Recent Performance Repertoire

Recent New Repertoire Performed


    **  World Premiere

    #  US Premiere

    ^  Asian Premiere
    % European Premiere

    (xxxx) Year composed                                                                                               


Upcoming Premieres


Clare Shore                        “TBA”                                viola / piano w/ Kathleen Supove

Eric Malmquist                    “Sonata for Solo Viola.     solo viola                      2021

Francine Trester                  “The Violists in My Life”   solo viola                      2021

Nicole Murphy                    “TBA”                                viola / fixed media        2021

Ilya Levinson                      “Insect Tango”                  solo viola                       2018

Ed Windels                         “Shred”                             two violas                      2019

Alan Theisen                        Concerto                         viola & wind ensemble

Alan Theisen                        Sonata for Solo Viola      solo viola                        2021

Antonio Celso Ribeiro         “White Mists, or Bright Sorrows” mezzo / viola     2021

Griffin Candy                       “No Half-Measures,” for Viola & Piano                  2021



Recent Repertoire

Viola Concerto and Solo in Ensemble

Benjamin Britten                 Lachrymae, viola and strings                                           1948

Kim Diehnelt                       Montegar, for solo viola and strings                                 2012 **

Stacy Garrop                      “Krakatoa,” Concerto for Viola, Strings & Percussion      2018 **
Stephen Paulus                  Exotic Etudes, solo viola and piano quartet                     2000

Alfred Schnittke                  Monologue, solo viola and string ensemble                    1989
Chen Yi                               Viola Concerto "Xian Shi"                                                1983 #


Viola and Piano


Karim Al-Zand                    Variations on a Bartok Theme                                            2003

Christopher Biggs              A Premonition to a Afterthought                                         2016 **

Seth Boustead                   Time Drips                                                                           2012 **

Chester Biscardi                The Viola Had Suddenly Become A Voice”                         2005 %

Michael J. Burns                Moods/Modes                                                                     2017 **

Andrea Clearfield               Convergence                                                                       2010 #

Dan Coleman                     Summer                                                                               2002

Christian Ellenwood           and the world, opening                                                       2011 **

Stacy Garrop                      The Solitude of Stars                                                          2020**

Stacy Garrop                      Torque                                                                                2006 ^
Stacy Garrop                      Krakatoa    (piano reduction version)                                 2018 **

Sharon Hartanto                 Brownian Motion: Particles Under the Sun                        2018 **

Mary Kouyoumdjian           Children of Conflict Series: A Boy and a Makeshift Toy     2016 **

Kevin McCarter                  Trio for Viola, Piano and the Space Between the Notes     2010 **

Tony Manfredonia               Looking Down from Above                                                 2018 **

Eric Malmquist                    Sonata for Viola and Piano                                                 2013 **

Eric Moe                              What Happened Next Will Shock You                               2016 **

Patricia Morehead               Elegy                                                                                  2011

Osnat Netzer                        Contrapose                                                                       2020 **

Polwit Opapant                    Sonata for Viola and Piano "Rain"                                    2009 **
Kirk O’Riordan                      Prayer Stones                                                                   2017 **
Antonio Celso Ribeiro          Syrian Requiem                                                                 2014 **

Alejandro Rutty                    Transparent Sun                                                                2017 **

Toru Takemitsu                    A Bird Came Down the Walk                                            1995

Augusta Read Thomas        Cantos for Slava                                                                2016

Francine Trester                    Three Burnham Poems                                                    2020 **

Evan WIlliams                       The Devil in the Belfry                                                       2018 **

Fauzie Wiriadisastra             Preanger Suite                                                                  2019 **

Yu Pengfei                            Taohuayuan                                                                      2012 **



Solo Viola


Kari Besharse                        Shadowed Hills                                                                2004
Nicholas Bizub                      Paragon                                                                            2019

Elliott Carter                          Figment IV                                                                        2009 ^
Kee Yong Chong                   Temple bell still ringing in my heart                                 2003
Paul Coletti                            Fantasia                                                                           2015

Michael Colgrass                   Cadenza, from Chaconne                                               1985

Rob Deemer                          Cantastoria, viola, and paintings by Julie Speed            2016 **

Michelle McQuade Dewhirst  84 Problems                                                                   2006 ^

Michelle McQuade Dewhirst  Zing Boom                                                                      2021**

Frank Felice                            Quarks                                                                            1991
Adam Greene                         Sibyl                                                                                2015 **

Michael Hall                            Adrenaline Rush                                                             2021**

John Harbison                        The Violist's Notebook                                                   2002

Joseph Foster Harkins           Blueberries and Bees                                                     2019 **
Martin Hebel                           Fractured Lens                                                               2019 **

Brooke Joyce                          Four Epitaphs                                                                2007

Cassandra Kaczor                  Second Hand Smoke                                                     2017 **

