Derek Charke

3x4 flute octet (6 mins) (2018)

4x5 flute quartet (6:30 mins) (2018)

5x6 flute quartet (5:30 mins) (2018)

6x7 flute quartet (6 mins) (2018)

After Chaos, the Earth and Love came into being orchestra (12 mins) (2015)

Aurora Dances orchestra (9 mins) (2002/2010)

Bathymetric Terrains flute, guitar and computer (Max/MSP) (35 mins) (2019)

Beat open instrumentation (15 to 45 mins) (2012)

Between the Shore and the Ships; Blizzard soprano voice and Bb clarinet (8:30 mins) (2009)

Big Business flute (12 mins)

Break-Up clarinet, violin, cello, piano, marimba (11 mins) (1998)

Capricious Modes piano trio: violin, cello, piano (4:30 mins) (2016)

Catch flute and percussion (10 mins) (2016)

Cela va sans dire 5 trombones (5:30 mins) (2000)

Concerto for Flute "Winds of Winter" solo flute and chamber orchestra (15 mins) (2005)

Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra string quartet and orchestra (23 mins) (2011)

Concerto Grosso four soloists (fl. cl. vln. perc.) and orchestra (15 mins) (2012)

Confricatio percussion quartet (9 mins) (2001)

Cross-Talk flute choir (5 mins) (2008)

Deliquescence 8 channel EA (8 mins) (2010)

Distant Voices I & II flute and piano (8 mins) (2002)

Disturbances of Circadian Rhythm flute and computer (Max/MSP) (11 mins) (2008)

Don’t be Alarmed open instrumentation and soundtrack (6 mins) (2011)

Drift piano duet (22 mins) (2015)

Ebb & Evanesce string quartet (5 mins) (2006)

Élan fanfare for orchestra (2 mins) (2016)

Ex Tempore bass flute and guitar (7 mins) (2016)

Falling from Cloudless Skies orchestra and computer (15 mins) (2009)

Falling from Cloudless Skies wind ensemble and computer (15 mins) (2009)

Fanfare for 8 baroque trumpets (3 mins) (1995)

Feeling for Snow alto saxophone, percussion, piano, cello (10 mins) (2001)

Five Lines flute quintet (6:30 mins) (2019)

Flute Quartet flute, violin, viola, cello (4 mins) (2002)

Four Lines flute quartet (6 mins) (2020)

Four Short Pieces flute and piano (2 mins) (1995)

Grey-Light Changing solo piano (5 mins) (2000)

Harvest Dusk string quartet (8 mins) (2025)

Idle Landscape (version 1) flute (bass flute), clarinet (bass clarinet) and cello (7 mins) (2007)

Idle Landscape (version 2 rev. 2013) flute, bass clarinet, violin and cello (8 mins) (2013)

Improvisations From Solitude 31 solo & duo works for flute & bass flute (2+ hrs) Work In Progress

In Sonorous Falling Tones solo flute and chamber ensemble (18 mins) (2015)

In the Crystalline Vault of Heaven SATB chorus, a cappella (4 mins) (2015)

In the Falling Dark 1 solo piano (8 mins) (2014)

In the Falling Dark 2 solo piano (7 mins) (2014)

In the Falling Dark 3 solo piano (8 mins) (2024)

Lachrymose piccolo (8 mins) (2006)

Last Call saxophone quartet (11 mins) (2000)

Line to Lions string quartet (15 mins) (2000)

Lumière Immobile flute and computer (Max/MSP) (8 mins) (2004)

Meditations No. 1 flute quartet (4 mins) (2023)

Meditations No. 2 flute quintet (5:30 mins) (2023)

Meditations No. 3 flute quintet/sextet (5:30 mins) (2023)

Meditations No. 4 8 or 9 flutes (5 mins) (2023)

Mercury in Transit concert band or wind ensemble (10 mins) (2016)

Mixed Steps clarinet, percussion, piano, violin (22 mins) (2001)

Nebula Variations solo violin (22 mins) (2022)

Nine Lines 2 cellos and computer (Max/MSP) (10-12 mins) (2018)

Oikos / Ecos voice and computer (Max/MSP) (11 mins) (2009)

