JOEL KIRK: COMPOSITION PORTFOLIO (select works)
email: joelfred@buffalo.edu
phone: 716-418-6120
1.
scherzo piccolo (2019-21)
brass sextet (2x cornets, tenor horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba)
c. 6-7 minutes
winner of the 2022 John Golland Award at the RNCM Brass Band Festival
for the RNCM Brass Ensemble
quartet version for Rosamund Brass (2x cornets, tenor horn, euphonium)
Adam Hofland-Ward, cornet; Seb Williman, cornet; Georgia Woodhead, tenor horn; Alex Barron, euphonium
full score (PDF)
Live recorded performance (quartet version): Rosamund Brass @ RNCM, Manchester, UK
Performance History:
01/31/2022 - RNCM Brass Ensemble @ RNCM Brass Band Festival - RNCM Concert Hall, Manchester, UK (sextet version)
05/03/2022 - Rosamund Brass - RNCM Carole Nash Recital Hall, Manchester, UK (quartet version)
05/20/2022 - Littleborough Arts Festival - Rosamund Brass - Littleborough Town Hall, Manchester, UK (quartet version)
06/21/2022 - Rosamund Brass - RNCM Festival Hall, Manchester, UK (quartet version)
10/15/2022 - Rosamund Brass - All Saints Church, Burton in Lonsdale, UK (quartet version)
01/27/2023 - Rosamund Brass @ RNCM Brass Band Festival - Carole Nash Recital Hall, Manchester, UK (quartet version)
2.
selected for the 2022 Tempus Konnex ICE Week
finalist for the 2022 Ise-Shima Composition Prize
finalist for the 2023 MATA Festival
shoals of sardines, of dolphins, of sharks (2022)
piccolo/flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin, cello, piano
for the Barcelona Modern Ensemble
alternative version arranged for Tempus Konnex (viola instead of saxophone)
Delphine Roche, flute; Emanuel Dantscher, clarinet; Mishi Stern, violin; Victor Guaita, viola; Nathan Watts, cello; Alberto Carnevale Ricci, piano; Mariana Hernández Gonzales, director; JiYoun Doo, artistic director
full score (PDF)
Live recorded performance (quartet version): Tempus Konnex @ Alte Handelsbörse, Leipzig, GER
Performance History:
05/27/2022 - Barcelona Modern Ensemble @ Barcelona Modern Festival, Institut Français, Barcelona, ESP
07/10/2022 - Tempus Konnex @ ICE Week, Alte Handelsbörse, Leipzig, GER
3.
winner of an ASCAP Morton Gould Award (2022)
selected for the 2022 Divertimento Ensemble Rondo
update status, always (2021)
solo violin
(a thing that chirps)
c. 5 minutes
for Lorenzo Gorli at the 2021 Divertimento Ensemble IWYC
