Compositional Experience

-More than sixty compositions, including instrumental, vocal, and electronic music. -thirty-three published works. -performances throughout North America, and in Europe, Asia, and Africa. - eleven works recorded on CRI, Centaur, New World, Bridge, Albany, Azica, and Bard. (see discography below)

Selected performances, 1999 - 2010

May 22, 2010: Luminism for orchestra, commissioned and premiered by Albany Symphony; David Alan Miller, conductor; Troy, NY

October 29-31, 2009: Songs for Adam for baritone and orchestra (premiere), commissioned and premiered by Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Text written specifically for this piece by Susan Stewart. Brian Mulligan, baritone; Sir Andrew Davis, conductor; Chicago, IL

October 13, 2008: Fantasy-Variations Lontano Ensemble; Second London Festival of American Music; The Warehouse, London, UK

September 28, 2007: Forms of Light (premiere); University of Michigan Symphony Band; Michael Haithcock, conductor; Hill Auditorium; University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI

February 14, 2007: all-Primosch concert. Works perfomed include Short Stories, Piano Variations (premiere), Secret Geometry, and Holy the Firm. Prism Saxophone Quartet; Lucy Shelton, soprano; Stephen Gosling, piano. University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA.

December 2, 2006: From a Book of Hours (premiere of version for soprano and chamber ensemble). Susan Narucki, soprano, Christopher Kendall, conductor, 20th Century Consort, Smithsonian Museum of American Art; Washington, DC

November 6, 2006: Dancepiece (premiere of version with clarinet, piano). New York New Music Ensemble, Merkin Hall; New York, NY

October 19, 2005: “The Ladder of Divine Ascent” from Holy the Firm (piano and voice version) Susan Narucki, soprano; Michael Barrett, piano. New York Festival of Song, Merkin Concert Hall; New York, NY

March 8,9, 2005: Dancepiece (premiere) for chamber ensemble, with choreography by Christine Cox for members of former Phrenic Ballet, Network for New Music Ensemble, Philadelphia Arts Bank; Philadelphia, PA

February 22, 2005: Holy the Firm (piano and voice version) Tony Arnold, soprano, Jacob Greenberg, piano. Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH

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December 2, 2004: Holy the Firm (piano and voice version - excerpts) Lucy Shelton, soprano; Stephen Gosling, piano, Washington Square Contemporary Music Series, Merkin Concert Hall; New York, NY

March 31, 2004: Sonata-Fantasia, Lambert Orkis, piano and synthesizer, Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, OH

March 25, 2004: String Quartet No. 2 (after Zúrbaran), Cassatt Quartet, Mannes School of Music; New York, NY

January 23, 2004: Matins (premiere) Peggy Pearson, oboe; Cantata Singers; David Hoose, conductor, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music; Boston, MA

June 24, 2003: Little Suite (premiere) Haskell Thompson, organ; Finney Chapel, Oberlin College; Oberlin, OH (part of regional meeting of American Guild of Organists)

May 15, 2003: Short Stories (premiere) Prism Saxophone Quartet, Trinity Center for Urban Life, 22nd & Spruce Streets; Philadelphia, PA

June 5, 2002: Sacra Conversazione, New York New Music Ensemble, June in Buffalo Festival; Buffalo, NY

October 24, 2002: Sacra Conversazione, Members of the Seattle Symphony, Christopher Kendall, conductor, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA

May 3, 2002 Holy the Firm (chamber ensemble version). Network for New Music, Philadelphia, PA

April 15, 2002 Chamber Concerto for clarinet and chamber ensemble (premiere). Commissioned and performed by Speculum Musicae. New York, NY

April 14, 2002: Sonata-Fantasia for piano and synthesizer (premiere). Commissioned and performed by Lambert Orkis. Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Philadelphia, PA.

January 10, 11, 12, 2002: From a Book of Hours. (premiere) Commissioned and performed by Chicago Symphony. Lisa Saffer, soprano; Antonio Pappano, conductor. Chicago, IL.

December 2, 2000: Holy the Firm (premiere of version for voice and chamber ensemble) 20th Century Consort, Washington, D.C.

