Musicatlas
Music
Solos, duos, trios
- Saucy Sally, Mad Mary, for trombone and percussion (1 player)
- You Never Know, for mandolin and guitar (also violin, guitar)
- Hurry, Wait, for viola and marimba (or piano)
- Trio Contra, for flute, viola, and harp (or piano)
- Contralite, for double bass and piano
- Contraforte, for double bass and piano
- Mix2, for flute and marimba (also flute, clarinet or flute, violin)
- For One, for piano
- Sonata, for flute and piano
- Dazyes, for horn and percussion (1 player)
Mixed ensemble
- Insensible Choices, for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
- You Never Know, for flute quartet (arr.)
- Fine Tuning, for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano
- Clearly Glass, for flute, double bass, and glass instrument (4 players)
- Rage Within, for flute, oboe, horn, trumpet, bass trombone, violin (2), viola, cello, double bass, and piano
- By Five, for flute, oboe, cello, piano, and percussion (1 player)
- Four Easy Pieces for Quartet, for flute, oboe, violin, and harpsichord
Voice, with ensemble
- This Bread I Break, for mixed voices, clarinet, horn, violin, cello, and piano (text by Dylan Thomas)
Orchestra
- Earth Crosser, for 222(+bcl)2(+cbsn) 4221 pn hp timp + 3 perc strings
- Variation on a Theme, for 2222 2211 strings (youth orchestra)
- Release!, for 2221 2220 +2 perc strings
Strings
- Statesboro Blues, for electric string quartet (arr.)
- Atonement, for string orchestra
- Intermezzo, for string quartet
Life
Composer/flutist Frederic Glesser (b. 1956) grew up near Toledo, Ohio, where his early musical influences were rock, jazz, and music of the Baroque era. He studied jazz with Gene Parker and had flute studies with Kay Hartsfeld. He was later educated at Kent State University (BMus) in Ohio where he studied composition with James Waters and David Stewart, and studied flute performance with Raymond DeMattia and Maurice Sharp (former principal flutist, Cleveland Orchestra). His graduate studies where undertaken at the University of Miami (MMus) in Florida where he studied composition with Dennis Kam. Glesser has also been an artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Martino.
Glesser’s music has been presented at conferences, music festivals and events throughout the U.S., Eastern Europe, Canada, Germany, Argentina, and Brazil. His compositions include works for small to medium ensembles, solo piano, and orchestra. Select works are recorded on ERM Media, North/South Recordings, and Zimbel Press.