OPERA STAGE | SCREEN LARGE ENSEMBLE CHORAL DRAMATIC CHAMBER MUSIC INSTRUMENTAL CHAMBER SOLO ARRANGEMENTS
OPERA
Number Our Days, A Photographic Oratorio Based on Jamie Livingston’s “Photo Of the Day” (2023) 60′. Concept and Libretto by David Van Taylor. Commissioned by Perelman Performing Arts Center. Premiered April 12-14, 2024, New York City, Perelman Performing Arts Center, Inaugural Season.
The Limit of the Sun, Opera in two acts with Librettist Andrea Stolowitz. In progress workshops at Opera McGill and Nautilus Music Theater.
Jacqueline, Opera in Four Movements for Soprano and Cello (2019) 90′. Libretto by Royce Vavrek, dramaturgy by Michael Mori. Commissioned by Tapestry Opera, Nominated for five DORA AWARDS. watch, purchase score
Better Gods, for 6 voices and chamber orchestra (2015) 60’. Libretto by Caitlin Vincent. Commissioned by the Washington National Opera, Francesca Zambello, Artistic Director. Premiered John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC. watch excerpt, purchase score
The Pillar (excerpts), an opera for solo voices, chorus and chamber ensemble (2014) 33’. Libretto by David Van Taylor. Based on the book, The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, by Diana B. Henriques. Opera America Development Grant Recipient. Concert premiere February 2016 by The Washington Chorus in Washington, DC. listen, purchase score
Orpheus on Sappho’s Shore, oratorio in two parts for soprano, tenor and nine instruments (2004) 45’. Libretto by Eleanor Wilner. Premiered Montréal, QC. Recorded on Oxingale Records. listen, purchase score
STAGE | SCREEN
Project Earth, for flexible trio of instruments (2020) 12′. Incidental music to the play by Maia Petrucha. Commissioned by Catalina Arrubla for the students of Multi-Arts. Premiered November 1, 2020 by the children of the Multi-Arts Program, directed by Maia Petrucha. purchase score
Act Without Words I, for solo clarinet (2017) 19′. New music to the silent Beckett play. INaugural composer-in-residence commission at Bard Music West. Premiered March 2017 at Bard Music West. watch, purchase score
Mélange à trois, a wordless opera for violin, cello and percussion (2014) 35’. Commissioned by Krystina Marcoux. Developed at the Banff Center for the Arts. Premiered Montreal, QC. watch, purchase score
Suspense, for eight cellos and four percussionists (2013) 12’. New music to the silent film by Lois Weber. Commissioned by Uccello and the McGill Percussion Ensemble, premiered Montreal, QC. watch, purchase score
Angel Heart, a music storybook, for narrator and five cellos (2011) 25’. On a new story by Cornelia Funke. Recorded by Jeremy Irons, Matt Haimovitz and Uccello. Premiered Carnegie Hall. Fully staged production with interpolated songs and lullabies for 4 voices, children’s choir, 8 cellos and mandolin 65’, directed by Brian Staufenbiel, premiered Napa, CA. Recorded on Angel Heart, a music storybook, on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. watch, listen
Sanguinaria, for chamber orchestra and fifteen dancers, collaboration with choreographer Jon Meyers (1992) 45’ Premiered Oberlin College.