February 6, 2000: Piano Quintet James Primosch, piano; Miami Quartet; Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY. Also, excerpts from the Quintet performed on 4 educational concerts presented by Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Feb. 8 and 9, 2000.

April 29, 1999: String Quartet #3 (premiere); Ying Quartet; Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Philadelphia Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA.

April 6, 1999: Holy the Firm; (premiere) Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano. Provo Tabernacle, Provo, UT. Additional performances in San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Toronto.

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Compositions performed by: orchestras Los Angeles Philharmonic Chicago Symphony St Paul Chamber Orchestra Albany Symphony New York Youth Symphony Shreveport Symphony Chamber Orchestra Cleveland Chamber Symphony members of St. Louis Symphony as members of Seattle Symphony part of “On Stage” series

new music ensembles Speculum Musicae Voices of Change New Music Consort Hartt Contemporary Players Collage Sonus 20th Century Consort Ensemble 21 New York New Music Ensemble Orchestra 2001 New Julliard Ensemble Penn Contemporary Players Guild of Composers Network for New Music Contemporary Chamber Players Eastman Musica Nova (University of Chicago) (Eastman School of Music) Settlement Music School Contemporary Players (Philadelphia) chamber music ensembles Miami String Quartet Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Leonardo Trio Atlantic String Quartet Cassatt String Quartet Cavani String Quartet Lydian String Quartet Pacifica String Quartet Ying String Quartet New York Camerata Folger Consort Jubal Trio Vogler Quartet

individual artists Tony Arnold Sir Andrew Davis Janice Felty Stephen Gosling John Harbison Ellen Hargis Gilbert Kalish Aleck Karis Judith Kellock David Alan Miller Susan Narucki Christopher Oldfather Lambert Orkis Siegfried Palm Peggy Pearson Lisa Saffer Christine Schadeberg William Sharp Lucy Shelton Gunther Schuller Dawn Upshaw Milagro Vargas

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Compositions performed at: Carnegie Hall Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Lincoln Center (Alice Tully Hall) Town Hall Symphony Space (New York) Weill (Carnegie) Recital Hall Cleveland Museum of Art Hirshorn Museum Los Angeles County Museum Powell Hall (St. Louis) Marlboro Music Festival Moscow Conservatory of Music (Russia) Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Painted Bride Art Center Merkin Concert Hall (New York) Philadelphia Museum of Art Trinity Cathedral (Cleveland) Philadelphia Settlement Music School Philadelphia New School of Music Sonic Boom Festival (New York) Berkshire Music Center (Tanglewood) Folger Shakespeare Library Mozart on the Square Festival Muziekcentrum de "Ysbreker" (Philadelphia) (Amsterdam) Washington Square Contemporary League of Composers/ ISCM Music Series (New York) World Music Days (Hong Kong) at venues in Rome, Bonn, Vienna, at over forty colleges, universities London, and elsewhere in and conservatories throughout Europe the United States.

Received commissions from: Chicago Symphony (2) Fromm Foundation Folger Consort Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia Serge Koussevitzky Foundation New York Camerata New York Youth Symphony Town Hall (NYC) Cleveland Museum of Art SUNY Stony Brook St. Meinrad’s Archabbey Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Network for New Music (3) Rosewood Chamber Ensemble Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament Lambert Orkis Barlow Endowment Speculum Musicae Cleveland chapter of American Guild Council Rock School District, of Organists Bucks County PA Big 10 Universities Band Directors consortium

Works published by: Merion Music Associated Music Margun Music Hinshaw Music (see work list attached)

Performance rights licensed by Broadcast Music, Inc.,

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Performance Experience -pianist specializing in contemporary music as well as traditional literature. Also experienced in jazz, commercial and liturgical music. appeared as soloist, accompanist or ensemble member at: Trondheim Chamber Music Festival (Norway) Alice Tully Hall Kennedy Center (Chamber Music Society Cleveland Museum of Art (AKI Festival) of Lincoln Center) Painted Bride Art Center Philadelphia Free Library Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia Art Alliance Washington Square Contemporary Music Series Columbia University Christ & St. Stephen's Church (New York) Brandeis University North Carolina School of the Arts Baylor University Curtis Institute of Music numerous other colleges and universities.

