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Large Chamber Ensemble
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[ Music For Large Chamber Ensemble ]
Is It Dirty [2010]
2 sopranos with 16-piece chamber orchestra
(flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, alto sax, baritone sax, horn, trumpet,
trombone, electric keyboard, electric bass guitar, 2 violins, viola,
cello)
duration: 8 min.
premiere: May 21, 2010. EMPAC, Troy, NY
Eyelid Margin [2009]
3 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba
duration: 12 min.
Illuminating the Maze [2008]
clarinet, trumpet, horn, electric guitar, piano, drums, with tape
duration: 12 min.
June 2009. 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC
June 2009. Charleston Pourhouse, Charleston, SC
June 2009. Bobo Gallery, Asheville, NC
Snowball [2008]
bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, electric guitar, piano,
accordion, drums
duration: 6 min.
listen
to Snowball
May 2009. Bang on a Can Marathon, World Financial Center, New York, NY
June 2009. 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC
June 2009. Charleston Pourhouse, Charleston, SC
June 2009. Bobo Gallery, Asheville, NC
Wanderer [2008]
bass clarinet, electric guitar, 2 keyboards, piano, drums
duration: 7 min.
June 2009. 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC
June 2009. Charleston Pourhouse, Charleston, SC
June 2009. Bobo Gallery, Asheville, NC
Cribdweller [2008]
bass clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone, electric guitar
duration: 5 min.
June 2009. 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC
June 2009. Charleston Pourhouse, Charleston, SC
June 2009. Bobo Gallery, Asheville, NC
My Catalonia [2008]
soprano, bass clarinet, electric guitar, violin, cello, keyboard,
percussion, drums
duration: 7 min.
premiere: May 2008. Brooklyn Lyceum, Brooklyn, NY
Make It Out [2008]
2 vocalists (singer, rapper) with chamber ensemble (horn, cello,
electric guitar, piano, drums)
duration: 5 min.
text: SKIM
additional performances:
November 2009. Opera On Tap/VisionIntoArt/Beth Morrison Productions, 21c. Liederabend. Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
June 2010. Tribeca New Music Festival, Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY
listen to Make it Out
You Have AIDS [2008]
accordion, cello, electric guitar, piano, drums; with five spoken parts
duration: 5 min.
text: Janina Morrison
additional performances:
November 2009. Opera On Tap/VisionIntoArt/Beth Morrison Productions, 21c. Liederabend. Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
Katrina
Ballads [2007]
5 singers (SATTB) and 11 instruments (flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass
clarinet, trumpet, horn, violin, viola, cello, electric guitar,
electric bass guitar, piano, drums)
duration: 1 hour
texts: primary-source texts
from the week following Hurricane Katrina
additional performances:
Katrina Ballads ensemble: January 2008. Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL
Katrina Ballads ensemble: March 2008. Greenwich Music House, New York, NY
Katrina Ballads ensemble: March 2008. Trinity Lutheran Church, New Haven, CT
New York City Opera (Mark Mandarano, conductor): May 2009. Skirball Center, New York, NY
de ereprijs (Wim Boerman, condcutor): September 2009. Gaudeamus Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
upcoming performances with Beth Morrison Productions and film by Bill Morrison:
August 2010: (le) Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
August 2010: Foundation for Modern Music, Hobby Center, Houston, TX
awards:
winner, 2009 Gaudeamus Prize
selection, New York City Opera's VOX 2009: Showcasing American Composers
2009 ASCAP Morton Gould Award
recording: New Amsterdam Records: Katrina Ballads
release on Naxos Records: August 31, 2010
listen to Katrina Ballads here
Cordavi and Fig [2007]
flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trombone, 2 violins, viola,
cello, double bass, piano, percussion (playing inside the piano)
duration: 9 min.
additional performances:
May 2008. Yale Philharmonia (Julian Pellicano, conductor), Sprague Concert Hall, New Haven, CT
March 2009. The Knights (Eric Jacobson, conductor), MATA Festival, (le) Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
awards: selected for inclusion, 2009 MATA Festival
Seven Small Love Songs [2004]
soprano with chamber ensemble (2 clarinets, horn, 2 percussion, violin,
viola, cello)
duration: 9 min.
