SELECTED WORKS
CHORAL
Alleluia, 2006 (Revised 2008) (SATBB, SSAAA, TTBB) Duration: 2’30"
Commissioned by the Schola Pacis of Nashville; Winner 2011 IV Open All-Russian Composer Competition; Available through See-A-Dot Music Publishing.
i carry your heart, 2009 (SATB)
Duration: 3'30" Runner-up 2010 SACRA/PROFANA Choral Composition Contest; Available through MusicSpoke.
I Sang for Joy, 2010 (SSAA) Duration: 3'
Premiered by Namaste Women's Choir on June 11, 2011; Winner 2011 Joe Shepley Choral Competition; Winner 2011 All-Russian Composer Competition Choir Laboratory, Music for Children and Youth; Available through Kandinsky Music.
Flying, 2010 (SSAA, oboe, violin, cello)
Duration: 4' Commissioned by Cantilena, Millersville University under the direction of Dr. Mark A. Boyle. Available through Kandinsky Music.
Ring Out, Wild Bells (SATB), 2012 Duration: 2'50" Premiered by Michael Kerschner
and the the Young New Yorkers Chorus.
Leave My Heart Its Songs (SATB), 2014
Duration: 4' Winner of the Bronze Medal, Cro Patria 2014. Premiered by the Mohorjan Academic Choir of Carinthia, Split, Croatia
Song of the Shepherd (SATB, violin), 2014
Duration: 3'30"
Winner of the 2014 ACF Welcome Christmas Contest. Premiered by VocalEssence.
In Flanders Fields (SATB, flute, percussion), 2014 Duration: 4'
Available through See-A-Dot Music Publishing.
Beside Thy Manger (SSAA), 2015
Duration: 5'
Written for Michael Kerschner and
the Women's Ensemble of the Young New Yorker's Chorus
The Snow Blossoms (SSA with harp), 2017
Duration: 3' Written for Michael Kerschner and the Young New Yorkers' Chorus Women's Ensemble
It Sifts from Leaden Sieves (SATB), 2017
Winner of the 2017 Capital Hearings Young Composers Competition. Premiered December 10, 2017 in Washington, D.C. by the Capital Hearings. Contact composer for perusal score.
Mindful of You (SATB), 2018
Written in memory of Daniel Thompson, Board President and choir member of the Young New Yorkers' Chorus. Performed by Michael Kerschner and the Young New Yorkers' Chorus June 2, 2018. Contact composer for perusal score.
Heaven-Haven (SSA), 2018
Written for Michael Kerschner in honor of his last season as Artistic Director. Performed by the Young New Yorkers' Chorus Women's Ensemble. Publication coming soon with T.U.X People's Music.
To the Flowers that Spring (SSAA with divisi)
Commissioned by Alex Canovas and the Women's Ensemble of the Young New Yorkers' Chorus. Contact composer for perusal score.
Honorable Mention in the 2024 Friends of Vox Emerging Composers Competition.
My God to Thee I Call (SATB)
Commissioned by Mark A. Boyle and the Pittsburgh Compline Choir. Contact composer for perusal score.
Root ye the living tree (SATB, SSAA, soprano solo, clarinet, cello, and piano), 2019 Duration: 20' Commissioned by Roane Choral Society of Tennessee in celebration of the 100 year anniversary of women's suffrage. Premiered with a grant by the TN Arts Commission. Contact composer for perusal score.
For Xana, on the Stilwell F Train, 10:25pm
(SATB with divisi, piano), 2020
Text by Zoë Sonnenberg
Duration: 4' Commissioned by Alex Canovas and the Young New Yorkers' Chorus Mixed Ensemble. Premiere March 2020.
Anxiety, (TTBB), 2020
Text by D.H. Lawrence
Commissioned and premiered by Constellation Men’s Ensemble in Chicago, IL as part of their NOVA New Music Series, May 2020.
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
(SATB), 2023
Text by Isaac Watts
Duration: 2:45
Premiere at St. Giles Cripplegate Church, 2023 London Festival of Contemporary Church Music.
The Kings They Came (SSAATTB), 2023
Text by Sara Teasdale
Duration: 3'
Premiere TBA.
That time of year (SSAATTBB), 2023
Text by William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73
Duration: 3min
Premiere TBA.
INSTRUMENTAL
Spoon River, 2006-2008
(chamber orchestra/baritone/tenor/
soprano/mezzo-soprano)
Duration: 30’
Selections premiered by soprano Sabrina Laney Warren and the Oak Ridge Symphony on April 26, 2013.
At no time was any of this untrue, 2012 (rev. 2013) (string quartet) Duration: 25'
1. Planted 12 Jack-in-the-Pulpits
2. After that read most of a novel
3. Later that evening there was a storm
4. That night the clouds were really bright
Six Haiku Preludes, (string quartet), 2015
Duration: 15' Sky Darkening Early from this set was included on a reading session with the JACK Quartet on December 9th, 2019 at Metropolis Ensemble.
Yangtze River Songs, (Medium voice, flute), 2016 Duration: 8'
1. Companions
2. Tears
3. Night Thoughts
4. In Absence
5. Clearing at Dawn
Premiered at the Tennessee Women Composers Concert, April 15, 2019, Beethoven Club, Memphis, TN sponsored in part by a grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission
Sabrina Laney Warren, soprano • Kelly Herrmann, flute
Root ye the living tree, 2019
(soprano, piano, cello, clarinet)
1. I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day
Can be excerpted from the larger choral work.
