Dr.
Francine Trester,
List
of Works and Their Performances
(scores
and
recordings available upon request)
2023 All Points – for alto sax and piano quintet; commissioned by saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky; words and music by Francine Trester - 20 min.
2023 Moulin Ruse – for cello and piano – 4 min.
2022 Parentheticals – for two violins; written for the Five College New Music Festival – 5 min.
2022 The Azure World – seven songs based on the poetry of Tennyson; written for mezzo-soprano Carrie Cheron – 15 min.
2022 Iceberg Sonnets – for solo piano; written for pianist Lois Shapiro – 5 min.
2021 Her Lines
– for saxophone septet (SSATTBB); commissioned by Megan Dillon
for the 2022 "New England Symposium for Female-Identifying +
Saxophonists" – 8 min.
2021 The Violists in My Life
– for solo viola; written for violists Michael Hall, Melissa
Howe, David Wallace, Consuelo Sherba, Mahoko Eguchi, Scott Woolwearver
and Judith Insell – 15 min.
2021 Voices from the Boston Women’s Memorial – premiered by singers Carrie Cheron and Brianna Robinson, and Francine Trester, violin. Sponsored by the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail – 8 min.
2020 Companion Tales – pictures, words and music by Francine Trester; to be premiered by Kristen Watson, soprano, Francine Trester, violin, Eric Sawyer, piano at Boston Conservatory, August, 2022 - 9 min.
2020 Globe Fragments
– for violin, flute, oboe and bassoon; commissioned by Stephen
Symchych; to be performed by members of Boston Landmarks Orchestra
– 5 min.
2020 Drawn to Scale – for piano; commissioned by Tobé Malawista; to be performed by pianist Margaret Kampmeier – 8 min.
2020 This – for reed
quintet; commissioned by the Boston Woodwind Society; to be premiered
by the Kalliope Reed Quintet – 12 min.
2020 Lullaby For Our Time – poetry and music by Francine Trester; premiered and recorded on his album Nights Transfigured by guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan – 2 min.
2020 Outer Islands – three piano pieces based on the paintings of Richard Lalli; to be performed by pianist Max Hammond – 10 min.
2020 Leaves and Stubble – for solo cello – 2 min.
2020 Prohodna
(for violin and french horn) and Baikushev's Pine (for violin solo)
– Commissioned by Elmira Darvarova and Howard Wall;
recorded on Darvarova and Wall's CDs Music by Women and American Music for Violin and Horn and premiered
worldwide – 10 mins.
2020 Treasury Notes
– ten reflections on Johannes Brahms’ “The Little
Treasure Chest of the Young Kreisler,” for violin and piano; to
be premiered by the composer and pianist Lois Shapiro - 10 min.
2020 Cave Dwellers – for soprano and double bass; commissioned by Russ Lenth, written for LIGAMENT - 8 min.
2020 Three Burnham Poems – for viola and piano; to be premiered by violist Michael Hall – 15 min.
2019 A Fable for Tomorrow – commissioned by the Mirror Visions Ensemble; for mezzo, tenor and baritone; to be premiered at Merkin Hall, NYC in April, 2021 – 4 min.
2019 A Walk In Her Shoes – Commissioned by the Boston Landmarks Orchestra; recipient of a Berklee Faculty Fellowship; commemorating the centennial anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment, A Walk In Her Shoes will be premiered by the Boston Landmarks Orchestra at the Hatch Shell on Boston’s Esplanade in August, 2020 – 15 min.
2019 Mineral Spirits – for baritone and guitar, words and music by the composer; commissioned and premiered by Aaron Larget-Caplan and Matthew Hoch; September 2019– 3 min.
2019 Reminiscence – Dedicated to the Memory of Darryl Malone; Commissioned by World-Wide Concurrent Premieres and Commissioning Fund, Inc.; for alto sax and piano; words and music by the composer – 10 min.
2018 Sekelela
– for SATB choir and piano trio; commissioned by Communities
Without Borders and First Unitarian Society in Newton; premiere with
Triple Helix Piano Trio in April, 2019 – 10 min.