text: found texts from Chicago Reader
additional performances:
December 2004. Ensemble Prima (Melanie Leonard, conductor; Julienne Klein, soprano), Montreal, QUE
Antiphon [2003]
3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 trumpets, trombone, piano
duration: 8 min.
additional performances:
August 2004. Yes is a World (Ted Hearne, conductor), Chicago, IL
listen to Antiphon
[ Music For Small Chamber Ensemble ]
New Work [2011]
electric guitar quartet
duration: 1 hour
premiere: TBA
New Work [2011]
string quintet (2 violins, viola, cello, double bass)
duration: 20-25 min.
premiere: TBA
The One You Guard The Most [2009]
string quartet
duration: 6 min.
premiere: September 2009. The Calder Quartet, Carlsbad Music Festival, Carlsbad, CA
Thaw
[2009]
percussion quartet (2-3 glockenspiels, 2 snare drums, 2 large toms,
crotales)
duration: 12 min.
premiere: April 2009. Third Coast Percussion, Chopin Theatre, Chicago, IL
additional performances:
April 2009. Yale Percussion Group, (Robert Van Sice, director), Sprague Concert Hall, New Haven, CT
listen to Thaw
Vessels [2008]
violin, viola, piano
duration: 9 min.
additional performances:
Februrary 2009. Caroline Shaw, violin; Erin Wight, viola; David Broome, piano. Red Light New Music, Chelsea Art Gallery, New York, NY
listen to Vessels
Ghostspace [2009]
piano, accordion, electric guitar, drums
duration: 8 min.
Warning Song [2006]
multi-track cello and voice (additional version for singer and tape)
duration: 7 min.
text: Meghan Deans
premiere: February 2007. Jody Redhage, cello and voice. Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
additional performances:
July 2007. Jody Redhage, cello and voice. Old First Church, San Francisco, CA.
May 2008. Jody Redhage, cello and voice. Composers Concordance, Greenwich Music House, New York, NY.
recording: Jody Redhage, All Summer in a Day. New Amsterdam Records, 2007
listen to Warning Song
23 [2005]
flute, horn, electric guitar, piano, drums
duration: 8 min.
premiere: July 2005. New Music Collective, Charleston
additional performances:
July 2005. Bang on a Can Summer Institute
May 2006. Yes is a World, New York, NY
recording: New Music Collective, New Music Collective Vol. 1
One of Us, One of Them [2005]
duet for piano and percussion
duration: 8 min.
premiere: May 2005. Al Cerulo, percussion and Renate Rohlfing, piano; Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY
additional performances:
October 2005. Kevin Sims, percussion and Renate Rohlfing, piano; Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY
May 2010. Joe Bergen, percussion and David Friend, piano; TRANSIT Ensemble, Nabi Gallery, New York, NY
May 2010. Joe Bergen, percussion and David Friend, piano; Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY
Greyhound to Santa Fe: 4am [2005]
mezzo-soprano, tenor saxophone, cello, piano, percussion
duration: 8 min.
text: Meghan Deans
premiere: February 2005. Jazimina MacNiel, mezzo-soprano; Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY
Once the Search [2004]
viola solo, with vibraphone, piano, soprano
duration: 17 min. (in seven
movements)
text: Brian Eno and Peter
Schmidt, from Oblique Strategies
additional performances:
October 2007. Anne Lanzilotti, viola; David Skidmore, vibraphone. Brooklyn Lyceum, New York, NY
May 2009. New Music Collective, Charleston, SC
Brass Quintet [2001]
2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba
duration: 4 min.
premiere: December 2001. Skye Brass Quintet, Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL
additional performances: April 2002. Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY
awards: First Prize, WFMT-Chicago 50th Anniversary Composition Competition
[ Music For Full Orchestra ]
Trumpet Concerto [2010]
trumpet solo with orchestra (2.2.2.2, 2.2.1, hp, pno, 2 perc,
8.6.6.4.3)
duration: 24 min.