ORCHESTRA/LARGE ENSEMBLE
Contact, for string ensemble (2021) 12’. Commissioned by Collectif9. Premiered in a 2021 concert-film. Recorded by collectif9 on the JUNO-nominated and CBC Best of 2022 Alpha Classics’ album Vagues et Ombres. watch, purchase score
But I Digress… for string orchestra and percussion ensemble (2018) 20’. Commissioned by Collectif9 and Architek Percussion. New Chapter Grant commission. Premiered Montreal, on tour 2018-2019. watch, purchase score
One to One to One, for three voices, three cellos and three basses 18’. Commissioned by the Arte Musica Foundation in response to “At the Carnival” by Jim Dine at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Text from Robert Creeley’s “The Finger.” Premiered Montreal, QC. Recorded on LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood, on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. watch, listen, purchase score
Max’s Moon, for cello and string orchestra (2007/2009) 8’. Commissioned by the Minnesota Sinfonia for Matt Haimovitz, premiered Minneapolis, MN. purchase score
75th Fanfare, for orchestra (2008) 4’. Premiered by the Russian National Orchestra, Boca Raton, FL. purchase score
Où allons-nous?, for solo violin and chamber orchestra (2008) 15’. Commissioned by the Ensemble contemporaine de Montréal for Jonathan Crow, premiered Montreal, QC. purchase score
After the Wave, for orchestra (2005) 17’. Commissioned by the Greenwood Music School. Premiered St Pauls’ Chapel, New York. watch, purchase score
Still Life Suite, Five Dances for Orchestra (1996) 15’. Premiered Harvard University. purchase score
CHORAL
To The Fire, for six male voices a cappella (1994/2018) 14’. Old Testament text. Recorded on LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood, on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. listen, purchase score
Missa in Fines Orbis Terrae, for choir and organ (2017) 14′. Commissioned for the choir of St. James Cathedral, Toronto. Recorded on LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood, on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. listen, purchase score
How Bright the Darkness, a winter solstice carol, for baritone, SSA choir, perc., harp and string orchestra (2014) 6’. Commissioned and recorded by PENTATONE. Original text by Eleanor Wilner. Recorded on December Celebration on the PENTATONE label. listen, purchase score
Après moi, le déluge, concerto for cello and SATB choir a cappella (2006) 25’. Original text by Eleanor Wilner. Commissioned by Matt Haimovitz. Premiered Madison, WI. Recorded on LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood, on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. listen, purchase score
Into The Twilight, for SATB choir a cappella (2001) 7’. Text by W. B. Yeats, premiered by the Transylvania Philharmonic Choir, Cluj, Romania. purchase score
Songs for Women’s Chorus, SSAA (1995) 6’. Texts by James Joyce, commissioned and premiered by the Radcliffe choral Society. purchase score
DRAMATIC CHAMBER MUSIC
Voice and Piano:
Mar y sol, for contralto and piano (2023) 10′. On poetry by Rose Naggar-Trambley. Commissioned by Arte Musica. Premiered December 13, 2023 at Salle Bourgie in Montréal, QC by Rose Naggar-Tremblay and Julien Leblanc. watch, purchase score
Journey, for soprano and piano (2022) 4′. On the poem by Lisa Delan. Premiered July 18, 2022, at Festival Napa Valley by Alexandra Armantrading and Kevin Korth. watch, purchase score
Climbing the Sea, for soprano and piano (2019) 5’. Text by Hammaad Chaudry. purchase score
Ballad of a Hair Model, for mezzo-soprano and piano (2019) 5’. Text by Andrea Stolowitz. purchase score
Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington, DC, for tenor and piano (2019) 3’. Text by Naveen Bahar Choudhury. purchase score
Traum durch die Dämmerung, for soprano and piano (2017) 4’. Commissioned by Lieder Alive. purchase score
Other configurations:
Scene from Vertigo, for soprano, bass-baritone and piano (2019) 8’. Libretto by Barry Kaplan.
Turning the Tables, for soprano, mezzo-oprano and piano (2019) 7’. Libretto by Mona Mansour.
Behind the Bars, for soprano, cello and piano, on words from the song by Elliot Smith (2018) 5’. Commissioned by Rork Music for Lisa Delan.
