Piano
barbaglio dal manca (1981, rev. 1992, 2000) (10 min.)
(first performance [original version], January
18, 1982)
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Barbro Dahlman, piano
(first performance [second revised version],
November 21, 2002)
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, OH.
Toyen Tonnu, piano
(recorded by Tuyen Tonnu, Capstone, CPS 8736)
for Elliott
(1983) (1 min.)
(first performance, December 5, 1983)
Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, NY
Claudia Stevens, piano
tango variations (1984, rev, 2001) (3 min.)
(commissioned by Quadrivium Music Press for
pianist Yvar Mikhashoff)
(first performance, March 2, 1986)
Bessie Schonberg Theatre, New York, NY
Yvar Mikhashoff, piano
fragments from the surrounding evening (1984) (9 min.)
(commissioned by the La Gesse Foundation)
(first performance, February 24, 1985)
Lafayette Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, NY
Bruce Anderson, piano
(recorded by Karen Walwyn on Albany Recordings
TROY 266)
a flower
in folding shadows (piano,
four-hands) (1986) (8 min.)
(first
performance, April 6, 1989)
Renee Weiler
Concert Hall, Greenwich House Music School, New York, NY
Continuum: Joel
Sachs and Cheryl Seltzer, piano, four-hands
a
landscape of interior resonances
(2001) (16 min.)
(commissioned
by the Phillips Collection [Washington, D.C.], Miller Theatre [New York, NY]
and the Schubert Club [St. Paul, MN.])
(first
performance, May 5, 2002)
Phillips
Collection, Washington, D.C.
Margaret
Kampmeier, piano
(recorded by
Margaret Kampmeier, "the promise of the far horizon", Albany, TROY
698)
four dances for Boris (2004) (8 min.)
(commissioned
by Boris Willis)
(first
performance, September 17, 2004)
Kennedy Center
Millennium Stage, Washington, D.C.
Lura Johnson,
piano
a celebration of Elliott (2007) (2 min.)
(commissioned
by the Network for New Music to celebrate the 100th birthday of Elliott Carter)
(first
performance: February 29, 2008)
Leonard Nimoy
Theatre - Symphony Space, New York, NY
Stephen
Gosling, piano
of ringing and layered space
(2010) (. . . ongoing)
(commissioned
by consortium for pianists Jenny Lin, Lura Johnson, Tuyen Tonnu, Amy Briggs,
and Shannon Wettstein)
I. “Jenny” (3 min.) (2010)
II. “Lura” (3 min.) (2010)
two Elliott
Carter tributes
(first
performance as the "tributes" - February 17, 2013)
I. for Elliott (1983-84)
II. a
celebration of Elliott (2006)
West Garden
Court, National Gallery of Art
Washington,
D.C.
Winston Choi,
piano
for Clare (2021) (4 min.)
(commissioned by Clare Longendyke as part of her “UnRaveled” project)
resident echoes (in memoriam David Froom) (2022) (4 min.)
(commissioned by Su Lian Tan and David Sanford)
Merkin Hall
New York, N.Y.
Eliza Garth, piano
Solo Instrumental
linear cycles VII (cambiamenti II) (solo violin) (1979, rev. 1993) (8 min.)
(first
performance, July 22, 1979) (original version)
Aspen Music Festival
Kurt Nikkanen, violin
(first performance [revised version])
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
Lina Bahn, violin
(recorded by Kurt Nikkanen, "the focus of
blue light" CRI/New World 650)
variazioni
elegiaci (solo 'cello) (1979-80,
rev. 1997) (9 min.)
(first
performance, July 10, 1981) (original version)
Aspen Music
Festival
Julie Charland
'cello
morning
thunder for solo flute (1979-80)
(8 min.)
(first
performance, December 15, 1980)
live radio
broadcast, KPFK, Los Angeles
Janice Tipton,
flute
amid
fleeting pockets of billowing radiance
(solo 'cello) (1990) (11 min.)
(first
performance, September 20 ,1991)
St. Mary's
College, St. Mary's County, MD.
Pamela
Greitzer, 'cello
(recorded by
Joshua Gordon, "the focus of blue light" CRI/New World 650)
the
clarity of remembered springs
(solo viola) (1992-93) (13 min.)
(commissioned
by the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation)
(first
performance, April 26, 1993)
Alice Tully
Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Misha Amory,
viola
a
window's gathering of clouds
(solo guitar) (1981) (7 min.)
