ORCHESTRAL WORKS
orchestra
Advance: Fanfare for a New Millennium
Bandanna Overture
Built Up Dark
City of Light
con gai: a greeting and a farewell (haiku #3)
Consolation
(haiku #4)
Emmanuel Fugue from Symphony No. 3
Fire Music
Gesture Drawings
Grand Line
Heliotrope
Heliotrope Boquet
Moviola
Much Ado
Northern Lights
(haiku #2)
Overture to “The Andersonville Trial”
Philharmonia
Postcards from America
Three Sky Interludes from Amelia
Suddenly
Susurrus
(haiku #1)
Symphony No. 1: Short Symphony
Symphony No. 2: Common Ground
Symphony No. 3: Liturgical
string orchestra
Angels
(string orchestra)
Once in Royal David’s City
(SA & string orchestra)
Prayer for Peace (string orchestra)
The Song of Gabriel (string orchestra & chorus)
orchestra and chorus / voice
Angel Band (with voice)
Blake Songs (tenor solo)
Everyone, Everywhere (chorus, children's chorus, solo mezzo, baritone)
Joyful Music
(with chorus, solo mezzo & orchestra)
The Song of Gabriel (string orchestra & chorus)
Stewards of Your Bounty (chorus)
Symphony No. 4: River Music (chorus)
Symphony No. 5: Desert Music (mezzo solo)
Taliesin: Choruses from Shining Brow (chorus)
There is No Balm (chorus)
CONCERTOS
Concerto for Cello
Concerto for Flügelhorn
Concerto for Oboe
Film Noir (electric guitar)
Genji (koto)
Masquerade
(violin, cello)
Orpheus and Eurydice (violin, cello, piano)
Piano Concerto No. 1
Piano Concerto No. 2: Chaplin’s Tramp (piano)
Romeo and Juliet (flute, cello)
Seven Last Words (piano left hand)
Songbook (violin)
VOCAL WORKS
6-23 players
Art of Song, The (2 sopranos, 2 mezzos, tenor, baritone, piano)
Blake Songs (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano)
Heart of the Stranger, The (baritone, 22 players)
Simply Amazed (2 voices, 9 players)
Songs of Madness and Sorrow (voice, 14 players)
Waking Father, The (6 solo voices)
3-5 players
After Words (soprano, baritone, piano)
String Quartet No. 2: Alive in a Moment (baritone, string quartet)
Cavatina from 9/10 (soprano, flute, guitar, harp)
Dante Fragments (soprano, violin, piano)
Dear Youth (soprano, flute, piano)
Four Irish Folk Songs (2 voices, piano)
Merrill Songs (voice, violin, cello, piano)
On the Beach at Night (baritone, cello, piano)
Rapture and Regret (soprano, cello, piano)
Sappho Songs (soprano, mezzo, cello)
Three Celtic Songs (3 treble voices)
Three Silent Things (soprano, violin, viola, cello, piano)
Three Songs for Two Voices and Cello
Three Whitman Fragments (voice, string quartet)
Four Shakespeare Trios (tenor, cello, piano)
We Two (2 voices, piano)
2 players
All We Have (voice, piano)
Anacrusis (voice, piano)
An Irish Airman Forsees His Death (voice, piano)
Bixby Letter, The (voice, piano)
Echo's Songs (voice, piano)
Figments (voice, piano)
Four Dickinson Songs (voice, piano)
Four Shakespeare Fragments (voice, piano)
Four Songs for Mezzo Soprano and Piano
Handful of Days, A (voice, piano)
The Heart Asks (baritone, piano)
Heart of the Stranger, The (baritone, piano)
jaik's songs (voice, piano)
Larkin Songs (voice, piano)
Letting Go (voice, piano)
Love in a Life (voice, piano)
Love Songs (voice, piano)
Mata Hari Letters (soprano, piano)
Merrill Songs (voice, piano)
Muldoon Songs (voice, piano)
One Wish (baritone, piano)
Phantoms of Myself (soprano, piano)
Songs of Experience (voice, piano)
Songs of Madness and Sorrow (voice, piano)
Theater Songs (voice, piano)
Things That Will Remain (voice, piano)
Three Sea Chanteys (baritone, piano
Torch Songs for a Pyromaniac (voice, piano)
Two Spirituals (voice, piano)
Vegetable Verselets (voice, piano)
We Few (baritone, piano)
solo
Restoring Darkness (voice)
To Beat Time (voice)
VOCAL COLLECTIONS
Amelia Aria Album
A Woman in Morocco Aria Album
The Daron Hagen Songbook
BAND WORKS
Agincourt Fanfare for brass and timpani
Bandanna Overture
Envoi for wind ensemble
Forward! for brass and percussion
The Heart of the Stranger (with baritone)
Night, Again
Overture to “The Andersonville Trial”
Prelude and Prayer from Bandanna (with soprano)
Seduction Scene from Bandanna (with baritone)
Sennets, Cortege, and Tuckets
Suddenly
Wedding Dances from Bandanna
ARRANGEMENTS / ORCHESTRATIONS
- Brahms Symphony in F
- Cello Concerto (Piano Reduction) / Ned Rorem (2004 / 2004)
- Concerto for English Horn (Piano Reduction) / Ned Rorem (1994 / 1994)
- Flute Concerto (Piano Reduction) / Ned Rorem (2002 / 2002)
- Heliotrope Boquet (Theater Orchestra) / Louis Chauvin / Scott Joplin (1907 / 1991)
- Sinfonietta / Steven Gerber (1991 / 2021)
- Traffic / Ned Rorem (1958 / 2002)
- Quartet Sinfonia / Steven Gerber (2000/2024)
- You’ve Got a Friend (TTBB/Piano) / Carole King (1971 / 1979)
CHAMBER WORKS
6-22 players
Angels
for 22 strings
An Overture to Vera
for 14 players
Chamber Symphony
for thirteen players
A Dog’s Life: Chaplin Suite
for eleven players
City Lights: A Chaplin Symphony
for eleven players
Nocturne
for piano and strings
Occasional Notes
for eleven players
Serenade
for ten instruments
Snake
for narrator, saxophone, and percussion quartet
Susurrus
for sixteen players
Swan Song
for koto, shamisen, shakuhachi, & string quartet
Too Much Johnson
for twelve players
3-5 players
Book of Days
for clarinet, viola and piano
Cavatina from 9/10
for soprano, flute, guitar, and harp
Concerto for Brass Quintet
Divertimento
for viola, harp, and vibraphone
Everything Must Go!