2018 Borrowed Blue – for
viola and guitar, words and music by the composer; commissioned and
premiered by Aaron Larget-Caplan and Michael Hall; Boston premiere in
April, 2019 – 8 min.
2018 Florence Comes Home – libretto
and music by Francine Trester; commissioned by Shelter Music Boston; a
chamber opera for soprano, alto, baritone and string quartet; to be
premiered in 2019 – 15 min.
2018 Artsonia – words and music by Francine Trester; for voice, violin and piano; artwork by Chloe Carrano; premiered by the composer, Kristen Watson, soprano and Eric Sawyer, piano at Boston Conservatory and Amherst College, August, 2018 - 10 min.
2018 Israfel – for violin and piano; premiered by the composer and Eric Sawyer, piano at Boston Conservatory and Amherst College, August, 2018 - 14 min.
2018 In Our Own Words - commissioned by Shelter Music Boston; premiered in August 2018 with Julie Leven, violin and Jennie Doris, marimba – 5 min.
2018 Keepers of the Light – libretto and music by Francine Trester; commissioned by the Nahant Music Festival; a chamber opera for eight voices, violin, bassoon and piano; to be premiered in 2019 – 20 min.
2017 Street Views– commissioned by Kenneth Radnofsky for the Amram Ensemble (violin, alto sax and piano); with accompanying poetry by the composer; premiered by the Amram Ensemble at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, September 30, 2018 - 15 min.
2017 2nd Partita for Solo Violin– recipient of a Berklee Faculty Recording Grant; recorded by the composer in August 2017- 20 min.
2017 Walkers with the Dawn–
commissioned by the Rivers School; for baritone solo, chorus, and
orchestra; premiered at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, May
14, 2017- 15 min.
2017 An Oman Odyssey–
words and music by Francine Trester; commissioned by the Mirror Visions
Ensemble; to be premiered at Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center
February 3, 2018 - 15 min.
2017 Nahant Calling and Blackburnian Warbler– commissioned by the Nahant Music Festival, premiered June 3, 2017; Nahant Calling (words and music by the composer) recipient of a Nahant Cultural Council Grant- 20 min.
2016 A Robert Lowry Reader–
cycle of four settings of texts by Robert Lowry; commissioned by
soprano Jayne West; performed by soprano Leanne Estabrook, April
9, 2016 at the Longy School of music- 10 min.
2015 Elemental Emily–
cycle of five settings of poems by Emily Dickinson; commissioned by
pianist Lois Shapiro and soprano Sarah Pelletier; performed April
4, 2016 as part of Berklee Words and Music Festival- 10 min.
2015 At the River– Commissioned by the Boston Landmarks Orchestra; to be premiered at the DCR Hatch Memorial Shell; Jayne West soprano soloist- 5 min.
2014
Sleeping Beauty– A
chamber opera in three acts; libretto and score by the composer;
commissioned by the Nahant Music Fesitval (nahantmusicfestival.org)
2014 An Agrigento Suite–
for violin and harp- first movement premiered by the composer and
harpist Felice Pomeranz in 2013- 15 min.
2013 A View From Heartbreak Hill–
For contralto, piano and violin; original words and music; performed by
contralto Elizabeth Anker, violists Scott Woolweaver and Melissa Howe,
pianists Lois Shapiro and John McDonald; performances at Berklee
College of Music, Newton Free Library, Harvard Business School- 12 min.
2013 Many Miles Away… – Commissioned by the Scottish Clarinet Quartet; premiered by the SCQ at the July 2013 ClarinetFest in Assisi, Italy- 12 min.
2012
Five Spring
Haiku– For narrator,
violin,
clarinet, and piano; original words and music; to be paired with Five Summer Haiku (Edinburgh
Festival
performance by the Zodiac Trio, August, 2012)- 12 min.
2012
Three
Summeresques– For
contralto, piano and violin; original words and music; premiered by
Elizabeth Anker and the composer, October 9, 2012- 5 min.
