Michael Hersch - Composer

LARGE ENSEMBLE

Symphony No. 3 (2009) Symphony No. 3 (2009)

duration: ca. 28'
1 Pic./2 Fl./2 Ob./2 Bb Cl./1 Bs.Cl./2 Bn./1 Cnt.Bn./
4 Hrn./2 C Tpt./2 Tn.Trb./1 Bs.Trb./1 Tba./Timp./3 Perc./2 Hp./1 Pno./Strings
Commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Marin Alsop, Music Director
premiere date: Summer 2010
Santa Cruz, California

Arraché (2004) Arraché (2004)

duration: ca. 8'
1 Pic./2 Fl./2 Ob./2 Bb Cl./1 Bs.Cl./2 Bn./1 Cnt.Bn./
4 Hrn./2 C Tpt./2 Tn.Trb./1 Bs.Trb./1 Tba./Strings
Commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
premiere date: February 2005, Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
Strathmore Music Center - Bethesda, Maryland

Variations on a Theme of Hugo Wolf (2004) Variations on a Theme of Hugo Wolf (2004)

duration: ca. 27'
2 Fl./2 Ob./2 Bb Cl./2 Bsn./2 Hrn./2 C Tpt./Strings
Commissioned by the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
premiere date: June 2005, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor
Kimmel Center - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Fracta (2002) Fracta (2002)

duration: ca. 12'
1 Pic./2 Fl./2 Ob../2 Bb Cl./1 Bs.Cl./2 Bn./1 Cnt.Bn./
4 Hrn./2 C Tpt./2 Tn.Trb./1 Bs.Trb./1 Tba./Timp./3 Perc./Strings
Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
premiere date: March 2003, Claus Peter Flor, conductor
Heinz Hall - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Symphony No. 2 (2001) Symphony No. 2 (2001)

duration: ca. 20'
1 Pic./2 Fl./2 Ob./2 Bb Cl./1 Bs.Cl./2 Bn./1 Cnt.Bn./
4 Hrn./3 C Tpt../2 Tn.Trb./1 Bs.Trb./1 Tba./Timp./3 Perc./1 Hp./1 Pno./Strings
Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
premiere date: April 2002, Mariss Jansons, conductor
Heinz Hall - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Umbra (2000) Umbra (2000)

duration: ca. 25'
1 Picc./2 Fl./2 Ob./2 Bb Cl./1 Bs. Cl./2 Bn./1 Cnt. Bn./Timp./2 Perc./Strings Commissioned by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra
premiere date: April 2001, Robert Spano, conductor
Academy of Music - Brooklyn, New York

Ashes of Memory (1999) Ashes of Memory (1999)

duration: ca. 21'
1 Pic./2 Fl./2 Ob./2 Bb Cl./1 Bs.Cl./2 Bn./1 Cnt.Bn./
4 Hrn./2 C Tpt./2 Tn.Trb./1 Bs.Trb./1 Tba./Timp./3 Perc./1 Hp./1 Pno./Strings
Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
premiere date: January 2000, Mariss Jansons, conductor
Heinz Hall - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Symphony No. 1 (1998) Symphony No. 1 (1998)

duration: ca. 27'
1 Pic./2 Fl./2 Ob./2 Bb Cl./1 Bs.Cl./2 Bn./1 Cnt.Bn./
4 Hrn./2 C Tpt./2 Tn.Trb./1 Bs.Trb./1 Tba../Timp./2 Perc./1 Hp./1 Pno./Strings Commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
premiere date: November 1999, Alan Gilbert, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Hall - Dallas, Texas

Elegy (1993) Elegy (1993)

duration: ca. 10'
orchestra section strings (Vln. I / Vln.II / Vla. / Vc. / Cb.)
premiere date: February 1997
Concordia Orchestra, Marin Alsop, conductor
Alice Tully Hall - New York, New York

ENSEMBLE WITH SOLOIST

along the ravines for piano and orchestra (2010) along the ravines for piano and orchestra (2010)

duration: ca. 26'
2 Fl./2 Ob./2 Bb Cl. dbl. Bs. Cl./2 Bn./
2 Hrn./2 C Tpt./2 Trb./1 Perc./Pno.Solo/Strings

Chamber Concerto for piano and thirteen Instruments (2007) Chamber Concerto for piano and thirteen Instruments (2007)

duration: ca. 42'
1 Fl. dbl. Pic./1 Ob./1 Bb Cl. dbl. Bs. Cl./1 Bn./
1 Hrn./1 C Tpt./1 Trb./1 Perc./Pno. Solo/2 Vln./1 Vla./1 Vc./1 Cb.
Commissioned by the Borletti-Butoni Trust and Shai Wosner

Piano Concerto (2002) Piano Concerto (2002)

duration: ca. 38
1 Pic./2 Fl./2 Ob./2 Bb Cl./1 Bs.Cl./2 Bn./1 Cnt.Bn./
4 Hrn./2 C Tpt./2 Tn.Trb./1 Bs.Trb./1 Tba./
Timp./3 Perc./1 Orch. Pno./1 Hp./Pno.Solo/Strings
Commissioned by the Saint Louis Symphony, Oregon Symphony,
Pittsburgh Symphony and Garrick Ohlsson
premiere date: November 2002, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Garrick Ohlsson, soloist - Marin Alsop, conductor

VOCAL

Two Songs for baritone & piano (2000) Two Songs for baritone & piano (2000)

duration: ca. 12'
Commissioned by the 92nd St. Y
premiere date: January 2001
Troy Cook, baritone / Michael Hersch, piano
92nd St. Y - Tisch Center for the Performing Arts, New York, New York