(first
performance, March 2, 1986)
University of
Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Todd Seelye,
guitar
variazioni
elegiaci II (solo violin) (1983)
(8 min.)
(first
performance, July 11, 1986)
Seattle Chamber
Music Festival
Ida Levin,
violin
revisiting
variazioni elegiaci (solo viola)
(2001) (9 min.)
(first
performance, February 10, 2001)
Kulas Recital
Hall
Oberlin
Conservatory of Music
Wendy Richman,
viola
wending
(solo viola) (2001) (11 min.)
(first public
performance, Nov. 11, 2001)
Phillips
Collection, Washington, D.C.
Wendy Richman,
viola
(recorded by
Wendy Richman, "the promise of the far horizon" Albany, TROY 698)
the
milliner's fancy (solo alto
saxophone) (2003) (5 min.)
(commissioned
by Rhonda Taylor & David Reminick)
(first
performance, April 9, 2003)
Warner Concert
Hall, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
David Reminick,
alto saxophone
(recorded by
Rhonda Taylor, "the promise of the far horizon" Albany, TROY 698)
three
musings . . . revisiting memories (solo violin) (2005) (5 min.)
(written for
Ole Bohn)
(first
performance, March 8, 2005)
Warner Concert
Hall, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Ole Bohn,
violin
eight
musings . . . revisiting memories (solo violin) (2005) (11 min.)
(written for
Ole Bohn)
(first
performance, Aug. 5, 2005)
Monadnock Music
Festival
Fitzwilliam
Town Hall, Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire
Ole Bohn,
violin
an
expanding distance of multiple voices (solo violin) (2005) (11 min.)
(commissioned
by consortium for Lina Bahn)
(first
performance, Sept 18, 2005)
Frances and
Armand Hammer Auditorium
Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Lina Bahn.
Violin
a focus further
within (solo ‘cello) (2010) (3 ½
min.)
(commissioned
by Rhonda Rider as part of her residency at the Grand Canyon)
(first
performance, March 10, 2011)
Seully Hall
Boston
Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA
Rhonda Ryder,
‘cello
to find
in the glimmering air . . . a buoyant continuity of layering blue (‘solo ‘cello) (2011) (9 min.)
(funded by the
Lorain County Community College Foundation through its Campus Grants Program)
(first
performances, April 17, 2011, October 25, 2011, October 26, 2011)
Sharon Lynne
Wilson Center for the Arts, Brookfield ,WI; Studio Theatre, Stocker Arts
Center, Lorain County Community College; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland,
OH.
Seaunn
Thorsteinsdottir, ‘cello
caprice (solo harp) (2016) (2 ½ min.)
(funded by the Lorain County Community College Foundation through its Campus Grants Program for the Arts & Humanities Division)
(first performance, July 17, 2016)
Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights, OH
Shelly Du, harp
. . . becoming clear (solo viola) (2017) (8 min.)
(Commissioned by The Network for New Music)
(first performance, November 12, 2017)
Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Network for New Music
radiances spreading from a world of resonant stillness (2019) (7 min.)
Commissioned by Regina Kessler for Mariel Roberts
(first performance, November 14, 2018
LA VOIRIE, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Mariel Roberts, ‘cello
fleeting cycles of layered air (2020) (8 1/2 min.)
(first performance: April 30, 2021
National Sawdust (as part of the Fromm Concert Series sponsored by Harvard University)
Miranda Cuckson, violin
let us breathe (2020) (1 min.)
(commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony as part of its “Fanfares” project)
(first performance, [streaming] November 11, 2020)
Cincinnati, OH
Dan Culnan, ‘cello
from within . . . unveiling brightness (2021) (7 min. 12 sec.)
(commissioned by Alisa Weilerstein as part of her "Fragments" project)
gradual (2021) (2 min.)
(commissioned by Sarah Schuster and Gregory Little on the occasional of Miles Gilbers's graduation from Oberlin College)
Chamber
linear cycles
II (violin and piano) (1978) (8 min.)
(commissioned
by the Robert Evett Fund of Washington, D.C.)
first
performance, February 20, 1978)
Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
members of the
Contemporary Music Forum:
Helmut
Braunlich, violin
Barbro Dahlman,
piano
string
quartet no. 1 (formerly quartet
no. 3 ) (1978 rev. 1980) (12 min.)
