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A photo of Eric Charnofsky

Eric Charnofsky

http://www.cim.edu/conservatory/bios.php?id=84

exc15@cwru.edu

Eric Charnofsky is the Head of the Music Literature Department at the Cleveland Institute of Music and teaches 20th-century Music History at Case Western Reserve University. He has also taught Theory and Collaborative Piano at CIM. Originally from Los Angeles, Mr. Charnofsky is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he majored in piano accompanying. He also holds degrees in solo piano performance and composition from California State University, Northridge, where he received the Outstanding Bachelor's Degree Graduate award.

Mr. Charnofsky has performed as a collaborative pianist throughout the U.S., and has concertized with members of the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics; the Philadelphia, Cleveland and Metropolitan Opera Orchestras; and the Akron Symphony. Formerly on the faculty in the pre-college division at The Juilliard School, he served as staff accompanist and ear-training fellow in the Juilliard College division. Mr. Charnofsky's performances have been broadcast over WQXR and WNYC in New York; WFMT in Chicago; WCLV in Cleveland; WKSU in Kent; and KPFK, KMZT, and KCSN in Los Angeles, where he worked as a classical radio announcer. He has presented several lecture-recitals on "The Duos with Piano" by the composers Paul Hindemith, Francis Poulenc and Aaron Copland.

Mr. Charnofsky worked at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara as an Associate Faculty member for eight summers, performed several times as a substitute keyboardist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Cleveland Orchestra, worked as a rehearsal pianist for Lyric Opera Cleveland, served as convention accompanist for the National Flute Association, and appears on recordings with trombonist JoDee Davis on the Albany label, and music by the Cleveland Composers Guild on the Capstone label. He frequently performs new music, and is an active composer and conductor.

Performance of "Two Pieces for Flute and Piano" (2001):

http://instantencore.com/MusicDetails.aspx?PId=5030681

 

Catalog of Works by Eric Charnofsky

Chamber Ensemble

  • Perspectives - 2008

    • Flute, Viola, Cello, Piano

      1. controlled repetition

      2. zoom lens

      3. rejoicing in chaos

  • Fantasy for Clarinets and Piano - 2004

    • Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Piano

      1. Monologue

      2. Dream

      3. Vocalise

      4. Dance

  • Two Pieces for Flute and Piano - 2001

    • 1. Lamentation

      2. Jubilation

  • Sonata for Guitar and Piano - 1994
  • Waltz in Blue - 1994

    • Flute, Piano

  • Incidental Music for the play 'Death Trap' - 1989

    • Clarinet, Piano

  • Incidental Music for the film 'Meditations on a Suicide' - 1989

    • String Quartet, Piano

  • Yielding/Merging/Passing - 1988

    • Clarinet, Violin, Viola

  • 8 Songs - 1988

    • Mezzo-soprano, Flute, Guitar, Marimba... on poems by e e cummings

       

      1. O the sun

      2. something odd

      3. loneliness

      4. why don't be silly

      5. crazy jay blue

      6. everybody wants more

      7. when any mortal

      8. who are you

  • The Windy Planet - 1987

    • Two Sopranos, Flute, Horn, Cello, Piano/Celesta, Guitar, Percussion

Chorus

  • Shout to the Lord - 2002

    • SATB, Soprano, Tenor, Piano

  • Pentecostal Anthem - 1989

    • SATB, Organ

Electronic Music

  • Toyland - 1988
  • Telefany - 1988
  • Tapestry - 1987

Solo Instrument

  • Anniversary - 2010

    • Trombone

  • Cape Ann Melody - 2003

    • Violin, Piano

Solo Keyboard

  • Introduction - 1995
  • 7 Piano Miniatures - 1990
  • Movement - for solo piano - 1987
  • Busy Music - 1986

Solo Vocal

  • Four Seasonal Ballads - 2010

    • Soprano/Piano

       

      I Am the One

      Summer Sun

      Autumn Daybreak

      Winter

  • The Farting Song - 2003

    • Soprano, Piano

  • Quote 'Music' - 2002

    • Baritone, Piano

       

      1. Thoreau

      2. Shakespeare

      3. Aristotle

      4. Pope

      5. Santayana

      6. Congreve

      7. Lambert

      8. Hugo

      9. Tolstoy

      10. Nietzsche

  • I Am the One - 2002

    • Soprano, Piano

  • Streams of Sound - 1985

    • Soprano, Piano

Vocal Ensemble

  • And This Shall Be For Music - 2006

    • Soprano, Tenor, Piano

      1. The Perfect Rose

      2. i carry your heart with me

      3. You're the Poetry of Me

      4. And This Shall Be For Music