2011
String Quartet
No. 3– Recipient
of a
Berklee Faculty Recording Grant; recorded
at WGBH, performed at Berklee, Cambridge School of Weston, Westford
Parish
Center for the Arts- 20 min.
2011
Dialogues–
For oboe and violin;
premiered by the composer and oboist Barbara LaFitte, October 3, 2011-
10 min.
2011
Song for Daddy–
For guitarist Aaron
Larget-Kaplan as part of his “New Lullaby” project;
performances at Studio 99,
Nashua, Old South Church, Boston, New School of Music, Cambridge- 2 min.
2010
Three
Dedications– Quintet
for strings
and English horn; premiered by the composer and Berklee Faculty-
Berklee
College, February 2011- 10 min.
2010
334 Bunnies–
A chamber opera in one act;
libretto and score by the composer; performed
at Longy, St. John’s in Jamaica Plain, and the Shirley
Meetinghouse-
45 min.
2009
Six Portraits
for Clarinet Choir–
Written for Peter Cokkinias’ Clarinet Choir at Berklee
College of
Music;
additional performances by CalTech,
University of
Anchorage, Los Angeles, and University of Rhode Island Clarinet Choirs- 15 min.
2008
Backyard Birds–Song
cycle of original
words and music written for contralto Elizabeth Anker, pianist John
McDonald
and violist Scott Woolweaver; performances at Tufts University, Newton
Free
Library, Berklee College of Music, Longy School of Music- 20 min.
2008
My
Darling’s Slumber–
Commissioned by
guitarist Aaron Larget-Kaplan; multiple performances both live and on
television and radio broadcast; recorded on the CD “New
Lullaby”- 3 min.
2008
Salleyvary–
A variation on “Down by
the
salley gardens” written for the Triple Helix Piano Trio- 2
mins.
2008 Domestic
Affairs– Song cycle of
original words and music; recipient of
Newton
Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants and Weston Massachusetts Cultural
Council
Grants; written for contralto Elizabeth Anker, pianist John McDonald
and
violist Scott Woolweaver; performances in Newton, Weston, and Shirley
MA, and
at Berklee College of Music- 20 min.
2008
3rd
Sonata for Violin and Piano–15
min.
2007
Mythos–
Commissioned by the Merrimack
Valley Philharmonic Orchestra; premiere on April 27th,
2008;
performed by Shasta Symphony, in 2010- 10 min.
2007
Springsong–
Commissioned and premiered
by the Concert Handbell Ringers of the Wheeler School, Providence, RI-
5 min.
2007
Four little
pieces for violin quartet-
Written for my chamber music students at Berklee College of Music- 8
min.
2006 Cold Mountain Songs–
Commissioned and
premiered by the guitar duo of Mark and Beverly Davis; performances
throughout
Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and in Spain- approx. 15 min.
2006
Three Movements
for Mandolin Orchestra–
Commissioned by Robert Margo; dedicated to and premiered by the
Providence
Mandolin Orchestra; performances throughout Rhode Island, the
Netherlands,
international premiere in France in summer, 2008- 15 min.
2006 Echoes…Of
the Past…Return–
For violin and viola; multiple
performances with Berklee
String Department Chair Melissa Howe; performed as part of the Mark
O’Connor
String Fest- 9 min.
2005
Bus #66–
Song cycle of original words
and music performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on May 8 and
15,
2005.
Bus #66 is written
for Richard
Lalli, vocal professor at Yale University; premiered at Wesleyan
University,
2002. Performed at Yale University and Unitarian Society of New Haven,
Sept.
and Dec. 2003. Selections performed at Joe’s Pub, New York
Public
Theater as
part of Sequitur concert series, 2003- 40 min. (additional songs in
progress)
2004
5 Summer Haiku–
For narrator, violin,
clarinet, and piano; original words and music; premiered by Kathryn
Wright
(narrator), Francine Trester (violin), Peter Cokkinias (clarinet), and
Louis Stewart
(piano); performances at Longy School of Music, Boston Conservatory and
Berklee
College of Music; 2012 performances by the Zodiac Trio at the Edinburgh
Festival (Canongate Kirk), City Halls, Glasgow, Scotland, Berklee
College of
Music, Boston Conservatory, and the Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, NY- 12
min.
