Saul Davis Zlatkovsky is a professional harpist and composer residing in Philadelphia. He studied composition with Dr. Alvin King at Macalester College, and orchestration with Donald Rauscher at the Manhattan School of Music, and has coached with Lionel Davis. While a student at Macalester, three of his compositions were played by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra under William McGlaughlin.
Mr. Zlatkovsky was recently honored with the premieres of two of his compositions for harp at the 2004 National Conference of the American Harp Society at University of Pennsylvania's Irvine Auditorium. His American Pictures: Prairie Night was performed by Emily Halpern Lewis of the faculty of Boston University, and Suite Provencal for harp duo was performed by Sonja Wangensteen and Piper Runnion-Bareford of the Curtis Institute of Music. They are students of Judy Loman at Curtis, where the work was coached by Mr. Zlatkovsky and previewed on the 2004 Harp Studio Recital. Mr. Zlatkovsky was commissioned by Simpson-Flanagan Harp Duo to arrange for them Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp in a new version for Flute and Harp Duo and Orchestra.
Mr. Zlatkovsky's vocal music includes Haven, an SATB choral setting of a poem by Bradley Steffens, which was premiered at Mayflower Congregational Church in Minneapolis. He has composed art songs to poems by Naomi Replansky, I Met My Solitude, The Balloon, The Ratless Cat for mezzo-soprano, contralto and harp, and Adon Olam among others. He has composed and written lyrics for cabaret songs and collaborated with lyricist Rosalie Calabrese. Their titles are Here Comes That Loneliness Again, Box of Broken Dreams. His own titles include A Tango for Two, Under the Piano, Cycling, Homeless, Riverside Park, I Remember Love, When You Have Been In Love, Every Time I Fell in Love, At Teatime, There Must Be Something There To Sing About, It's a Fine and Crazy World, Blue Lagoon, Hesitation Tango, Suddenly, and he has penned a new translation of the standard Autumn Leaves.
Harp music by Mr. Davis includes: Suite Provencal for harp duo, Three Barcarolles, Variations on a Catalonian Folk Song ("Eulalia"), Suite of American Folk-Song Settings, Shlof Mayn Feygele (A Jewish Lullabye) Sephardic Song Suite, 85 French Folk-Song Settings, Music for Ballet Class including Valse Lent and Elegie (in memory of Nina Stroganova), Prelude in memoriam Carlos Salzedo, Three Inventions; Interlude in Locrian mode, Nocturne, An African Harp, American Pictures: Prairie Night, Prairie Morning, Prairie Wind, Colrain Meadow; a concert transcription of Dvorak's art song Als Die Alte Mutter, and many other solo transcriptions, and transcriptions or arrangements for flute, violin and other instruments with harp, including David Noon's Partita for Flute and Harp.
Other instrumental music includes Portrait in Rhapsody for trombone and harp, Chassidic Suite for Violin and Harp, and piano music.
He is a skilled editor of harp music and has edited music for publication by Claude Debussy, Alberto Ginastera, and Harry Hewitt. He has received a commission from the Simpson-Flanagan Harp Duo.
Mr. Davis has also written several ballet scenarios, including Scenes from a Village to Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, andA Stolen Daughter to klezmer music.Mr. Davis is included in Penn Sounds, a biographical dictionary of Pennsylvania composers. He is a member of ASCAP and the American Composers Forum.
Inquiries for commissions for new works or editing, transcription, and arrangement projects are welcome.
Saul Davis
1929 Chestnut Street, Suite 2F
Philadephia, PA 19103
(215) 563-4848