Matthew Kennedy                  Mocha Diablo                                                                 2020 **

David Kirtley                           Tales from the Wilderness                                              1997 **

Gyorgy Ligeti                          Viola Sonata                                                                   1991-1994

Zhou Long                              Wild Grass                                                                      2002 ^
Chaipruck Mekara                  View Point                                                                      2016 **
Quinn Mason                          In Memory                                                                      2020

Jean Milew                              Long days, short years                                                  2008 **

James Mobberley                   Subject To Change Without Notice                               2013 **

Julien Molnick                         From Abyss To Sun                                                       2019 **

Jessie Montgomery                Rhapsody No. 1                                                             2015

Nicole Murphy                        Cadenza from Stolen                                                     2019

Nicolas Omiccioli                    Short-Term Schizophrenia                                             2010 **

Mario Pelusi                            Aria                                                                                 2004 **

Narong Prangcharoen            Antahkarana                                                                   2010 **
Marta Ptaszynska                   Elegia: in Memoriam John Paul II                                   2005 **

Shulamit Ran                          Perfect Storm                                                                 2010 ^
Arshia Samsaminia                 In Memoriam                                                                  2016 **
Caroline Shaw                         In manus tuas                                                                2009 ^

Bright Sheng                           The Stream Flows                                                          1988

Augusta Read Thomas            Incantation                                                                    1995

Chinary Ung                            Kshe Buon                                                                     1980

David Vayo                              Flower Thought                                                              2005 **

Mitch Weakley                         Human Duality                                                               2017 **

John Woolrich                         Three Pieces                                                                  1993


Viola and Electronics and Fixed Media

Luciano Berio                           Naturale, viola / perc / recored Sicilian folk singer        1985

Matthew Burtner                      Wooden Dance in Fourteen Time, viola / elec.              2013 **
Rob Deemer                             Cantastoria, viola / paintings by Julie Speed                2016 **

Mark Engebretson                    Where Does Love Go, for viola / fixed media/video      2006

Alexander Gardner                   Seduction Involves Patience,” viola / electronics          2010

Mara Gibson                            Canopy" for viola and fixed media                                 2011 **

Mara Gibson                            Folium Prime,” viola / electronics /audience                  2015 **

Nico Muhly                               Keep in Touch, viola / fixed media                                 2005 ^

AnoThai Nitibhon                      Refraction, viola / 2 piano / video                                  2010 **

Paul Rudy                                 At Rome Around Jovian Moons, viola / fixed media      2011

Jacob Ter Velduis                     TATATATA,” viola / fixed media                                    1999


Viola and Voice

Michelle McQuade Dewhirst     Lorem Ipsum                    mezzo / viola / alto sax         2019 **
Mara Gibson                             One Voice                         mezzo / viola                         2016 **

Libby Larsen                             Shifting Through The Ruins    mezzo / viola / piano      2003
Tony Manfredonia                     Carrying My Cross           mezzo / viola / alto sax         2019 **

Eric Malmquist                          Song of the Rattling Pipes  mezzo / viola                      2018 **

Jessica Meyer                           Space, In Chains              mezzo / viola                         2016

Jessica Rudman                        Epilogue                           mezzo / viola                         2007

Garrett Schumann                     Folio 1                              mezzo / viola                         2016 **

Garrett Schumann                     Typewriter Songs             mezzo / viola                         2017 **

Fauzie Wiriadisastra                  Puisi Dari Maluku             soprano / viola / piano           2018 **

Nina C. Young                           Void                                  soprano / viola / piano           2013


Viola in Various Duos and Trios


Samuel Adler                             Into the Radiant Boundaries of Light   viola / guitar      2006

Regina Harris Baiocchi              Landscapes    mezzo / viola / piano                              2021 **

Michelle McQuade Dewhirst     Ottava Rima,     clarinet / viola / piano                           2011 **

Michelle McQuade Dewhirst     The Darker They Shine, the Brighter They Fall              2013 **

Mara Gibson                              Moments           clarinet / viola / piano                          2013 **

Daniel T. Little                            now and gone   bass cl. / viola / marimba                    2013
Tony Manfredonia                     Carrying My Cross, mezzo / viola / alto sax                  2019 **

Tigran Mansurian                       Lachrymae        soprano sax / viola                             1999 ^

Narong Prangcharoen                Lom 3                viola / cello                                        2014 **

Antonio Celso Ribeiro                Three Vintage Portraits of Exquisite Ladies                 2019 **

                                                   Expressing Their Frame of Mind, guitar / viola

Sara Kirkland Snider                  Thread and Fray  bass cl. / viola / marimba                 2009 ^

Alan Theisen                              Lamassu             alto sax / viola                                   2017 **
Francine Trester                         Borrowed Blue   guitar / viola                                       2019 **







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