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>>Recent Works

Living Sea 2010

 

Commissioned by Laguna Beach Music Festival

Sea Change 2009 

Verdehr Trio, October 30, 2009

Sedna, Multi-Media Opera for voice, ensemble, spatialized electronics and video projection 2008

With Snezana Petrovic, video artist in collaboration with Camille Seaman, photographer

Commissioned by Zeitgeist Ensemble, Minneapolis, Minnesota for multiple performances during 2007-8 Season. Premiered February 2007 at Sparkfest, University of Minnesota, Women in New Music Festival, March 2007, Premiered for Meet the Composer, Minnesota Residency and Tour, 2008

To Bedlam and Part Way Back, Sexton cycle of works for voice, ensemble and electronics

1. Lullaby

Commissioned by Zeitgeist and other ensembles. Premiered March, 2007

Autumn Day, from Fallen: Cycle of Works   for SATB Chorus and piano (2009)

Commissioned by Cal State Fullerton University Singers for 50 th Anniversary Based on Rilke poems. Premiered May 10 th , 2009

The Singing of the Waves. . . . from the edges of the earth (2009)

Commissioned and composed in collaboration with Jane Rigler, flutist and Anne LaBerge, flutist, premiered 2009, CSUF New Music Festival

The Sibyl Cycle (1994 - 2004)

The Sibyl Cycle is a collection of works based on ancient Sibylline chants and prophecies for solo voices, instrumental soloists, ensembles and spatialized electronics. WE ARE ALL SIBYLS   interactive electroacoustic opera/installation   is a contemporary adaptation of an ancient form of music-drama, which emphasized spectacular processions, music and drama to exploit architectural spaces with pageantry and display.   WE ARE ALL SIBYLS reenacts the spectacle of the liturgical ritual while evoking a confessional interior dialogue through the used of spatialized electronics.

We are All Sibyls (2003-4 )interactive electroacoustic opera/installation for four voices, spatialized choir, flute, violin, cello, piano, two percussion and electronics

Commissioned for performance through international competitive peer review Created as part of competitive peer reviewed residency for the Envisioning the Future Project with artist Judy Chicago

Premiered: Envisioning the Future, Pomona Arts Colony, January/February 2004

Women's International Listening Room Festival, Cal State Fullerton, March 2004

Rope (2003) for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and electronics

Selected for performance through international competitive peer review

Premiered by the California Ear Unit, resident ensemble of the Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary, at Acrosanti, Arizona, August 17, 2003

O Mary (2002) for String Quartet

Selected for performance through international competitive peer review.

  • Premiered by the Arditti String Quartet, Acanthes Festival, Avignon-Villenueve, France, July 19, 2002
  • Aired on Radio France, August 15, 2002
  • US Premiere by ETHEL string quartet, Women in New Music Festival, CSUF, March 12, 2006

From the Garden (2002) for two voices, and amplified prepared piano

  • Premiered by Suzanne Harmon, Nicole Baker, voices, Robert Johnson and Sharon Collins, pianos, on "Form and Feminine Voice: Concert of Works by   Pamela Madsen"   at CSUFullerton March 7, 2002

Red Vertical (2002), for saxophone/clarinet and percussion,

Selected through international competitive peer review, commissioned by Zeitgeist Duo: Pat O'Keefe/Patti Cudd,   'yesaroun duo Completed, January, 2002

  • Premiered   by   Zeitgeist Duo, Guest Composer Concert, CSULong Beach, Concert Hall, March 6, 2002,
  • Performed on "Form and Feminine Voice: Concert of Works by Pamela Madsen, at CSUFullerton, March 7, 2002
  • Performed, Erickson Hall, UCSD, March 8, 2002
  • Version for saxophone and percussion Premiered by yesaroun' duo, Guest Composer, Juilliard School of Music, New York City, May 13, 2002

Demon II (2002) for solo clarinet and electronics

Commissioned by Pat O"Keefe, Zeitgeist

  • Premiered   at Guest Composer Concert, CSULong Beach, March 6, 2002
  • Performed on "Form and Feminine Voice: Concert of Works by Pamela Madsen, at CSUFullerton, March 7, 2002
  • Performed on Guest Composer Concert, Erickson Hall, at   UCSan Diego,   March 8, 2002

Pneuma-Phrenesis-Abyss (1995) for violin, cello and piano,

Selected through international competitive peer review

  • Premiered by New York New Music Ensemble at June in Buffalo Festival of Contemporary Music,   Buffalo, New York, June 8,1995

