Sampler
Chamber Timbres
The Eclectic Music of Gene Pritsker
COMPOSERS CONCORDANCE RECORDS
Distributed by Naxos
COMCON00108
Release: 4/3/2026
Chamber Timbres, a portrait album of chamber music by Gene Pritsker, presents a wide-ranging yet cohesive exploration of color, gesture, and instrumental identity. From live performances to studio recordings, the album spans an eclectic spectrum of styles, ensembles, and sonic attitudes, unified by Pritsker’s distinctive compositional voice. Each work foregrounds timbre as a primary expressive force, treating instruments not just as carriers of melody and harmony, but as dramatic characters with their own physicality, humor, and edge. The result is a collection that is both adventurous and deeply personal, capturing the vitality of contemporary chamber music as a living, evolving art form.
“Mischief-maker and cultural blender-in-chief, Pritsker is a serious artist, yet much of his work is witty and irreverent.” Anyone can draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa, but few musicians draw it as artistically and creatively as Gene Pritsker.”
- Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare Magazine
’The shape-shifting Gene Pritsker is one of the only composers who continues to break down the barriers that still exist in the sometimes water-tight compartments that industry marketers revel in."
- Raul d'Gama Rose, AllAboutJazz
“Composer Gene Pritsker writes here with all the colors of the musical history rainbow, and this is a very good cross-genre collection of work.”.."This is a wild, eclectic (obviously) mix of music."
- Stephanie Boyd, American RecordGuide
'Intending to make music dangerous again.”
- Sequenza21
Mastered by Gene Pritsker Cover Photo by Alexander von Busch
Requiem of a Rock Star SINGLE
All music written by Gene Pritsker
1. Leitourgia
Mediterranean Trio:
Miltiades Papastamou, violin, Yannis Miralis sax, Michael Tsalka, piano
2. Requiem for a Rock Star
Paul Cortese - viola
Engineer Julian Jahanpour
Recorded at New Village Studios, Barcelona, Spain
3. No Conviction, a Hope and That is All
Miltiadis "Miltos" Papastamou, Yiannis Ioannidis - violins
Thanasis Gigas, sound engineer
Recorded at Studio Mythos, Athens, Greece
4. Quodlibet Sextet (live)
CompCord String Quartet + bass & drums:
Agata Manka - violin, Lynn Bechtold - violin, Orlando Wells - viola,
Mara Navas - cello, Moppa Elliot - bass, Joe Abba - drums
Recorded live at Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church
as part of the The Harlem Jazz Series
5. Double Impression And Stroke (live)
Geoffrey Burleson - piano
Recorded live at Kostabi World NYC as part of Composers Concordance
‘Pianos, Poems & Paintings’ event
6. Pete’s Pots - Movement 2 (live)
7. Pete’s Pots - Movement 3 (live)
Peter Jarvis - flower pots
Talujon Percussion: Dave Cossin, Michael Lipsey,
Matt Ward, Riley Palmer
Recorded live at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery as part of Composers
Concordance ‘Ensemble Motion’ event
8. Redeem (live)
Funda Cizmecioglu - violin
Recorded live at Sky Vault as part of Composers
Concordance ‘Low Key #35’ event
9. VS. (live)
CompCord Trio: Lynn Bechtold - violin, Michiyo Suzuki - clarinet,
Markus Kaitila - piano
Recorded live at Kostabi World NYC as part of Composers Concordance
‘Charles Vs. Gene’ event
Seven Short Poems {on poetry of Erik T. Johnson}
10. Dear Science - (from 7 Short Poems)
11. The Mediator - (from 7 Short Poems)
12. City Green Thicket - (from 7 Short Poems)
13. The Asylum Of Silence - (from 7 Short Poems)
14. Silences - (from 7 Short Poems)
15. The Hundredth Brush - (from 7 Short Poems)
16. Sing - (from 7 Short Poems)
Adriana Valdés - soprano
Recorded at Noizepunk Studios, NYC, Engineer Gene Pritsker
17. Two Part Chorals
Miltiadis "Miltos" Papastamou, Yiannis Ioannidis - violins
Thanasis Gigas, sound engineer
Recorded at Studio Mythos, Athens, Greece