collaborated with performers including: Lambert Orkis Christine Schadeberg Judith Bettina Barbara Martin Janice Felty Judith Kellock Miami Quartet Cavani Quartet Cassatt Quartet

performance discography -Piano Quintet by James Primosch for New World Records, 1997. -Scenes from Shir ha-Shirim by Mario Davidovsky (with Parnassus) for CRI, 1985. -Celestial Mechanics by George Crumb (with 20th Century Consort) for the Smithsonian Collection, 1980. Reissued on Innova, 2005. -Trio by Donald Erb for Crystal Records, 1979.

offered master classes at: -Songfest (program for New American Song), Malibu, California, 2007, 2005. -Trondheim Chamber Music Festival, 2007

additional performance experience -Served as music minister and choir director, Catholic Campus Ministry, Columbia University, 1984-1988 -director of music, Church of St. Andrew, (New York City), 1987-1988 -gave lecture/recitals at University of Maryland, 1998; and Delaware Institute for the Arts in Education, University of Delaware, 1986. -guest artist with 20th Century Consort at Spoleto USA Festival, Hirshorn Museum, National Cathedral, National Museum of Natural History -appeared as pianist with Penn Contemporary Players, 1979-1980. -worked as commercial musician in Philadelphia and Cleveland, 1970-1981.

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Academic Experience Positions held at University of Pennsylvania -currently Robert Weiss Professor of Music 2006- -Professor of Music, 2002-2006 -undergraduate chair, 2002-2005 -Associate Professor of Music 1994-2002. -Department Chair, 1996-1998, 1999-2000. -Laura Jan Meyerson Term Chair in the Humanities 1993-1994. -Assistant Professor of Music 1988-1994.

Responsibilities at University of Pennsylvania have included: -teaching undergraduate courses in harmony, counterpoint, introduction to theory, orchestration, electronic music, history of jazz, and jazz improvisation. -teaching graduate courses in composition, 20th Century analysis, electronic music, and musicianship. -designing, installing, and directing graduate electronic music studio. -Creating new graduate course in electronic music, new undergraduate course in jazz improvisation, new undergraduate course in orchestration, new undergraduate course in electronic music composition. -Serving on various departmental committees.

Additional activities at University of Pennsylvania: -received grant of $35,000 from the Presser Foundation and equipment donation from Casio to create new studio for electronic music. Subsequently received two additional grants from Presser Foundation to update studio. -served as faculty advisor to freshmen, 1993-1996. -served as co-director of Penn Contemporary Music concert series, 1993-present. -served on School of Arts and Sciences Personnel Committee, 2002-2004.

Other academic and teaching experience -gave master classes on music of George Crumb, Trondheim (Norway) Chamber Music Festival, 2007 -faculty composer, Songfest, Pepperdine University, 2007, 2004 -guest composer, Wellesley College Composers Conference, 2001. -lectured on my own music and/or on recent American music at: Peabody Conservatory of Music 2006 Cleveland State University, 2005, 1997, 1991 Cleveland Institute of Music, 2005 University of Chicago, 2002 University of Utah, 1999 Brigham Young University, 1999 San Francisco State University, 1999 Washington University, 1998 University of Missouri - St. Louis, 1998 Eastman School of Music, 1998 Yale at Norfolk, 1997 various universities in Seoul, South Korea, 1997 International Stefan Wolpe Society Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 1996 SUNY Stony Brook, 1996 North Carolina School of the Arts, 1996 Brandeis University, 1996

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Institute of Musicology, Prague, 1992 Cornell University, 1989 University of Southern California, 1989. -invited speaker at conference on religion and the arts sponsored by Syracuse University, 1995. -worked on individual basis with students studying electronic music at Columbia- Princeton Electronic Music Center while graduate fellow at Columbia University, 1986-1987, 1982-1984. -panelist at Bach Tricentennial Conference, Hofstra University, 1985. -member of multi-disciplinary arts panel on "Composition and Revision", College of New Rochelle, 1985. -taught music humanities as preceptor at Columbia University, 1984-1985. -taught undergraduate course in music history while graduate student at University of Pennsylvania, 1980. -taught piano privately in Philadelphia, 1979-1981.

