ORCHESTRA

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Into the Rose Garden  
Premiered July 14th, 2019 by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in Princeton, NJ at the Richardson Auditorium.

Winner of the Cone Composition Institute competition.

Duration: 8’30”

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Voici venir les temps...  
Mostly Modern Festival Orchestra in Saratoga Springs, NY in July 2020.

Performance as part of composition fellowship. Postponed to July 2021

Duration: 11’30”

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THEATRE/INCIDENTAL MUSIC

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Incidental music for A Clockwork Orange - piano, percussion, electronics, violin, and soprano - Directed by Tony-Award winning actor Alex Sharp

Duration: 45’
Premiered at The Juilliard School on May 4th, 2014.

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Music for "Come la luna si vede a volte in pieno giorno"

Author, direction, and original music concept by Alex Cecchetti. Composer - Brian Shank, based in part on themes by Alex Cecchetti. Music for Alex Cecchetti work, choreography, and installation 2021, for the MAXXI MUSEUM Roma, Italy. 

- Premiered by the Rome Opera Choir in Roma, Italy 19 June 2021. 

Duration: 11" - the piece is performed three to four times in succesion. 

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MULTIMEDIA

 

Maintenance Inspection: Man Working - for multimedia projections, actor, and Malletkat -

Created in Collaboration with actor Marcus Guy
Premiered March 19, 2015 at the Juilliard School

Duration - 15’

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Chance Music 
Chance music composed using similar guidelines as John Cage’s Williams Mix. Sounds recorded in San Francisco in 2020.

Duration: 0.5'

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PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE

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Octet for Percussion Ensemble -
- Premiered May 11th, 2019 at The Juilliard School in New York.

Duration:15’

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HARPSICHORD

Unmeasured prelude - In an old style

Duration: 2'50"

Also arranged for classical guitar.

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Unmeasured prelude 

Duration: 2'40"

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CHAMBER MUSIC

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Quintet
Commissioned by CreArt Box Ensemble
- For performance in Spring 2020 in New York City. Postponed to August 2022

Duration: 8’

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Contrasts - sextet for string quartet, flute and clarinet in A 
Commissioned by Caroga Lake Music Festival
- Premiered June 19th, 2019 in Caroga Lake, NY at the Caroga Lake Chapel.

Duration: 8’

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Sappho 31 - string quartet, soprano, alto, tenor -

Commissioned by the Æon Ensemble for the Queens New Music Festival
- Premiered May 17th, 2019 at the Secret Theatre in Queens, New York
-  First Prize San Francisco Conservatory of Music Chamber Music Composition Competition. October 2020, postponed to Spring 2021.

Duration: 10’

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Ariel - jazz trio and percussion

Commissioned by Tom Gold Dance modern ballet company.
- Premiered at the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre in New York city on April 6th, 2015.

Duration:10’

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CHOIR

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A Hymne to Christ - SATB
Commissioned by the Friends of the Choir of Men and Boys at the Cathedral of All Saints - Albany, NY - Premiered May 20th, 2018 at the Cathedral of All Saints in Albany, NY

Duration 4’30”

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VOICE

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Fish and the Shadow - song cycle for countertenor and piano 

Text by Ezra Pound

Premiered March 10th at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Duration: 12’

 

Canto XXIX - Venetian Portrait - song for tenor and piano -

Premiered Nov. 6th, 2017 at the Juilliard School.
Text by Ezra Pound

Duration: 3’30”

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To The Moon - for baritone and piano -
Premiered May 10th, 2016 in Hudson, New York Text by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Duration: 3’

CLASSICAL GUITAR

 

Unmeasured prelude - In an old style

Duration: 2'50"

Originally for harpsichord. Arranged for classical guitar.

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PIANO

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Sonata Fantasy - solo piano - 27’
Premiered November 6th, 2017 in Knoxville, TN at the Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall. 

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CHOIR

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A Hymne to Christ - SATB
Commissioned by the Friends of the Choir of Men and Boys at the Cathedral of All Saints - Albany, NY - Premiered May 20th, 2018 at the Cathedral of All Saints in Albany, NY

Duration 4’30”

 

WORKS IN PROGRESS

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CLASSICAL GUITAR

Guitar duo

For Xavier Jara

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“Red Thorns” after Odilon Redon 

Commission from French guitarist Baptiste Domis
 

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BAROQUE ENSEMBLE

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Three Songs - for countertenor, harpsichord, baroque cello, and baroque violin. 

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