COMPOSER | PERCUSSIONIST
ORCHESTRA
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”
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”
THEATRE/INCIDENTAL MUSIC
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.
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.
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’
Chance Music
Chance music composed using similar guidelines as John Cage’s Williams Mix. Sounds recorded in San Francisco in 2020.
Duration: 0.5'
PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
Octet for Percussion Ensemble -
- Premiered May 11th, 2019 at The Juilliard School in New York.
Duration:15’
HARPSICHORD
Unmeasured prelude - In an old style
Duration: 2'50"
Also arranged for classical guitar.
Unmeasured prelude
Duration: 2'40"
CHAMBER MUSIC
Quintet
Commissioned by CreArt Box Ensemble
- For performance in Spring 2020 in New York City. Postponed to August 2022
Duration: 8’
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’
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’
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’
CHOIR
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”
VOICE
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”
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.
PIANO
Sonata Fantasy - solo piano - 27’
Premiered November 6th, 2017 in Knoxville, TN at the Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall.
CHOIR
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
CLASSICAL GUITAR
Guitar duo
For Xavier Jara
“Red Thorns” after Odilon Redon
Commission from French guitarist Baptiste Domis
BAROQUE ENSEMBLE
Three Songs - for countertenor, harpsichord, baroque cello, and baroque violin.