Solo Repertoire + Works List
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Solo Repertoire + Works List -
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-Concerto Repertoire
- Violin /Piano: The American Recital
-GRAMMY nominated Multimedia Recital: of Love. | Seasons of Change
Works for
Solo Strings | Chamber Music | Orchestra
Residencies and Outreach
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Concerto Repertoire
Original Works
Vivaldi / Stewart | Seasons of Change | recomposition of Vivaldi's Four Seasons | Violin + Strings, and optional video/audio | 2024 premiere with the Phoenix Symphony | 40’ (12’ - 12’ - 8’ - 8’)
Curtis Stewart | Violin Concerto | (1 -1-1-1-1-pno -perc-strings) | 2023 | 24’
Curtis Stewart | Embrace | Violin + Strings, and optional public conversation/video/audio | commissioned by the American Composer’s Orchestra | 2022 | 12’
Curtis Stewart | Circumvent | Violin + Orchestra | commissioned by Key to Change in partnership with the Seattle Symphony | (2-2-2-4-2-1-perc-strings) | 2023 | 6’
Dvorak / Stewart | “The Famous People” | Violin + Orchestra | recompositions of 5 of Dvorak’s “Slavonic Dances” fused with traditional American Slave dances | commissioned by the Virginia Symphony | (2 -2-2-2-4-2 -0 -1-perc-strings) | 2023 | 2’-20’
Coleridge-Taylor / Stewart | 3 Selections from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 24 Negro Melodies | Violin + Strings | 2022 | 15’
Bologne / Stewart | KNIGHT Music | Violin + Strings | recomposition of Joseph Bologne, the “Chevalier de St George” Violin Concerto #9 Op 8 in G major | 2022 | 11’
Concerto Repertoire by Canonized Composers
Samuel Barber | Violin Concerto | Violin + Orchestra | 1939 | 25’
Bela Bartok | Roumanian Dances | Violin + strings/orchestra | 1915 | 6’
Leonard Bernstein | Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) | Violin + Strings, Harp, Percussion | 1954 | 25’
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | Ballade | Violin + Orchestra | 1895 | 13’
Missy Mazzoli | Dark with Excessive Bright | Violin + Strings | 2018 | 13’
Julia Perry | Violin Concerto | (2222 -3220 -hrp -pno- perc-strings ) | 1977 | 25’
Igor Stravinsky | Violin Concerto | Violin + Orchestra | 1931 | 22’
Roberto Sierra | Carribean Rhapsody | Violin, Saxophone + Strings | 2008 | 15’
Stuff Smith (realized Dave Soldier) | Violin Concerto | (2222 -2220- timp -perc - strings) | 1963 / 2022 | 15’
Ralph Vaughn Williams | The Lark Ascending | Violin + Orchestra | 1914 | 15’
Works for Orchestra
The Famous People | recompositions of 5 of Dvorak’s “Slavonic Dances” | for orchestra, violin + orchestra, cello + orchestra | commissioned by the Virginia Symphony (2 -2-2-2-4-2 -0 -1 -perc-strings) | 2023 | - 2’-20’
Toward America | symphonic fantasy on Dvorak’s American Quartet | (1 -1-1-1-2-1 -0 -0 -timp- perc-strings) | commissioned by the Knights | 2023 | 25’
The Forest’s Touch | recomposition of Schubert’s Erlkonig | for small sinfonietta and solo voice (1 -1-1-1-1-1 -1 -0 -drum set-piano-strings) | commissioned by La Jolla Society | 2022 | 7’
Drill | concerto for prepared drum set and string orchestra | (prepared kit - 44442) | Commissioned by the Sphinx Organization, Carnegie Hall and the New World Symphony | 2023 | 8’
Essay #1: Leave the People | for string orchestra | Commissioned by NextFest of Emerging Musicians | 2024 | 14’
when they go low… | Bass Concertante | (1-1-1-1-1-0-0-0-perc (2)- pno-strings) | 2024 | 10’
Chamber Music
Do you see the Flag | for Voice, Piano + Triggered Sound Samples | paraphrase of all verses of the US National Anthem - Commissioned for the NY Festival of Song | 2020 | 5’
Invention #1: Double Down | duo for two violins | commissioned by the Sphinx Organization | 2024 | 6’
Invention #2: Work Songs | duo for violin + cello | commissioned by Juilliard Prep Division
Invention #3: Threat | duo for viola + cello | commissioned by the Chamber Music America Artistic Projects grant | 2024 | 8’
Mangas | by Elektra Kurtis | for String Quintet (bass) | commissioned by Sybarite5 (string quartet + bass) | 2021 | 5’
The Gilded Cage | piano quintet | based on the music of the residents of Newport, RI | commissioned by The Newport Classical Festival | 2023 | 10’
Work Monologues: i. Futility | string quartet, electronics | commissioned by IlluminArts | 2024 | 6’
The Pavement Pounding Rose | improvising string quartet | commissioned by PUBLIQuartet and New Music USA from Reflections on Beauty Project celebrating the life of Madame CJ Walker | 2019 | 4’
Call / Response | improvising string quartet | commissioned by Carnegie Hall: Play USA along with 3 other commissions by members of PUBLIQuartet | 2019 | 3’
Bird in Paris | improvising string quartet | based on Charlie Parker’s Blues for Alice and works of Claude Debussy | 2015 | 5’
LiberTango | improvising string quartet (and expanded ensemble) | arrangement of Astor Piazzola’s iconic song | 2014 | 5’
We The Messiah | improvising string quartet, electronics, optional MC’s, improvisations from the Messiah | 2021 | 60’
Works for Solo Strings
with optional electronics, video AND/OR Piano
American Caprices - virtuosic solo violin works based on recorded American music
Lament - Concert Etude for Cello + Piano commissioned by the Eastman Cello Institute and Daniel Ketter (2021)
Seattle Etudes - commissioned by the Key to Change for beginner and intermediate violinists/violists (2022)
Gone - for solo violin
Grief Monologues - commissioned by WQXR - community submitted voice memos on stories of grief scored for Solo violin and Electronics
We who Seek - commissioned by the Experiential Orchestra - paraphrase + verse on the original spiritual, with remix of the Julia Perry / Jannina Norpoth setting of the hymn - for solo violin, optional voice, optional string quartet
Residencies and Engagement
All appearances may include a residency component.
Community conversations, including talkback with community leaders
Masterclasses for standard repertoire, chamber music, composition, or improvisation
Improvisation or Composition workshops
Session on “A Place for the Blues in Classical Music” - Reviewed in Violinist.com from the Starling Delay Symposium
Recorded interactions with community for optional inclusion and trigger in performance.