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Compositions

Large Ensemble | Chamber ensemble | VocalSolo

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Large Ensemble

out of a mountain of despair…” (2018)

for symphonic band

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Chamber Ensemble

​fireweed (2023)

for DePaul University 20+ ensemble

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divinations from the birds: red-bellied woodpecker (2023)

for mixed chamber ensemble (mezzo-soprano, clarinet, percussion, piano, harp)

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mercurial (2023)

for saxophone quartet

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to find the beauty in surviving our emotions (2022)

for flute, trumpet, and piano

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caution // please // watch your step (2021)

for flute, alto saxophone, viola, percussion, and recorded sounds

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open reduction internal fixation (2021)

for guitar and percussion

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Lost Forty (2020)

for marimba quartet

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racked through uncertainty; soothing…still (2020)

for violin, cello, clarinet, and piano

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tentative breath, a moment (2020)

for violin, guitar, and tabla

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Spirals and Edges (2019)

for saxophone quartet

 

Meshes of the Afternoon (2018)

for violin, flute, clarinet, trumpet, vibraphone, and percussion

Score to accompany Maya Deren’s 1943 film ‘Meshes of the Afternoon.’

 

dissipating darkness, wait, lightening (2017-18)

for string quintet, flute, oboe, harp, and percussion

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Things that will not forget us (2017)

for percussion ensemble

 

painting long shadows (2017)

for cello and marimba

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Rage, rage against the dying of the light (2018)

for chamber winds

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Wind Shear (2017)

for percussion ensemble

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Acoustic Shadow (2016)

for flute, violin, bassoon, cello, vibraphone

 

Stephansdom (2016)

for string septet

 

39,000 feet (2016)

for flute and piano

 

Stridency (2016)

for found percussion trio

 

Lamentation (2015)

for flute and piano

 

Echoes (2011)

for string quartet

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Vocal

reverberate (2023-4)*

for solo vocalist

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Miso Salmon (2022)

for mezzo-soprano and piano

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There is a bleakness (2021)

for SSAA choir

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Thread (2019)

for SSAA choir, bass clarinet, 4-player vibraphone

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Life of Beauty (2015)

for soprano, flute, violin, and cello; text by John Keats

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Solo

to you, or in spite of (2023)

for solo violin & electronics

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there are no birds outside my window (2023)

for solo vibraphone

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like a tiny metal heart (2022)

for solo multi-percussion

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when anxious: (2022)

for solo multi-percussion

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I need silence…not enough (2020)

for solo cello-vocalist

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[detached] (2020)

for solo clarinet

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Karneval (2013)

for solo piano

 

impeto (2012)

for solo violin

 

Rafale (2012)

for solo piano

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Etudes

Chasing Mice (2020)

etude for solo marimba

Premiered by Matthew Coley of Heartland Marimba Quartet, November 2020, as part of Heartland Marimba's Online Composition Festival

Video | Recording 

Included in Heartland Marimba's "Miniature Creations" etude book. Purchase here!

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Leaf Dance (2020) 

etude for solo marimba

Premiered by Ujjal Bhattacharyya of Heartland Marimba Quartet, October 2020, as part of Heartland Marimba's Online Composition Festival

Included in Heartland Marimba's "Miniature Creations" etude book. Purchase here!

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Bowls of Copper (2017)

for timpani solo

 

Flamboyant (2017)

for snare drum solo

 

Tabwrdd (2017)

for snare drum solo

 

Unsettled (2015)

for prepared piano

 

Whirling Dervish (2015)

for solo violin

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Erika Malpass

Composer | ENGRAVER | Arranger
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