Ensemble Π Commissions
Kristin Norderval: Elegy for Gaza (2009) for a singer, violin, trombone, accordion, and electronics
Frederic Rzewski: War Songs (2009) for piano solo
Philip Miller: Can You Hear That? (2009) for tenor, soprano, violin, viola, cello, clarinet, piano, and electric piano
Philip Wharton: Three Sassoon Songs (2007) for voice and violin
Karim Al-Zand: Swimmy (2010) for piano, violin, cello, trombone, and a narrator
Laura Kaminsky: Deception (2014) for piano, violin, cello, and clarinet
Eleanor Cory: Rikers Island (2015) for piano, cello, violin, and clarinet
Courtney Bryan Elegy (2018) for piano, cello, violin, and clarinet
Damian Norfleet: Kendi’s Secret (2021) for voice
Allison Loggins-Hull: The Pattern (2020) for Piano, flute, clarinet, percussion, violin, cello
Angélica Negrón: Conversación a distancia (2020) for Piano, clarinet, percussion, violin, cello, accordion
Trevor Weston: Pinkster Kings (2020)for Piano, clarinet, percussion, violin, cello, and narrator
Orlando Jacinto Garcia: impulso/momentum (2022) for Baritone voice, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, and text by Garcia
Gregg Welcher: Set of variations on the prison work song “Early in the Mornin” (2022, Premiere) for Tape, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion
Ralph Mendoza & rapper AJ Peoples: A Different Way (2022)
Text from Quntos KunQuest’s novel, This Life for Voice (2022) (rapper), cello, violin
Maura Gahan & Damian Norfleet: Isolated Triptych (2022) for movement, puppetry, and voice
Ensemble Π Premiers
Elias Tanenbaum: Changing Times (2009) piano trio; Najaf (2007) piano solo; Toccata (2007) piano solo
Frederic Rzewski: Jonny Has Gone for a Soldier (2008) piano solo
Elizabeth Bell: Spectra (2004) small chamber orchestra, Duovarios (2007) two pianos
Elliott Schwartz: Test Drive (2007) duo piano
Ensemble Π Repertoire
Composer / Work
Peter Ablinger / Lech Walesa
Benjamin Britten / Canticle III
Karim Al-Zand / Swimmy
Elias Tanenbaum / Bubble in My Eye
Elias Tanenbaum / Changing Times
Elias Tanenbaum / Keep Going by George
Elias Tanenbaum / Najaf
Philip Miller / Can You Hear That
Kristin Norderval / Elegy for Gaza
Krzysztof Penderecki / Sextet
Kristin Norderval / Elegy
Frederic Rzewski / War songs
Benjamin Britten / Canticle III
Kristin Norderval / Elegy
Frederic Rzewski / War songs
Benjamin Britten / Canticle III
Alice Shields / Requiem for Rachel Corrie
Dmitri Shostakovich / Piano Quintet Op 55
Elias Tanenbaum / Changing times
William Kentridge, Philip Miller / Monument and stereoscope
Oliver Messiaen / Quartet of the end of time
Lou Harrison / Varied Trio
Lou Harrison / Songs
John Cage / Improvisation on Bhutan music
William Kentridge, Philip Miller / Two Short Films from Nine Projections with string quartet
Frederic Rzewski / Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier - US Premiere
John Harbison / Abu Ghraib for cello & piano
Kristin Norderval / Far from Home: for voices and computer-generated sounds
Dmitri Shostakovich / Piano trio No 2 in E minor
Composer / Work
Lou Harrison / Varied Trio
Elias Tanenbaum / Keep Going By George
Elias Tanenbaum / Bubble in My Eye
Elias Tanenbaum / Najaf
Elias Tanenbaum / Toccata
Tania Leon / Axon
Monique Buzzarte / The Gender of Now: There but not There
Aaron Copland / Danzon Cubano
Elizabeth Bell / Duovarios for Two Piano
Elliott Schwartz / Test Drive for piano duet
Christopher Auerbach-Brown / Introspection 3
John Cage / Experiences
Karim Al-Zand / Pattern Preludes
Rob Redei / Capriccio
Robert Helps / Eventually the Carousel Begins
Philip Wharton / Gypsy
Philip Wharton / Tombeau de Ravel
Maurice Ravel / Sonata for violin and piano
Maurice Ravel / Selections from Le Tombeau de Couperin
John Harbison / Abu Ghraib
Kristin Norderval / Voices from Iraq
Dmitri Shostakovich / Trio
Alice Shields / Requiem for Rachel Corrie
Elias Tanenbaum / Bubble in My Eye
Robert Helps / Piano Trio
Nathan David Surgenor / Piano Trio
Thomas Kersey / Piano Trio
Eugene Viola / Piano Trio
Eliot Schwartz / Reading Session