TETRACTYS NEW MUSIC COMMISSIONS
2025
Attention, for voice, piano, guitar, vibraphone, synthesizer, drum set, violin, cello, and double bass
composed by Matthew Lyons (Maru Haru)
Wanderer, Sing, for voice, piano, guitar, vibraphone, synthesizer, drum set, violin, cello, and double bass
composed by James Tabata (Maru Haru)
Parabellum Suite
I. After O-Mega
II. After Sussex
III. Sunrise, Parabellum
for 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass
conducted by Jacob Schnitzer
composed by Jordan Walsh (Density512)
The Butterfly (chamber opera)
for 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor, flute, piano, and violin
librettist, Amy Herman
composer, Keith Allegretti (LOLA)
Avian Lattice, for violin, viola, cello, and fixed media
composed by Mark Vaughn (Amorsima Trio)
The Soul of This Place, for four voices and electronics
composed by Adrienne Pedrotti Bingamon and Brent Bingamon (VAMP Vocals)
Transformations
I. Turbulent - Searching, Luminous - Frenzied
II. Pronounced - Subdued, Expanding - Fearless, Fading
III. Waltz Variations
for saxophone quartet
composed by Christopher Prosser (Tetractys New Music)
We Live Inside A Dream, for percussion quartet
composed by Taylor Eddinger (The Kraken Quartet)
Someday Soon, for percussion quartet
composed by Chris Demetriou (The Kraken Quartet)
Vocalise: Waves, for soprano and piano
composed by Avek Dongol (Studio A Piano)
Wheel, for MIDI controller and live electronics
composed by Wren Griffis (Studio A Piano)
Waltz for a Bad Dancer, for violin, cello, and piano
composed by Highsmith Strickland (Studio A Piano)
This Path is Love, for string orchestra
composed by Camille Schiess (Austin Unconducted)
Curled Orange, for solo viola
composed by Sebastian Zhang (Golden Hornet)
aves machinatae, for electric guitar, drumset, and electronics
composed by Aida Shirazi (Line Upon Line Percussion)
Lost Time
1. One the Bank
2. Spires
3. Accidental Memories
4. A Plane in the Sky
5. Tiles
for electric guitar and electronics
composed by Graham Reynolds (Man, Woman, Friend, Computer)
Three Sides to Show
I. Sampung Palaka (Ten Frogs)
II. Oyayi Para Sa Batang Mailkot (Lullaby for a Restless Child)
III. Laro (Play)
for male voice, soprano, trumpet, kulintang, and piano
composed by Benjamin Dia, Kenken Gorder, and Katrina Saporsantos (Tatsulok Trio)
The Possum’s Lament/Merilee: The Ascension, for 2 vocalists, trombone, banjo, guitar, bowed guitar, bass, percussion, and video projection
composed by Andrew Stoltz, Brent Fariss, Jess Griggs, and Jordan Walsh (Goliath Was Bigfoot)
2024
Prayers, for viola & fixed media
composed by Alex Molina Shawver (Golden Hornet)
Shapes Make Shapes & Fjord Explorer, for percussion quartet
composed by The Kraken Quartet - Chris Demetriou, Andrew Dobos, Taylor Eddinger, & Charlie Kessenich
Life of a Tree, for string orchestra
composed by Karl Mitze (Austin Unconducted)
Stop Hitting Yourself
music composed by Peter Stopschinski, libretto by Rude Mechs (LOLA)
Passing A Certain Gate
composed by Hunter Preuger (Density512)
Godric & His Demons
composed by James Tecuatl-Lee (Inversion Ensemble)
Ecology of Disruption, for percussion trio, electronics, and video projection
composed by Jason Thorpe-Buchanan (Line Upon Line Percussion)
HALFBIRD, for two violins & electronics
composed by Michael Zapruder (Tetractys New Music)
Watermelon, for SATB choir
music composed by Sophie Mathieu, text by Zach Matteson (Panoramic Voices)
Brünnhilde in the Flames, Musetta’s Lost Scena, & Queen of the Morning After
composed by Graham Yates, Carol Brown, & Ben Tibbetts (One Ounce Opera)
Mga Tunog ng Maynila Sakay ang Isang Dyip, for saxophone, trumpet, vibraphone, and percussion
composed by Benjamin Dia (Kenken Gorder & Friends)
Invisible Women: Push for 3 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos & percussion
composed by Russell Podgorsek (VAMP)
2023
Chance Chants
composed by Nathan Felix
Chronology Protection Conjecture:
1. If time travel were possible, where are all the people from the future?
2. Closed Time-like Curve
3. Closest Continuer
composed by Thomas Echols
Meta Anthem, for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and piano
composed by Christopher Prosser (Tetractys New Music)
you go, I follow, for viola and fixed media
composed by Kennedy Taylor Dixon (Golden Hornet)
iridescence, for flute, clarinet, percussion, violin, and cello
composed by Sophie Mathieu (Density512)
Murder Ballads, Vol. 2. Part I: Epitaph for an Old Woman; Part II: Walk of Death
composed by Brent Fariss & Andrew DiRemiggio Stoltz (Goliath Was Bigfoot)
Smile
composed by Laura Mercado-Wright (VAMP)
Undine Speaks
music composed by Keith Allegretti, libretto by Amy Herman (LOLA)
Ghost Almanack
composed by Justin Sherburn (Montopolis)
loup-garou
composed by Brent Baldwin (Convergence)
Radar
composed by Karl Mitze (Invoke)
2022
Apennine, for violin and viola (andPlay)
composed by James Parker
2021
The Colour of Home
created by Chris O’Leary, percussion, Niokabi Kariuki, composer, & Gabriella Segovia-Breaux, videographer
losing it’s name a river enters the sea
created by Duo Charango (Jamie Monk & Ciyadh Wells), guitars, Andres Guadarrama, composer, & Menthas Chantawongs, videographer
Phonic Cycles
created by Sarah Hetrick, saxophone, James Creed, composer, & Virginia Lee Montgomery, videographer
2020
Bonus Track, for bass clarinet and marimba (Transient Canvas)
composed by Christopher Prosser
2019
“…like a shadow that clings to my footsteps.”, for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello, vibraphone, and ASL soloists
music composed by Aaron Sanchez, text by Aila Heikkinen
Curiosity Cabinet
composed by Graham Reynolds
fovo komma
composed by Mack Hoxie
Above the Expanse, for clarinet, violin, and percussion
composed by Christopher Prosser
2018
Without Film
Scene 1 / Scene 2 / Scene 3 / Scene 4
composed by The Kraken Quartet - Sean Harvey, Chris Demetriou, Andrew Dobos, & Taylor Eddinger
2017
Polysong
composed by Michael Zapruder
Off the Wall for percussion quartet
composed by Chris Ozley
Hard Edges, Soft Glow for percussion quartet
composed by Corey Cunningham
Off the Wall for percussion quartet
composed by Christopher Prosser
Emerge
composed by Michael Mikulka
2016
Teaching us to be Human Again, for eight snare drums and electronics
composed by James Parker
Flavour Symmetries
composed by Russell Podgorsek
The Mind is Its Own Beautiful Prisoner
composed by Jon Fielder
Lady Wisdom and Solomon
composed by Elizabeth Comninellis
2015
Moro Lasso
composed by Alex Hepplemann