A Foreign Country

Far From Home

Culture Shock

Simple Pleasures

A Glorious Cheese Tasting

Wisconsin is Cold

Composed for Lawrence University's women's chorus Cantala. Text derived from The Song of Solomon (KJV). 

Many Waters

Commissioned by Samantha Georoge for her violin studio
Composed by Nicolas Bizub

Copyright Nicolas Bizub 2014

Intertwine

Written for flute sextet, Mirror Images is a meditation on who we are, who we were, and who we will become. A fight between two tonal centers represents this disconnect between the past, present, and future self. The key scheme mirrors around the opening key of C, ultimately to "resolve" a tritone away to F-sharp, representing a mirrored image of the self from where it once was, to where it has gone, to where it will go in the future.

Copyright Nicolas Bizub 2014

Mirror Images

Written in 2013 for the Lawrence University Composer's Forum, Rise is meant to depict an internal struggle of any sort. The only true consonance occurs at the very end of the piece on an ambiguous open fifth - neither minor nor major, representing all possible outcomes of struggle. Copyright Nicolas Bizub 2013 

Nic Bizub