Composer and Tenor
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.
dancer, flute, soprano, 2 violins, viola, cello
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Warbler Woman 2016 5:23
Poem by Louise Edwards.
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 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, clarinet, flute
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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.
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 3 min
Commissioned by Trio KAVAK.
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 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, 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 8 min
Commissioned by SŌ 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 violins, viola, cello, bassoon
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
piano, percussion, fixed electronics, video
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Past and Present 2012 4 min
voice, piano, violin, fixed electronics