Vessel   (1994) for two pianos

  • Premiered, by Eric Dries and Sandra Brown at National Feminist Music Theory III Festival, UCRiverside, April, 1994
  • Performed by Eric Dries and Sandra Brown at Society of Composers Inc. Regional Conference, CSUStanislau, Turlock, California, March 15, 1995

The Sexton Cycle (1996-2003)

The Sexton Cycle is a ninety-minute music drama based on the work of Pulitzer prize-winning American "confessional" poet Anne Sexton.   This cycle explores the use of spoken, sung or chanted settings of voices and the manipulation of sound through digital editing techniques and spatialization to depict the multiple layers of thought in her poems. The cycle was completed in 2002. All works in the cycle have been premiered and recorded for a CD funded by grants from CSUF, UCSD, Mills College, The American Music Center, Subito Grant, and The American Composers Forum.

This intricate shape of air. . . (2003) for 8 channel spatialized electronics

Selected through international competitive peer review

Premiered at Spectrum Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Santa Barbara, California, May 15, 2003

What's that (2002) for large ensemble, spatialized ensemble and spatialized electronics

  • Selected for Commission through international competitive peer review by as part of invited guest residency at Mills College
  • Premiered by   Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble, at   Mills Concert Hall, Mills College, San Francisco, April 23, 2002

Consorting with Angels (2000) for chamber ensemble, flute clarinet, piano, percussion, string quartet, mezzo-soprano and electronics                        

  • Selected through peer reviewed competition for commission by the SONOR ensemble at UCSD
  • Premiered   by SONOR at Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD, La Jolla, California, October   23, 2000

Demon   (2000) for mezzo-soprano, clarinet/bass clarinet, viola and electronics

  • Premiered at Studio A   Concert Hall, Music Technology Concert, UCSD, May 23, 2000

Hutch (The Moss of His Skin) (1997) for soprano, flute, clarinet, viola, percussion, piano

  • Premiered by the SIRIUS ensemble, at Studio A Concert Hall, UCSD, October 15, 1997

RedCuts (1998), for two channel CD Playback

  • Premiered at Spruce Street Forum Gallery, San Diego, California
  • Women in Music Concert, October 1, 1998
  • Performed at Frau Musica Nova Festival, Cologne, Germany, October 15, 1998

The Red Shoes (1997) for solo performer-percussion and spoken voice

  • Premiered by Patti Cudd at UCSD, January 15, 1997
  • Performed at   several UC Campuses by Patti Cudd of the Sirius Ensemble ,   on UC Intercampus Arts tour March, 1997
  • Performed at Society of Composers, Inc. ,   Regional Conference, Fresno, November, 1998
  • Performed at Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference, Miami, Florida,   May 15,   1997
  • Performed at Frau Musica Nova Festival, Cologne, Germany, October,1998
  • Performed at CSULB, Concert Hall, March 6, 2002,
  • Performed on "Form and Feminine Voice: Works by Pamela Madsen, at CSUFullerton, March 7, 2002

 

>>Other Works

The Other Side, (2003), Children's Opera for voices and piano

  • Selected by national peer review, commissioned as part of residency in the Composer's Suitcase, Los Angeles by American Composers Forum to create new works collaboratively as Composer-in-Residence in Los Angeles Public Schools
  • Premiered by Pamela Madsen, piano and children of the Whittier Public Schools, Los Angeles area, California, June, 2003

Five Frost Songs , (1988, revised and completed 2002) for mezzo-soprano and piano

To Earthward Acceptance

Premiered by Louise Toppin and Pamela Madsen, on Composers Concert, at   Aspen Music Festival, August, 1988

Revelation The Onset Now Close the Windows

Premiered by Nicole Baker, Robert Watson, at CSUFullertonMarch 7, 2002

Five Frost Songs performed on "Form and Feminine Voice: Concert of Works by Pamela Madsen,   at CSUFullerton, March 7, 2002

Show me the way to go home, (1996)

  • Selected by international peer reviewed commission by Wesleyan University for saxophone quintet, trumpet, trombone, accordion, percussion, piano, two violins, cello, and two amplified voices (spoken and sung)
  • Premiered by at 3:2 Festival at Wesleyan University, February, 1996
  • Performed at FUN Festival of New Music at University of Illinois, 1996
  • Recorded for CD Compilation of Commissioned Polkas