Performed by the Yale Philharmonia conducted by Ryan Tani, December 9th 2021

Video: https://youtu.be/rNULmD6Rqj8

Steep - strings, percussion & celesta

Grace Pressley, saxophone
Tracie Jernigan, piano

Strange Lights - Harriet Steinke

Harrietlehre for Orchestra (Excerpt)

Performed by the New York City Ballet Orchestra featuring saxophonist Chris Hemingway, May 2023

Standard Deviation - ballet for saxophone & orchestra

Mother Chords (Quartet Mov. I)

For voice and amplified chamber ensemble

Performed by Madeline Healey and the Refugee Orchestra Project, conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya

Premiered at National Sawdust, 06.12.18

Constellations

Video: https://youtu.be/obO7uqMYGLs

Performed by the Azure Quartet: Kj McDonald, Brenden Zak, Hannah Geisinger and Yifei Li

Spiral Sequences is a string quartet performed in two movements. The first, the shorter of the two, is frantic and pulse-driven, carried by momentum generated by spiraling 16th note patterns and repeated ostinatos. It presents fragments of a sequence-like pattern, one which is played in its complete form at the beginning of a longer, introspective second movement. The first movement presents an inward spiral, constantly tightening. The second works to unravel it.

Spiral Sequences - string quartet

In this special All-Rembrandt-All-The-Time edition, we travel to Amsterdam to join in the Netherland's celebrations of the 350th Anniversary of Rembrandt Van Rijn. For the event, the Rijksmuseum has on display every one of its Rembrandt holdings - a treasure through which curator and Rembrandt biographer, Jonathan Bikker leads Culture File.

The Culture File Weekly 150319: All of the Rembrandts. Srsly.

Higaleh Nah
for soprano solo, viola, SATB chorus, and piano
(2018)

Winner of the University of Michigan 2019 Brehm Prize in Choral Composition and a 2021 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award

University of Michigan Chamber Choir
Maggie Burk, solo soprano
Jimmy Cunningham, solo viola
Scott VanOrnum, piano
Eugene Rogers, conductor
(9.21.2019, Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan).

Y’did Nefesh is a Jewish liturgical poem, or piyut, in four stanzas. The poem is commonly attributed to the 16th century Kabbalist, writer, and poet Rabbi Elazar ben Moshe Azkari, and is typically sung and prayed during Kabbalat Shabbat, the Friday night Sabbath service. The Higaleh Nah stanza is the fourth and final stanza of this stunning piyut.

"Higaleh nah u’fros, chaviv alai et sukat sh’lomach, tair eretz mi’k’vodach, nagilah v’nis’mechah vach, maher ahuv ki va moed
v’choneini kimei olam, almaya…"

"Please, reveal yourself, my beloved, and spread upon me the shelter of Your peace. Illuminate the earth with Your glory, so that we may celebrate and rejoice within You. Quickly, my love, for the time has come. Have mercy on me for all days, forever."

Higaleh Nah - soprano solo, viola, SATB chorus, and piano - (2018)

Commissioned by X4 Percussion Quartet: SHELL was inspired by the work of photojournalist Seph Lawless who has traveled across the United States capturing images of abandoned shopping malls. There’s a certain feeling evoked from places that should be full of people but are now empty and decaying. Before online shopping, these were vibrant communal places, now the emptiness is amplified.

https://www.x4percussionquartet.com 

Performed By:
Shane Jones
James Pendell
Dan Piccolo
Ji Hye Jung

Harrietlehre for Orchestra (Excerpt)

Harriet Steinke, Composer

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