(first
performance, December 6, 1980)
Concert Hall,
University of California, Irvine
New York String
Quartet
(recorded by
the New York String Quartet on CRI/New World 468) (LP)
a wind of
suspended prominences (clarinet
and piano) (1981) (7 min.)
(first
performance, April 17, 1981)
Mandeville
Recital Hall, University of California, San Diego
William Powell,
clarinet
Zita Carno,
piano
first
performance, revised version, October 28, 1991)
Roy O. Disney
Music Hall, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
William Powell,
clarinet
Zita Carno,
piano
duo
concerto (1981-82) (15 min.)
(commissioned
by 'cellist Fred Sherry)
(vlc. solo,
percussion - xylophone, marimba [A], vibraphone, clar., vln., piano)
(first
performance, February 21, 1984)
Kaufman Concert
Hall, 92nd St. YM/YWHA, New York, NY
Group for
Contemporary Music:
Fred Sherry,
solo 'cello
Daniel
Druckman, percussion
Anand Devendra,
clarinet
Ik-Hwan Bae,
violin
Aleck Karis,
piano
Daniel Shulman,
cond.
lullaby
(in folk style) ('cello and
piano) (1982) (4 min.)
(first
performance, January 10, 1983)
Chamber Music
from SoHo Series
Fred Sherry,
'cello
Rebecca Silver,
piano
string
quartet no. 2 (1982-83, rev.
1995) (14 min.)
(first
performance, February 5, 1993) (original version)
Strathmore Hall
Arts Center, North Bethesda, MD
Maia Quartet
notturno
(crystals of suspended evening) (1983-84) (10 min.)
(commissioned
by Tafelmusik)
(fl., ob.,
vlc., hpschd.)
(first
performance, April 4, 1983)
Provincetown
Playhouse, New York, NY
Tafelmusik:
Lauren Weiss,
flute
Pamela Epple,
oboe
Christine
Gummere, 'cello
Linda Kobler,
harpsichord
her
eastern light amid a cavernous dusk
(1983-84, rev. 1987) (9 min.)
(wind quintet)
commissioned by
the Aspen Wind Quintet)
(first
performance, March 6, 1987)
Calvary
Episcopal Church, New York, NY
Aspen Wind
Quintet
(recorded by
the Aspen Wind Quintet,"the focus of blue light" CRI/New World 65)
a veil of
liquid diamonds (1985-86, rev.
1995, 1999) (16 min.)
(string
quartet)
(first
performance, August 27, 1995)
Music at Gretna
Festival, Mt. Gretna, PA
Borromeo
Quartet
a pond
within the drifting dusk
(1986-87, rev. 1988) (10 min.)
(alto fl.,
vlc., hp.)
(first performance,
November 16, 1988)
Settlement
Music School, Mary Louise Curtiss Branch, Philadelphia, PA.
Edward Schultz,
alto flute
Charles Forbes,
'cello
Karin Fuller,
harp
(recorded by
Laura Gilbert, alto fl., Joshua Gordon, 'cello Victoria Drake, harp, "Bang
on A Can Live, Vol. 2" CRI/New World 646)
the focus
of blue light (1987-88) (18 min.)
(violin and
piano)
(commissioned
by the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress)
(first
performance, March 17, 1989)
Elizabeth
Sprague Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Kurt Nikkanen,
violin
Bruce Anderson,
piano
(recorded by
Kurt Nikkanen, violin & Bruce Anderson, piano, "the focus of blue
light" CRI/New World 650)
echoes in
a cloud box (1988) (10 min.)
(violin and
'cello)
(commissioned
by the Contemporary Music Forum)
(first
performance, May 8, 1989)
Frances and
Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
Members of the
Contemporary Music Forum:
Helmut
Braunlich, violin,
Lori Barnet,
'cello
jewels
beyond the mist (1988) (12 min.)
(commissioned
by the New York New Music Ensemble)
(fl./alto fl.,
clar., vln., vlc., piano, percussion - vibraphone, marimba [A])
(first
performance, March 15, 1989)
Merkin Concert
Hall, New York, NY
New York New
Music Ensemble:
Jayn Rosenfeld,
flute/alto flute
Jean Kopperud,
clarinet
Linda Quan,
violin
Chris Finckel,
'cello
Elizabeth
DiFelice, piano
Daniel
Druckman, percussion
Robert Black,
conductor
a diffuse
light that knows no particular hour
(1989-90, rev. 1993) (16 min.)
