Edie Hill, Composer, and Hummingbird Press

CHAMBER

A Sound Like This for nine-part men’s vocal ensemble

Commissioned by Chamber Music America for Cantus, Minneapolis, MN
Premiere: March 10, 2007

Spark! for piano, clarinet, 2 percussion

Commissioned by Zeitgeist

The Jammin' Town Musicians for 9 instruments and narrator, music and adaptation by Edie Hill

Based upon the Brothers Grimm Tale "The Bremen Town Musicians"
Commissioned by Jack and Linda Hoeschler in honor of Barbara and Sherman Winthrop for the 2005-2006 WAMSO Kinder Konzert season, performed by members of the Minnesota Orchestra in Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Special Premiere performance July 16, 2005

Above the Green Night, for guitar quartet (14:00)

Commissioned by the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
Premiere: March 9, 2001, Sundin Music Hall, St. Paul, MN

Haleakala, Prelude and rondo for double woodwind quintet (10:00)

Premiered June, 1992 by Harmonia Mundi, St. Paul, MN

Icarian Songs, for oboe and piano (10:00)

Premiered November, 1990 by Wes Husinga, oboe, and Sonja Thompson, piano, Minneapolis, MN

Land Meeting Sky, four sketches of New Mexico’s Landscape for flute and cello (13:00)

Premiered October, 1987 at the Young People’s Chamber Music Club (MacPhail Center for the Arts), Minneapolis, MN

Prelude: Dusk, Fantasy: The Night Sky, for flute, cello and harp (10:00)

Commissioned by Eliot T. Bailen for the Sherman Chamber Ensemble
Premiered 1993 by the Sherman Chamber Ensemble, Sherman, CT

Prelude and Allegro for Trumpet and Piano (6:00)

Premiered June, 1985 at Bennington College, Bennington, VT

Tribute for cello Quartet (4:00)

Commissioned by Pam Buchholz in honor of her husband on his 50th birthday
Premiered by the Monti’cello Quartet, April 21, 2002, Midland, Michigan

Tribute for cello Quartet (4:00)

Premiered April 1989 by Leonard Danek and Dan Sabo, Minneapolis, MN

CHORAL

True Heart is Waiting TTBB a cappella chorus

Commissioned by Beth Swailes, Cantus and The Miami University of Ohio Performing Arts Series
Premiered March 29, 2005 by Cantus and the Miami University of Ohio Men’s Glee Club under the direction of Ethan Sperry in Oxford, Ohio, followed by touring concerts by Cantus male vocal ensemble

Circle of the River for treble choir and percussion

Commissioned by Minneapolis Youth Chorus, sponsored by the American Composers Forum
Premiere: August 23, 2008 Minnesota State Fair
Premiere: March 7, 2008 Studio Z, Minneapolis, MN

Give Me the Deeper Pearls for SATB a cappella, Rock Valley College Choir

Commissioned by Rock Valley College Choir
Premiere: March 29, 2008

From Me and America Sent! for TTBB and piano

Commissioned by university of Michigan Men’s Glee Club
Premiered: November 17, 2007, Paul Rardin director

St. Anthony Prayer for SATB choir, children’s choir and viola

Commissioned by the St. Mary’s Basilica Choir and Fred Colen, St. Paul, MN
Premiered: October 28, 2007

~Marvellous Error!~ for Cantus and St. Olaf Choir

Commissioned by Cantus and St. Olaf Choir
Premiered: July 20, 2007

A Voice for SSA a cappella chorus, with text by May Sarton

Commissioned by the Cornell University Women’s Chorus under the direction of Scott Tucker
Premiere: October 29, 2005, Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Alma Beata et Bella, for SSATTB, (5:30) text by Jacopo Sannazaro

Commissioned by the Rose Ensemble with funds from the Jerome Foundation
Premiered November 12, 1999 by the Rose Ensemble

A Sound Like This for nine-part men’s vocal ensemble

Commissioned by Chamber Music America for Cantus, Minneapolis, MN
Premiere: March 10, 2007

The Bells, for SATTB a cappella, (1:20) text by Edgar Allen Poe

Commissioned By Dr. Richard and Louise Varco for Dare To Breathe
Premiere: December 11, 2000 at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN

The bike let loose for SSAA with piano, text by Serena Fusek

Co-Commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association and the Minnesota Music Educators Association
Premiere: By the MN All State Choir August 7, 2004 and reprised February 18, 19 2005, Orchestra Hall,
Minneapolis, MN

A Birthday, for SATB a cappella chorus, (3:20) text by Christina Rossetti

Commissioned by the Camerata Singers in celebration of their 25th Anniversary Season
Premiered March 16, 2003 by the Camerata Singers, Muskegon, MI

Il Cantico delle Creature for SATB Chamber Choir

Commissioned by The Schubert Club for the Rose Ensemble’s Il Poverello, Celebrating the Life and Deeds of St. Francis of Assissi. To be premiered Spring 2007.

