ALBUMS & WRITINGS
Music for Saxophone & Electronics (2025)
Two new works for saxophone & electronics:
In Port Dundas: Traced Landscapes (2025), Edwin Hillier reconstructs the shifting textures of memory and place through a richly layered soundscape and the dynamic performance of saxophonist David Zucchi.
Hunter Coblentz’s Phoenix (2024) turns inward, offering a quietly poised reflection on identity and transformation, where saxophone and sine tones intertwine.
Total Length: 40’51”
Release: 5 December 2025
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Quiet Music I – III (2025)
Three works for small ensemble. Joining the composer on piano, guitar, and cello are percussionist angela wai nok hui and saxophonist David Zucchi.
“[Quiet Music I – III] patiently explores an intricate web of fragmented melodic themes, sustained overtones, and delicate timbres.”
– Percorsi Musicali
Total Length: 41’30”
Release: 21 November 2025
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Glass Music of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2019)
Cambridge University Press: TEMPO Volume 73, Issue 289, pp.30-41
[Abstract] This article serves as an introduction to the twentieth- and twenty-first-century musical practices that have made use of glass instruments and objects. Emphasis is placed on those practices that use glass in a raw, acoustic manner, and those that take advantage of the precision with which glass can be tuned. First, a general history of glass music is presented, followed by an overview of the physical and acoustic aspects pertaining to the material that are relevant to those composers wishing to integrate glass into their works. Finally, the composers, performers and instrument builders who have made significant use of glass in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are surveyed.
Music for Tuned Glass (2018)
Independently released by American composer Larry Polansky and myself, April 2018. Recorded in London, England. Featuring two previously unperformed, unrecorded works: Glass (1978-9), for 17 performers and 42 tuned glasses, by Larry Polansky, and my work Lattice (2018), for 4 performers and 27 tuned glasses.
Total Length: 37’51”
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Beethoven’s Cellists (2018)
‘…exciting and innovative additions to the cello repertoire…’ – WholeNote Magazine
Featuring Dilations, Two Cellos (2017) for cello duet, commissioned for the purpose of this project by VC2 Cello Duo.
VC2 Cello Duo is Amahl Arulanandam and Bryan Holt. Recorded at Small Dog Sound in Toronto, ON. Engineered by Drew Jurecka and Alex Gamble. Produced and mixed by Drew Jurecka. Mastered by Justin Gray. Illustration and design by Dmitry Bondarenko.
Composer(s): Romberg, Bernhard (1767-1841); Downing, Andrew; Weinroth-Browne, Raphael; Evans, Fjola; Brubeck, Matt; Coblentz, Hunter
Total Length: 47’00”
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Sounds of Our Time (2014)
Featuring works for cello & piano written by living Canadian composers, including an early work of mine, Ex Animo (2009), for cello duet, composed for cellist Rachel Mercer.
Naxos Catalogue No: 970212. Released August 2014. Recorded at The Glenn Gould Studio, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto, Canada.
Label Release Notes (excerpt):
This exciting programme consists of world-première recordings of new works by young Canadian composers… Hunter Coblentz’s Ex Animo embraces the richness of tone offered by two cellos… Rachel Mercer plays here on the 1696 Bonjour Stradivarius Cello from the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank.
Performer(s): Rachel Mercer, Angela Park (Mercer-Park Duo)
Composer(s): Coblentz, Hunter; Lau, Kevin; Nerenberg, Mark; Richardson-Schulte, Abigail; Rowson, William
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Total Length: 1’00″46
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