(alto fl.,
clar., vln., vlc., piano) (commissioned by the Amphion Foundation for the Da
Capo Chamber Players)
(first
performances: Nov. 11 & 25, 1991)
Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (Nov. 11)
Merkin Concert
Hall, New York, NY (Nov. 25)
Da Capo Chamber
Players:
Patricia Spencer,
alto flute
William Blount,
clarinet
Eric Wyrick,
violin
Andre
Emelianoff, 'cello
Sarah
Rothenberg, piano
(recorded by
the Da Capo Chamber Players, "the focus of blue light" CRI/New World
650)
filaments (2 flutes) (1990) (9 min.)
(commissioned
by Peter Brown & Karen Johnson)
(first
performance, June 9, 1991)
Tawes Recital
Hall, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD.
Peter Brown
& Karen Johnson, flutes
(recorded
by Peter Brown & Karen Johnson, "the
focus of blue light" CRI/New World 650)
(arranged for 2
violins)
(first
performance, April 15, 1996)
La Maison
Francaise, Washington, D.C.
Jennifer Gordon
& Mayumi Pawel, violins
from the
middle . . . becoming air (1991)
(19 min.)
(string trio)
(commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation)
(first
performance, April 26, 1992)
Conference
Center Auditorium
University of
Maryland College Park, College Park, MD.
members of the
Boston Chamber Music Society:
Stephanie
Chase, violin
Marcus
Thompson, viola
Ronald Thomas,
'cello
two
miniatures for violin & piano
(1993) (6 min.)
(arrangement
for David Abel & Julie Steinberg of two songs for mezzo soprano & piano [1983-84, 1985])
(first
performance, Oct. 14, 1994)
Mills College
Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, California
David Abel,
violin
Julie
Steinberg, piano
a still
radiance within dark air (1995,
rev. 1996) (15 min.)
(piano solo,
fl., clar., vln., vlc.)
(commissioned
by radio station WGUC in Cincinnati)
(first
performance, December 3, 1995)
Linton Music
Series, First Unitarian Church, Cincinnati, OH.
Sandra Rivers,
solo piano
Randolph
Bowman, flute
Richard Hawley,
clarinet
Alexander Kerr,
violin
Daniel Culnan,
‘cello
Colin Jagger,
cond.
a vivid
distance serenely layered (1995)
(5 min.)
(‘cello
quartet)
(commissioned
by CELLO)
(first
performance, March 3, 1996)
Philadelphia
Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
CELLO:
Maria
Kitsopoulos Laura Bontrager Maureen McDermott,
Caryl Paisner
in forests
of evaporating dawns (1996) (18
min.)
(string
quartet)
(written for
the Maia Quartet)
(first
performance, October 26, 1997)
Merrick Hall, Goucher
College, Towson, MD.
Maia Quartet
eight
aspects of appreciation (1996,
rev. 2000) (11 min.)
(violin and
viola)
(written for
the Mann Duo)
(first
performance, February 9, 1997)
The Phillips
Collection, Washington, D.C.
The Mann Duo:
Nicholas Mann,
violin
Robert Mann,
viola
ringing
fields of enveloping blue (1997)
(14 min.)
(‘cello &
piano)
(written for
Joshua Gordon & Margaret Kampmeier)
(first performance,
March 1, 1998)
Music in
Chelsea Series, Historic St. Peter’s Church, Chelsea, New York, NY
Joshua Gordon,
‘cello
Christopher
Oldfather, piano
a window
of resonant light (1997) (16
min.)
(‘cello, piano,
percussion)
(Commissioned
for the CORE Ensemble as part of the Meet the
Composer/Arts Endowment Commissioning Music USA program)
first performance,
October 6, 1997)
Washington
& Lee University, Roanoke, VA.
The CORE
Ensemble:
Andrew Mark,
‘cello
Hugh Hinton,
piano
Michael Parola,
percussion
(recorded by
the CORE Ensemble, "the promise of the far horizon", Albany, TROY
698)
in
afternoons of deep and amplified air
(1998) (11min.)
