Chamber Music:

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Michael Abels (b. 1962)

• Urban Legends (2009) String quartet and orchestra

• Delights and Dances (2005) String Quartet and string orchestra

Leila Adu

• If the Stars Align for String Quartet (Brentano/Calder recorded)

• Alyssum for String Quartet and Harp (Mivos)

Eleanor Alberga

• Clouds, 1984, Pf 5tet

• String Quartet No. 1, 1993,

• String Quartet No. 2, 1994,

• Remember, (2000), Str 4tet 

• Piano Quintet, (2007)

 

Lettie Beckon Alston

• Duel for Violin and Cello (1982)

 

TJ (Thomas Jefferson)Anderson

• String Quartet, No. 1

• Five Bagatelles for Oboe, Violin , and Harpsichord 

• Connections, a Fantasy for String Quintet

• Five Easy Pieces Trio (violin, piano, Jew's harp). 1974

• Re-Creation Three readers, dancer, violin, cello, trumpet, alto saxophone, piano, and drums. Sign language, with gestures reflected in dance. 1978

• Vocalise Violin and harp

• Thomas Jefferson's Orbiting Minstrels and Contraband. A 21st Century celebration of 19th Century form. String quartet, woodwind quintet, jazz sextet, dancer, soprano, computer, visuals, and keyboard synthesizer. 

• Ivesiana For Violin, Cello, and Piano

• Grace for string quartet. 1994  Commission: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company 

• Huh! (What did you say?) . for three performing stations; solo violin, [ violin, viola, and cello],solo clarinet. 

• Shouts (forty improvisations for Eva-Maria) for oboe, violin, cello, and piano. 1997. 

• The Wedding Party for poet, Visuals, Voice, Violin, E flat Alto Sax and  B flat tenor sax. 2008

 

Mabel Bailey

• Patchwork (1984) String Quartet

Regina Harris Baiocchi

• Realizations for string quartet, 1979

• Communion for marimba, strings, and piano, 1999

• Sketches for piano trio, 1992

 

David Baker (1931-2016)

• Roots II Piano Trio

Leslie Burrs

• Song for Winnie

Raven Chacon (Navajo Nation)

• (Bury Me) Where The Lightning [Will] Never Find Me, for bass clarinet, percussion, violin, and cello (2019)

• Horse Notations, for flute, string quartet, and 2 hand drums (2019)

• Journey of the Horizontal People, for string quartet (2016)

• Double Weaving, for string quartet (2014)

• Biyan, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and percussion (2011)

• Whisper Trio, for 3 performers (2008)

• Nihikeedoo’ yinaal, for mixed ensemble {fl, bass cl, perc, vl, vla, vc} and electronics, (2007)

• Echo Contest, for 2 musicians (2005)

• Atsiniltlish’ iye, for flute, clarinet, bassoon, cello and percussion (2003)

• Pointillisimo, for string quartet (2001)

• Duet, for two musicians (2000)

Chevalier de Saint George:

• Six quatuors à cordes, pour 2 vls, alto & basse, dédiés au prince de Robecq, composed in 1770 or 1771, published by Sieber in 1773

• No. 1 in C Major, 

• No. 2 in E-flat Major, 

• No. 3 in G Minor, 

• No. 4 in C Minor, 

• No. 5 in G Minor 

• No. 6 in D Major

• Trois Sonates for keyboard with violin: B flat, A, and G minor, Op. 1a, composed c. 1770, published in 1781 by LeDuc.

• Sonata for harp with flute (could be on violin?) obligato, n.d.: E flat, original MS in Bibliothèque Nationale, côte: Vm7/6118

• Sonate de clavecin avec violin obligé G major, arrangement of Saint-Georges's violin concerto Op. II No. 1 in G, in the collection "Choix de musique du duc regnant des Deux-Ponts."

• Six Sonatas for violin accompanied by a second violin: B flat, E flat, A, G, B flat, A: Op. posth. Pleyel, 1800.

• Six quartetto concertans "Aux gout du jour", no opus number. In B flat, G minor, C, F, G, & B flat, published by Durieu in 1779.