Dazzle of Day, for SATB (divisi) chorus, S, A, T, Bari. Soloists and guitar (6:13), text by Pablo Neruda, translated by Alastair Reid

Commissioned by the Dale Warland Singers
Premiered May, 1998 by the Dale Warland Singers, Minneapolis, MN

The Fenix, for SATB divisi, (10:00), text, Anglo Saxon, from The Exeter Book

Commissioned by the Rose Ensemble
Premiered April 27, 2000, Christ Church Cathedral, Eau Claire, WI

For God So Loved the World, for SATB chorus and piano (3:00)

Commissioned by Minnewashta Congregational Church on the occasion of Pastor Douglas Roper's retirement
Premiered June 3, 2001 by the Chorus at Minnewashta Congregational Church, conducted
by Harvey Parker

An Illuminated Transience for SATB a cappella chorus (10:00)

Commissioned by Cantori at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Robert Cowles, Director
Geneva, New York
Premiere tour: Beginning April 16-April 24 2004 (East Coast)

A Little Lovely Dream, for 5 voice or choral (SATTB) a cappella group (4:20), text by Sarojini Naidu

Commissioned by Chamber Music St. Croix for Dare to Breathe
Premiered November, 1998 by Dare to Breathe, Stillwater, MN
Recorded by Dare To Breathe, released November, 1999

Poem for 2084, for SSAATTBB chorus (5:55), text by Joan Wolf Prefontaine

Commissioned by the Dale Warland Singers (New Choral Music Reading Program)
Premiered (reading) June 1996 by the Dale Warland Singers, Minneapolis, MN

Thaw for SSAA a calleppa chorus

Commissioned by the Twin Cities Women’s Choir
Premiered May 1,2, 2009, St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church, Minneapolis, MN

There Is No Age for SATB chorus with text by Jabez Van Cleef

Commissioned by Harmonium Choral Society for their 25th Anniversary Celebration
Premiere: June 5,6, 2005, Morristown, New Jersey, followed by a tour of Northern Italy

We Sing with Heartfelt Joy for treble choir and piano

Commissioned by Joyful Noise
Premiered in June 2009 at the 2009 Chorus America National Conference in Philadelphia, PA.

Wind, for SATB chorus (7:00), text by Joan Wolf Prefontaine

Read June, 1991 by the Gregg Smith Singers, Saranac Lake, NY

ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC

St. Lucia, South Africa, 4:15am for piano, viola, violin, clarinet, sound effects and fixed media

Co-created by Andrew Lamy and Edie Hill under the auspices of the McKnight Foundation
Premiered: February 2006

Bow Echo, for solo amplified cello (14:30)

Commissioned by the Schubert Club, Minneapolis, MN
Premiered September, 1997 by Thomas Rutishauser

DANCE

Music of the Spheres, Aria and Dance for women’s voices, organ. harp, and percussion (10:00)

Commissioned by choreographer Rosanna Gamson
Premiered at Washington Square United Methodist Church, New York, NY

OPERA/MUSIC DRAMA

Amy Lowell: A Rare Pattern, for mezzo-soprano, piano, and speaker (1:20:00)

Commissioned by the University of Minnesota School of Music as originated by Glenda Maurice
Premiered February 2003 at Ted Mann Concert Hall, Minneapolis, MN

BAND

Jambalaya Stomp for Concert Band

Commissioned by Orono Band Patrons of Music
Premiere March 6, 2006, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN by Orono Mass Band under the direction of Donald Krubsack

ORCHESTRAL/SOLO WITH ORCHESTRA

Butterfly Effect, for solo piano and chamber orchestra (13:00)

Commissioned by ICE
Premiered in March , 2002, in Minneapolis at The Women’s Club Theater and in Los Angeles at the LA County Museum of Art’s Monday Evening Concert Series

Euterpe, one movement for string orchestra (8:00)

Premiered August, 1989 by the Ives Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Danbury, CT

High Plains Revelry, a celebration fanfare for orchestra (5:00)

Commissioned by the Harrington Cancer Center to celebrate their 10th Anniversary
Premiered September, 1992 by the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra

Invocation, concerto for flute with orchestra (15:15)

Commissioned by Susan Rotholz with funds by the Jerome Foundation
Copying assistance provided by the Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Fund
Premiered May 27, 1999 by Susan Rotholz with the Cape May Festival Orchestra, Cape May, NJ

Sherman: Scenes and Celebrations, for small chamber orchestra (14:00)

Celebrating the bicentennial Anniversary of Sherman, CT and Sherman Chamber Ensemble’s 20th Anniversary
Premiered August 30, 2002, by the Sherman Chamber Ensemble

SOLO INSTRUMENTAL

Draw the Strings Tight for solo guitar

Commissioned by Ken Meyer, guitarist, under the auspices of the Argosy Foundation
Premiere: November 14, 2006, Syracuse, NY

Cold Blue Night, for solo flute (5:00)

Commissioned by Wendy Greenwald, flutist
Premiered July, 1989 by Wendy Greenwald, Minneapolis, MN

Continuum, for solo guitar (15:00)

Commissioned by Joseph Hagedorn, guitarist
Premiered March, 1996 by Joseph Hagedorn, Sundin Music Hall, St. Paul, MN

Flights of Fancy, for solo cello (8:00)

Commissioned by Eliot T. Bailen for the Sherman Chamber Ensemble
Premiered September, 1992, by Eliot Bailen, Sherman, CT

This Floating World, five miniatures for solo flute after Basho (8:30)

Commissioned by Linda Chatterton
Premiered March 19, 2004, Minneapolis, MN

Sinar Surya, for solo piano (5:00)

Commissioned by the Renee B. Fisher Foundation for Performers of the Connecticut Young Artists Competition
Premiered May, 1994 by Jeffers Englehardt

Windhover, for solo organ

Commissioned by the American Guild of Organists, Twin Cities Chapter
Premiered: November 10, 2003, Minneapolis by Dean Billmeyer

VOCAL

Apparent Solids, for voice and chamber ensemble (20:00), text by Joan Wolf Prefontaine

Commissioned by Eliot T. Bailen for the Sherman Chamber Ensemble
Premiered September, 1995, Sherman, CT and Cornwall, CT

Ballads for Sale for mezzo-soprano and piano (4:00), text by Amy Lowell