(string
quartet)
(Commissioned
by the 1998 Reston Prelude Festival)
(first
performance, June 19, 1998)
Reston Prelude
Festival, Reston Community Theatre, Reston, VA
Audubon Quartet
undiluted
days (1999 - 2000) (11 min.)
(piano trio)
(Commissioned
by Sonia & Louis Rothschild)
(first
performance, March 19, 2000)
Hearst Hall, The
National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C.
Opus 3 Trio
still air (2000) (1 1/2 min .)
(viol trio)
(first
performance, April 13, 2000)
Bowling Green
State University Early Music Ensemble
as a
spray of reflected meadowlight informs the air (2000) (10 min.)
(commissioned
by Philip Berlin and the Contemporary Music Forum)
(first
performance, Dec. 7, 2000)
Frances &
Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
members of the
Contemporary Music Forum
through
the filtering dawn of spreading daybright (2001) (8 min.)
(viola & contrabass)
(commissioned
by Wendy Richman)
First
performance, November 20, 2011
Studio Theatre,
Stocker Arts Center, Lorain County Community College
Eliesha Nelson,
viola / Scott Dixon, double bass
the
promise of the far horizon (2002) (16 min.)
(string
quartet)
(commissioned
by the Nancy Ruyle Dodge Charitable Trust)
(first
performance, Dec. 4, 2002)
Miller Theatre,
Columbia University, New York, NY
Corigliano
Quartet
(recorded by
the Corigliano Quartet, "the promise of the far horizon", Albany,
TROY 698)
a focused
expanse of evolving experience (2003) (8 min.)
(fl., vln.,
vla., vlc., piano)
(commissioned
by the Empyrean Ensemble)
(first
performance, Nov. 2, 2003)
Studio Theatre,
Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
University of
California, Davis, Davis, CA
Empyrean
Ensemble, David Milnes, cond.
toward
the deepening stillness beyond visible light (2004) (11 min.)
(piano, string
quartet)
(commissioned
by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, Chamber Music Columbus (OH.) and Omus Hirshbein)
(first
performance, Oct. 19, 2004)
Mandel Hall, University
of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Pacifica
Quartet & Amy Dissanayake, piano
an
evolving romance for flute and piano (2005) (5 min.)
(commissioned
by Lura Johnson)
(first
performance, Nov. 2005)
Proctor-Munson-Institute,
Utica NY
Christina
Jennings, flute
Lura Johnson,
piano
in the
community of encompassing hours (2005) (9 min.)
(piano trio)
(commissioned
by the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt)
(first US
performance, May 17, 2006
Austrian
Embassy, Washington, D.C.
Haydn Trio
Eisenstadt
(first European
performance, May 27, 2006
Glaserner Saal,
Magna Auditorium Musikverien, Vienna, Austria
Haydn Trio
Eisenstadt
the play
of intervening objects (2007)
(10 min.)
(wind quintet)
commissioned by
consortium for Imani Winds)
(first
performance, November 9, 2007)
Kobacher Hall, Bowling
Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
Imani Winds
in soft
echoes . . . a world awaits (2008) (11 min.)
(string trio)
(commissioned
by the Fortnightly Musical Club of Cleveland)
(first
performance: March 11, 2008)
Mixon Hall, Cleveland
Institute of Music, Cleveland, OH
Emma Shook,
violin
Eliesha Nelson,
viola
Martha Baldwin,
‘cello
further
evolving . . . (2008) (5 min.)
(fl., vlc.,
piano)
(commissioned
by the Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East)
(first
performance: August 2, 2008)
Carriage Barn,
Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
Andrea Berger,
flute
Robert Park,
‘cello
Richard
Friedberg, piano
a garden
of flourishing paths (2008) (12
min.)
(fl., vln.,
vlc., piano, percussion)
(commissioned
by the National Gallery of Art and the VERGE Ensemble
in celebration of Elliott Carter’s 100th
birthday)
(first
performance: November 30, 2008)
West Garden
Court, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
VERGE Ensemble
Daniel Walshaw,
cond.
through a
stillness brightening (2011) (11
min.)
(solo violin,
E-flat clar., bsn., tpt,, trb., vib., mar., cb.)
(commissioned
by the Argento New Music Project through the generosity of Marianna Bettman [in
memory of Judge Gilbert Bettman] and Sonia Rothschild)
(first
performance: April 11, 2011)
Cutting Edge
Concerts Series
Leonard Nimoy
Thalia Theatre, Symphony Space, New York, NY
Argento Chamber Ensemble
Miranda
Cuckson, violin
Michel Galante,
cond
three
short duos for violin & harp (2011) (6 min.)
