List of Works

Anthony Cornicello
List of Works by Category

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Works for Stage
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Incidental music for A Dream Play (2002); 75 minutes
Electronic music, live processing
Commissioned by Eastern Connecticut State University, for the theatrical production during the 2002-2003 season.
First performances: Eastern Connecticut State University. November 12-17, 2002

Orchestra and Wind Ensemble
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express.com (1999); 8 minutes
Wind Ensemble
For the Wind Ensembles of Florida State University, Rutgers University, and the New England Conservatory.
First Performance: Florida State University, James Croft, conductor.
Tallahassee, FL Oct. 7, 1999.
Published by C.F. Peters, 2001.

Rituals, for Orchestra (1998); 12 minutes
2-2-2-2, 4-2-2-1, Timp., 2 Perc., Pno., Harp, Strings

The Garden of Forking Paths (1995); 12 minutes
Orchestra: 3-3-3-3, 4-3-3-1, 3 perc., Timp., Piano, Harp, Strings
Winner, Chicago Symphony Young American Composers Reading Session
First Performance: Chicago Civic Symphony, Cliff Colnot, conductor. March 10, 1996, Chicago, IL
Published by APNM, 1995

Chamber Orchestra (and String Orchestra)
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Josquin: Ave Maria (1997); 8 minutes
Transcription of "Ave Maria" for String Orchestra. For the wedding of Ken Lampl and Lynda Veech.
First Performance: The Galetea Ensemble. Vorhees Chapel, New Brunswick, NJ, July 14, 1997.
Published by APNM, 1997

Zaira (1992, rev. 1994); 12 minutes
Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, 2 Perc., Piano, Strings (1 each)
First Performance: ALEA III, Theodore Antoniou, condcutor.
Tsai Performance Center, Boston, MA, September 28, 1994.
Finalist, ALEA III International Competition for Young Composers.
Published by APNM, 1994

Chamber Concerto for Flute, Percussion, and 15 Players (1988, revised 1992); 30 minutes
Written for James Scott, Peter Jarvis, and the Janus Ensemble
First Performance: Janus Ensemble, James Scott, solo flute, Peter Jarvis, solo percussion, Anthony Cornicello, conductor. Nicholas Music Center, New Brunswick, NJ, April 3, 1990.
Published by APNM, 1994

Chamber Ensembles
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Cascade Experiment (2005); 30 minutes
Electric String Quartet and Live Electronics
Commissioned by The Roberts Foundation, with suppport from Eastern Connecticut State University
for the Schorchio Electric String Quartet
First Performances: May 16, 2005, RealArtWays, Hartford, CT; May 24, 2005, The Cutting Room, NY, NY.

Loops, Drones, and Riffs (2003); 10 minutes
Viola and Live Electronics
Commissioned by Martha Mooke
First Performance: January 15, 2004, New York, NY.

Minimal Monk (2003); 7 minutes
Saxophone Quartet
Commissioned by the Prism Quartet
First Performance: May 12, 2003, New York, NY.

I’ll Have an Electric Mahabharata, Please (2003); 15 minutes
Violoncello and Live Electronics
Commissioned by the Auros Group for New Music
First Performances: March 12, 2003, Hartford, CT; March 28, 2003, Cambridge, MA.

Fractured Landscape, suspended song (2001); 7 minutes
Bass Clarinet, Violoncello, Percussion, tape.
Commissioned by the Vermont Chamber Music Ensemble
First Performance: February 11, 2002, Burlington, VT.

“…turns and turns into the night.” (2001); 25 minutes
(poems by Alice Fulton)
Soprano, Oboe/English Horn, Horn, Violoncello, Percussion, Piano, Live Interactive Electronics
Commissioned by Mary Sharp Cronson for the Guggenheim’s “Works and Process” Series
First Performance: The Group for Contemporary Music, Brad Lubman, conductor
Lucy Shelton, soprano
New York, NY February 3, 2001
Published by C.F. Peters, 2003.