• Six Quatuors concertants, oeuvre XIV, in D, B flat, F minor, G, E flat, & G minor, published by Boyer, 1785.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) 

• Op.1 - Piano Quintet (1893)

• Op.2 - Nonet (1893)

• Op.5 - 5 Fantasiestücke for string quartet (1895)

• Op.10 - Clarinet Quintet in F♯ minor

• String Quartet in d minor (lost)

Will Marion Cook (1869-1944)

• Musical theatre works

 

Arthur Cunningham (1928-1997)

• Ballet (1968) jazz quartet & string quartet.

• Covenant (1972) violoncello & double bass

• 2 Inventions (1952) 2 double basses

• Trio, violin, viola, violoncello (1968)

Brent Michael Davids (Mohican)

• TINNITUS QUARTET for string quartet (2005)

• THE SINGING WOOD for electric string quartet (1995)

• THE LAST OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER for string quartet and narrator (2001)

• NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM for electric string quartet with Apache Violin, Bow Shakers, Mini-Raspers, and Text (1996)

• TURTLE PEOPLE  String Quartet, Quartz Crystal Bass Flute, With Large Turtle Water Drum, Owl Buzzer, Clay Turtle Whistle, and Text  (1995)

 

Julius Eastman

• Stay On It

 

Rachel Eubanks

• Trio (clarinet, violin, piano) (1977)

 

Primous Fountain:

• Piano Trio

• String Quartet No. 1

• String Quartet No. 2

 

Ahnee Sharon Freeman

• War Sonata (violin cello piano) (1968)

 

Gifrants (Marcien Guy-Frantz Toussaint)

• Pa Amou (Introducing Chantrêl, a Haitian Approach to Chamber Music)

• Dyalóg

• Mizik Demafwa

• Bél Souvni

• Pasyon Fou

 

André E. Godsey, Sr

• String Quartet Number 1 in A minor: On the Struggle Between Light and Darkness

 

deVon Russell Gray

• Fractious Child 2 vln 2 vc processing tape (2016)

• Make the Revolution Irresistible, SQ, processing, improvised elect, movement artist

 

Diana E. Greene

• Tragedies (oboe cello piano) (1980)

 

Anthony R. Green

• Collide-oscope I (2016) – flute, clarinet in B-flat, violin : 5m

• Collide-oscope II (2016) – string trio : 10m30s

• Collide-oscope IV (2016) – violin, viola/voice 6m

• … heen en weer … (2015) – string trio : 13m30s

• Ohkyanoos (2013) – flute, bass clarinet, percussion, violin, cello, piano : 8m;

• Refraction Aberrance (2010) – cello and ensemble of piano, harp, guitar (or any combination) : 12m

• The Gettysburg Address (2010) – soprano, clarinet/bass clarinet, cello, percussion, piano, text by Abraham Lincoln : 12m

• Scintillation II (2008) – viola and cello : 7 – 10m

• Oh, Freedom! (2015) – flute, viola, cello, optional tenor and spoken word performer (text by Amber Rose Johnson) : 30m

• Catalpa (2014) – piano trio : 7m15s

• Chance (2004/2007) – string quartet : 7m

Adolphus Hailstork

• American Landscape for string duet

• Evensong for violin and cello

• Divertimento for violin and viola

• Little Diversions for Lord Byron's Court for two violins or string duet

• Sanctum for clarinet and piano or viola and piano

• String Quartet No. 1[43]

• String Quartet No. 2 - Variations on "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”

• Three Spirituals for String Trio

• Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano (1985)

• Who is Sylvia? For Coloratura Soprano, Violin, and Piano

Edward W. Hardy (for String Quartet)

• Three Pieces Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe

• Flying- Dancing in Spanish Harlem

Jeraldine Sanders Herbison

• Six Duos for Violin and Cello (1976)

• Fantasy in Three Moods op 7 (viola, cello, piano) (1971)

• Miniature Trio op 3 (violin, oboe, piano) (1962)

• Trio No. 2 op 17 (flute violin guitar) (1979)

• Trio No. 3 op 22 no. 2 (violin cello piano) (1986)

• I Heard the Trailing Garments of the Night (flute violin cello piano) (1975)

• Introspection Op 8 (oboe violin cello piano)

• Piano Quartet: Melancholy on the advent of departure op. 18 no. 3

• String Quartet op. 14

Geoffrey Dana Hicks

• First String Quartet

• Second String Quartet

• Third String Quartet

• Fourth String Quartet

• Fifth String Quartet

• Sixth String Quartet

Augustus O. Hill

• String Quartet No. 2

 