(commissioned
by a consortium consisting of Pamela Johnson, Philip Berlin, Otho Eskin. Eve
Sandberg and Mika Hornyak)
(first
performance: November 13, 2011)
Phillips
Collection, Washington, D.C.
Kelly
Hall-Tompkins, violin
Bridget Kibbey,
harp
eight
aspects of appreciation II (2012)
(12 min.)
(violin &
‘cello)
(first
performance: February 10, 2013)
West Garden
Court, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Miranda
Cuckson, violin
Julia Bruskin,
‘cello
still air
(7 min.) (piano quartet)
(commissioned
by the Chamber Music Conference and Composer’s Forum of the East, Inc.)
(first
performance: Aug. 10, 2013)
Carriage Barn,
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Tom Frenkel,
violin
Bonnie Maky,
viola
Judy Tobey,
‘cello
Giovanni Koll,
piano
four movements for harp & percussion (2015) (4 min.)
(commissioned by Otho Eskin)
(first performance:July 2, 2015)
Selfoss, Iceland
Duo Harpverk
reflected air (2015) (4 min.)
(alto saxophone & ‘cello)
(first performance, October 10, 2015)
The Scots Kirk, Paris, FRANCE
Duo Denisov
echoes from within brightening fabric . . . fragments of quickened light . . . (2015) (7 1/2 min.) (harp & percussion)
(commissioned by Otho Eskin)
(first performance: October 11, 2015)
15:15 Series, Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland
Duo Harpverk
two short dances for violin & piano (2017) (5 min.)
(commissioned by the University of Illinois)
(reecorded by Duo MemDI “Gathering Shatters”
ALBANY TROY 1751
. . . amid still and floating depths (2019) (18 min.)
(co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Library of Congress)
(first performance: June 1, 2019)
“Noon to Midnight” festival, Disney Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Mivos Quartet
an assemblage of possibility (2019) ( 7 ½ min)
(co-commissioned by The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities , the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music at Bowling Green State University and individual donors)
(first performance: August 25, 2019)
Millenium Stage, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC
Doug O’Connor, tenor sax
Ben Wensel, ‘cello
Annie Ray, harp
revisiting the window’s view (2020) (8 mins.)
‘cello & harp
written for Julia Bruskin, ‘cello and Emmanuel Ceysson, harp
(First performance: 2021)
St. John's in the Village, New York, N.Y.
Christine Lamprea, 'cello and Deanna Cirelli, harp
deepening paths of resonant light (2022) (16 min.)
(commissioned by the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, George Steel Abrams Curator of Music)
JACK Quartet
Vocal
orage (1978, rev. 1993) (7 min.)
(sop., clar.,
vib., piano) (text by the composer)
(first
performance, July, 1978)
Aspen Music
Festival
Mary Elizabeth
Poore, sop.
Joaquin
Valdepenas, clar.
William
Moersch, vib.
Mary Ann Brown,
piano
diamonds
suspended in a galaxy of clouds
(soprano solo) (1980-81) (7 min.)
(text: Pedro
Salinas: translated by
Rafael Chabrain
Gonzales)
(first
performance, February 25, 1983)
Mainstage
Theatre, California State University, Stanislaus, CA.
Deborah
Kavasch, soprano
lullaby
(in folk style) (soprano &
piano) (1982) (4 min.)
(text by the
composer) (first performance, August 13, 1982)
Berkshire Music
Festival, Tanglewood
Corliss Uecker,
soprano
two songs
for mezzo soprano & piano "Low
Anchored Cloud" (1983-84) (4 min.)
(text: Henry
David Thoreau)
(first
performance, April 6, 1989)
Renee Weiler
Concert Hall, Greenwich House Music School, New York, NY
Fredrika
Rhodie, mezzo-soprano
Bruce Anderson,
piano
two songs for mezzo soprano & piano "Dream Dust" (1985) (2 min.)
(text: Langston Hughes)
two haiku
settings: of place and love (2006)
(7 min.)