premiere: January 2010. Huntsville Symphony Orchestra (Mei-Ann Chen, conductor; Christopher Coletti, trumpet)
Randolph Arts Building, Hunstville, AL
Patriot [2007]
orchestra (3.3.3.3, 3.4.3,1 timp, 3 perc, 8.8.6.5.3)
duration: 9 min.
additional performances:
November 2008. Minnesota Symphony Orchestra (Osmo Vanska, conductor). Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
awards: selected for inclusion, 2008 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute
listen to Patriot
Song to Craving [2003]
orchestra (2.2.2.2, 2.4.2,0, hp, pno, 3 perc, 8.8.6.5.3)
duration: 9 min.
additional performances:
August 2004. Yes is a World (Ted Hearne, conductor). Chicago, IL
February 2005. Yes is a World (Ted Hearne, conductor). New York, NY
[ Choral Music ]
New Work [2010]
Full chorus and orchestra (3.3.3.3, 3.4.3.1, timp, 3 perc, 8.8.6.5.3)
duration: 15 min.
premiere scheduled: April 2011. Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
Privilege [2009]
Choir SSATB a cappella
duration: 14 min., in five
movements
premiere: May 2010. First Congregational Church, Berkeley, California
May 2010. St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco, California.
awards: winner of 2009 Volti Choral Arts Laboratory
Mass for St. Mary's [2008]
Choir SSATB a cappella
duration: 10 min., in three
movements
premiere: February 2008. Church of St. Mary the Virgin, New York, NY
listen to "Gloria" from Mass for St. Mary's
Because [2006]
Choir SSATB with piano accompaniment
duration: 7 min.
premiere: July 2006. New Orleans, LA
additional performances:
July 2006. Various Southern US venues
August 2006. Millunium Park, Chicago, IL
June 2007. Harris Theater, Chicago, IL
Fortress [2005]
Choir SSATTB a cappella
duration: 8 min.
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child [2005]
Choir SATB with soprano solo
duration: 7 min.
Cantata: Songs for the Divided
[2004]
SATB choir with soli (SSATB), with chamber orchestra
(2.2.0.2, 1.2.2, pno, perc, 3.1.2.1)
duration: 20 min., in six movements
commission: Chicago Children's Choir (Josephine Lee, artistic
director)
premiere: June 2004. Chicago Children's Choir and Chicago Youth
Symphony (Josephine Lee, conductor). Harris Theatre, Chicago, IL
additional performnaces:
October 2005.
Chicago Children's Choir, at Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, IL
May 2006. Yes
is a World (Ted Hearne, conductor), New York, NY
Stratagems [2004]
Choir or Vocal Sextet SSATTB
duration: 8 min.
text: Brian Eno and Peter
Schmidt, from Oblique Strategies
additional performnaces: May 2005. San Francisco Choral Artists (Magen Solomon, artistic director)
awards: 2005 San Francisco Choral Artists Composition Competition
awards: winner of 2009 Volti Choral Arts Laboratory
Murder on the Road in Alabama [2003]
Choir SATB with soprano and tenor soli
duration: 6 min.
arr. Ted Hearne, of a civil
rights song by Len H. Chandler
additional performnaces: April 2006. Chicago Children's Choir (Josephine Lee, artistic director)
Todos Parense [2002]
Choir SATB with treble choir and drumming ensemble
duration: 5 min.
text: Viamoana Niumeitolu
premiere: May 2002. Chicago, IL
Ubi Caritas [2000]
Choir SSATB
duration: 5 min.
premiere: May 2000. Chicago, IL
additional performnaces: April 2003. Choir of Church of Our Savior, Chicago, IL
[ Vocal Music ]
Is It Dirty [2010]
2 sopranos with 16-piece chamber orchestra
(flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, alto sax, baritone sax, horn, trumpet,
trombone, electric keyboard, electric bass guitar, 2 violins, viola,
cello)
duration: 8 min.
premiere: May 21, 2010. EMPAC, Troy, NY
359 Each Time [2010]
singer with cello, piano, electric guitar, accordion, drums
duration: 8 min.