2004
Patricia’s
Aria– Commissioned by
John
Holt, trumpet faculty at the University of North Texas; recorded on
Crystal
Records’ Facets
II; numerous radio
broadcasts- 3 min.
2003
First Rain of
Spring and Not in Our
Time– Commissioned
by the
Yale Camerata and Yale Collegium Musicum; performed at Yale University,
September 2003– 7 min.
2003
Nobody Sees a
Flower– Written at the
request of contralto Elizabeth Anker (faculty, Longy School of Music);
performed
by Ms. Anker and pianist John McDonald in June, 2004; multiple radio
broadcasts
including WGBH Boston- 3 min.
2003
Woodwind Quintet–
Performed by Solar
Winds, 2004; recipient of a Berklee Recording Grant for 2006-07
academic year-
20 min.
2003 Psalm 63–
Premiered
by the Seraphim Singers as part of Composers in Red Sneakers 2nd
Annual Choral Fest, Boston, MA- 3 min
2002 It
Tossed and Tossed–
A setting of the poem by Emily Dickinson; second song in a set of Three Songs for Soprano; performed
by
soprano Jayne West at
Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, 2003– 10 min.
2002 Guitar
Concerto–
Performed by guitar soloist Robert Ward; Eric Sawyer, conductor, with
nine
accompanying orchestral instrumentalists; performed at Pickman Hall as
part of
Composers in Red Sneakers concert series, 2003- 20 min.
2002 Sonata
for Violin and
Guitar– Performed by
Robert Ward and Francine Trester at
Longy School of
Music and Berklee College of Music, 2003– 15 min.
2002 Song of
Songs– For
SATB choir; performed by Musica Sacra at Saint Paul’s Church,
Harvard Square,
Cambridge, May 14, 2003– 5 min.
2002
Quodlibet–
Written for Yale
Collegium
Musicum
(choir and mixed ensemble) performed at Yale University, Beinecke
Library, May
1, 2002- 5 min.
2001
Piano Trio–
Premiered with violinist
Francine Trester (composer of the Trio),
pianist Eric Sawyer and cellist Michael Bonner in Boston as part of the
New
Gallery Concert Series, February 7, 2002- 20 min.
2001
Close, Close
All Night– First in a
series of songs commissioned by mezzo-soprano Mary Ann Hart- 3 min.
2000
Suite for
Guitar and Violin–
Premiered
at Northeastern University, March 2000 (also performed as part of the
Boston
Classical Guitar Society’s recital series)- 15 min.
2000
Flying–
First in a series of songs
commissioned by soprano Patricia Prunty- 6 min.
2000
Summer Serenade
(for orchestra)– Commissioned
and performed by Music on
the Hill Summer Festival Orchestra- 5 min.
1999
Live With Me
and Be My Love–
Commissioned by the Mirror Visions Ensemble; premiered in New York at
the
Florence Gould Hall and the Kosciusko Foundation, Oct. 15 and Nov. 14,
1999- 3
min.
1999
The
Ticket– Commissioned
by baritone
Richard Lalli; premiered at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, Feb. 3-5,
2000 as
part of the Sequitur concert series- 3 min.
1999
Brief
Observation for Piano–
Written for
John McDonald, Professor of Composition at Tufts University; performed
in
September, 1999 by John McDonald for the New England Piano Teachers
Association- 2 min.
1999
Three Songs of
Ascension–
Commissioned
by baritone Richard Lalli; performed at the Florence Gould Hall; also
performed
at the Kosciusko Foundation and Yale University- 10 min.
1999
Second Sonata
for Violin and Piano– Performed
by the composer with composer/pianists John McDonald at 1st and 2nd
Church,
Boston, Extension
Works series, September 2000; and Eric Sawyer (Associate Professor, Amherst College) at Tufts University, Longy, and Yale University- 20 min.
