Diallo Banks | composer

Works

After Lead Belly (2025)

TAK Ensemble
February 2026
Brooklyn, New York

my form is as a veil (2025)

FLUX Quartet, Diallo Banks (organ) and Jessie Cox (percussion)
June 2025
Brooklyn, NY

hollowbody (2025)


Liam Battle, cello
Bowling Green, OH
February 2026

Studies in Erasure (2025)


Stella Lee, violin; Jack Kessler, viola; Dylan Kinneavy & Balder Mikkelsen, cellos; Julide San, bass; Sophia Jean, flute; Nikki Pet & Nicole Martin, clarinets; Jonathan Hunda, trumpet; Naomi Wharry, trombone; Alex Friedman, tuba; Emily Liushen, accordion; Matt Boyle & Kyle Rappe, percussion; Harry Ngo & Theo Haber, elec. guitars
April 2025
New Haven, Connecticut

Live Hammond Organ Performance (2025)

a river dies in thirst (2024)


Julian Seney, viola; Yihan Wu, bass; Sophia Jean, flute; Naomi Wharry, trombone; Jessie Chiang, percussion; Ezra Calvino, conductor
November 2024
New Haven, Connecticut

cuerpo (2024)


Yale Philharmonia
Ezra Calvino Conductor
December 2024
New Haven, Connecticut

Chuchotage (2023)

performed by the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble: Alexander Ishov (alto flute, melodica), Clayton Luckadoo (clarinets), Colin McCall (percussion), Liam Kaplan (piano), Herdís Mjöll Guõmundsdóttir (violin), Jacob Schafer (violin), Felix Veser (viola), Otávio Manzano Kavakama (cello)

Chute Libre (2022, rev. 2023)

Dallas Symphony Orchestra, cond. Maurice Cohn – Dallas, TX