Musibility (2023) 2’30’’

for soprano, piano, string quartet

commissioned by The Juilliard School for soprano Mikaela Bennett and the Alice Tully Vocal Arts Recital

text by Hannah Emerson

FP: May 6, 2023 by Mikaela Bennett, Adam Rothenberg and Ivalas Quartet at Alice Tully Hall in New York, NY

I Live in the Woods of My Words (2023) 4’

for soprano, piano, string quartet

commissioned by The Juilliard School for soprano Mikaela Bennett and the Alice Tully Vocal Arts Recital

text by Hannah Emerson

FP: May 6, 2023 by Mikaela Bennett, Adam Rothenberg and Ivalas Quartet at Alice Tully Hall in New York, NY

Out of the box (2023) 4’

for baritone, piano

commissioned by Gregory Feldmann, Nathaniel LaNasa, and Cynthia Tobar for the American Icons project, with support from the Brooklyn Arts Council

text by Marco Grosse

FP: Mar. 12, 2023 by Gregory Feldmann and Nathaniel LaNasa in Brooklyn, NY

Our way of being small in the world (2021) 8′30’’

for mezzo-soprano, baritone (optional), clarinet, percussion (one player), piano, cello

commissioned by Fresh Squeezed Opera

text by Marco Grosse

FP: Nov. 3, 2022 by Fresh Squeezed Opera at The Cell in New York, NY

The Beauty of Disability (2020) 4′30’’

for soprano, piano

commissioned by Chelsea Hollow for the Cycles of Resistance project, honoring disability activist Judy Heumann

text by Marco Grosse, Judy Heumann, Molly Joyce

Follow (2020) 4′30’’

for baritone and guitar

written for the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music

text by Marco Grosse

(start at 1:44:33)

Wall of Mirrors (2019) 5′

for TTBB choir

commissioned by Harvard Glee Club

text by Marco Grosse

FP: February 21, 2020 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA

 

Thorns (2019) 4′

commissioned for Magdalene, a chamber opera in 13 movements at 2020 PROTOTYPE Festival

text by Marie Howe

FP: January 11, 2020 at HERE Arts Center in New York, NY

two arrangements:

for soprano and piano

for soprano, string quartet, harp

The End (2019) 5’30”

for mezzo-soprano and electric organ

text by Molly Joyce, video created in collaboration with Maya Smira

FP: May 21, 2019 at Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, China

Think Out Loud (2018) 5′

for voice and electronics

text by Molly Joyce, produced by Bec Plexus

FP: September 7, 2019 at Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Utrecht, Netherlands

Form (2017-18) 24′

for soprano, clarinet/bass clarinet, soprano saxophone/baritone saxophone, percussion

commissioned by VONK Ensemble, with support from Fonds Podiumkunsten

text by Molly Joyce

FP: January 21, 2018 at Podium 111 in Tilburg, Netherlands

four songs (can be performed separately or together):

Conform 5′

Deform 7′

Reform 6′

Transform 6′

 

Redesign Our Time (2017) 3′30”

commissioned by The Canales Project / Vital Voices, as part of The Canales Project’s Hear Her Song initiative

text by Jacqueline Suskin

FP: March 7, 2017 at House of Sweden in Washington, DC

This River (2016) 6′20”

commissioned by Albany Symphony

text by Molly Joyce

FP: June 11, 2016 at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Troy, NY

three arrangements:

two arrangements:

for mezzo-soprano and piano

for mezzo-soprano, cello, percussion (one player), piano

for soprano, guitar, cello

for mezzo-soprano and piano

for mezzo-soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, harp, percussion, violin, viola, cello, bass

 

YousaidShesaidHesaid (2014-present)

for soprano/mezzo-soprano and piano

Created in collaboration with playwright Christopher Oscar Peña, director Austin Regan, and fortepianist Patrick Jones, YousaidShesaidHesaid juxtaposes modern perspectives with Schubert’s masterpiece song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin.

The work traces the same timeline as Schubert’s work, but from the experience of the other character in the story, who until now has historically had no voice – the “girl of the mill” herself.

FP: March 23, 2014 at HERE Arts Center in New York City and May 30, 2015 as part of VisionIntoArt’s FERUS Festival at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY

Glow (2014) 5′

for SATB choir

commissioned by The New York Virtuoso Singers

text by Caitlin Kenzie Scott and Molly Joyce

FP: November 15, 2014 at Merkin Hall in New York, NY

three songs:

One 6′

East River 5′

This Used to be a Story 6’30”