Adagio and Allegro (1946) for orchestra.
San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux, Conductor, March, 1947,
Chicago Symphony, Pierre Monteux, conductor, August, 1947.

Concerto for Orchestra (1949)
San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux, conductor, February, 1951.

Sonata for Violin Solo (1950)
David Abel, violin, Veteran's Auditorium, San Francisco, May, 1956
Anshel Brusilow, violin, Cleveland, 1962.

Fantasia (1951), for trumpet, piano, percussion and strings.
Aspen Festival Orchestra, William Steinberg, conductor, April, 1956
San Francisco Symphony, Enrique Jordá, conductor, April, 1956.

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1955)
Anshel Brusilow, violin, Philadelphia Orchestra, William Smith, conductor, April, 1965
Jacob Krachmalnick, violin, San Francisco Symphony, Josef Krips, conductor, January, 1967.

Concerto for Woodwinds and Chamber Orchestra  (1957)
Solo instruments: flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon
Little Symphony of San Francisco, Gregory Millar, conductor, January, 1958

Etudes for Orchestra (1959)
Pittsburgh Symphony, William Steinberg, conductor, November, 1960
San Francisco Symphony, conducted by the composer, April, 1962

Serenade for Six Instruments (1961), for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola and cello
San Francisco State College Chamber Music Center, January, 1961.

Patterns (1962) for harp.
Aristid von Wurtzler, harp, Hartt College of Music, West Hartford, Connecticut, June 1964
Also performed and privately recorded by Marcella DeCray.

David Sheinfeld began composing in the 1930's  while working as an orchestral violinist. He rejected all of his works prior to 1962, however, except the following two:  Etudes for Orchestra and Serenade for Six Instruments.

Four Pieces for Solo Cello (1964)
Robert Sayre, cello, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, May, 1966.

Duo for Viola and Harp (1965)
Rolf Persinger, viola, Marcella DeCray, harp, San Francisco Chamber Music Society, November, 1965.

Dialogues (1966), for chamber orchestra
The Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia, Anshel Brusilow, conductor, in Philadelphia, October,  1966
and Lincoln Center, New York, December 1966

Confrontations (1969), for electric guitar, electric violin, saxophone, and orchestra
Oakland symphony, Gerhard Samuel, conductor, January,  1970,
San Francisco Symphony, Seiji Ozawa, conductor, March,  1972

Memories of Yesterday and Tomorrow (1971), for three players playing conventional and electric violins, conventional and electric cellos, and conventional and muted pianos
The Francesco Trio, San Francisco Chamber Music Society, March, 1971

Time Warp (1972), for several electric instruments and orchestra
Commissioned for the sixtieth anniversary season of the San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Symphony, Seiji Ozawa, conductor January, 1973

*Elegiac Sonorities (1973), for organ
"Commissioned by and dedicated to the Congregation Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco."
Premiere performance by Ludwig Altman, organ, December 20, 1973, Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco

Dualities (1976) for harp
Marcella DeCray, Harp, San Francisco Chamber Music Society, March, 1976

*String Quartet No. 1 (1978)
Norman Fromm Composers Award of the San Francisco Chamber Music Society
Kronos Quartet, San Francisco Chamber Music Society, January, 1979
The Alexander Quartet, The Bath Festival of Music (composer in residence) June, 1988
The performance was rebroadcast by BBC several times from 1988  to 1993

The Earth is a Sounding  Board, (1978)
for orchestra and small chorus.  Written at the request of Seiji Ozawa
Premiere performance March 10, 1993 by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano conductor,
and The Pacific Mozart Ensemble, Richard Grant, conductor.

Dreams and Fantasies (1981), for orchestra
Commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart, conductor, Davies Symphony Hall, May 1982
and Zellerbach Auditorium, Berkeley, May, 1982

*Threnody (1981) for solo violin.
Premiere performance by Roy Malan, violin, San Francisco Chamber Music Society, February, 1982

Symphony No. 1: Polarities, (1990)
for large orchestra
Commissioned with a grant from the National Endowment of Arts.
Premiere performance March 1997 by the Berkeley Symphony, Kent Nagano, conductor.

*String Quartet No. 2 (1993)
Commissioned by the Kronos Quartet
Premier performance January 1994,  by the Kronos Quartet, Emeryville, California.

Dear Theo (1996)
for nine instruments and baritone voice with text based on the letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Commissioned by the San Francisco Contemporary Music players with a grant from the Koussevitzky Foundation.
Premiere performance September 30, 1996 by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players,
Stephen Mosko, conductor, with Leroy Kromm, baritone.

Symphony No. 2: E=MC2 (1998)
for orchestra and string quartet as "independent bodies."
Commissioned and premiered by the Berkeley Symphony, Kent Nagano conductor
with The Alexander Quartet, February 13, 1998.

Different Worlds of Sound (2001)
for orchestra and percussionist.
Commissioned and premiered by the Berkeley Symphony, Kent Nagano conductor.  Premeir planned for September, 2001
 

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* indicates scores published by Fallen Leaf Press, Berkeley, California.

This web page was last updated March 24, 1999.