Copyright Tyler Katz 2016

WALLED IN was written in response to the results of the 2016 election. This very politically charged piece looks at the concept of Donald Trump’s wall and its inherent divisiveness. The piece represents a wall, a sense of divisiveness, and a future is giant, looming, and incredibly disturbing. It does so by creating a large, terrifying, impenetrable wall of sound that stretches for the entire length of the piece, which is a metaphor to the wall that stretches the entire border, as far as the eye can see.

WALLED IN

Premiered by Jack Fuller, Gwen Hickey, Grace Pechianu, and Cordelia Brand at Pick-Staiger Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL on February 20, 2011 at the Midwest Young Artists' "Be Authentic!" concert. Winner of the 2011 Midwest Young Artists' Composition Competition. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2NYlyWuTPU

MYA Be Authentic

String Quartet #1 - Mvt. II: Scherzo

Performed by Ellen Ogihara and Tyler Katz on March 29, 2017 at Tyler Katz's Senior Recital, Clarke Recital Hall, University of Miami.

Tyler Katz's Senior Recital

Prelude and Double Fugue in Gb Major for Two Violins -- II. Double Fugue

Prelude and Double Fugue in Gb Major for Two Violins -- I. Prelude

part i: outside the reception	
	      i. marching, crowding
	      ii. screaming, yelling, chanting
	part ii: inside the reception	
	      iii. sheltering
	      iv. evacuating
	part iii: overlooking the hotel lobby	
	      v. observing

Premiered on March 29, 2017 at Tyler Katz's Senior Recital, Clarke Recital Hall, Frost School of Music, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.

Ciro Ferreyra, soprano sax, Kieran Harrison, alto sax, James Negron, tenor sax, Gustavo Padrino, baritone sax

At The Reception Of #cc16

Performed by the by the Passepartout Duo on Sunday March, 26, 2017 at the Chapel of the Venerable Bede, University of Miami.

Nicoletta Favari - Piano
Christopher Salvito - Percussion (inside piano)

BEAT IT!

This piece came about from a stint of writers’ block I had when planning to write a woodwind trio. I had a good opening statement for the piece, but I was having problems writing anything past that statement. My composition professor gave me a brief exercise: write a page of straight eighth notes, on one pitch, for a woodblock, and make small alterations, so I could see how small variations could make a piece interesting. I did, making alterations through intuition, and after realizing the potential in the exercise, I decided to turn it into a full-length piece. I noticed numerical patterns through my alterations, and I used these number patterns as a basis for almost entire piece, with occasional intuitive processes as well. I created a “theme and variations”-like formal structure, where each new variation became progressively less predictable. Thus, the beginning of the piece is simple, with eighth notes using only two pitches (one pitch in the first measure), but at the end, the piece finishes with changing meter and unpredictable rhythms in a fast frenzy, leaving the listener on edge.

Performed by Travis Newman at the Midwest Composers Symposium 2018, Saturday October 20, 2018, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music CCM, Cincinnati, OH

Photo taken by Ramin Roshandel

Woodwind Trio (for Solo Woodblock Player)

Written for Gabriel Sanchez Porras for the Annual 24+24 Concert.
Sunday, September 9, 2018. Voxman Concert Hall, Iowa City, IA
Gabriel Sanchez Porras, soprano saxophone

Having Never Written A Note For Solo Soprano Saxophone

Recorded by the JACK Quartet
Voxman Concert Hall, Iowa City, IA
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Woodblock Solo (For String Quartet)

Mi Shebeirach (מי שברך), combines flowing lines, ornamental ancient Hebrew trope cantillation, liturgical elements, Middle-Eastern aspects, and spectral harmonies to create a slow, lamenting prayer for healing, a prayer that cries out of pain and suffering, begging for a restoration of mind, body, and soul. The movement closes in mournful sadness comforted by the presence of the Divine.

Performed by the ensemble Accroche Note, Saturday, April 27, 2019, Voxman Concert Hall, Iowa City, IA:
Françoise Kubler, soprano
Armand Angster, clarinet
Christophe Beau, violoncello
Wilhem Latchoumia, piano

Mi Shebeirach - מי שברך

This piece is in a traditional Sonata-Allegro form. There is an exposition with two contrasting themes, a development of the themes, and a recapitulation that is based on a modified version of the themes.

Performed by Kim Cassisa, Composers Workshop IV Concert, Voxman Concert Hall, Iowa City, IA

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