​Text by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Premiered by Kira McGirr (mezzo-soprano) and Alix Reinhardt (clarinet) as part of the 2022 She Scores Festival
Harkness Chapel, Cleveland, OH, 25 June 2022

I Shall Be Taller, for mezzo-soprano and clarinet (2021)

Spiritual Sailor - bass

Spiritual Sailor - alto

Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra
Makana Medeiros, Marimba

Performed on May 11, 2024 by the Civic Orchestra of New Haven
Samuel Hollister, Conductor
© 2024 Harriet Steinke

Marimba Concerto (Live)

This score can be purchased at https://justinekoontz.com/pages/order.html

Great God Attend practice tracks - tenor

Great God Attend practice tracks - soprano

Great God Attend practice tracks - bass

Great God Attend practice tracks - alto

I began this setting of Psalm 57 during the pandemic. The isolated qualities of the text, with occasional reaches towards hope, captured much of the general feeling of this time. 

Recording by the Memorial Episcopal Church Choir, Baltimore, MD.
May 16, 2024
Wan-Chi Su, organ
Justine Koontz, director

Image by Joshua Woroniecki.

A Refuge Of Shadows

The music of Cara Haxo juxtaposes delicate, sparkly textures with the gritty and the grotesque. Haxo is the winner of the 2022 NWMF Emerging Women Composers Competition. Other awards include the IAWM Libby Larsen and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prizes and the NFMC Young Composers Award. She has received commissions from the May Festival Youth Chorus, Quince Ensemble, and Splinter Reeds. Haxo is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at The College of Wooster and an Academic Dean and faculty member for The Walden School Young Musicians Program.

I Shall Be Taller, for mezzo-soprano and clarinet (2021)

Cara Haxo

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