(sop., vlc.,
marimba, vibraphone)
(text: Sonia
Sanchez)
(commissioned
by Network for New Music)
(first
performance, March 19, 2006)
Art Sanctuary, Philadelphia,
PA
Network for New
Music:
Jan Krzywicki,
cond., Elisabeth Stevens, sop.
three windows (2014) (8 min.)
(sop., vlc., harp)
(text: Sonia Sanchez)
(commissioned by Washington Performing Arts)
(first performance, January 20, 2016)
Terrace Theatre, John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
Alyson Cambridge, soprano
Christine Lamprea, ‘cello
Ina Zdorovetchi, harp
Choral
Hillman
Ode (1987) (3 min.) (SATB)
(commissioned
by Carsey-Werner for NBC television series, "A Different World")
Orchestral / Large ensemble
violin
concerto no. 1 (1981, rev. 1982)
(20 min.)
violin solo
(2,1,2,1) (0,2,2,0) (piano, percussion) (strings)
(first
performance, March 31, 1982)
Symphony Space,
New York, NY
American
Composers' Orchestra
Kurt Nikkanen,
violin
James Dixon,
cond.
viola
concerto (1993) (23 min.)
viola solo
(2,2,2,2) (2,2,2,0) (timpani, vibraphone, harp)
(strings)
(dedicated to
violist Misha Amory)
as the
air softens in dusklight (1994)
(9 min.)*
(2,2,3,2)
(4,2,2,1) (vibraphone, harp) (strings)
(winner, 1994
National Black Arts Festival/Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra
Composition Competition)
(first
performances: July 29, 30 & 31, 1994)
Symphony Hall,
Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA. (July 29 & 30)
Grant Park,
Atlanta, GA. (July 31)
Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra
Yoel Levi,
cond.
distinct
echoes of glimmering daylight
(1994) (16 min.)
(2,2,2,2)
(4,2,2,1) (vibraphone, harp) (strings)
(commissioned
by the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and Kenneth Fain
(first
performance, October 16, 1995)
Roanoke Civic
Center, Roanoke, VA.
Roanoke
Symphony Orchestra
David Wiley,
cond.
paired with within
a cloudburst of echoing brightness as a precious continuity is a day expanding
(2001)
within a
cloudburst of echoing brightness
(1995) (4 min.)*
(3,3,3,2)
(4,3,3,1) (timpani, vibraphone, harp, piano) (strings)
(commissioned
by the National Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, Music Director, through a
grant from the John and June Hechinger Commissioning Fund)
(first
performances: November 2, 3, 4, 7, 1995)
Concert Hall,
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
National
Symphony Orchestra
Leonard
Slatkin, cond.
a layer
of vivid stillness (1996) (5
min.)
‘cello solo, 12
‘cellos
(orchestration
of a vivid distance serenely layered
[1995] originally written for ‘cello quartet)
a
distance of unfolding light: rhapsody for violin & orch. (2000) (15 min.)
(2,2,2,2)
(4,2,2,1) (vibraphone, harp) (strings)
(Commissioned
by the Fromm Music Foundation)
(first
performance: November 13, 2004)
First Baptist
Church, Hickory, N.C.
Western
Piedmont Symphony Orchestra
James
Dickenson, violin
John Gordon
Ross, cond.
a still
radiance within dark air (2000)
(15 min.)
piano solo,
(1,1,1,1,) (2,2,2,0) (marimba, vibraphone, harp) (strings)
(orchestration
commissioned by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony
(first
performance: November 20, 2000)
Drinko Recital
Hall, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH.
Cleveland
Chamber Symphony
Robert Shannon,
piano
Andrew
Rindfleisch, cond.
billowing
pockets brightly layered (2000
rev. 2007) (11 min.)
‘cello solo,
(1,1,1,1,) (harp) (strings)
(first
performance of the revised version, March 16, 2008)
Glick Recital
Hall, Cleveland Music School Settlement, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland
Chamber Symphony
Darrett Adkins,
‘cello
Steven Smith,
cond.
paired with as
the air softens in dusklight as a precious continuity is a day
expanding (2001)
amid the
light of quickening memory (2002)
(9 min.)
(2,2,2,2,)
(4,2,2,1) (marimba, vibraphone, harp) (strings)
(commissioned
by the National Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, Music Director, through
funds provided by the John and June Hechinger Commissioning Fund for New
Orchestral Works)
(first
performances: June 5,6 & 7, 2003)
Concert Hall,
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
National
Symphony Orchestra
Leonard
Slatkin, cond.
through
dancing echoes spreading softly: concerto for orchestra (2005) (17 min.)
