composer

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Fox Songs
10” — 2019 — texts by Jane Hirshfield, Caki Wilkinson, and Anastasia Pennington-Flax
written & co-premiered (2018) by Alex Nowakowski and Ann Moss
[for soprano and piano]
Heart is a Lamp
7” — 2018 — texts by Susan Blackwell Ramsey
commissioned & premiered (2018) by Boston's Emily Marvosh
[for mezzo-soprano or contralto, viola, and cello]
Hard Stones
15” — 2018 — texts by Ann DeSiro, for the anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombings
commissioned & premiered (2018) by San Francisco's Ann Moss, in bicoastal concerts (Boston, MA + San Fran, CA)
[for soprano and piano]
Unsex Me Here
15” — 2017 — texts by Shakespeare + new poems by A. Pennington-Flax and Laura Attridge
commissioned & premiered (2018) by Brooke Larimer and the BEO String Quartet
[for mezzo-soprano and string quartet]
It's All Coming Down, Darling
2” — 2017 — wordless, unaccompanied lullaby
commissioned & premiered Megan Ihnen
[for mezzo-soprano]
Letters from a Bird of Prey
7” — 2017 — poetry by A. Pennington-Flax
commissioned & premiered (2018) by Atlanta's Mèlange Ensemble (Margot Rood and Caleb Herron)
[for soprano and percussion]
Absence Makes
17” — 2017 — on original poetry by Jennifer Perrine
commissioned, workshopped (2017) & premiered (2018) by the Seen/Heard Ensemble
[for mezzo-soprano, harp, and flute]
Half-Moon Late-Risen
6” — 2016 — on poetry by Walt Whitman
commissioned & premiered (2016) by Colin Levin at the Tanglewood Festival (Stockbridge, MA)
[for high baritone and piano]
Bagidaabii-Neyaashi
26” — 2016 — on original poetry by Esther Margaret Ayers
commissioned and premiered (2016) by the Marquette Symphony Orchestra, with Aani Bourassa (soprano soloist)
[for soprano, SATB choir, and orchestra (3, 2, 2+b, 2 - 4, 2, 3, 1 - perc, hp, str)]
Chekhov’s Response
4” — 2016 — on original poetry by Katharine Markwick
commissioned & premiered (2016) by London's Helios Collective, at the National Gallery in London
[for tenor and piano]
All Children, Except One
20" — 2016 — on original poetry by Laura Attridge
commissioned & premiered (2016) by Aiden Kim Feltkamp, as part of the Chamber Series at Bard College
[for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble (viola, cello, clarinet, bassoon)]
The Great Ordeal
8” — 2016 — on Biblical texts in English translation
commissioned & premiered (2016) by Stephen Martin and the Okemos Community Chancel Choir (Okemos, MI)
[for baritone and soprano solists, SATB choir, organ, trombone, & Fr. horn]
Amplification
3” — 2015 — on poetry by Susan Blackwell Ramsey
written for & premiered (2017) by the Michigan Recital Project (Emily Marvosh and Margot Rood)
[for unaccompanied soprano and mezzo-soprano duet]
Two Modern Love Songs
4" — 2014 — on poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay
written for and premiered (2015) by Adrian Sanchez, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[for bass-baritone and piano]
Three Songs of Christmastide
6" — 2014 — on traditional Advent hymn tunes
commissioned & premiered (2014) by Laura Attridge
[for soprano and piano]
O Might I Raise the Darken’d Veil
3" — 2014 — on poem by Nathaniel Hawthorne
written for & premiered (2014) with Chicago's VOX3 Ensemble, with Jacqueline King (mezzo-soprano)
[for mezzo-soprano and piano]
Three Songs on Darkness
7” — 2014 — on poetry by Emily Brontë and Lord Byron
written for & premiered (2014) by Cristin Colvin, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[for soprano and piano]
I Would Not Paint a Picture
3” — 2013 — on poetry by Emily Dickinson
premiered 2014 — winner of the First Composition Competition with Washington D.C.'s Words & Music, Inc.
[for SATB quartet and piano]
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