
David Rakowski grew up in St.Albans, Vermont and studied at New England Conservatory, Princeton, and Tanglewood, where his teachers were Robert Ceely, John Heiss, Milton Babbitt, Paul Lansky, and Luciano Berio. He has received a large number of awards and fellowships, including the Elise L. Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Rome Prize, and he has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music (for pieces commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the US Marine Band).
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Piano Concerto No. 2: II. Elegy for Milton: Slow—Freely, expressive—Allegro—A bit slower—Cadenza—Tempo primo
Mind the Gap No. 18 from Préludes Book II (2012)
Compass: I. W
Piano Concerto No. 2: II. Elegy for Milton: Slow—Freely, expressive—Allegro—A bit slower—Ca
Winged Contraption
Compass: II. N
Compass: III. S
Étude No. 30 A Gliss is Just a Gliss
Persistent Memory: I. Elegy
Stolen Moments: I. Fast
Piano Concerto: II. Adagio
Persistent Memory: II. Variations, Scherzo, And Variations
Piano Concerto: IV. Poco Andante, Quasi Adagietto, Con Gusty; Allegro; Cadenza; Allegro
Étude No. 21 Twelve Step Program
Piano Concerto: I. Freely; Vivace
Etudes, Book 1: Etude No. 2, "Bam!"
For Wittgenstein
Stolen Moments: III. Sultry
Compass: IV. E
Piano Concerto: III. Scherzando
Stolen Moments: II. Slow and expressive
Stolen Moments: IV. Vivace
Piano Concerto No. 2: I. Molto Vivo—Half tempo—Double tempo—Molto vivo—Half tempo
Étude #57 Chord Shark
Zipper Tango
Étude #70 Stutter Stab
Piano Concerto No. 2: III. Scherzo—Cadenza—Tempo primissimo—Scary fast
Etudes, Book 1: Etude No. 1, "E-Machines"
Exact Change: Heads
Étude #54 Pedal to the Metal
Étude #53 Cell Division
The Ladies Who Lunch
Ten Of A Kind: Labyrinth
Exact Change: Tails
Étude #68 Absofunkinlutely
Hotfingers: II. Growing Season Blues
Hotfingers: I. Superfractalistic
Étude #42 Madam I'm Adam
Étude #56 Crazy Eights
Étude# 51 Zipper Tango
Etudes, Book 1: Etude No. 3, "Nocturnal"
Etudes, Book 1: Etude No. 8, "Close Enough for Jazz"
III. Bop It
Wayo No. 51 from Préludes Book VI (2015)
Étude #52 Moody's Blues
Étude #55 Eight Misbehavin'
Étude #59 Zeccatella
Étude #66 Less Is
Étude #63 Killer B's
Étude #69 Palm de Terre
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