Sound Maps
Fixed media from archival and field recordings in Irkutsk, Voronezh, and Moscow, Russia. Click the following links to explore:

Kommunalka: a thin-walled memory palace in sound

Open Windows: Soundscapes of Irkutsk


Collaborations

SoundProof: A Russian-American Collaboration in New Music– Joint chamber music concert featuring emerging composers from the University of Houston and the Moscow State Conservatory, produced at Myaskovsky Hall, Moscow State Conservatory (4 March 2022) and at Bates Recital Hall, University of Texas at Austin (30 April 2023). Curated by me and Anzhela Klevich.










The Women Have Something to Say – multimedia staged song cycle for 7 female voices, violin, contrabass, and piano. Ca. 90.’
Commissioned by Nicole Kinley-Miller. Pre-premiere given on the Kennedy Center's Digital Stage (13 October 2020); premiered August 27th, 2021, at MATCH in Houston; produced with The Why Collective at Nancy Manocherian's "The Cell" theater (12-14 May 2023).
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Instrumental: Large Ensemble and Chamber 

It Was Purple for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and drum kit (2017). Ca. 7.’ Revised for the Musica Integral 2019 festival and premiered at the Great Hall, Moscow State Conservatory (10 May 2019). 










Road to Rosslyn for string orchestra (2016). Ca. 7.’ Commissioned by Joshua Taylor and premiered by Kingwood Park High School Chamber Orchestra (May 2016). Performed here by student artists of the Moores School of Music under the direction of Baha Lee (15 February 2017).











Choral
 
Veni, Creator Spiritus for acapella mixed choir (2017). Ca. 6’. Commissioned by and premiered by Ryan Rogers and the Floreat acapella ensemble (November 2017). Performed at by the Yale Glee Club Chamber Singers at Battell Chapel (6 May 2023).





 

Consecration Ode for acapella mixed choir (2016). Ca. 6’. Funded by a Houston Scholars grant for the research and study abroad project "Muscovite Music." Written for the “Magnificat” choir of the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Moscow, Russia. Performed here by student artists of the Moores School of Music under the direction of Ryan Rogers (November 2016).







Придите ко мне for acapella mixed choir (2020). Ca. 3.5’. Written for the “Magnificat” choir of the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Moscow, Russia.

Pied Beauty for acapella mixed choir (2023, in prospect). Ca. 4’.


Solo vocal

Veteran’s Songbook - song cycle for soprano and piano (2016). Ca. 8’. Commissioned by Houston Grand Opera Co. at Christ Church Cathedral, 11 November 2017. Performed here by Anna Montgomery, soprano, and Mary Katherine Schober, piano.







“My Little Car” for tenor and piano (2015). Ca. 6’. Commissioned and premiered by Houston Grand Opera Co. Performed here by Matthew Lydick, tenor, and David Furney, piano.







“Secrets” for mezzo-soprano and piano (2015). Ca. 4’. Commissioned by Houston Grand Opera, Co. and premiered by Theresa Procter, mezzo-soprano, and Mark Buller, piano, at Kashmere Gardens Elementary School Library (30 April 2015); recorded here at KUFH studios, Houston.