1999
Suite for
Flute, Violin, and Clarinet–
Performed at the Longy School of Music, February 27, 2001; premiered by
faculty
at Austin College- 15 min.
1999
In Der Ferne–
Collection of German songs
for tenor and piano; written for vocal professor Dr. Wayne Crannell;
performed
at Austin College by Dr. Crannell in 2004- 15 min.
1999 For
Guitar Solo–
Collection of short works- 10 min.
1998
Two Moods for
Cello and Piano–
Commissioned by Emmanuel Lopez, cellist with the Harrington String
Quartet;
performed at Yale University by Mr. Lopez and the composer- 10 min.
1998
Partita–
For solo violin; performed by
the composer at Yale University; performed by violinist Roger Zahab,
November
7, 1998, St. Peter’s Church, Chelsea, N.Y.C.- 20 min.
1997
String Quartet
No. 2– Commissioned
and
performed by the Arianna String Quartet,
Quartet–in–Residence at Eastern
Michigan University; premiered in November 1997- 15 min.
1997
Three
“Just So” Poems–
For orchestra
and
narrator, this multimedia work combines original illustrations, poetry
and
music- 15 - 20 min.
1997
Commissioned
to write new Alma Mater for Austin College as part of the
College’s 150th
anniversary celebration
1996
La Belle Dame
Sans Merci– For tenor,
violin, and piano; premiere and second performance by faculty at Austin
College
in February 1998- 9 min.
1996
Trio for Piano,
Violin and Clarinet–
Performed by the faculty trio at the University of Akron (included
violinist
Roger Zahab) in April 1997- 15 min.
1995
In Memoriam–
For girls’ choir; scheduled
performances at the Queenswood School and Austin College- 5 min.
1995
Composed
incidental music for educational workshop at the English National Opera
1995
Two
arrangements for string orchestra performed at the Queenswood School,
Hertfordshire, England
1995 Three
Songs for
Soprano, Violin and Piano- 9 min.
1995 Woodwind
Octet- 12
min.
1995
Duet–
For two cellos; to
be performed
by faculty at West Texas A&M University- 7 min.
1994
Orchestral
excerpt from the musical Jane
Eyre (see below)–
Commissioned and performed by the
Wallingford Symphony- 6
min.
1994 For
Unaccompanied
Violin- 2 min.
1994
The Gods of
Winter– Song cycle for
baritone and chamber orchestra; text and premiere attended by former
NEA
chairman Dana Gioia; performed by Professor Richard Lalli, Yale
University- 15
min.
1994 Trio–
For three
clarinets; performed at Yale University- 10 min.
1993
String Quartet–
Performed at Yale
University and used in the scoring of Liability
Crisis, an independent film
released nationally in 1995- 20 min.
1993
Music for Goldilocks
and Bob– A short
musical
comedy showcased by the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop- 10 min.
1993
Two Moods for
Violin and Piano–
Performed at Yale University, 1993, in England (Fulbright performance),
1995,
and Austin College, 1996- 7 min.
1992
Music for Amnestia,
a play by Kerry Kennedy–
included in the Yale School of Drama’s 1991-2
Season–
full-length production
(approx. 1 hr.)
1992
Orchestra
Overture to Jane Eyre–
Orchestral reading by Yale Philharmonia- 5 min.
1991 Trio–
For piano,
clarinet and double bass- 7 min.
1991
Score, lyrics
and book to Jane
Eyre, an original
musical based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë– full
length
production (approx.
2 hours)
1991 Piano
Interlude- 3
min.
1990 Sonata for Violin and Piano–
Performed at Yale
University by the
composer (violin) and Mina Chung (piano)- 13 min.
1990 Lied–
For soprano
and piano- 3 min.
For an
abridged bio of the
composer please see:
http://www.berklee.edu/faculty/detail/francine-trester
Additional
information at: www.francinetrester.com
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