Jonathan Bailey Holland

 

• Soli (4 vln, 2 vla, 2 vc, 1 cb) (2001)

• Monochrome (2005) (violin ,cello, fl, piano)

• Between Days (alto fl, cello, cl, piano) (2003)

• Piano Trio (2006) 

• After the Wailing (soprano, violin, viola, cello) (2007)

• Synchrony (ob, bsn, vln, vc, piano)

• Forged Sanctuaries: String Quartet No. 2, (2016)

• Follow (two violins) (2017)

• Calibrating (violin, marimba) (2016)

• Mobius (violin, cello, cl, piano) (2018)

• Third Quartet (2019)

Chad “Sir Wick” Hughes

• The Vivid Dawn: Rondo for Flute, Clarinet, and Violoncello

 

Hannah Kendall

• Vera (clarinet, violin, viola, cello) (2008)

• Labrynthine (2 violins, 2 violas) (2009)

• Network Bed (piano, violin, viola, cello)

• Glances: I Don’t Belong Here (string quartet) (2019)

Daniel Kidane

• Foreign Tongues (for string quartet) (2015)

• Winged (string quartet and electric guitar) 

• The Devil’s Overture (cello, clarinet, percussion)

Emmanual Gyima Labi

• String Quartet no. 1, "At the Immaculate Bee Hive" (1982)

• Gentle Winds, Op. 5, for violin and pianoforte (1973)

 

Eric Brian Lacy

• Static for two violins

• Frenzy (for string sextet)

James Lee III

• Piano Trio No. 2 "Temple Visions" for violin, cello, and piano (2014)

• Quintet for clarinet and string quartet (2018)

• Scenes Upon Eternity's Edge for flute, violin, cello, and piano (2010)

• The Appointed Time for string quartet (1999)

Tania León:

• À Tres Voces (2012) string trio

• Cuarteto No. 2 (2011) [20’ str quartet

• Elegia a Paul Robeson (1987) [ ]violin, cello and piano

• Esencia para cuarteto de cuerdas (2009) [18’] vn 1, vn 2, va, vc

• Arenas d’un tiempo (clarinet cello piano) (1992)

• Parajota delaté (fl, cl, violin, cello, piano) (1988)

George Lewis

• "Thistledown" (2012), for quartet

• "Ikons" (2010), for octet

• "Dancing in the Palace" (2009), for tenor voice and viola, with text by Donald Hall

• "Signifying Riffs" (1998), for string quartet and percussion

 

Wynton Marsalis (b. 1961)

• At the Octoroon Balls (string quartet) (1998)

 

Quinn Mason (b. 1996)

• 'Two Fleeting Daydreams' for clarinet, violin and piano (2015, rev. 2016/17)

• 'The 19th Amendment' for clarinet, violin and piano (2019)

• On life for tuba and string quartet (2018)

• 'String Quartet No. 2' (2013, rev. 2019)

• 'String Quartet No. 6' (2018-2019)

• String Quartet No. 5' (2015, rev. 2018)

• Three Vignettes' for string trio (2016)

 

Delores Martin

• Sounds in a park (String Quartet)

Jessica Mays 

• On Shapes and Figures for string quartet and bass clarinet (2016)

 

Lena Johnson McLin

• Memory (flute violin cello piano/organ)

 

Nicole Mitchell (so much terrific music! https://www.nicolemitchell.com/list-of-works-1)

• Wondrous Birth, string quartet, 2005

•  Sweet Tooth, string quartet, 2005

•  Symbology, any instruments (3 or above), 2005

•  Waterdance, flute, cello and frame drum, 2003

•  Balafon, balafon, two violins, cello, bass, 2003

• Symbology, any instruments (3 or above), 2005

• Exploration #1 for any instruments (solo or above)

• Episodes for Creative Ensemble, any instruments (3+) w/rhythm section, 2007               

• Black Unstoppable, quartet-large ensemble (any instruments w/rhythm section)

 

Jessie Montgomery ttps://www.jessiemontgomery.com/works

• Strum (string quartet) (2012)

• Voodoo Dolls (string quartet)  (2008)

• Starburst

• Duo for Violin and Cello (2018)

Carman Moore

• BLUE...RED….GREEN (violin viola, cello) (2009)

• SHE (A LIFE) for soprano, clarinet, violin, and piano

Dorothy Rudd Moore

• Moods (violin, cello) (1969)