Collaborative Activity -set texts by poet Susan Stewart (currently Princeton University) in compositions Holy the Firm (1999), Dark the Star (2008), Songs for Adam (2009)

Courses taught in last three years Fall 2008: 70 (LPS), 170, 508, 801, 995, 998 Spring 2009: 70 (LPS), 71, 99, 530, 995, 999 Summer 2009: 70 (LPS) Fall 2009: 70, 70 (LPS), 99, 508, 801, 998 Spring 2010: Music 70 (LPS) 71, 99, 520, 998 Summer 2010: 70 (LPS) Fall 2010: 70 (2 sections, SAS and LPS), 700, 508, 998 Spring 2011: 70 (LPS) 530, 998

Departmental Service Activity -Admissions committee, composition, 1988-present

Administrative experience

-served as Undergraduate Chair, Music Department, University of Pennsylvania, 2009-present; 2002-2005.

-served as Chairman of the Music Department, University of Pennsylvania, 2010- 2011, 1999-2000, 1996-98.

-performed administrative work for Parnassus contemporary music ensemble, 1984-1985. Responsibilities included publicity, scheduling, preparation of grant proposals, correspondence, writing program notes, miscellaneous.

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Published writings by James Primosch

-invited to write chapter on jazz in the music of John Harbison; to be included in volume of essays in honor of Harbison’s 70th birthday (publisher and date of publication TBA).

-reviewed over 100 recordings for High Performance Review magazine, 1987-1996. Repertoire covered included baroque to the present, with special emphasis on works for piano and contemporary music. -program notes on George Crumb's A Little Suite for Christmas, published in George Crumb: Profile of a Composer (C.F. Peters Corporation: New York, 1986.)

Published Writings about James Primosch

-“Primarily Primosch”, interview with Tom Moore. 21st Century Music, October 2002, Volume 9, Number 10, pg. 1-5

List of Compositions instrumental (solo and chamber ensemble) (see also electronic music)

Labyrinth (oboe solo) (1979) 4'

Apparition (piano solo) (1979) 7'

Three Studies (clarinet solo) (1980) 6'

Variations (violin solo) (1981) 8' [M]

Exchanges (flute, clarinet) (1981) 8'

Five Miniatures (fl, ob, cl/bs cl, hn, tp, tb, vn, va, vc) (1982) 7' [M]

String Quartet (1983) 14' [M]

Septet (fl/pc, ob/eh, cl/bs cl, vn, va, vc, pf) (1985) 15' [M] Commissioned by Rosewood Chamber Ensemble Recorded by Orchestra 2001 for CRI records

String Quartet No. 2 (after Zurbarán) (1991) 16' [P] Commissioned by Musart Society for 75th Anniversary of Cleveland Museum of Art Recorded by Cavani Quartet for New World Records

Fantasy-Variations (vln, vcl, pf) (1991) 16' [P] Composed with the support of National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Recorded by Leonardo Trio for New World Records

Meditation on "What Wondrous Love is This?" (organ solo) (1995) 4' [P] Recorded by Karel Paukert for Azica Records 10

Piano Quintet (2vns, vla, vcl, pf) (1996) 25’ [P] Recorded by composer and Cavani String Quartet for New World Records

Christus Vincit (organ solo) (1997) 4’ [P] Commissioned by Benedictine Archabbey of St. Meinrad

String Quartet No. 3 (1999) 20’ [P] Commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

Ciaconna Notturna (piano 6-hands) (1999) 3’ Composed in honor of George Crumb’s 70th birthday at the request of Orchestra 2001

Sonata-Fantasia (piano and synthesizer, 1 player) (2001) 38’ [P] Commissioned by Lambert Orkis. Recorded by Lambert Orkis for Bridge Records