Charleston Songbook [2008]
a collection of 6 songs with piano accompaniment and lead sheets
duration: 20 min.
Last Man Standing [2008]
singer with accordion and drums
duration: 4 min.
Make It Out [2008]
2 vocalists (singer, rapper) with chamber ensemble (horn, cello,
electric guitar, piano, drums)
duration: 5 min.
text: SKIM
additional performances:
November 2009. Opera On Tap/VisionIntoArt/Beth Morrison Productions, 21c. Liederabend. Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
June 2010. Tribeca New Music Festival, Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY
listen to Make it Out
I Remember [2007]
three sopranos (alternate version for soprano with electric track)
duration: 8 min.
text: Anne Sexton
additional performances: March 2010. Mellissa Hughes, soprano. New York, NY
I Carry Your Heart [2007]
mezzo-soprano with piano accompaniment
duration: 5 min.
text: e.e. cummings
premiere: October 2007. Sylvia Rider, mezzo-soprano; Trevor Gureckis, piano. Sprague Concert Hall, New Haven, CT
Warning Song [2006]
multi-track cello and voice (additional version for singer and tape)
duration: 7 min.
text: Meghan Deans
premiere: February 2007. Jody Redhage, cello and voice. Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
additional performances:
July 2007. Jody Redhage, cello and voice. Old First Church, San Francisco, CA.
May 2008. Jody Redhage, cello and voice. Composers Concordance, Greenwich Music House, New York, NY.
recording: Jody Redhage, All Summer in a Day. New Amsterdam Records, 2007
listen to Warning Song here
Greyhound to Santa Fe: 4am [2005]
mezzo-soprano, tenor saxophone, cello, piano, percussion
duration: 8 min.
text: Meghan Deans
premiere: February 2005. Jazimina MacNiel, mezzo-soprano; Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY
Once the Search [2004]
viola solo, with vibraphone, piano, soprano
duration: 17 min. (in seven
movements)
text: Brian Eno and Peter
Schmidt, from Oblique Strategies
additional performances:
October 2007. Anne Lanzilotti, viola; David Skidmore, vibraphone. Brooklyn Lyceum, New York, NY
May 2009. New Music Collective, Charleston, SC
Seven Small Love Songs [2004]
soprano with chamber ensemble (2 clarinets, horn, 2 percussion, violin,
viola, cello)
duration: 9 min.
text: found texts from Chicago Reader
additional performances:
December 2004. Ensemble Prima (Melanie Leonard, conductor; Julienne Klein, soprano), Montreal, QUE
(mis)communications [2001]
soprano with piano accompaniment
duration: 9 min.
text: found texts from Chicago Reader
additional performances:
January 2002. Nythia Rivera, soprano and Gary Geiger, piano. Chicago, IL
Rise Up, My Love [1999]
vocal solo a cappella
duration: 3 min.
text: Song of Solomon
[ Instrumental Solos ]
solo violin
duration: 4 min.
commission: Nicholas DiEugenio, violinist
premiere: May 2010. Brooke Army Meidcal Hospital, San Antonio, TX
Variations and Filters [2006]
solo piano
duration: 12 min.
Spin [2004]
solo piano
duration: 8 min.
premiere: October 2005. David Hanlon, Cairo, Egypt
additional performances: April 2006. David Hanlon, Church of Christ and St. Stephen's, New York, NY
[ Songs ]
359 Each Time
All the Things
Ambitioning
Anderson Cooper and Mary Landrieu: 9.1.05 (from Katrina Ballads)
Ashley Nelson (from Katrina Ballads)
Barbara Bush: 9.5.05 (from Katrina Ballads)
Body Moving
Burning TV Song
Dennis Hastert: 8.31.05 (from Katrina Ballads)
Everything You Do
I Mean Well
I Want Never
Is it Dirty
Kanye West: 9.2.05 (from Katrina Ballads)
Make it Out
My Favorite Ride
Never Said Nothing
Protection
Shame Campaign
This Time
We Didn't Know