• Trio No. 1 (1970) (piano violin cello)

• Modes (string quartet) (1968)

Joe M. Moore III

• The Colour Suite (violin and percussion)

• Cascades (piano trio)

Undine Smith Moore

• Afro American Suite (flute cello piano) (1969)

• Soweto (violin cello piano)  1987

Jeffrey Mumford: 

• string quartet no. 1  (formerly quartet no. 3 ) (1978 rev. 1980),  

• string quartet no. 2  (1982-83, rev. 1995), 

• a veil of liquid diamonds  (1985-86, rev. 1995, 1999), 

• echoes in a cloud box   (1988) (10 min. (violin and 'cello)

• from the middle . . . becoming air  (1991) (19 min. (string trio)

• a vivid distance serenely layered  (1995) (5 min.) (‘cello quartet)

• in forests of evaporating dawns  (1996) (18 min.)(string quartet)

• eight aspects of appreciation  (1996, rev. 2000) (11 min.)(violin and viola)

•  in afternoons of deep and amplified air  (1998)  (11min.)(string quartet)

•  the promise of the far horizon (200. 2) (16 min.)(string quartet)

• toward the deepening stillness beyond visible light (2004) (11 min.)(piano, string quartet)

• in the community of encompassing hours (2005) (9 min.)(piano trio)

• in soft echoes  . . . a world awaits (2008) (11 min.)(string trio)

Diedre Murray

• String Trio

 

Brian Raphael Nabors

• 7 Dances (for flute violin cello)

• Piano Trio

• Zephyr (two flutes and string quartet)

James Newton (https://jamesnewtonmusic.com)

• In a Moment, IN the Twinkling of an Eye (Soprano Voice, Bb Clar., Bassoon & Pno)

• Violet- (Flute, Bb Clarinet, String 4tet& Percussion)

• Elisha’s Gift-String Quartet + Contrabass

• Glimpses of the Garden of Eden (Horn solo and Chamber Orchestra)

• 65th Psalm for Solo Flute and Voice

 

       

Bongani Ndodana-Breen 

• Safika, piano quintet

• Apologia at Umzimvubu, string quartet

• Miniatures on Motherhood, string quartet

• Two Nguni Dances, piano trio 

• Intlanzi yase Mzantsi, piano quintet based on Schubert’s Trout Quintet

• Letter of Thomas McKeller, 1948, 1927

Nokuthula Ngwenyama

• Above the West for Violin and Viola (2015) 18’

• Climbing to Dragon’s Mountain for 4-part violin choir (2015) 5’

• Climbing to Dragon’s Mountain for 4-part viola choir (2015) 5’

• Primal Message for viola quintet (2018) 8’

• It’s You voice/pno/drums/bass/rhythm guitar, winds and strings (2016) 5’

• Oh Hanukkah 4-part violin choir (2017) 5’

• String Sextet (2020)

• Trio for Flute,Viola, Harp (2020/21)

Marcus Norris

• You Would Too (piano flute viola)

• You Haven’t Said a Word (cello quartet)

Shawn E. Okpebholo

• Distance (2016) for cello and marimba

• CryptOlogiE (2014) for flute, clarinet, violin, and piano

• The Red Wheelbarrow (2006) for piano quartet (rev.)

Ayo Oluranti

• New Year Quintet (Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet, Violon & Violoncello) [2011]

• String Quartet No. 1 (2007)

• The Lion & the Lamb (Violin, Trumpet & Piano) [2000)

Fred Onovwerosuoke

• Fantasia for String Quartet 

• Fanfare for String Quartet 

• String Quartet No. 3

• String Quartet No. 2 

• String Quartet No. 1 

 

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

• String Quartet No. 1 "Calvary" (1956)

• Walkin' All Over God's City Called Heaven for violin and cello (1996)

• Mvmt for String Trio 

 

Joseph C. Phillips, Jr.

• Shibboleths (2015) Ten Movements for String Quartet

• Es Stehen Unbeweglich (2013)  Pharaoh Scrolls (2013) suite of music from The Loves of Pharaoh (String Quartet: 2 Violins, Viola, Cello) 12 minutes

• Unlimited (2011) (Flute/Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello, Accordion) 12 minutes

• The Distance of the Moon (2010) 110 Percent (2010) (String Quartet) 18 minutes

• Memory of Red Orange Laid Out in Still Waves (2010) (2 Trumpets, Glockenspiel, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello) 15 minutes The title comes from a line in Edward P. Jones's sobering book, The Known World which, while a work of fiction, was based upon the true incidents of African-Americans owning slaves during the 19th century. 

