Dave - Violin / Vocal
Wes - Banjo
John - Guitar
Dan - Bass

Raw take - a little preview of our album coming out in 2023...stay tuned :-)

Two Pickles

Another rough cut from our session in late 2022...full album ("Tall Tales")to be released Spring 2023 features 11 originals including this one. Wes Carr - Mandolin, Dave DeVasto - Fiddle, Dan Huber - Bass, John Moran - Guitar.

Girl Don't Sing (rough cut)

Another cut from our Dec. 2022 session...for my honey

Dave - violin
Wes - violin/mandolin
John - guitar
Dan - bass

Blues for Annie

I. Anticipation
II. Suspension

Jennie Oh Brown - flute
Andrea DiOrio - clarinet
Elizabeth Brausa Brathwaite - violin
Paula Kosower - cello
Kuang-Hao Huang - piano

Synchronic Dances

Winter Seven, I. "The Green"

Half-Life

Just Gone

When writing Like Water Through a Dream I focused on the form first. I had an eight-minute time limitation and I wanted to compose a piece offering some textural and thematic variety as well as a sense of narrative, so I settled on a Rondo. A Rondo utilizes a recurring theme juxtaposed with a series of contrasting themes. To create a sense of overarching unity I created a primary motif that appears throughout the piece in each section, something like Berlioz’ idee fixe in compact form. I also included transitions and additional thematic material to model more of a hybrid sonata-rondo, which would allow for a more continuous flow. This “flow” is the proverbial “water” in the title, and the “dream” is the sense enrapture I would experience checking in on my young children in the late hours, deep in sleep, after many hours of composing.

Like Water Through a Dream

Among The Trees was conceived after a long bicycle ride along a creek path in the Springtime as the green leaves began to unfurl among the trees. Rhythmically, I wanted to depict the motion of the breeze flowing through the leaves, the rustling of the wind, and the sunlit shadows dancing beneath the canopy of trees on the path below. The theoretical “trunk” of this piece is constructed from a single trichord consisting of three intervals: a whole-step, a half-step, and a minor third. I then constructed “interval trees” where permutations of the trichord branch out from this trunk in various directions. The result is a plethora of “leaves” derived from the same trichord. This piece was written for Bluestone Contemporary Ensemble and is dedicated to my daughter, Daphne, who accompanied me on the bicycle ride. The piece premiered at the 2025 Sofia Symphonic Summit. 

Among the Trees

"Wash Me Whiter Than Snow" (2007) for viola and piano

Wash Me Whiter Than Snow

Premiere of my piece for solo flute, dedicated to the performer; Anna L. Wimmer.  Recorded live at University of Omaha Nebraska, Strauss Center of Performing Arts - May 27th, 2012

David DeVasto

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