The world premiere of composer Stephanie Griffin's song cycle "Beautiful You Are" for soprano, clarinet, viola and piano (2022) 

Sharon Harms, soprano
Benjamin Fingland, clarinet
Christopher Oldfather, piano
Stephanie Griffin, viola

An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage 
By Katherine Philips (1631 – 1664)

Forbear, bold youth, all’s Heaven here, 
And what you do aver,
To others, courtship may appear,
’Tis sacriledge to her. 

She is a publick deity,
And were’t not very odd
She should depose her self to be 
A pretty household god? 

First make the sun in private shine, 
And bid the world adieu,
That so he may his beams confine 
In complement to you. 

But if of that you do despair, 
Think how you did amiss,
To strive to fix her beams which are 
More bright and large than this. 

Live from the Music of the Americas concert series
Americas Society, NYC
February 28, 2023

"Beautiful You Are" was commissioned by Americas Society with a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

An Answer To Another Persuading A Lady To Marriage, poem by Katherine Philips

VIOLA DA GAMBA QUARTET

Marius Malanetchi
Reka Nagy
Klára Hervai-d'Elhoungne
Maylis Moreau

Still Life with Viols and Pomegranates (MVMT I) (2024)

performed at Lucerne Festival

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra 
Cond. Raimonda Skabeikaité

© Lucerne Festival

Tellurian (2024)

Commissioned as part of Britten Sinfonia's Magnum Opus Scheme, performed at the Magnum Opus showcase at St.Giles Cripplegate, London, 04.11.2024.

performed by Britten Sinfonia and Alexandra Achillea (solo voice), cond. Tom Featherstonhaugh

Recorded and mixed by Myles Eastwood



Voicings (2024)

Open Symmetry (2024)

for String Quartet

performed by Apartment House

Three Offerings (2025)

Duo Musette
Baroque cellos: Mia Grubišić & Dora Kuzmin Maković

commissioned by Zeitschleife
Recorded by Benedikt Alphart

last still life (2025)

Latvian Radio Choir Chamber Singers, cond. Kaspars Putniņš

Words: 'Square Poem' by Lewis Carroll

Art: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Plane Chants (2025)

Acclaimed by the New York Times for her “fiery, full-throttle performance” and described as “enthralling” by the Los Angeles Times, composer/violist Stephanie Griffin has performed internationally as a soloist, chamber and avant-jazz musician. As a soloist, she has worked closely with numerous composers, among them Salvatore Sciarrino; Tristan Murail; Tony Prabowo; Kee Yong Chong; Matthew Greenbaum; and Arthur Kampela.  Ms. Griffin is a founding member of the Momenta Quartet, a regular guest with Continuum, and member of the Argento Chamber Ensemble; Carl Maguire’s Floriculture; Gordon Beeferman’s Other Life Forms; Adam Rudolph’s Go Organic Orchestra; the Riverside Symphony and the Princeton Symphony, where she serves as principal violist. She teaches viola at Brooklyn College and Hunter College, and is the former curator of contemporary music at Galapagos Art Space. As a composer, she is the recipient of the Jerome Foundation 2017 Emerging Composer Fellowship and the 2016 composition fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Ms. Griffin was a 2014 Fellow at Music Omi, and has recorded for Firehouse 12, Aeon, Albany, Arte Nova, Koch, Centaur, Siam, Innova and Tzadik Records. She studied viola with William Gordon, Paul DeClerck, Wayne Brooks and Samuel Rhodes and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School.

An Answer To Another Persuading A Lady To Marriage, poem by Katherine Philips

Stephanie Griffin Viola

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