Elias Gilbert, composer
Works
2025
Five Glissandi
algorithmic sound art
2024
Mensuration Canon no. 1 for one player in six voices (4'53")
clarinet solo with computer ​​
dedicated to the memory of Larry Polansky
recorded December 2024
​
Music of the Boids
algorithmic audiovisual art​
2022
Meditation (9’)
clarinet, violin, and singing bowl
premiered August 2022 at Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
with Benjamin Goodwin (violin) and Nick Uhlig (bowl)
​
Da-ba-da-dat (2’)
version for string quartet
​
Quartet (8’)
version for string quartet of violin quartet (2021)
​
2021
Violin Quartet (8’)
four violins
premiered August 2021 at Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
by the Fourtes Quartet
​
2020
Variations on a Cossack Lullaby (11’)
full orchestra 2.2.2+bcl.2:4.3.3.1:timp.4perc(marimba, chimes, sus cymbal, cymbals, tambourine, temple blocks, sd, whip, hand clap, triangle, gong, bd).pno:strings
scheduled April 2020 premiere by SC Youth Symphony (canceled)
​
Da-ba-da-dat (2’)
saxophone quartet
premiered and recorded 2020 by Nuovi Venti Saxophone Quartet
​
2019
The Red Sequoia March (4’)
wind band 2+picc.1.3+bcl.1.2as.ts.bs:3.3.3.1.1:4perc(glock, cym, sd, bd)
premiered March 2019 by Santa Cruz High School Symphonic Band​
​
2011
Three Rounds by Eli Gilbert (age 9)
co-written with Larry Polansky
published in Polansky's a small book of rounds (2014)
​
Arrangements and Transcriptions
Orchestra
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Howard Shore) - 2024
with Maggie Schnyer
for Davenport Pops Orchestra
​
The Yale Princeton Football Game (Charles Ives) - 2024
for Davenport Pops Orchestra
​​​
Taylor Swift: The Eras Medley, "Love Story" (Taylor Swift) - 2023
with June Yoo and others
for Davenport Pops Orchestra
​
Encanto (Lin-Manuel Miranda) - 2022
with June Yoo and Melody Gebremedhin
for Davenport Pops Orchestra
​
Industry Baby (Lil Nas X) - 2021
for Yale Symphony Orchestra (performed 2021, '22, '24)
also performed by Davenport Pops Orchestra (2022)
​​
Musical Theater
Word Nerd (Charlie Romano & Will Wegner) - 2022
Associate Orchestrator
orchestrations for "Man of my Words", "Just a Game", "Not Just a Game"
Griffin Strout, Orchestrator / Music Director
​
Pep Band
Truth Hurts (Lizzo) - 2019
for Santa Cruz High School "Cardinal Regiment" Band
​​
Soy Yo (Bomba Estéreo) - 2016​​​​​​
for Santa Cruz High School "Cardinal Regiment" Band