Orchestra
Prelude in Higher Echelons (2022)
For full orchestra orchestra [3.3.3.3 – 4.3.3.1 – 3 perc, harp – strings] | 7′
Written for Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Dance Sequences (2020)
For string orchestra [4.4.3.2.1] | 8′
All this came back to me (2020, rev. 2021)
For orchestra [2.2.2.2 – 4.2.3.1 – 2 perc – strings] | 8′
Vocal/Music Theatre
Dark Forest (2021)
For voice, baroque violin, viola da gamba, sackbut, dulcian
Written for Ensemble Mare Balticum
Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (2019)
For voices, flute, bassoon, viola, cello, and electronics
The Windhover (2016)
For mezzo-soprano and piano | Listen | 5′
Written for Jennifer Beattie and Adam Marks
Performed February 21st, 2016 at the Yale College New Music art song concert.
Chamber Ensemble
Pietro Crespi dreams of dried butterflies and pianolas (2022)
For piano trio | 5′
Written for the 2022 Iceberg Institute
Fanfarer (2022)
For brass dectet | Listen | 7′
Written for the Blekinge International Brass Academy
Fughetta (2019)
For piccolo, horn, cello, mandolin, and piano | Listen | 6′
Written for Ensemble Reaktion
Sonámbulo (2018)
For saxophone, trumpet, piano, electric guitar, double bass, and percussion | Listen | 8′
Commissioned by the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, performed June 29th, 2018, by the Norfolk New Music Ensemble
Wind-up Bird (2018)
For piano trio | 5′
Written for members of Copland House Ensemble
Performed April 5th, 2018, at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Make Way (2017)
For open ensemble | Listen | ~12′
Performed December 12th, 2017 by Emil Ernström and Charlie Romano (piano) at the New Music Cooperative Winter Concert.
Achilles and the Tortoise Approach Infinity (2017)
For percussion quartet | Listen | 7′
Written for Sō Percussion
Performed July 28th, 2017, at the Lewis Center for the Arts in Princeton, NJ.
night / map (2016)
For marimba, vibraphone and crotales | Listen | 5′
Written for icarus Duo
Performed March 8th, 2017, at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
courante (2016)
For two cellos | Listen | 2.5′
Written for Benji Fleischacker and Henry Shapard
Performed March 5th, 2017 at Dwight Chapel, New Haven CT.
Music for Solo
Pieces for piano + electronics (2022)
For solo piano with supercollider processing | 15′
Performed April 29th, 2022 by the composer at Inter Arts Center, Malmö.
Andas (2017)
For clarinet, tape, and live processing | Listen | 6′
Performed October 14th, 2017 by the composer at the New Music Cooperative Fall Concert.
Electronics and Multimedia
Usignolo (2022)
For fixed media, optional live stereo diffusion | Listen | 8′
Performed April 29th, 2022 by the composer at Inter Arts Center, Malmö.
Wind-Up-Proto-Type (2017)
For fixed media | Listen | 5′
Liebesträume (2017)
For fixed media | Listen | 3.5′
Written for short film ‘Dream Girl’, directed by Alexander Bailey
watch me vanish (2016)
sound installation | Listen | 29′
In collaboration with Brian Orozco.
Emil Ernström 