Louis Karchin

COMPOSITIONS

Memory (2002) for baritone voice and piano 3'*

Poetry by Theodore Roethke

 

Interlude (2002)for soprano or tenor voice and piano 3'*

Poetry by Theodore Roethke

 

Meditation (2001) for soprano and piano 5'*

Poetry by Theodore Roethke

 

Voyages (2001) for alto saxophone and piano 15’*

 

Deux Poθmes de Mallarmι (2001) for soprano and piano 9’*

                                                       

Fanfare for Marty (2001) for piano 2’*

on the occasion of Martin Boykan’s 70^th Birthday

           

My Children Grew (2000) for soprano or tenor and piano* 4'
Poetry by Yehuda Amichai

 

Quartet for Percussion  (2000) 27’*

Commissioned by the Serge Koussevitsky Music Foundation of the Library of Congress for the Talujon Percussion Quartet

                                    

Fanfare/Pavane (2000) for solo flute 4'*

 

Saraband/Variation (1999) for solo guitar 4' *

 

American Visions: Two Songs on Poems of Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1999) 26‘*

For baritone and orchestra

picc-2-2-2-Bcl-2-Cbsn: 4-2-3-1, timpani-perc (3), harp, strings, baritone soloist

 

American Visions: Two Songs on Poems of Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1998) 26’*

baritone, flute/picc, clarinet/bcl, violin, cello, piano, percussion

Heckscher Foundation Award, 1999

 

Cascades (1997) for piano 8’*
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Rhapsody, for Orchestra (1996) 19’*

picc-2-3-2-2-cbsn; 4-2-3-1; perc (4) strings

Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation

 

Rustic Dances (1995) 9‘*

violin, clarinet and marimba
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Sonata da Camera 1995 (12’) *

for violin and piano
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String Quartet No. 2 1995 (10‘) *
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Summer Song 1994 (7‘) *

for solo clarinet
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Ricercare 1992 (7’) *

for solo violin
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"A Way Separate..." (1992) 8‘*

for soprano and chamber ensemble

Poetry by Ruth Whitman and Hannah Senesh

flute/picc, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, soprano solo

 

Galactic Folds (1992) 20’*

for chamber ensemble

flute/picc, clarinet, violin, cello, piano
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String Quartet (1991) 25’*
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Romulus, An opera in One Act, based on a play by Alexander Dumas (1990) 57 ‘

Prizewinner, National Opera Association, 1990 Chamber Opera Competition

soprano, tenor, baritone, and bass soloists

& 11 players

1-0-1-1;1-0-0-0; pno, perc, 2 vln, viola, cello, contrabass

 

Sonata for Violoncello and Piano (1990) 21’*
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Soliloquy II Chimerical Images  (1989) for flute 6’

 

Canzona and Elegy (1988) for solo violin 6’

 

Sonata for Piano (1988) 17’

 

Songs of Distance and Light, for soprano and chamber ensemble (1988) 19’*

fl/picc, oboe, bass cl, perc, piano, vln, vla, vc, soprano

 

Canonic Mosaics II (1986) for chamber ensemble 27’

flute, clarinet, bassoon, perc, pno, vln, vla, vc

 

Five Songs on Poems of Sue Standing (1985) 25’

For soprano and orchestra

picc-2-2-2-cbsn; 4-2-2-1; perc(4), strings, soprano solo

 

Five Songs on Poems of Sue Standing (1985) 25’

soprano and piano

 

Songs of John Keats (1984) 10’*

For soprano and orchestra

2(picc)-2-2-3(3=cbsn); 1-1-0-0; perc(2), hp, strings, soprano solo

First prize winner, Chamber Symphony of Princeton Orchestral Competition, 1990
 

Songs of John Keats (1984) 10’*

for soprano and chamber ensemble

flute, clarinet, violin, cello, perc, piano, soprano solo
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Three Miniatures (1983) for piano 3'

 

Caprice (1984) for piano 2’

 

Soliloquy for Flute (1983) 8’
 

Orchestral Variations (1982) 12'
2-2-2-2-cbsn; 4-2-2-1; perc(4)-hp(2)-strings

Commissioned by the Portland, ME Symphony

 

Viola Variations (1981) 10’*

viola and piano
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Duo for Violin and 'Cello (1981) 13'

 

Attuned to the Times (1978) 8’

for solo violin

 

Capriccio (1977) 11’

For Violin and Seven Instruments

fl,  ob, bcl, perc, pno, vla, cb, solo violin

First prize winner, New Music Consort Competition, 1981

 

Children’s Suite (1969) 5’

for piano