Kate Soper

Orchestra/Solo and Orchestra

now is forever he whispered (upcoming)
For soprano and orchestra (9-12')

Circuit Breaker, 2010
For bass trombone and orchestra (5')

Entre Les Calanques, 2010 (version for orchestra)
For orchestra (6')

Nine Rakes, 2007
Symphonic wind band (8')

Large Ensemble

The Door in the Wall (2011)
Flt, ob, 2 cl, bn, hn, tpt, tn, pno, perc, 2 vn, vla, vc, cb

What Makes it Go, 2010 (mixed ensemble version)
Flt, ob, 2 cl, bn, hn, tpt, tn, pno, perc, 2 vn, vla, vc, cb (7")

Entre Les Calanques, 2009 (original chamber version)
Flt, cl, bn, 2 hn, 3 vn, 3 vla, 2 vc, 2 cb (6.5")

What Makes it Go, 2008 (original version)
12 strings (3-3-3-3) (13')

As the Crow Flies, 2007
Flt, cl, 2 sax, hn, tpt, tbone, electric gtr, accordion, pc, vn, vla, vc, cb (11')

Didicas, 2006
Brass Septet (3')

Crosshatch, 2005
Flt, cl, hn, tpt, tbone, pc, vn, vla, vc, cb (10')

Small Ensemble & Solo

In the Reign of Harad IV (upcoming)
Amplified percussion trio

Wolf, 2010
Piano four hands and 2 percussionists
Listen on the Carrier Records website here

I Had a Slow Thought on a Hard Day, 2008
Alto sax and accordion (10')

Into that World Inverted, 2006, rev. 2010
Horn and piano (8')

Purl, 2006
Flute and percussion

Knock, 2006
Solo percussion

Vocal

cipher (2011)
For soprano and violin (18')
Texts by Jenny Holzer, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Pietro Bembo, Michael Drayton, Sigmund Freud, Guido d'Arezzo, and Sarah Teasdale

Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say (2010-2011)
For soprano and flute; text by Lydia Davis
Watch a live performance here

Voices from the Killing Jar, 2010-11
Cycle for soprano and ensemble with live and taped electronics, for the Wet Ink Core Ensemble; texts by Robert Browning, Gustave Flaubert, Lorenzo da Ponte, Henry James, and Kate Soper
Soprano/piano/clarinet, flute, sax/clarinet, violin/trumpet, piano/recorder, percussion, laptop player/baritone

I. Prelude: May Kasahara
II. Isabel Archer: My Last Duchess
III. Palilalia: Iphegenia
IV. Voila Minuit: Lucille Duplessis
V. Mad Scene: Emma Bovary
VI. The Owl and the Wren: Lady Macduff
VII. Her Voice is Full of Money (A Deathless Song): Daisy Buchanan

Helen Enfettered, 2009
Soprano, Mezzo, cl, tpt, pno, pc, vn, vla, vc, cb
Text by Christian Bök
Click here to listen to a recording

Feather, 2007
Voice, sax, electric gtr, accordion, live electronics
Text by Karen Volkman

Door, 2007
Voice, flt, sax, electric gtr, accordion (10')
Text by Martha Collins

Songs for Nobody, 2006
Two sopranos and alto (9')
Text by Thomas Merton
III. Song

Mirage, 2004
Baritone and tuned wine glass (one player) (5')
Text by Jonathan Bourland

What You Think of In the City, 2002
Baritone, vla, vc (12')
Text by Frank O'Hara

Stage

SIREN (upcoming)
For three voices and piano (three performers)
Texts, various (Margaret Atwood, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Thomas Merton, Homer, Theobaldus, Kate Soper, William Butler Yaetes, and others)

Electronic

Five One-Liners, (2003)
Tape (text by William Matthews)
I. How Careful Fire Can Be

©2012 Kate Soper