Traum durch die Dämmerung, for soprano and piano (2017) 4’. Commissioned by Lieder Alive. purchase score
We are God’s Children, for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (2014) 10’. Commissioned by Carnegie Hall. Premiered by Mezzo-Soprano Joyce Didonato and The Brentano String Quartet, Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City. purchase score
Rumi: Quatrains of Love, for soprano, cello and piano (2012) 12’. Commissioned by Lisa Delan, texts by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks. Recorded on PENTATONE. listen, purchase score
Odas de Todo el Mundo, for soprano, cello and piano (2006) 8’. Commissioned by Lisa Delan, poem by Pablo Neruda. Premiered New York, NY. Recorded on PENTATONE’s album And if the Song be Worth a Smile. listen, purchase score
I am a Fish, for soprano and string quartet (2005) 17’. Commissioned by Jama Jandrokovic on her poems from Five Lovers. Premiered Alice Tully Hall. purchase score
Reluctance, for soprano, oboe and bassoon on a text by Robert Frost (2000) 7’. Premiered by the Syrinx Ensemble. purchase score
Epithalamion, for soprano and cello on a text by Richard Crashaw (1998) 7’. Premiered Holyoke, MA. Recorded on Oxingale Records. listen, purchase score
Sonnet CXXX, for soprano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and violin, on Shakespeare’s sonnet (1993) 9’. Commissioned by the Syrinx Ensemble, premiered Longmeadow, MA. purchase score
She Weeps over Rahoon, for two voices or two-part chorus (1991/2011) 3’. A musical labyrinth. purchase score
Luna Roja, for tenor, flute, Eng. horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello (1991) 14’. Commissioned by Juan Carlos Franco, premiered Oberlin Conservatory.
INSTRUMENTAL CHAMBER MUSIC
Steeped, for cello and marimba (2023) 7′. Commissioned by Stick&Bow. Premiered October 19, 2023, Montreal, La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines, by Krystina Marcoux and Juan Sebastien Delgado of Stick&Bow.
The Ingenious Sister, for panflute and string quartet (2022) 7′. Commissioned by Denise Gagiu. purchase score
Too Many Vodka Tonics, for string quartet (2019) 4’. purchase score
Entanglement, for cello and percussion (2016) 8’. purchase score
Tippet Fugue, for cello piccolo and harpsichord (2016) 3′. To Peter and Cathy Halstead on the opening of The Tippet Rise Art Center. For Matt Haimovitz and Christopher O’Riley. purchase score
Duo, for violin and cello (2015) 16’. To Matt Haimovitz. Premiered August 13, 2015 at Cabrillo Festival’s Music in the Mountains by Tim Fain and Matt Haimovitz. purchase score
The Impressionists, for three violas (2005) 10′. Commissioned by Sweetwater Music Weekend, premiered Leith, ON, by Scott St John, Dougls McNabney, and Virginia Barron. purchase score
Ontogeny, for bassoon, horn and piano quartet in three movements (2004) 16’. Commissioned by Stephen Walt and Jean Rife, premiered Saratoga Springs, NY. purchase score
Regression, for flute, violin, viola, cello (2002) 14’. Commissioned and premiered by the El Paso Pro-Musica Chamber Music Festival for Eugenia Zukerman. Premiered El Paso, TX.
Ten Images, Gifts in Miniature for Deborah Sherr, for clarinet & cello (2001) 13’. Commissioned by Bill Feinstein, premiered Amherst College. Performed Austin, TX, Boston, Montreal. purchase score
String Trio (Pueraria lobata), for violin, viola, and cello in three movements (2000) 19’. Premiered Amherst College.
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Epithalamion, Version for oboe and bassoon (1998) 7’. Premiered Agawam, MA. purchase score
Wedding Processional, for string quartet (1997) 3’. Premiered Plainfield MA. purchase score
Quartet for Oboe and Strings, (1995) 9’. Premiered Harvard University.
Chimera, for chamber ensemble (1993) 11’. Premiered Harvard University.