• Beautiful Thing (2009) (Voice, Flute, Horn, Violin, Cello, Bass, Percussion) 8 minutes

• The Spell of a Vanishing LovelinessUrban Sketches (1990) (Alto Saxophone and Cello) 8 minutes

 

Zenobia Powell Perry

• Excursion (violin cello piano) 1989

• Two Letters (B flat Clarinet, cello piano) 1949

• Three designs for four players (string quartet) (1964)

Florence Price

• String Quartet (No. 1) in G major (1929)[39]

• String Quartet (No. 2) in A minor (published in 1935)

• Piano Quintet in E minor (1936) 

• Piano Quintet in A minor

• Five Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet

• Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet

 

Julio Racine (b. 1945) (Haitian-American)

• Two String Quartets

 

Dave Ragland

• I’ll Never Turn Back No More (medium voice/violin)

 

Gertrude Rivers Robinson

• Quintet for Piano and Strings 195

 

DBR/ Daniel Bernard Roumain 

• Fast BLACK Dance Machine (2002) (flute; clarinet (Bb); violin; cello; drum kit, piano)Duration: 14'

• Hip-Hop Studies and Etudes, Book 1 (2006)  soprano/alto/bass clef; performed solo or as mixed ensemble Duration: 120'

• I Never Meant to Hurt You (2005)  (soprano sax, clarinet, violin, vibraphone, marimba, drum kit, electric bass, piano Duration: 6'

• Jams! (1994) viola, piano, percussion Duration: 12'

• The Kompa Variations (2007)  for double string quartet Duration: 22'

• String Quartet No. 1: X 

• String Quartet No. 2: King (2001) 

• String Quartet No. 3: Powell (2003) 

• String Quartet No. 4: Angelou (2004) 

• String Quartet No. 5: Parks (2005) 

• Volvic Maritum (piano trio)

 

Ted Runcie (b1970)

• String Quartet No. 1

 

Bruce A. Russell, aka Ibrahim El Mahboob expressing black mood

• Linea Nigra, for string octet (2015) 9′

• Madra, for string quartet (1999) 11′

Ignatius Sancho

• Minuets &c &c for the violin, mandolin, German flute & harpsichord, composed by an African, inscribed to His Grace, Duke of Buccleugh and to the Right Honorable John, Lord Montague of Broughton. Book 2d, etc. London: Richard Duke, for the author, [1795?]. Library: British Library [b.53.b.(l.)

• Minuets, cotillions and country German dances for the violin, mandolin, flute, and harpsichord, composed by an African (c1790). Library: British Library

David Sanford (b.1963)

• Grace Canticles (Clar/sax/vln/v/pno)

• Chamber Concerto No 3 (Ob/BaCl/Bsn/Vln/Vc/Pno)

• Gray and Black Study-  Piano trio

• 22 Part I- Vc/pno

• Seventh Avenue Kaddish solo VC

• Dogma 74 (fl/cl/vla/vc/pno)

Jeffrey Scott

• Un Abrazo para Sharon (piano, violin, horn)

 

Sami Seif

• Orientalism for String Quartet, 14′ 

• La’ib an-nard (The Dice Player) for Viola, Cello and Bass, 12′

 

Carlos Simon

• WARMTH FROM OTHER SUNS (2020) string quartet 6 min

• An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave (2015)   string quartet 5’

• Lickety Split piano and cello 5'

• Remnants of Heaven (2010) piano, violin, marimba, computer generated sounds 9’

• be still and know (2015) piano trio 7’

• where two or three are gathered (2017) violin and cello 7’

Margo Nelleen Simmons

• Fantasies for String Quartet (1993)

 

Alvin Singleton

• Akwaaba (1985)  flute, clarinet, bassoon, piano, percussion, violin and cello 29’

• Almost A Boogie (2010)  for bassoon, horn, violin, viola, 'cello, and piano 10’

• Be Natural (1974) any combination of three bowed string instruments 10’

• Helga (2003)  violin, viola, cello 4’

• Ishirini (2003)  2 violins 4’