From Ecclesiastes for unaccompanied SATB chorus (1997) From Ecclesiastes for unaccompanied SATB chorus (1997)

duration: ca. 10'

CHAMBER MUSIC

A Forest of Attics (2009) A Forest of Attics (2009)

duration: ca. 25'
1 Bb Cl. dbl. Bs.Cl./1 Hrn./1 Perc./1 Vln./1 Vla./1 Vc./1 Cb.
Commissioned by the Network for New Music
premiere date: Spring 2010
Society for Ethical Culture - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Last Autumn (2008) Last Autumn (2008)

duration: ca. 155'
Version I: Hrn/Vc. Version II: Alto Sx./Vc
Commissioned by the Washington Performing Arts Society
premiere date version I: Oct. 2009, Jamie Hersch, horn / Daniel Gaisford, cello
premiere date version II: Feb. 2010, Gary Louie, saxophone / Daniel Gaisford, cello

the wreckage of flowers for violin and piano (2003) the wreckage of flowers for violin and piano (2003)

duration: 25'
Commissioned by Midori Goto
premiere date: November 2004
Midori Goto, violin / Robert McDonald, piano
Lisbon, Portugal

Variations on a Poem for violin, cello and piano (2003) Variations on a Poem for violin, cello and piano (2003)

duration: ca. 30'
Commissioned by the Sequenza Piano Trio
premiere date: February 2004
Sequenza Piano Trio
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Octet for Strings (2001) Octet for Strings (2001)

duration: ca. 31'
4 vln./2 vla./2 Vc.
Commissioned by the Kronberg Akademie
premiere date: August 2002
Schloss Neuhardenberg Festival - Brandenberg, Germany

After Hölderlin's Hälfte des Lebens for Bb clarinet and cello (2000) After Hölderlin's Hälfte des Lebens for Bb clarinet and cello (2000)

duration: ca. 11'
Commissioned by the Romaeuropa Festival
premiere date: December 2001
Pantheon - Rome, Italy
Walter Boeykens, clarinet / Ilia Laporev, cello

Trio No. 1 for violin, Bb clarinet and piano (1995) Trio No. 1 for violin, Bb clarinet and piano (1995)

duration: ca. 17'
Commissioned by the Ensemble da Camera
premiere date: 1996
American Music Festival - National Gallery of Art - Washington D.C.

SOLO INSTRUMENTAL

Fourteen Pieces for unaccompanied violin (2007) Fourteen Pieces for unaccompanied violin (2007)

duration: ca. 32'
premiere date: December 2007
Brno, Czech Republic
Peter Sheppard-Skaerved, violin

Caelum Dedecoratum for unaccompanied double bass (2006) Caelum Dedecoratum for unaccompanied double bass (2006)

duration: ca. 22'
Commissioned by Jeffrey Weisner
premiere date: June 2007
International Society of Bassists Convention - Tulsa, Oklahoma
Jeffrey Weisner, double bass

The Vanishing Pavilions for piano (2005) The Vanishing Pavilions for piano (2005)

duration: ca. 145'
premiere date: October 2006
Saint Mark's Church - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Michael Hersch, piano

Fantasy on Samuel Scheidt's 'Es wolle Gott uns gnaedig sein'
for piano (2005) Fantasy on Samuel Scheidt's 'Es wolle Gott uns gnaedig sein'
for piano (2005)

duration: ca. 14'
Commissioned by Gene Rochberg
premiere date: 2006
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
Jeremy Gill, piano

Five Fragments for violin (2004) Five Fragments for violin (2004)

duration: ca. 5'
Commissioned by Peter Sheppard-Skaerved
premiere date: 2004
Museum of Contemporary Art - Mexico City, Mexico
Peter Sheppard-Skaerved, violin

Milosz Fragments for piano (2003) Milosz Fragments for piano (2003)

duration: ca. 13'
premiere date: October 2003
Van Cliburn Foundation Modern at the Modern Series - Fort Worth, Texas
Michael Hersch, piano

Recordatio (in memory of Luciano Berio) for piano (2003) Recordatio (in memory of Luciano Berio) for piano (2003)

duration: ca. 12'
Commissioned by Yael Weiss
premiere date: March 2004
Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York, New York
Yael Weiss, piano

Sonata No. 2 for Unaccompanied Cello (2001) Sonata No. 2 for Unaccompanied Cello (2001)

duration: ca. 40'
premiere date: October 2003
Musica XXI Romaeuropa Festival - Goethe Institute - Rome, Italy
Daniel Gaisford, cello

Sonata No. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello (1994) Sonata No. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello (1994)

duration: ca. 35'
premiere date: 2001
92nd St. Y - Tisch Center for the Performing Arts - New York, New York
Daniel Gaisford, cello

ARRANGEMENTS

Josquin des Pres (c.1450-1521)
arrangements for solo piano (2003) Josquin des Pres (c.1450-1521)
arrangements for solo piano (2003)

- Mille Regretz: ca. 3'
- De Profundis Clamavi: ca. 6'

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Wesendonck Lieder for solo violin and chamber ensemble (2005) Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Wesendonck Lieder for solo violin and chamber ensemble (2005)

duration: ca. 25'
1 Fl./1 Ob./1 Bb Cl./1 Bn./1 Hn./1 Tpt./Vln. Solo/2 Vln./1Vla./1 Vc.
commissioned by Nurit Pacht
premiere date: February 2006 - Alliance Francais
Nurit Pacht, violin