OPERA
Marie Begins, an interactive opera (2017-2020) 90 min. Libretto by Julia Curcio
Online performance with live interactions by the Westminster Choir College Opera Theatre Program at Rider University, 2020.
Selected full workshop performance of Marie Begins by The Music Theatre and Opera program in the School of Arts at Arizona State University, ASU Kerr Cultural Center, Scottsdale, AZ, 2018.
Selected workshop performance at the Opera America New Works Forum, Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. New York, 2018
Professional pilot of first 3 scenes made for the on line viewing. 2018.
Discovery Grant for Female Composers, Supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation and Opera America. 2017
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Benjamin (2010, 2000) Libretto by Michael Heller
Excerpts 2010 Philly Fringe Festival. The Performance Garage, Philadelphia, 2010.
Unstaged performance 2000 Philly Fringe Festival. Philadelphia, 2000.
CHAMBER MUSIC
Shards of Memory (2024) 15’ 23”
Piano, electronics and spatial audio
To be premiered by Marilyn Nonken at DiMenna Center in NYC 11/15/2024
StringFlo (2023) 54’ - Recording release 12/2023
String Quintet
Premiered by the Fairmount String Quartet plus guest bassist Joanne Bates, Philadelphia, PA with Tara Culp, Yoga Instructor. 3/2023
Shtetl Dressing (2022, 2024) 6’03”
2 percussionists with live electronics (2024)
Premiered by Josh Perry and Dennis Sullivan. MISE-EN_PLACE Greenpoint, Brooklyn. 5/2024
Flute, Clarinet, Cello and 2 percussionists (2022)
Lark Dances (2021) 15’
String Quartet
Premiered by the Fairmount String Quartet, 2021 and recorded 2022 (see below for links for streaming)
Lark Electronic score. Commissioned by choreographer, Jeanne Ruddy. Performed at The Performance Garage, Philadelphia, PA. 2009.
Video: Listen (Movement 1) Listen (Movement 4)
Ruptures (2020) 7’
Piano and 360 degree audio design
Premiered by Marilyn Nonken, New York University, NYC, 2020.
Collaboration with Dr. Nonken provided by the American Composers Forum, Philadelphia.
The Welcoming (2016, 2023)
Brass Quintet (2016)
Woodwind Quintet (2023 Version)
Premiered by the Nu Quintet, Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series, NY, 1/2024.
Aja over the Golden Gate (2013)
Piano
In Memoriam Gérard Grisey (2012)
Percussion Ensemble and Video.
Premiered at the University of Delaware by the University of Delaware Percussion Ensemble. 2012.
Out of Pure Sound (2010)
Violin and Video on a poem by Michael Heller
Premiered at The Performance Garage for the Philly Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA. 2010.
Mall Walking with Brahms (2004)
String Trio
Premiered by the Contemporary Music Forum at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C 2004
Intermezzi and sound design for the Laramie Project (2003|2018)
Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Electric Piano
Premiered by Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Players 2003 and 2018
Listen. Video.
CHORAL/VOCAL
Rise Again (2022)
Chorus on a poem by Ellen Fishman
Premiered and commissioned by Singing City as part of their Singing City Songbook to be released in May 2023 with the support of John K. & Elizabeth Knorr and Presser Foundations.
Midwife to the Music (2015)
Chorus on a poem by Shannon Coulter
Premiered by Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Choir with the Philadelphia School Choir, 2015.
Poems (2010)
Choir and Video on poetry by Michael Heller
Performed on the Philly Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA. 2010.
I Walked in a Desert (2009)
Mens choir on a poem by Stephen Crane (1895)
Premiered by the Performing Arts Mens Choir, Landowne, PA.
Women Who Came Before Us (2008)
Woman’s Chorus on a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye
Premiered by the Network for New Music and the Troubadors and Trouveres of the Pennsylvania Girlchoir, Philadelphia, PA 2008.
Published by Santa Barbara Press and now available through the composer.
MULTIMEDIA/NEW MEDIA
At The Toleration Statue (2020)
A video in 360 with ambisonic audio.
REMIX InterACTIVE 3 (2018)
Lead artist and arrangement of student remixes of Make Our Garden Grow for performance by PLAY ON PHILLY (orchestra) at the National Museum of American Jewish History.
REMIX InterACTIVE 2 (2015)
Lead artist and arrangement of student remixes of Bach Cantatas for performance by PLAY ON PHILLY (orchestra) at the Philadelphia Convention Center with an interactive iOS app created with Drexel University ExCITe Center.
REMIX InterACTIVE (2014)
Lead artist and arrangement of student remixes of Bernstein’s “Mambo” for performance by PLAY ON PHILLY (orchestra) at the Philadelphia Science Festival with an interactive light show created with Drexel University ExCITe Center.
Mural in Motion (2011)
Digital projection with music. Lead artist on collaboration between students from Springside Chestnut Hill Academy and the Mural Arts Program of the City of Philadelphia. Projected in downtown Philadelphia during the International Society of Technology in Education Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Montage á Trois (2011)
Video. Animations of paintings by Elizabeth Osborne. Performed at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as part of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts by Jeanne Ruddy Dance, Philadelphia, PA.
Lark (2009)
Electronic score. A collaborative work with choreographer, Jeanne Ruddy. Performed at The Performance Garage,Philadelphia, PA.
Desmond’s Marble (2009)
Electronic score and video for the Internet.
Breathless (2008)
Electronic score. A collaborative work with choreographer, Jeanne Ruddy. Performed at The Performance Garage,Philadelphia, PA.