Violad, for two violas (1993) 11’. Premiered Oberlin Conservatory. purchase score
SOLO INSTRUMENTAL
l’Inconnu.e bouleversant.e, for solo violin (2023) 5′. Commissioned by the Concours Musical International de Montréal for the Violin 2023 Edition. Premiered on April 29 & 30th, 2023 at Salle Bourgie in Montréal, QC at the semi-finals of the Concours Musical International de Montréal for the Violin 2023 Edition. watch, purchase score
Diaphanous Grace for solo cello (2020) 6′. Commissioned by THE PRIMAVERA PRJOECT for Matt Haimovitz. Premiered at the UMass Amherst Bach Festival & Symposium by Matt Haimovitz. Recorded on the album, PRIMAVERA I: the wind, on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. listen, purchase score
Lili‘uokalani for solo cello piccolo (2015) 11’. An overture to Bach’s Cello Suite VI commissioned by Matt Haimovitz for his Overtures to Bach. Premiered Miller Theater, Columbia University. Recorded on Overtures to Bach on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. listen, purchase score
Five Bagatelles, for solo piano (2010) 8’. Commissioned by Katherine Jacobson. Premiered Westchester, NY. Bagatelle IV premiered by Christopher O’Riley on NPR’s From the Top. purchase score
When you Least Expect it, for solo T-Stick (2010) 10’. Commissioned by D. Andrew Stewart.
Sarabande, for solo cello (2009) 8’. Commissioned by Matt Haimovitz. Premiered Winnipeg, MB. Listen on the album, Orbit on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. listen, purchase score
Two Score, for solo cello (2004) 5’. Premiered Northampton, MA, by Matt Haimovitz. purchase score
Impromptu, for cello solo (2001) 7’. Commissioned by the Beethoven Festival for Matt Haimovitz, premiered Bonn, Germany. Recorded on the album Anthem, on Oxingale Records. purchase score
ARRANGEMENTS
Bela Bartók/Woolf: 1st Rhapsody, for four cellos. Recorded on the album Goulash! by Oxingale Records. listen, purchase score
Bela Bartók/Woolf: Roumanian Dances, for four cellos. Recorded on the album Goulash! by Oxingale Records. listen, purchase score
Ernst Bloch/Woolf: Prayer, for cello and orchestra. purchase score
Leonard Cohen/Woolf: Everybody Knows, for cello and three voices. Recorded on LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood, on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series listen, purchase score
Leonard Cohen/Woolf: Who by Fire, for cello and three voices. Recorded on LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood, on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series listen, purchase score
Traditional/Getty/Woolf: All Through the Night, for three voices, children’s choir, mandolin and eight cellos. Recorded on Angel Heart, a music storybook with Oxingale Records, and on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. watch, listen
Getty/Woolf: The Adventurer, for soprano and four cellos. Recorded on Angel Heart, a music storybook with Oxingale Records, and on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. listen
Jake Heggie/Woolf: Danny Boy, for baritone and eight cellos. Recorded on Angel Heart, a music storybook with Oxingale Records, and on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. listen
Lennon-McCartney/Woolf: Helter Skelter, for solo cello. Recorded on the album Orbit, on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. listen, purchase score
Led Zeppelin/Haimovitz/Woolf: Kashmir, for four cellos. Recorded on Goulash! by Oxingale Records, and Cello ROCK on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. listen, purchase score
Franz Schubert/Woolf: Arpeggione Sonata, for cello and string orchestra. purchase score
Franz Schubert/Woolf: Arpeggione Sonata, for cello and full orchestra. purchase score
Traditional/Woolf: Ho Ho Watanay, for baritone and eight cellos. Recorded on Angel Heart, a music storybook with Oxingale Records, and on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series.
Traditional/Woolf: O Waly Waly, for three voices and four cellos. Recorded on Angel Heart, a music storybook with Oxingale Records, and on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. listen
Traditional/Woolf: Oh Absalom, for mezzo-soprano, baritone and cello. Recorded on Angel Heart, a music storybook with Oxingale Records, and on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. listen
Traditional/Woolf: Sleep Baby Sleep, for voice and cello. Recorded on Angel Heart, a music storybook with Oxingale Records, and on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. listen
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