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A small selection of pieces from a variety of genres is listed below. If you are interested in commissioning a new composition, please send an email to steven@holochwost.com. A sample commissioning agreement can be downloaded here.

 

for Keyboard



Program from
the 2005 Fisher Competition,
for which Prelude 4 was written
Piano Prelude op. 1, no. 1

Julie Nishimura
Gore Recital Hall
Newark, Delaware



Piano Prelude op. 1, no. 2

Yi-Fang Huang
Nicholas Music Center
New Brunswick, New Jersey



Piano Prelude op. 1, no. 3

Yi-Fang Huang
Nicholas Music Center
New Brunswick, New Jersey



Piano Prelude op. 1, no. 4

Chung-Hsi Hsieh
Nicholas Music Center
New Brunswick, New Jersey



Piano Prelude op. 1, no. 5

Julie Nishimura
Gore Recital Hall
Newark, Delaware



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Chamber Works



The String Trio no. 1 being recorded for release
on Albany Records
Violin Sonata

Miho Saegusa and Liam Viney
Sudler Hall
New Haven, Connecticut






Draft of the forthcoming Trio for Flute, Viola, & Harp
String Trio

Trond Saeverud, Adrienne Elisha, & Mary Artmann
Baird Recital Hall
Buffalo, New York



Chamber Sonatina

Helix New Music Ensemble
Paul Hoffmann conducting



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for Large Ensemble



The Rutgers University Brass Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Scott Whitener
"Dialogues"

Rutgers University Brass Ensemble
Scott Whitener conducting

On the occasion of the death of Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin Deprez composed "Nymphes des Boyes," upon which the present piece is based. In this piece, material from Josquin's lament is interrupted by passages based on Ockeghem's "Ma bouche rit," and thereby the two composers are able to converse; hence the title of the piece. Desprez's mourning music returns ever stronger throughout the work, despite the consoling strains of Ockeghem's voice. The conflict between these two moods is manifested through the increasingly distant metric superimpositions between the material drawn from the works, giving the piece its dramatic arc. The resolution of this metrical conflict coincides with Josquin's acceptance of that which must be, and the two strands of material are reconciled at the piece's climax.






The Kalamazoo Philharmonia, conducted by Andrew Koehler.
"Symphony in Three Movements"

Kalamazoo Philharmonia
Andrew Koehler conducting



Symphony in Three Movements, mvt I Excerpt

Symphony in Three Movements, mvt III Excerpt
"The Auguries of Innocence"

Univ. of Chicago Chamber Orchestra
Andrew Koehler conducting

"The Auguries of Innocence" is an opera-oratorio based on a sacred drama involving the angel Abdiel. The libretto weaves together extant, primarily secular texts to tell the story of man's fall and subsequent redemption through the grace of divine mercy. The image at left is taken from a funerary monument in a church cemetery outside of Florence.



Auguries Songbook no. 2 Excerpt

Auguries Songbook no. 6 Excerpt

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