for brass quintet
Harp Trio
for flute, viola, and harp
The Heike Quinto 1
: Appassionato
The Heike Quinto 2
: Cantabile
The Heike Quinto 3
: Misterioso
The Heike Quinto 4
: Grandioso
The Heike Quinto 5
: Apotheosis
Lilly Sketches
for woodwind quintet
Music from Shining Brow
for brass quintet
Piano Trio No. 1
: Trio Concertante
Piano Trio No. 2
: J'entends
Piano Trio No. 3
: Wayfaring Stranger
Piano Trio No. 4
: Angel Band
Piano Trio No. 5
: Red is the Rose
Piano Trio No. 6
: Horszowski
Piano Trio No. 7
: Dragons
Piano Trio No. 8
: Pacifica
Piano Trio No. 9
: Lagniappe
The Presence Absence Makes
for flute quintet
Tryst
for oboe, bassoon and piano
Wind Songs
for oboe, horn, and bassoon
Jot!
for clarinet, marimba, and piano
Quintet for Oboe and Strings
Snapshot No. 1
for string quartet
Snapshot No. 2
for string quartet
Snapshot No. 3
for string quartet
Speight(leit)motif
for four Wagnertüben, or tubas
String Quartet No. 1
String Quartet No. 2
: Alive in a Moment
String Quartet No. 3
: Missa Brevis
2 players
Duo for Violin and Cello
Early, Later
for clarinet and piano
Six Love Songs
for cello and piano
Sonata for Violoncello and Piano
Sonata No. 1 for Flute and Piano
Sonata No. 2 for Flute and Piano
Two Larks
for violin and trumpet
Valse Blanche
for violin and piano
Valse Noire
for cello and piano
Vocalise
for flügelhorn and piano
solo
Anniversary in Memoriam (For Lenny)
for piano
Charlie's Rag
for piano
Five Nocturnes
for piano
Higher, Louder, Faster!
an editorial etude for solo cello
Icarus
for clarinet
Nine Advent Postludes and Preludes
for organ
Occasional Notes
for organ
Piano Variations
Prelude to Dunedin
for piano
Qualities of Light
for piano
Restoring Darkness
for voice
Secrets My Mother Told Me
for koto
Suite for Piano
Suite for Solo Cello
Suite for Solo Viola
Suite for Solo Violin
Sussex Carol
for cello
CHORAL WORKS
Everyone, Everywhere (mezsop., bar., children, SSAATTBB, orchestra)
Flight Music
(SSAA, string quartet, or piano)
Four Poems of William Blake
(SATB, piano)
Gandhi's Children
(SA, handbells)
Hope
(SATB, organ, or piano)
Hymn of Forgiveness
(SATB, organ)
I Had Rather
(SATB)
I Hear America Singing
(SAATB, piano)
Joyful Music
(SATB, orchestra, or brass ensemble)
Little Prayers
(SATB)
Love Unknown
(SATB, organ)
Oh, For Such a Dream
(SATB, piano)
Once in Royal David’s City
(SA, string orchestra)
Silent Night
(SATB, 2 cellos, synthesizer)
Simply Amazed
(ST, 9 players)
The Song of Gabriel
(SATB, string orchestra)
Stewards of Your Bounty
(SATB, orchestra, or piano)
Taliesin: Choruses (SATB, orchestra, or piano)
There is No Balm
(SATB, orchestra)
Three Celtic Songs
(SAA)
Vertue
(SATB, piano)
The Voice Within
(SATB, piano)
The Waking Father
(SATBBB)
Walt Whitman Requiem, A
(SATB, string orchestra, or piano)
We're All Here
(SATB, 10 players, or piano)
OPERAS
9/10: Love Before the Fall
Amelia
The Antient Concert
Bandanna
The George Washington Suite
I Hear America Singing
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Little Nemo in Slumberland
New York Stories
Orson Rehearsed
Shining Brow
Songs of Madness and Sorrow
Vera of Las Vegas
A Woman in Morocco
OPERA FILMS
The Bardo Trilogy
I Hear America Singing
Orson Rehearsed
9/10: Love Before the Fall
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FILM SCORES
City Lights: A Chaplin Symphony for eleven players
A Dog’s Life: Chaplin Suite for eleven players
Chaplin’s Tramp piano concerto for piano and seven players
Too Much Johnson for twelve players
The Passion of Jekyll and Hyde for eleven players
WEB INSTALLATION
The Orson Memory Palace Films
PORTFOLIOS
Live to Film Portfolio
Official Trailers & Demo Reels