Chamber Concerto for clarinet and chamber ensemble, (solo b-flat cl, pf, synth, (one player each for piano and synthesizer) perc (one player), vln, vcl, cb) (2002) 15' [P] Commissioned by Speculum Musicae with the support of the Mary Flagler Carey Trust

Little Suite (organ solo) (2002) 9’ [P] Commissioned by the Cleveland chapter of the American Guild of Organists

Short Stories (saxophone quartet (SATB)) (2003) 10’ Composed for the Prism Quartet with the support of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship

Straight Up (saxophone quartet (SATB)) (2004) 1’20” Composed at the request of the Prism Quartet for their 20th anniversary

Dancepiece (alto saxophone or clarinet in A, cello, percussion (1 player), synthesizer or piano) (2005) 7’ Commissioned by Network for New Music for a collaboration with Christine Cox, choreographer

Piano Variations (piano solo) (2006) 20’ Based on first movement of Sonata-Fantasia for piano and synthesizer (see above)

I Never Knew (saxophone quartet (SATB)) (2007) 3’

Times Like These (b-flat clarinet and piano) (2008) 8’ Commissioned by Jean Kopperud for her “Rated X” project.

Diabolical Diabelli (b-flat clarinet and cello) (2010) 1’ Composed at the request of Network for New Music for their 25th anniversary

chamber orchestra (see also solo voice and choral) Chamber Symphony (112(1 cl, 1bs cl)0 1110 perc(2) pf 2vns 1va 2vc 1 cb) (1990) 18' [P] Commissioned by SUNY Stony Brook

11 orchestra and wind ensemble (see also solo voice and choral) Dappled Things (2222 4220 perc(4) pf/cel strgs) (1986) 7' [M] Commissioned by New York Youth Symphony

Some Glad Mystery (3333 4331 perc(2) timp hp strgs) (1992) 13' [P] Composed with the support of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts

Five Meditations (3333 4331 perc(4) timp hp pf/cel strgs) (1993) 21' [P] Koussevitzky Foundation Commission

Variations on a Hymn Tune (2222 2221 timp 3perc strings) (2005) 6’ Commissioned by Council Rock School District, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for its high school orchestras

Forms of Light (4444 4 sax (sop, alto, ten, bari) 444 euph 1 timp 4 perc, pf) (2005) 22’ Commissioned by the wind ensemble directors of the Big 10 Universities

Luminism (3333 4331 3 perc, pf hp strings (2010) 15’ Commissioned by Meet the Composer for the Albany Symphony special ensemble Eighty-Eight: Homage to Gottschalk (44 pianos, 176 hands) (1996) 4’ Composed for the 88th anniversary of the Settlement Music School, Philadelphia, PA

solo voice Two Songs from The Cloud of Unknowing (voice, piano; texts by John Donne, Brother Antoninus (voice and piano versions of Holy Sonnet #14 and Zone of Death from The Cloud of Unknowing (see below)) (1983-1984) 10'

The Cloud of Unknowing (cantata for female voice and chamber orchestra) (1111 1110 perc(3) pf/cel 4vns 2vas 2vc 1cb; texts by Hopkins, anonymous, Donne, Brother Antoninus, Thomas Merton) (1987) 37' [M]

Bedtime (voice, piano; text by Denise Levertov) (1989) 3' (A) (also available in version for voice, flute and harp) (1990)

Three Sacred Songs (voice, piano; based on old traditional melodies; Latin texts) (1989) 10' (P) Commisioned by Town Hall, New York City

Four Sacred Songs (soprano or mezzo-soprano, fl/pic, cl/bass cl, hp, perc(1 player), vln, vcl; based on old traditional melodies; Latin texts; incorporates arrangements of Three Sacred Songs (see above)) (1990) 12'(P)

Weil Alles Unsagbar Ist (soprano, fl/alto fl, vln, vcl, pf; texts by Rainer Maria Rilke) (1990) 23' Commissioned by New York Camerata (P)