(4,4,4,2)
(4,2,2,1) (timpani, marimba, 2 harps, piano) (strings)
(commissioned
by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
the
comfort of his voice (2006) (10
min.)
(4,4,2,2)
(4,2,2,1) (marimba, vibraphone, harp, piano) (strings)
(commissioned
by the Musical Arts Society of Cleveland/Cleveland Orchestra)
(first
performance: January 14, 2007)
Severance Hall,
Cleveland, OH.
Cleveland
Orchestra
Chelsea Tipton
II, cond.
murmurs of
light . . . becoming still (2007) (1 min.)
(string
orchestra)
(commissioned
by the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra for its “Progressions” program)
verdant
and shimmering air: four views of a reflected forest (2007) (8 min.)
(3,3,3,2) (4,
3,3,1) (timpani, vibraphone, harp) (strings)
(commissioned
by the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra)
(first
performance: May 6, 2007)
Uihlein Hall, Marcus
Center for the Performing Arts, Milwaukee, WI.
Milwaukee Youth
Symphony Senior Symphony
Margery
Deutsch, cond.
. .
. and symphonies of deepening light . .
. expanding . . . ever cavernous
(2008) (11 min.)
(4,4,4,2) (4,2,2,1) (timpani, harp, piano)
(strings)
(commissioned
by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary
of Ann and Harry Santen)
(first performance:
March 27, 2009)
Music Hall, Cincinnati,
OH
Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra
James Gaffigan,
cond.
three
rhapsodies for ‘cello & strings
(2009 – 10, rev. 2013) (13 min.)
‘cello solo,
strings
I. revisiting variazioni elegiaci . . . within
the fabric of caressing air
II. echoing
fields . . .spreading light
III. brightness
dispersed
(first
performance: May 1, 2010 – mvts I & II)
Stocker Arts
Center Auditorium, Lorain County Community College, Elyria, OH
Civic Orchestra
Tanya Ell,
‘cello
Robert
Beckstrom, cond.
(first
performance of revised version: Feb. 10, 2013 – mvts I & II)
West Garden
Court, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C,
Members of the
National Gallery Orchestra
Julia Bruskin,
‘cello
Peter Wilson,
cond.
becoming
. . . (2015) (16 min.)
(piano solo,
flute, horn, mar., vib., harp, 2 vlns., vla., vlc., bass)
(commissioned by a consortium consisting of Otho Eskin, Walter Douglas, Rand Curtiss, Bonnie Jo Dopp, Peter Hurley, and the Fulcrum Point New Music Project)
of fields unfolding . . . echoing depths of resonant light (2015) (19 min.)
‘cello solo (2,2,2,2) (4,2,2,1) (marimba, vibraphone, harp) (strings)
(commissioned by The San Antonio Symphony with the additional generosity of Ann Santen, Marianna Bettman, Pat Murphy Sheehy, Mary Challinor & Bunny & Wilbur Matthews, Jr.)
(first performances: January 22nd & 23rd, 2016)
Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, San Antonio, TX
San Antonio Symphony Orchestra
John Axelrod, conductor
Christine Lamprea, 'cello
of radiances blossoming in expanding air (2017, rev. 2019) (18 min.)
‘cello solo (1,1,1,1) (2,1,1,0) (marimba, vibraphone, harp) (strings)
(commissioned by the Cricket Foundation and a consortium of private donors)
(first performance: May 4, 2019)
District Hall, Boston, MA
Phoenix Orchestra
Deborah Pae, 'cello
Matthew Szqmanski, cond.
verdant cycles of deepening spring (2018) (18 min.,)
violin solo, (2,2,2,2) (4,2,2,1) (marimba, vibraphone, harp) (strings)
unfolding waves (2017) (11 min.)
piano solo (1,1,1,1) (1,0,1,0) (marimba, vibraphone, harp) (strings)
brightness dispersed (2019)
‘cello & strings
(commissioned by the String Orchestra of Brooklyn)
written for Mariel Roberts and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn
within diffuse echoes . . . softly spreading (2019 (premiere) (revised 2020)
(commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic)
(first performance: October 24, 2019)
Manchester, UK
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Joana Carneiro, conductor