• Jasper Drag (2000) clarinet, piano and violin 10’

• La Flora (1983)  flute (alto flute), clarinet, 2 percussion, violin and cello 14’

• Secret Desire to be Black (1988)  string quartet 12’

• Somehow We Can (1994)  string quartet 16’

• String Quartet No. 1 (1994)

 

Hale Smith (1925-2005)

• Quartet, Strings

• Songs for soprano and violin (1956)

 

Irene Britton Smith

• Fugue in G minor, for violin, viola, cello, 1938

 

Joyce Solomon

• Jack in the Box (cello oboe, clarinet)

• Among the snow capped peaks (string quartet, piano, percussion) (1976

Derrick Spiva Jr. 

• American Mirror for String Quartet (2018)

• Crossing (flute, viola, harp) 9 min

• Duet for Any Two Instruments (4 min)

Earl Louis Stewart

• "String Quartet in G Minor" (Identity 162) 2016

William Grant Still

• A Black Pierrot for String Quartet

• Danzas de Panama for String Quartet

• Little Folk Suite from the Western Hemisphere #1-6

• Lyric String Quartette

• Rhapsody for Piano Quintet

Harvey J. Stokes

• String Quartet No. 1

• String Quartet No. 2

• String Quartet No. 3

Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate (Chickasaw Nation)

• MoonStrike for String Quartet – 25′

• Snake Oil for Saxophone, Cello and Piano – 28′

• Standing Bear: A Ponca Indian Cantata in Eight Tableaux for Solo Baritone, Piano and String Sextet – 25′

• Pisachi (Reveal) Six Epitomes for String Quartet – 13′

 

Darian Thomas

• Cobalt Aviary/Still Pond (for violin and looper or 4 violins)

• Wings - for violin ensemble and electronics [3+ vlns, electronics]. 8’46”. 2016

• Rumba | Water to Rock - for solo improvising violin, flamenco dancer, and electronics 7’10”. 2016

• Essay on Light - for two violins and piano. 6’50”. 2016

• Etoiles Sonata - for string quartet, winds, and two pianos [flt, cl Bb, 2vln, vla, cel, 2pf]. 7’35”. 2014

• Rant (trio) – for string trio [vln, vla, vc]. Performed at the Carver Cultural Center in 2013.  8’09”. 2013

• British Quartet – for string quartet. Performed at the Carver Cultural Center in 2013. 21’05”. 2012

Shirley J Thompson

• Transition (flute, cello piano)

• String Quartet (1979)

• BLUE FOR YOU Solo Cello & String Quintet. 15’

• URBAN LIVING Solo Alto Flute, String quintet, Percussion, Kit Drum. 7’ 56”

• URBAN LIVING 2 Solo Piano, String Quintet, Percussion & Kit drum, Spoken Word Artist. 8’ 36”

• STRING QUARTET NO. 1 String Quartet. 12’ 30”

• MAYBE TOMORROW Arr. Stephen Sondheim for String Quartet, Trumpet, Trombone, Piano, Kit Drum. 4’ 30”

• DREAMLAND Arr. Bunny Wailer for String Quintet, Trumpet, Trombone, Piano, Kit Drum. 5’ 30”

• 3 MOVEMENTS FOR STRINGS String Orchestra. 12’ 40”

• CHANGES Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano. 7’ 56”

• SONG OF DAWN Alto Sax, Bass Clarinet, String Quintet, Marimba, Percussion. 8’20”

• VISIONS Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, Trumpet, Trombone, Violin, Cello, Percussion. 12’20”

• REDEMPTION SONG Arr. Bob Marley for Solo Trumpet, String Quintet, Piano, Trombone, Kit Drum, Percussion. 3’ 50”

• WALK ON BY Arr. B. Bacharach for String Quintet, Trumpet, Trombone, Piano, Kit Drum, Percussion. 4’ 45”

• SEMPLICE Violin, flute & Piano. 5’ 25”

Frederick Tillis

• Spiritual Fantasy No. 12 for String Quartet (1988)

Andre Vindu Bangambula 

• String Quartet No. 1, 1990

• String Quartet No. 2, 1994

• Duo, oboe d'amore, cello, 2003

George Walker:

• String Quartet No. 1 Lyric (1945).  Saint Louis: MMB Music (S054003, score; X504003, parts).  Duration: 14:00

• String Quartet No. 2  (1967, rev. 1968).  [Hastings-on-Hudson: General Music Publishing Co.  44p. & parts.]  Duration: 20:00.