From Psalm 116 (voice, piano; Latin text from Vulgate) (1995) 3’ (P) Composed for an Orchestra 2001 AIDS Songbook concert

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Songs and Dances from “The Tempest” (soprano, baritone, medieval and renaissance instruments (four players); texts by Shakespeare) (1998) 25’ [P] (also available in version for modern instruments (soprano, baritone, fl/pic/alto fl, hp, perc (1 player), vla, vcl) (2003)) Original version commissioned by the Folger Shakespeare Library Recorded by the Folger Consort for Bard Records Version for modern instruments commissioned by the 20th Century Consort

Holy the Firm (soprano, piano; texts by Denise Levertov, Annie Dillard, Susan Stewart, John Climacus) (1999) 21’ [P] (also available in version for soprano and chamber ensemble (fl/pic, cl/bass cl, hp, perc (1 player), 2 vlns, vla, vcl, cb, optional crystal glasses (2 or 3 players) (2000)) Piano and voice version commissioned (in part) by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University Chamber ensemble version commissioned by the Twentieth Century Consort

Sacred Songs and Meditations (soprano or mezzo-soprano, fl/pic, cl/bass cl, harp, perc (1 player), vln, vcl, lute, 2 viols, recorders, psaltery, optional chorus; incorporates arrangements of Four Sacred Songs, and excerpts from String Quartet #2, Christus Vincit, and Five Meditations (see above)) (1999) 30’ Commissioned by the Folger Consort and the Twentieth Century Consort

From a Book of Hours (soprano solo, 3333 4331 timp 3 pf/cel hp strings; texts by Rainer Maria Rilke) (2001) 18’ [P] Commissioned by the Chicago Symphony (Also available in version for soprano and piano (2002); version for soprano and chamber ensemble (1110 1000 pf, 1pc, 2vln, vla, vcl, cb or small body of strings) (2006))

Five Sacred Songs (Laurel Hill Songs) (soprano, flute, harp; based on old Celtic and American sacred songs, and Gregorian chant melodies; texts in English and Latin) (2004) 18’ Commissioned by the American Harp Society for its 2004 national convention (Version for soprano and piano in preparation)

Ariel Songs (soprano and piano; text from Shakespeare) (2007) 10’ Arrangement of excerpts from Songs and Dances from “The Tempest” (see above).

Dark the Star (baritone and chamber ensemble (cl/bs cl, cello, piano, percussion (1 player) (texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, Susan Stewart, and from Book of Psalms) (2008) 20’

Songs for Adam (baritone and orchestra (3333 4331 perc (3 players) pno/cel hp strings) texts by Susan Stewart (2009) 30’

choral the mystery of stillness (chorus (SATB), percussion (2 players); text by E. E. Cummings) (1979) 10'

Philippians Hymn (chorus (SATB); text from the Bible) (1983) 3'

Meditation for Candlemas (chorus, (SATB); text by Denise Levertov) (1994) 4' (P)

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The Avowal (chorus, (SATB); text by Denise Levertov) (1997) 5’

Fire-Memory/River-Memory (chorus (SATB) and orchestra (2222 422 timp, perc(2) hp strgs); texts by Denise Levertov) (1997) 21’ (P) Commissioned by Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia.

Spiraling Ecstatically (chorus (SATB); text by E. E. Cummings) (1998, revised 2007) 6’ (re-composition of withdrawn work entitled Meditation for Christmas)

Salve Regina (chorus (SATB); traditional Latin text) (2000) 6’ Commissioned by Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament

Cinder (from the song cycle Holy the Firm) (arrangement for women’s chorus (SSAA) and piano) (2002) 3’ Arranged at the request of ASTER women’s chorus

Matins (chorus (SATB), solo oboe, strgs (may be performed with small body of strings); texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins and Mary Oliver) (2003) 18’ Commissioned by Peggy Pearson and The Cantata Singers

One Thing I Know (chorus (SATB); text by Anne Porter) (2005) 4’

One With the Darkness, One With the Light (women’s chorus (SA); text by Wendell Berry) (2006) 2’

