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Composition Overview

Violetta current project

Libretto by Leo Balkovitz

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Wanting: 3 Mini Operas about Queer Dating and Relationships 2021

     The Misperception 10 min (originally premiered May 2020 with Kristen Marion as Idina and Cortlin Presley as Tasha)

     The Date 16 min

     Epilogue 5 min

2 sopranos, 2 low trans singers, violin, viola, piano

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Riven Driftwood 2014. Libretto by Louise Edwards. 

32 min

soprano, straight-tone soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone, violin, viola, bass gamba, cello, double bass, 2 percussion, clarinet, guitar, 2 piano.

Softer or something? 2021 1:30

Text by Quinn Gutman 

soprano, horn 

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7 Banned Words 2018 

voice, vibraphone

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Tesla in Love 2016 10 min.

Poem by Nicholas Bassman.  

dancerflute, soprano, 2 violinsviola, cello

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Warbler Woman 2016 5:23

Poem by Louise Edwards.

sopranoguitarvibraphone

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Somebody?…Anybody?… 2014 10 min. 

1 performer on soprano and flute

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Where will Rest the Wanderer? 2013 9 min

Original poem, “Wo wird einst des Wandermüden,” by Heinrich Heine, English Translation by Joseph Auslander.

child soprano, oboe, guitar, 2 piano

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Parting at Morning 2013 5 min. 

Poem by Robert Browning.

mezzo-soprano, clarinetflute

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The Eagle that is Forgotten 2012

Text by Vachel Lindsay.

voice, flute, 2 guitars

Palindrome 2021 5 min

Commissioned by Transient Canvas. 

bass clarinet, 5-octave marimba

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Come Along 2021 3 min

Commissioned by Longy's Ensemble Uncaged

3 trumpets

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Just Sit and Relax 2020

solo guitar

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The Toys We Played With 2019 

flute, cello

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The Immortal 2017 5 min

Commissioned by the Mivos Quartet

string quartet

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The Writer 2016 6 min

Inspired by the poem by Richard Wilber.

percussionpiano

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Sandpipers 2015 10 min

flute, clarinet, violin 

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There’s Nothing to be Afraid of… 2013 10 min

2 percussion, cello

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To Unity 2013 6 min

cellotuba, piano

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Breaking Habits 2012 6 min

violinviola

2016 version for clarinet, cello

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Abnormal Day 2012 3 min

solo clarinet 

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Trio for Bassoon, Kalimba, and Bass Drum 2012 2 min

bassoon, kalimba, bass drum 

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Child’s Dream 2012 3 min

Commissioned by Trio KAVAK.

flute, violaharp

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7 Bagatelles 2011 7 min

flute, clarinet, violacello, piano

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Monkey and Zookeeper 2011 1 min

fluteelectric bass

Arrangements

Excerpt from Voices Followed: The Illuminations of Joan of Arc by Bruno C. Faria 2021

soprano, flute, trumpet in C, piano, violin, viola, cello, fixed media

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4 Enchor Songs by Florence Price 2021

mezzo-soprano, flute, oboe, 2 trumpets, cello, piano

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Walt Whitman in 1989 by Chris DeBlasio 2021

tenor, flute, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano

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O Choruscans lux stellarum by Hildegard von Bingen 2021

soprano, open instrumentation

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Warbler Woman by Quinn Gutman 2021

soprano, flute, oboe, piano, 3 violins, viola, cello

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Kavanu Bechoshech from Three Yuval Rabin Songs by Osnat Netzer 2021

soprano, 3 violins, viola, 2 cellos

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Warbler Woman by Quinn Gutman 2017 5:23

Arrangement for piano and soprano. 

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Lo Yisa Goy Hebrew folk song 2015

SATB Choir

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Hava Nashira Hebrew folk song 2015

SATB Choir

We Will Outlive Them...Letters to Rivka From Galica 2024 

Commissioned by Jessica Bloch, set to letters delivered her Great Great Grandmother, Rivka, written by her father, brother, niece, sister-in-law, and nephew. Letters translated from Yiddish to English by Hannah Baer. Letter in final song by Leonid N. Fedotov.

     I. From Moshe

     II. Second Letter from Moshe

     III. From Israel 

     IV. Third Letter from Moshe

     V. From Gizu

     VI. Second Letter from Israel

     VII. From Brontzi

     VIII. From Chaim

     IX. Second Letter from Brontzi

     X. Second Letter from Gizu

     XI. Death Letter

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A Lost Love 2020 

Commissioned by soprano, Cortlin Presley about the life of Mercedes from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.

     Mercedes’ Rejection to Fernond

     The Years that Followed

     Mercedes sees Edmond Again

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A Cappella Arias 2017-2021 

A book of arias meant to be sung a cappella.

     The Thing About Cats (text by John L’Heureux)

          2016 1:48

     Witness (text by Quinn Gutman) 2017 2:16

     Mowing (text by Robert Frost) 2017 1:30

     Talk (text by by D. H. Lawrence) 2018 0:39

     Three Things to Remember (text by William Blake)

          2018 1:30

     Die Erblendende (text by Reine Maria Rilke)

          2020 2:30

     The Unseen Playmate (text by Robert Lewis

          Stephenson) 2020 2:30

     Letter (text by Amy Lowell) 2020 2:00

     Pain or Joy (text by Christina Rosetti) 2020 1:30

     Do Me a Favor (text paraphrased from Sappho) 2021

          2:00

      I'm not afraid (text by Quinn Gutman) 2021 2:00

      App-les (text by Kelvyn Konig) 2021 0:30​

Wild Nights 2025

Poem by Emily Dickenson.

Commissioned by Quorum Boston.

SATB choir

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She Sights a Bird 2024

Poem by Emily Dickenson.

Commissioned by Quorum Boston.

SATB choir

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What is G-d? 2018 3 min

Text by Quinn Gutman. 

Commissioned by Quorum Boston 

SATB choir

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Music, When Soft Voices Die 2011 3 min

Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. 

SATB choir

Can we just stop this already? 2020 5 min

flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinethornbassoon

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How to Sneak in the Night 2020 4 min

trumpetviolin

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Tossing and Turning 2016

Text by John Updike.

Commissioned by Evan Miller

vibraphone/spoken voice

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Let’s Keep in Touch, 2015 8 min

Commissioned by SÅŒ Percussion 

percussion quartet

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Alone Amongst Everyone Else 2015 8 min

percussion trio

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It’s Coming (and You Can’t Ignore it) 2014 9 min

2 violinsviola, cellobassoon

11 Strophes 2019 8 min 

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A Book of Happenings 2015

      Multilingual Lunch

      An Object, How do you feel?

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wine/line(in)gradients 2014

Barrowed Light 2024 (performance in 2025)

Voice ensemble and soloists​

Transcribed for the Boston Camerata from their 2004 performance of this piece.

This piece contains a collection of Shaker songs sung unaccompanied, either as solos, a choir singing in unison, or a choir with a drone. 

The Akosta Cats 2017 8 min

visual art, voice, fixed electronics, piano.

     Smokey (text by Louise Edwards)

     Paulie 

     Bouvier and Tangerine

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Inside and Outside the Monkey Cage 2016 13 min

Text by Raymonde Chira 

video installation, 2 dancers, singer, chanter, rapper, improvised vocals, percussion

 

Departure 2016 4 min 

Poem by Zachariah Claypole White.

actor/spoken voice, fixed media

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Hunting and Chasing 2013 2 min

fixed media

 

Motion in Sound and Sight 2013 10 min

pianopercussion, fixed electronics, video

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Past and Present 2012 4 min

voicepiano, violin, fixed electronics

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