, Atras Da Porta, Arabesque, Modinha, Cuatro Canciones Favoritas (medley), Milonga Del Angel, La Punalada, Este Seu Olhar, Song Without Words