Two Arms of the Harbor (chorus (SATB)); text by Thomas Merton) (2011) 5’

electronic music (the following works are with pre-recorded electronic sound; see also under instrumental for works with synthesizer) Aria (ob and tape) (1982) 7' [M]

Icons (cl, pf and tape) (1984) 14' [M] Recorded by Aleck Karis and Jean Kopperud for New World Records

Secret Geometry (pf and tape) (1993) 15' [P] Recorded by Aleck Karis for CRI

Sacra Conversazione (fl/pic/alto fl, cl/bass cl, violin, cello, piano, percussion (1 player), and tape) (1994) 21' [P] Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation Recorded by New York New Music Ensemble for Centaur Records

Dream Journal (2 pf, perc (2 players) and tape) (1996) 25’ [P] Commissioned by Network for New Music. Recorded by Network for New Music for Albany Records

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works in progress, pending commissions new work for flute and piano (commissioned by Philadelphia Chamber Music Society) new work for piano solo (commissioned by a consortium of 12 pianists)

Five Sacred Songs (see above) version for voice and piano

Dancing with Mondrian for solo guitar with electronic sound

Songs of Day, Songs of Night songbook on diverse texts for voice and piano

Particles for clarinet and electronic sound (1979) (6’) new realization of electronic sound planned (original version withdrawn)

key to publishers (M) = Margun Music, distributed by G. Schirmer/Associated Music Publisher, 257 Park Avenue South, 20th Floor, New York, NY, 212-254-2100, www.schirmer.com

(P) = Merion Music, 588 No. Gulph Rd., King of Prussia, PA 19046 (610) 525-3636, www.presser.com

(A) = Associated Music Publishing, 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 (212) 254-2100 (work is included in anthology of songs by young American composers) other works available from composer at Dept. of Music, University of Pennsylvania, 201 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 898-7544

Discography

As composer

Secret Geometry Aleck Karis, piano CRI CD707. Released: 1996

Quartet #2, Fantasy-Variations, Icons, and Piano Quintet Cavani Quartet; Leonardo Trio; Jean Kopperud, clarinet; Aleck Karis, piano; James Primosch, piano New World Records 80523-2 Released: April, 1998

Sacra Conversazione New York New Music Ensemble Centaur CRC 2338. Released: June, 1998.

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Songs and Dances from "The Tempest" William Sharp, baritone; Ellen Hargis, soprano; and the Folger Consort Bard Records BDCD 12000. Released: December, 2000.

Dream Journal Network for New Music. Albany Records TROY 488 Released: January 2002.

Septet Orchestra 2001 CRI CD899. Released: January 2003.

Sonata-Fantasia Lambert Orkis, piano and synthesizer Bridge Records. Bridge 9131 Released: April 2003.

Meditation on “What Wondrous Love is This?” Karel Paukert, organ Azica Records. ACD 71229 Released January 2006.

Times Like These Jean Kopperud, clarinet; Stephen Gosling, piano Albany Records Released August, 2010

Straight Up Prism Saxophone Quartet Innova Released April, 2011

As pianist

George Crumb: Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV) for piano, four hands With Lambert Orkis, piano Recorded for Smithsonian Collection CD re-release on Innova 605

James Primosch: Piano Quintet With Cavani Quartet New World Records 80523-2

Donald Erb: Trio for violin keyboards, and percussion With Ronald Gorevic, violin, and Charles Wilkinson, percussion; Donald Erb, conductor Crystal Records (LP only) S-505

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Recording projects in progress

Holy the Firm, From a Book of Hours and Four Sacred Songs, and Dark the Star recorded by Susan Narucki, William Sharp, and 21st Century Consort label and release date TBA

Meditation for Candlemas; The Avowal; Spiraling Ecstatically; Salve Regina; One Thing I Know; One with the Darkness, One with the Light; Two Arms of the Harbor recorded by Emmanuel Music; Matins to be recorded by Cantata Singers. Label and release date TBA

Fire-Memory/River-Memory recorded by Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia. To be released in 2011, Innova Records.

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