Errollyn Wallen

• Quartet for Wind instruments and cello (1982)

• Second String Quartet (1988)

• Still Lives (flute vibraphone clarinet cello) 1983

• Jelly dub Mix (string quartet, sax, tape) 1990

• Mythologies (violin, cello, cl, sax, piano, percussion) 

• Variations for String Quartet (1983)

• Romeo Turn (1990) 14 minutes (Viola, Cello and Double Bass)

• Mirrors of Invention Violin, Cello, Tape (2001) 15 minutes

• Flick (2003) 5 minutes 3 Tenor Recorders, Marimba, Harpsichord, Cello

• All the Blues I See Flute and String Quartet (2004) 20 minutes

• Music for Tigers 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Piano (2006)

• Five Postcards Violin and Viola (2010) 8 minutes

• NNENNA Septet (Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass) (2018) 12 minutes

 

Brianna (Lawren) Ware

• La Carrera de Camellos (2015) Flute, Viola, and Guitar

• Recollection and Anticipation (2015) Clarinet, Viola, and Harp

• Siku (Ice) (2018) Guitar, Flute, Violin, and Cello 

• Ascension (June 2016) String Quartet

• "The Sorrow and Rage of a Demigod" (2015) String Quintet

Shelly Washington 

• A Kind of Lung (Bang on a Can) flute, Contrabass Recorder, Rubab, Dombra, Violin, Cello, Piano, Vibraphone, Drum Set

• SAY For String Quartet using Voice + Body Percussion 2016

• MIDDLEGROUND For String Quartet (comm. JACK QT) 2016

Mary Watkins

• Piece for piano, flute, oboe, and cello, No 1 (1983)

• Piece for piano, flute, oboe, and cello, No 2 (1983)

• The Gallery (fl, cl, bassoon, viola, cello) 

• Piano Quintet (1986)

Trevor Weston

• Juba String Quartet 

• DIG IT for Bang on a Can All-Stars (cl/B.cl, e. gtr, mar/drm set, pno, vc, db. 6 min. [2019]

• UUU for string quartet 9 min [2017]

• BLOOM for string trio 3 min [2013]

• FUDO MYOO for string quartet 7 min [2012]

• MESSAGES for flute, bassoon, trumpet in B flat, and string quartet 13 min [2012]

• SIRENS for cello and trombone 9 min [2007]

• LEGACY WORKS 3 spiritual arrangements for clarinet, violin, viola, and cello 10 min [2014]

• VERVE MUSIC for flute, oboe, and cello 15 min [2004

• ROUGE for string quartet 5 min [2003]

• IMAGES for piano trio 14 min [2003]

• SUITE BIMSHIRE for piano quintet 15 min [2000]

• STREAMS 3 movements for flute, clarinet, viola, cello, piano, and percussion 17 min [1990-1992]

Dolores White

• Excursions (string quartet) 1988-91

Evan Williams

• Bodies Upon the Gears; flute*, viola, fixed 2-channel electronics (*or clarinet); 4' 2013-

• GRIME; violin, viola, cello, bass; 8' 2013-

• String Quartet No. 2; string quartet; 20' 2011-

• Piano Trio No. 1; piano trio; 16’ 2009-

Kimo Williams

• Into The Liquid (string quartet) Comm. by ETHEL 12 minutes

• Quiet Shadows (string quartet)  4 min

• Quartet  for the Sons of Nam was composed in 1990 (string quartet)   22 min

• A Veterans’ Lament (string quartet) 2013 4 min

Ollie Wilson

• Piano Trio

 

Kerwin Young

• Peace on the Left - Justice on the Right (2020) 3' minutes (string quartet) 

• In the Amazon (2020) 10' minutes;  (string quartet) 

• Mark Lewis in Hong Kong (2015) 9'25 min.; String quartet

 

Pamela Z

• And the Movement of the Tongue (for Kronos Quartet)  String Quartet with Tape composed: 2012, duration: 23:00

• Attention (for Del Sol String Quartet)  String Quartet with Fixed Media (video & multi-channel audio) composed: 2016, duration: 15:00

Ethel Dreams of Temporal Disturbances (for ETHEL )  String Quartet and Tape, composed 2005, duration 9:00