Live In Concert

David Ibbett: Electro Symphony

Live in concert, David’s music takes the audience on an electro-symphonic journey of growth and discovery, bridging the worlds of classical chamber music with electronic beats and sampled sounds of the universe. Joined by virtuoso performers like pianist Sophia Subbayya Vastek, the program explores particle physics, the fractal patterns of nature, the growth of an embryo, bleached coral reefs and rising global seas.

Many of David’s pieces were composed in collaboration with the Music of Reality concert series, a project that combines music and science in live performance. He has collaborated with physicists, biologists, engineers, sociologists and oceanographers to create diverse multimedia works that come together in an immersive surround-sound performance. 

Article: Pick of the Week 2/18/19-  Timesunion

Article: David Ibbett, composer - Boston Voyager

Article: ALBUM REVIEW: Sophia Subbayya Vastek’s Histories - Second Inversion

Article: ’Reef Music’ concert explores underwater world through music - Daily Free Press

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Music

Click the titles to see information about each piece, listen, purchase scores and view sample pages. Purchase of all electronics scores includes the design of a custom electronic patch to suit the needs of performance

Video Works

Drosophila (2019) - footage by Tomer et al 2012

Sycamore Life - footage by Neil Bromhall
charity single for the Green Cambridge Heritage Tree Project

Works for Instruments and Electronics

Cellular Dance (2019) full length ballet or concert piece
for piano and electronics performer, 30’00”

Floods and Tears (2018) for piano and electronics, 11'30"

Phenomena of Growth (2017) for piano and electronics, 10'00"

Beauty From Nothing (2016) for piano and electronics, 20'00"

Branches (2015) for marimba, bass clarinet and electronics, 6'30"

Europa (2015) tone poem for flute (doubling piccolo, flute, alto flute) and electronics, 30'00"

Islands (2014) concerto for cello and electronics, 15'00"

For Mending (2011) song without words for cello & electronics, 5'00"

Cellosampler (2008) for cello and electronics, 5'40"

For Each Step (2011) song without words for violin & electronics, 4'45"

Cambrian Air (2011) for horn duo and electronics, 13'00"

Re: Noir (2009) for tenor saxophone and electronics, 9'40"
Concert version of dance score commissioned by choreographer Jacob Hobbs

Solo and Chamber Ensemble

The Snow Thawed And So Did We (2017) song without words for violin and piano, 4'00"

Here and Nowhere Else (2016) for percussion quartet, 10'00"

Roots (2015) for cello trio, 10'00"

Where the Path Ends (2015) for horn and piano, 7'00"

Blues (2014) for viola and piano, 7'20"

Briar Rose (2014) for sextet: flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, viola and cello, 6'20"

Without Words (2010) for quintet: 3 hangs, clarinet/bclar, two violins and cello, 8'45"
- arrangements available with percussion/piano replacing hangs

Large Ensemble/Orchestra

Albion Trails (2009) for octet: flute, clar/bclar, horn, vibraphone, harp, violin, viola, cello, 7'00"

Lodestar (2009) for sinfonietta, 6'40"

Acousmatic

Piano Poems (2014) four electroacoustic miniatures, 7'40"

Miksang (2011) stereo acousmatic, composed to accompany a contemporary ballet by choreographer Letizia Mazzeo, 11'52"

Vocal

The Madness of Lady Macbeth (2009) for soprano and piano, 4'00"