Light Considered (clarinet, piano) 2021
1. When all other lights go out
2. A light in dark places
3. Ex nihilo
Duration: 12:45'
The Light that is felt, (clarinet, piano, cello) 2021 Duration: 5:30
On the rim of thin places (trombone, clarinet)
2023 Duration: 15:20
Written for Duo Atypique
1. Prelude
2. Hiraeth
3. Dépaysement
4. тоска
Premiered at the 2024 International Trombone Festival in Forth Worth, TX.
STAGE WORKS
Unbelievable, musical (in progress)
Book: John DeVore
Lyrics: Kevin Fogarty
Direction: Sam Scalamoni
A Thousand Faces, musical (in progress)
Book: Eric Lane
Lyrics: Kevin Fogarty
Concept: Sam Scalamoni and Ron Chaney, Jr.
The Necklace, 2015
Chamber opera
(Soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone, piano)
Libretto: Danny Rocco
Persuasion (in progress)
Libretto: Douglas Murray
ART SONG
To My Dear and Loving Husband, 2004 (high voice, piano) Duration: 2'41"
Text by Anne Bradstreet
Available in Dramatic Songs in an Intimate Setting, Three Songs for High Voice and Piano on Amazon.
Mindful of You, 2008 (medium voice, piano, oboe), Duration:2’24"
Text by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Written for Lindsey Rueter
I carry your heart, 2009 (soprano, piano)
Duration: 2’47" Text by e.e. cummings
Commissioned by Sabrina Laney Warren
To See a World, 2010 (mezzo-soprano, piano, clarinet, flute) Duration: 2'18"
Text by William Blake
Commissioned by Sarah Michelle Martin
Selected for 2011 IAWM Congress; 2010 Fresno New Music Festival
Recorded on From the Diamond Grid by Conundrum, Albany Records
Elegy (voice, piano, clarinet), 2010, rev. 2017
Text by Walt Whitman
1. Lilacs
2. Dooryard
3. Thrush
Written for Alexandra Engle.
I Would Live in Your Love (high voice, piano), 2012 Duration: 3' Written for Kay Nicholson
Text by Sara Teasdale
Available in Dramatic Songs in an Intimate Setting, Three Songs for High Voice and Piano on Amazon.
The face of all the world has changed (high voice, piano), 2013
Text by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Available in Dramatic Songs in an Intimate Setting, Three Songs for High Voice and Piano on Amazon.
As the rain hides the stars, 2014 (soprano, guitar) Duration: 5' Written for Duo Sympatico
Sehnsucht Songs, 2014 (Voice, piano) Dur. 6"
1. From a Car-Window
2. Red May
3. The Taxi
Featured on the 2015 NYC Fresh Squeezed Opera Showcase. Available on Amazon.
Say Little Things, 2016 (High voice, Piano)
Text by Amy Lowell
1. Prime
2. Dreams
3. Aftermath
Sea Poppies, 2016 (voice, piano)
Text by H.D.
Performed by Sara Crigger and Aurelien Eulert
Space to be Lonely (high voice, piano) 2017
1. Extinguish My Eyes (Rilke)
2. Home Again (Evelyn Scott)
3. Evening (Rilke)
4. Loss (Fogarty)
Commissioned by the NYC Center for Faith & Work. Available on Amazon.
In August (voice, piano) 2017
Text by Babette Deutsch
Stories I Heard Yesterday (voice, piano) 2018
Text by Hilda Conkling
1. But I cannot forget
2. The Little Stream
3. A river in her heart
4. The words of their loveliness
5. Golden Wave
Performed by Sara Crigger and Aurelien Eulert
Manhattan: The Unpeopled City and Crowds
2017 (For Mezzo-Soprano, Harp, and Flute with animated illustrations by Laura Boren)
Text by Evelyn Scott (1893-1963)
1. From Brooklyn
2. Startled Forests
3. Snow Dance
4. Lights at Night
5. Crowds
Written for the Seen/Heard Trio
On Crescent Street at 38th Avenue (soprano, piano, horn, violin) 2019
2. Small
Commissioned by the Astoria Music Project.
Text by composer.
Emptied of the known you, 2019
(voice, piano)
1. Altitude
2. Interim
3. Wild Duck
Written for Elisa Nikkoloulias. Altitude winner of the NYC Sparks and Wiry Cries SongSlam.
From the Woolworth Tower, 2021
(soprano, piano)
1. Out of the night we came
2. Over the edge of eternity
3. The tower will be laid on the earth
4. Love has crowned us
Duration: 20'
Text by Sara Teasdale
Commissioned by Sparks and Wiry Cries.
Untangled Threads, 2023
(three sopranos, mezzo-soprano, piano)
I. Writing a Memoir
II. Dearest Little Sister
III. Alaska
IV. Along for the Ride
V. To love
Duration: 18'
Text by Kevin Fogarty
inspired by the stories, poetry and prose written by Joan Vos
Commissioned by SALT (Sylvia Stoner-Hawkins, Sharon O’Connell Campbell,
Anne Jennifer Nash, Suna Gunther, Young Kim). Premiere March 2024.
Poor Katy, 2024
(soprano, piano)
Text by Leo Balkovetz
1. Poor Katy
2. The Tall Grass
3. The Saloon
4. All that trouble
5. The Next Day
6. Someone must be coming
Commissioned by Catalyst New Music and Boston Singer's Resource as part of FUSE: Collaborations in Song 2024.
Your Ever Loving Daughter, Louisa
(soprano, piano), 2024
Text by Louisa May Alcott and Abba May Alcott
1. May this pen
2. Thursday, September 14
3. Wednesday
4. A Different Wednesday
5. A Botany Lesson
6. Concord, Thursday
7. March, 1846.
8. First Story
9. Reading
10. 20 Pickney Street, Boston
Duration: 18 min
Premiere TBA.
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