LARGE ENSEMBLE
ENSEMBLE WITH SOLOIST
VOCAL
Symphony No. 3 (2009)
Symphony No. 3 (2009)
Arraché (2004)
Arraché (2004)
Variations on a Theme of Hugo Wolf (2004)
Variations on a Theme of Hugo Wolf (2004)
Fracta (2002)
Fracta (2002)
Symphony No. 2 (2001)
Symphony No. 2 (2001)
Umbra (2000)
Umbra (2000)
Ashes of Memory (1999)
Ashes of Memory (1999)
Symphony No. 1 (1998)
Symphony No. 1 (1998)
Elegy (1993)
Elegy (1993)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
a sheltered corner for horn and orchestra (2011)
a sheltered corner for horn and orchestra (2011)
Night Pieces for trumpet and orchestra (2010)
Night Pieces for trumpet and orchestra (2010)
along the ravines for piano and orchestra (2010)
along the ravines for piano and orchestra (2010)
Chamber Concerto for piano and thirteen Instruments (2007)
Chamber Concerto for piano and thirteen Instruments (2007)
Piano Concerto (2002)
Piano Concerto (2002)
1 Pic./2 Fl./2 Ob./2 Bb Cl./2 Bn./1 Cnt.Bn./
4 Hrn./2 C Tpt./2 Tn.Trb./1 Bs.Trb./Timp./1 Perc./Solo Horn/Strings
Commissioned by the Eastern Music Festival
Premiere Date: Summer 2011
Eastern Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Jamie Hersch, soloist
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./2 Hp./1 Pno./solo C tpt./Strings
Commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra
Premiere Date: 2011/12 season
Cleveland Orchestra
Michael Sachs, trumpet
2 Fl./2 Ob./2 Bb Cl. dbl. Bs. Cl./2 Bn./
2 Hrn./2 C Tpt./2 Trb./1 Perc./Pno.Solo/Strings
Premiere date: Spring 2012
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Shai Wosner, piano
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
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
Domicilium: a song cycle after poems of Thomas Hardy (2010)
Domicilium: a song cycle after poems of Thomas Hardy (2010)
Two Songs for baritone & piano (2000)
Two Songs for baritone & piano (2000)
From Ecclesiastes for unaccompanied SATB chorus (1997)
From Ecclesiastes for unaccompanied SATB chorus (1997)
Two Songs for soprano and piano (1993)
Two Songs for soprano and piano (1993)
baritone/piano
commissioned by Thomas Hampson and the A.S.C.A.P. Foundation
premiere date: TBA
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
premiere date: 1994
Ulrike Huhs, soprano / Paul Wyse, piano
The Peabody Institute of Music - Baltimore, MD
CHAMBER MUSIC
SOLO INSTRUMENTAL
Images From a Closed Ward for string quartet (2010)
Images From a Closed Ward for string quartet (2010)
Two Pieces for Cello and Piano (2009)
Two Pieces for Cello and Piano (2009)
A Forest of Attics (2009)
A Forest of Attics (2009)
Last Autumn (2008)
Last Autumn (2008)
the wreckage of flowers for violin and piano (2003)
the wreckage of flowers for violin and piano (2003)
Variations on a Poem for violin, cello and piano (2003)
Variations on a Poem for violin, cello and piano (2003)
Octet for Strings (2001)
Octet for Strings (2001)
After Hölderlin's Hälfte des Lebens for Bb clarinet and cello (2000)
After Hölderlin's Hälfte des Lebens for Bb clarinet and cello (2000)
Trio No. 1 for violin, Bb clarinet and piano (1995)
Trio No. 1 for violin, Bb clarinet and piano (1995)
Commissioned by the Blair String Quaret
Premiere Date: Fall 2011
premiere date: November 11, 2010 - The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Daniel Gaisford, cello / Michael Hersch, piano
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: April 9, 2010
Society for Ethical Culture - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
Commissioned by Midori Goto
premiere date: November 2004
Midori Goto, violin / Robert McDonald, piano
Lisbon, Portugal
Commissioned by the Sequenza Piano Trio
premiere date: February 2004
Sequenza Piano Trio
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
4 vln./2 vla./2 Vc.
Commissioned by the Kronberg Akademie
premiere date: August 2002
Schloss Neuhardenberg Festival - Brandenberg, Germany
Commissioned by the Romaeuropa Festival
premiere date: December 2001
Pantheon - Rome, Italy
Walter Boeykens, clarinet / Ilia Laporev, cello
Commissioned by the Ensemble da Camera
premiere date: 1996
American Music Festival - National Gallery of Art - Washington D.C.
SOLO INSTRUMENTAL
in the snowy margins for unaccompanied violin (2010)
in the snowy margins for unaccompanied violin (2010)
Fourteen Pieces for unaccompanied violin (2007)
Fourteen Pieces for unaccompanied violin (2007)
Caelum Dedecoratum for unaccompanied double bass (2006)
Caelum Dedecoratum for unaccompanied double bass (2006)
The Vanishing Pavilions for piano (2005)
The Vanishing Pavilions for piano (2005)
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)
Five Fragments for violin (2004)
Five Fragments for violin (2004)
Milosz Fragments for piano (2003)
Milosz Fragments for piano (2003)
Recordatio (in memory of Luciano Berio) for piano (2003)
Recordatio (in memory of Luciano Berio) for piano (2003)
Sonata No. 2 for Unaccompanied Cello (2000)
Sonata No. 2 for Unaccompanied Cello (2000)
Sonata No. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello (1994)
Sonata No. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello (1994)
premiere date: August 2010
Dartington Music Festival
United Kingdom
Peter Sheppard-Skaerved, violin
premiere date: December 2007
Brno, Czech Republic
Peter Sheppard-Skaerved, violin
Commissioned by Jeffrey Weisner
premiere date: June 2007
International Society of Bassists Convention - Tulsa, Oklahoma
Jeffrey Weisner, double bass
premiere date: October 2006
Saint Mark's Church - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Michael Hersch, piano
Commissioned by Gene Rochberg
premiere date: 2006
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
Jeremy Gill, piano
Commissioned by Peter Sheppard-Skaerved
premiere date: 2004
Museum of Contemporary Art - Mexico City, Mexico
Peter Sheppard-Skaerved, violin
premiere date: October 2003
Van Cliburn Foundation Modern at the Modern Series - Fort Worth, Texas
Michael Hersch, piano
Commissioned by Yael Weiss
premiere date: March 2004
Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York, New York
Yael Weiss, piano
premiere date: October 2003
Musica XXI Romaeuropa Festival - Goethe Institute - Rome, Italy
Daniel Gaisford, cello
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)
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)
- De Profundis Clamavi: ca. 6'
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