String quartet. 7 mins.
Composed for the JACK Quartet‘s residency with New York University Composition Seminar taught by Julia Wolfe and Missy Mazzoli. Continue reading “The Winding Path (2013)”
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Composed for the JACK Quartet‘s residency with New York University Composition Seminar taught by Julia Wolfe and Missy Mazzoli. Continue reading “The Winding Path (2013)”
Cello. 7 1/2 mins.
Live performance by Matthew Smith, cello of Juventas New Music Ensemble:
Short film featuring Callie Lyons, dancer, and Fjóla Evans, cello:
Performance score available for purchase. Please direct inquiries to Nell Shaw Cohen at nell@nellshawcohen.com.
Horizon was composed in 2013 for the occasion of Parrish Art Museum’s one-year anniversary in its new location in Water Mill, NY. This work celebrates and reflects the aesthetic quality of the museum’s building and the surrounding landscape of the East End of Long Island, , using negative space in music to reflect the vastness of a flat horizon line.
Three short movements for three percussionists. Each movement is a musical response to, or evocation of, a favorite image from European decorative arts. Winner of NYU Percussion Ensemble Call for Scores.
A work for mixed chamber ensemble inspired by the textures and sound world of Baroque music and the rhythms of Progressive Rock. Continue reading “Sextet (2012)”
This work for trumpet and electronics integrates samples of 17th century Italian music with live, digitally processed trumpet. Continue reading “San Marco (2012)”
Inspired by places in the San Francisco Bay Area, my hometown. Continue reading “Places in the Bay Area (2012/13)”