Screaming Whispers (2000); 7 minutes
Violoncello, Percussion, Piano
Written for the Ernest Bloch Music Festival.
Published by C.F. Peters, 2003.

Chasing (1998); 8 minutes
Flute, Violoncello, Piano
Commissioned by The Auros Group for New Music, with funds from Meet The Composer Commissioning Music/USA.
First Performance: The Auros Group for New Music, Killian Hall, Cambridge, MA May 16, 1998.
Published by APNM, 1998

The Man in the Macintosh (1997); 13 minutes
Commissioned by the InterEnsemble.
Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Violoncello, Piano, and Tape.
First Performance: InterEnsemble, Bernardino Beggio, conductor. Performed as part of the InterEnsemble/InterMusica Festival, Padua, Italy, April 20, 1997.
U.S. Premiere: Brandeis Contemporary Chamber Players, Anthony Cornicello, conductor. Slosberg Hall, Waltham, MA, May 10, 1997.
Published by C.F. Peters, 2003.

"The Master of Those Who Know" (1996); 20 minutes
Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Violoncello, Percussion, and Piano
Written in Honor of Charles Wuorinen’s 60^th Birthday
First Performance: Wellesley Composers’ Conference, Wellesley, MA, August 9, 1997.
Published by APNM, 1996

Beersheeba (1995); 13 minutes
Flute, Clarinet, Piano, and Percussion
New York New Music Ensemble Commission
First Performance: New York New Music Ensemble, Jeff Milarsky, conductor. Miller Theater, New York, as part of the Sonic Boom! Festival. November 15, 1995.
Published by APNM, 1995

Chaosmos (1995, revised 1997); 11 minutes
Percussion and Piano
First Performance: New York New Music Ensemble, (guest performers: Karen Rosenak, Daniel Kennedy). Long Beach, CA. Part of the 1997 Summer Arts Festival at California State University, July 26,1997.
Published by APNM, 1995

Triple Play (1994); 8 minutes
Flute, Violoncello, Piano
First Performance: Chicago Ensemble. International House, Chicago, IL, March 5,1996
Winner, Chicago Ensemble Discover American Competition, 1995.
Published by APNM, 1994

Agarttha (1992); 15 minutes
Percussion Quartet. Written for the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble.
In Memoriam John Cage
First Performance: New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Peter Jarvis, conductor. Shea Auditorium, January 31, 1994.
Published by APNM, 1994

Drei Rilkegesänge (1990); 12 minutes
(Texts by Rilke)
Soprano, Violin, Violoncello, Vibraphone, and Piano
Written for the Janus Ensemble
First Performance: Janus Ensemble, Anthony Cornicello, conductor. Nicholas Music Center, New Brunswick, NJ, March 15, 1991.
Published by APNM, 1994

Second String Quartet (1990); 18 minutes
Written for the Atlantic String Quartet
First Performance: Altantic String Quartet. Nicholas Music Center, New Brunswick, NJ, March 15, 1991
Recording: Atlantic String Quartet, on the CD "Jersey Sessions, Volume 3" CGNJ 0393
Choreographed by Nancy Turano for the New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble. Repertoire piece from 1995 to present.
Published by APNM, 1994

Arcanum (1990); 8 minutes
Violin, Clarinet, Violoncello, and Piano.
First Performance: Da Capo Players, Rutgers University

Serigraphs (1986); 12 minutes
Piano, Percussion, Live Electronics, and Tape
First Performance: Anthony Cornicello, Paul Hostetter. Festival of New Music, Tallahassee, FL, April 4, 1987.
One of the first pieces written for the PPS synthesizer, which later became known as Kyma Systems.

