Composer and Singer
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 Text by Quinn Gutman. 1:30 soprano, horn
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7 Banned Words 2018 voice, vibraphone
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Tesla in Love 2016 Poem by Nicholas Bassman. 10 min.
dancer, flute, soprano, 2 violins, viola, cello
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Warbler Woman 2016 Poem by Louise Edwards. 5:23 soprano, guitar, vibraphone
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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 Original poem, “Wo wird einst des Wandermüden,” by Heinrich Heine, English Translation by Joseph Auslander. 9 min child soprano, oboe, guitar, 2 piano
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Parting at Morning 2013 Poem by Robert Browning.
5 min.
mezzo-soprano, clarinet, flute
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The Eagle that is Forgotten 2012 Text by Vachel Lindsay.
voice, flute, 2 guitars
Palindrome 2021 Commissioned by Transient Canvas.
5 min
bass clarinet, 5-octave marimba
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Come Along 2021 Commissioned by Longy's Ensemble Uncaged 3 min
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 Commissioned by the Mivos Quartet 5 min
string quartet
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The Writer 2016 Inspired by the poem by Richard Wilber. 6 min
percussion, piano
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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
cello, tuba, piano
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Breaking Habits 2012 6 min
violin, viola
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 Commissioned by Trio KAVAK.
3 min
flute, viola, harp
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7 Bagatelles 2011 7 min
flute, clarinet, viola, cello, piano
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Monkey and Zookeeper 2011 1 min
flute, electric bass
Arrangements
Excerpt from Voices Followed: The Illuminations of Joan of Arc by Bruno C. Faria
soprano, flute, trumpet in C, piano, violin, viola, cello, fixed media
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4 Enchor Songs by Florence Price
mezzo-soprano, flute, oboe, 2 trumpets, cello, piano
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Walt Whitman in 1989 by Chris DeBlasio
tenor, flute, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano
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O Choruscans lux stellarum by Hildegard von Bingen
soprano, open instrumentation
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Warbler Woman by Quinn Gutman
soprano, flute, oboe, piano, 3 violins, viola, cello
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Kavanu Bechoshech from Three Yuval Rabin Songs by Osnat Netzer
soprano, 3 violins, viola, 2 cellos
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Lo Yisa Goy Hebrew folk song
SATB Choir
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Hava Nashira, Hebrew folk song
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 Continuing Project. A book of arias meant to be sung a cappella.
Current complete arias include;
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
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Warbler Woman, 2017. Arrangement for piano and soprano. 5:23
She Sights a Bird 2024 Poem by Emily Dickenson. Commissioned by Quorum Boston.
SATB choir
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What is G-d? 2018 Text by Quinn Gutman.
Commissioned by Quorum Boston 3 min
SATB choir
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Music, When Soft Voices Die 2011 Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. 3 min
SATB choir
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 Text by Joni Raymonde Chira 13 min
video installation, 2 dancers, singer, chanter, rapper, improvised vocals, percussion
Departure 2016 Poem by Zachariah Claypole White.
4 min
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
piano, percussion, fixed electronics, video
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Past and Present 2012 4 min
voice, piano, violin, fixed electronics
Can we just stop this already? 2020 5 min
flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon
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How to Sneak in the Night 2020 4 min
trumpet, violin
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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 Commissioned by SÅŒ Percussion 8 min
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 violins, viola, cello, bassoon
11 Strophes 2019 8 minutes.
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A Book of Happenings 2015-current
Multilingual Lunch
An Object, How do you feel?
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wine/line(in)gradients 2014