Parabola Vertex bass clarinet in Bb and piano (8 mins) (2022)

Past Winters Solstice piano trio: violin, cello, piano (7 mins) (1997)

Piano Sonata No. 1 solo piano (11 mins) (1995)

Prelude and Impromptu violin and piano (8 mins) (2013)

Quartet for Low Brass 3 trombones and tuba (14 mins) (2010)

Raga Cha flute quartet or flute choir or solo flute and cd (9 mins) (2006)

Raga Das flute quartet (4 mins) (2012)

Raga Dohara flute octet (10 mins) (2014)

Raga Gyarah flute quartet & keyboard (9 mins) (2012)

Raga Nau flute quintet (4:30 mins) (2013)

Raga Saat flute quartet (9 mins) (2011)

Raga Sept 'Double' flute octet (8 mins) (2014)

Raga Sept 'Single' flute quartet (5:30 mins) (2014)

Raga Terah flute quintet or flute quartet & keyboard (8 mins) (2012)

Rain flute (6 mins) (2000)

Reel Variations on a Jig flute and percussion (10 mins) (2012)

Rewind and Fast-forward woodwind quintet with optional ensemble accompaniment (13 mins) (2013)

Sepia Fragments string quartet (13 mins) (2009)

Sepia Fragments solo piano & carillon arrangements (13/8 mins) (2009)

Shadow Leaves Shimmer unspecified instrumentation (unspecified duration) (2018)

Silenced string quartet, B-flat clarinet (24 mins) (2007)

Sonata for Flute and Piano flute and piano (12 mins) (1994)

Song of the Tides concert band or wind ensemble and cd (10 mins) (2006)

Sonnet to the Moon SATB Chorus a cappella and solo flute (10-12 mins) (2019)

Southern Express flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn in F, piano (11 mins) (1997)

Spin open instrumentation with soundtrack (9 mins) (2012)

Straight Ahead flute (6 mins) (1999)

Suite No.1 for brass quintet (15 mins)

Symphony No. 1 – Transient Energies orchestra and computer (45 mins) (2010)

Symphony No. 2 – Earth Airs orchestra and chorus (32 mins) (2015)

Tangled in Plastic Currents cello and computer (Max/MSP) (15 mins) (2014)

Ten Electroacoustic Studies 2 channel EA (38 mins)

The Engine Continuum bassoon, or flute, or bass flute and bass (6 mins) (2013)

The Equation of Time bass flute and guitar (20 mins) (2016)

The Sleuth for grade 2 clarinet with piano accompaniment (2 mins) (2017)

the world is itself a cargo carried for 9 strings and 4 percussion (14 mins) (2017)

Three Duets flute and marimba (12 mins) (2006)

Three Lines flute trio (6 mins) (2013)

Three Studies for flute (12 mins) (2001)

Time’s Passing Breath guitar duet and cd (13 mins) (2007)

Time’s Passing Breath Prelude 2 channel EA (8 mins) (2007)

Tree Rings violin and marimba (10+ mins) (2016)

Trio percussion trio (7 mins) (2009)

True North: Movement 3 orchestra (9 mins) (2017)

WARNING! Gustnadoes Ahead flute and cd (6 mins) (2008)

Water Flows Serpentine cello and piano (16 mins) (2017)

Way of Life 2 trumpets, horn, tenor trombone, bass trombone (tuba) (8 mins) (2000)

Waypoint flute and guitar Work In Progress (2024-25)

What do the Birds Think? flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, cello (22 mins) (2002)

Wired and Released flute and piano, or flute and harp (11 mins) (2013)

Wired and Wound alto saxophone and piano (16 mins) (2013)

Wound and Released trumpet and piano (12 mins) (2013)

Wound and Wired horn and piano (9 mins) (2013)

Xynith for soprano and chamber ensemble (14 mins) (1993)

Composed 1990-92. Suitable for high school & college level big bands:

A Call in the Wild (jazz combo)

After-Words (big band)

Coming Home (big band)

Gate 104 – L.A. (big band)

Harwins Drive – For Harry (big band)

Lost Horizons (big band)

Lost in the City (big band)

Psycho (big band)

Rupert Goes to School (big band)

Samba de Saltspring (big band)

What? (big band)