Dialogues for Trio (1986); 11 minutes
Flute, Guitar, and Cello
Written for the Frank-Harris-Cowley trio.
First Performance: Eliot Frank, Deborah Harris, David Cowley. Tallahassee, Florida, February 27, 1987.
Published by APNM, 1994

String Quartet (1986); 15 minutes
First Performance: Florida State University String Quartet. Tallahassee, Florida, February 27, 1987.
Published by APNM, 1994

Nocturne (1985); 12 minutes
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Contrabass, and Piano First Performance: Florida State University New Music Ensemble, John Boda, conductor. Tallahassee, Florida, February 19, 1986.
Published by APNM, 1994

Vocal (and Choral) Works
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Voyages(1998); 9 minutes
Soprano and Piano
Written for Phyllis Bryn-Julson
First Performance: Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Pasadena, CA March 13, 2000.
Published by APNM, 1999

Kyrie Eleison (1990); 4 minutes
SATB, a cappella
Written for the Kirkpatrick Chapel Choir
First Performance: Kirkpatrick Chapel Choir, David Drinkwater, conductor. Kirpatrick Chapel, New Brunswick, NJ, April 28, 1991
Taken on subsequent tour of South America.

Solo Works
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Loops, Drones, and Riffs (2003); 10 minutes
Viola and Live Electronics
Commissioned by Martha Mooke
First Performance: January 15, 2004, New York, NY.

Post-Modern Waltz (2002); 6 minutes
Piano
Commissioned by Eric Moe

Static Walking (1997); 5 minutes
Solo Bass. For Robert Black
First Performance: Robert Black. Part of the Festival of New American Music, Sacramento, CA, November 9, 1997
Published by C.F. Peters, 2001

Pluto/Charon (1995); 9 minutes
Solo Percussion. For Tom Kolor.
First Performance: Tom Kolor. Belmar, NJ, May 2, 1998
Published by APNM, 1995

Jungfraud’s Messongebook (1994); 9 minutes
Solo Flute. Commissioned by Dogen Kinowaki.
First Performance: Dogen Kinowaki. Tokyo, Japan, October 4, 1995.
Winner, National Flute Association Newly Published Music Competition, 1996.
U.S. Concert Premiere: Patricia Spencer. Merkin Concert Hall, February 4, 1997.
Published by APNM, 1994

Le Gouffre (1994); 7 minutes
(text by Baudelaire) Reciting Double Bass, or two players
Withdrawn work.

Second Sonata for Piano (1992); 18 minutes
Commissioned by David Holzman
First Performance: David Holzman. The Great Hall, Long Island University, Brookville, NY, New York, March 2, 1994.
Performed during the 1994 Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik
Recording: David Holzman, piano, on the CD "Explorations: New American Piano Music", Centaur Records CRC-2291.
Published by APNM, 1994

"The single movement work, with a bang, crash, boom style of thematic exposition, is a bracing gust of fresh air, an invigorating antidote to the neo-medieval droning of so many of his contemporaries. Cornicello espouses a dramatic, dynamic mode of expression that requires careful, rather than passive listening" – Peter Burwasser, Fanfare Magazine.

Capriccio (1991); 7 minutes
Solo guitar
Commissioned by the New York Classical Guitar Society
First Performance: Seth Himmelhoch. St. Peter’s Church, New York City, June 3, 1993
Published by The New York Classical Guitar Society, 1991
European Premiere: Paul Bowman, Tage für neue musik, Darmstadt, February 18, 2000.

Piano Sonata (1989); 16 minutes
First Performance: Marc Peloquin. Composers’ Concordance Concert Series, The Great Hall, Long Island University, Brookville, NY, February 11, 1993.
Published by APNM, 1994

Three Pieces for Piano (1988); 12 minutes
First Performance: Paul Hoffman. Nicholas Music Center, New Brunswick, NJ, November 28, 1989.
Published by APNM, 1994

Improvisation for Alto Flute (1987); 4 minutes
First Performance: Deborah Harris. Tallahassee, Florida, April 18, 1987.
Published by APNM, 1994

Music With Electronics
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Loops, Drones, and Riffs (2003); 10 minutes
Viola and Live Electronics
Commissioned by Martha Mooke
First Performance: January 15, 2004, New York, NY.

Works in Progress and Planned
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