Shawn
Crouch
Composer
"a gifted young composer" - Gramophone Magazine
Shawn Crouch
Music for Large Ensemble

The Road from Hiroshima, A Requiem (2005) 50'
For chamber orchestra, choir, children's choir, soprano and baritone soloists. First performance 5/14/05, Miami FL. Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor. Commissioned by Seraphic Fire Chamber Orchestra and Choir.

Introit (complete)
Kyrie (complete)
Pie Jesu (complete)
Sanctus (excerpt)
Every Year (excerpt)
Every Month (complete)
In Paradisum (complete)

Three Meditations on an Infinite Landscape (1999) 20'
Concerto for soprano saxophone, piano, bass, percussion and chamber orchestra. First performance 5/2/99 Boston, MA.

Chamber Ensemble

The Art of Awakening (2000) 10'
For flute, Bb clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin and cello. First performance 7/5/2000 Dublin, MA. Non Sequitur ensemble. Commissioned by the Walden School.


I Could Believe in Gods (2006) 8'
For string quartet. First performed 7/9/06 Dublin, NH. Del Sol Strong Quartet. Commissioned by the Walden School

I Could Believe in Gods (excerpt)

The Naked Mind (2005) 7.5
For saxophone quartet. First performance 7/10/05 Dublin NH. Prism Quartet. Commissioned by the Walden School

Naked Mind

Suspended Contact (1999) 10'
For saxophone and percussion. First performance 12/5/99 Jordan Hall, Boston, MA. Yesaroun Duo. Commissioned by the Yesaroun' Duo.

Suspended Contact (excerpt)

Transitional Silence (2001) 10'
For flute, Bb clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin and cello. First performance 7/6/01 Norfolk, CT. Eighth Blackbird Ensemble.

Solo

Brimfield Suite (1997) 8'
For piano. First performance 7/9/97 New York, NY.

Dancing Columns (1998) 7.5'
For marimba. First performance 11/17/99 Jordan Hall, Boston, MA. Commissioned by percussionist Matthew Massie.

Dancing Columns (excerpt)

Solo Vocal

Between the Breasts (2004) 15'
For mezzo-soprano, violin, cello, and piano. First performance 3/15/05 New York, NY. Commissioned by vocalist Betany Coffland. Text: e.e.cummings.

Moving with the Gods (2000) 10'
For mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble. (piano reduction available) First performance 5/14/2000 Jordan Hall, Boston MA. Commissioned by vocalist Betany Coffland. Text: Shawn Crouch

This Morning (2002) 14'
Song cycle for soprano solo, oboe, bass clarinet, cello and marimba. First performed at Yale University, New Haven, CT. Text: Harriet Levin.

Buoyancy (complete)
Orange and Purple (complete).mp3
This Morning I Went As Far (excerpt)

Choral

A Prayer on Which to Dream (2001) 18'
For SATB and oboe. First performance 11/11/01. New Haven, CT. Yale Pro Music, Marguerite Brooks conductor. Commissioned by Yale Pro Musica.

On Winter Afternoons (2006) 12'
For double choir and piano. First performance 12/15/06. Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor. Commissioned by Seraphic Fire Chamber Choir. Text: Walt Whitman/Emily Dickinson.

Music for Theater and Dance

Add+ic=tion (2003) 7'
For computer. Commissioned by the Dodge Dance Company, New York, NY.

De La Luz (2004) 7.5'
For solo cello. Written for the Dodge Dance Company.

De La Luz (excerpt)

Incidental Music for King Lear (2003)
For chamber orchestra. Written in collaboration with Shakespeare and Company, Lenox MA.

Lear Entrance
Traitor Music
Fool
Loud Brass Riot
Eclipse
Traitor Chase #2

Porch Light Project (2000) 7'
For computer. Commissioned by dancers Jeffery Smith and Julia Altschuler

Protelophase (1999) 12'
For two clarinets and two saxophones. First performance 4/31/99, Boston, MA. Commissioned by dancers Jeffery Smith and Julia Altschuler

Symphony Sam (2003) 1'
Theme song to television program Symphony Sam



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