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SCI Composers’ CD Series

Travis Garrison, Editor.

Every year, members may submit recordings for consideration in the series. Currently, more than 200 composers have been featured.

The most recent CDs in this series (from number 25 onward) are available through Navona Records.

SCI CD No. 34 Drift [NV 6318]sci34CD-Cover

  • Chin Ting Chan – Falling Stars
  • Bradford Blackburn – Chimera
  • Philip Schuessler – Hymn for the Arc Harvester
  • Daniel Adams – Reflecting Pool
  • Tianyi Wang – Dark Blessing
  • Paul Paccione – Saint John Turned to See the Sound
  • Mary Claire Miller – Cards
  • Andrea Reinkemeyer – Wild Silk
  • Allen McCullough – The Ugly Duckling
  • Joo Won Park and Jenifer DeBellis – Hungry

CD No. 34 available through Navona Records.

SCI CD No. 33 Flux [NV 6252]sci33CD-Cover

  • Ryan Carter – On a Better Filtering Algorithm
  • Wendy Wan-Ki Lee – The Earthy and Ethereal
  • Chi-hin Leung – Unicorn Dance
  • Igor Karača – Echo Caves
  • Ingrid Stölzel – The Voice of the Rain
  • Jonah Elrod – Urban Sky Glow
  • Leah Reid – Crumbs
  • Matthew Heap – And the Earth Sang to Me Through the Wind
  • Nathaniel Haering – Medical Text p.57

CD No. 33 available through Navona Records.

Flare CD coverSCI CD No. 32 Flare [NV 6177]

  • Vaibhav Mohanty – Rhapsody No. 1
  • Robert Anton Strobel – Refugees
  • Keith Kramer – L’etere del Tempo
  • Matthew J. Jaskot – Rejuvenated (Variations on a Youthful Theme)
  • Jonathan Graybill – Tsigili’i: Black-Capped Chickadee (from The Ancient Language of Birds)
  • Gabriel Mălăncioiu – Song of the Avadhut
  • Jacob Thiede – When all else fails (take your time)
  • Mark W. Phillips – Dreams Interrupted

Available through Navona Records.

Ascend CD coverSCI CD No. 31 Ascend [NV 6112]

  • Patrick Houlihan – Snoqualmie Passages
  • Joungmin Lee – Vexatious
  • Paul SanGregory – Shining Through Cracks
  • Mike McFerron – If You Walked a Mile
  • Justin Writer – Fantasia
  • Aaron Alon – Dulce Et Decorum Est
  • Michael Pounds – Breathing 2: Re/Inspiration
  • Jeffrey Loeffert – Bombinate
  • Stephen F. Lilly – Embark

Available through Navona Records.

Modes CD coverSCI CD No. 30 Modes [NV 6051]

  • Karen Keyhani – As Far As Possible
  • Robert A. Baker – Valence III
  • Nolan Stolz – Princess Ka‘iulani (he mele ho‘oipoipo)
  • Arthur Gottschalk – Five Songs of Love
  • Benjamin D. Whiting – Melodía sin melodía (stereo mix)
  • Yip Ho Kwen Austin – A Mournful Cry
  • Chin Ting Chan – Acoustic Field

Available through Navona Records.

Onyx CD coverSCI CD No. 29 Onyx [NV 6020]

  • Shawn Crouch – Adolescent Psychology
  • Mark Zanter – Persistence of Memory
  • Anne Niekirk – Gangrel
  • Christopher Biggs – Greed
  • Ferdinando DeSena – Between Logic and Rhetoric
  • Federico Bonacossa – Rivir
  • Chi-hin Leung – Utmost Attack
  • Kyong Mee Choi & Timothy Ernest Johnson – Tensile Strength
  • Kai-Young Chan – Ignis Fatuus
  • Andrián Pertout – Echoes from the Past

Available through Navona Records.

Pendulum CD coverSCI CD No. 28 Pendulum [NV 5963]

  • Doron Kima – As From a Dream
  • Clifton Callender – Metamorphoses II
  • Jorge Variego – Walls (flute nonet)
  • Alex Freeman – Night on the Prairies
  • Eric Nathan – Wing Over Wing
  • Chris Arrell – Narcissus/Echo
  • Philip Carlsen – October

Available through Navona Records.

Nova CD coverSCI CD No. 27 Nova [NV 5917]

  • Phillip Schroeder – Metaphors
  • Vera Ivanova – Aftertouch
  • Mark Engebretson – Two Duos
  • Chan Ji Kim – 9 Years
  • Leonard Mark Lewis – Three Etudes for Piano
  • Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn – Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano
  • Piotr Szewczyk – Apparitions
  • Alan Chan – Daughter’s Lullaby

Available through Navona Records.

Axiom CD coverSCI CD No. 26 Axiom [NV 5856]

  • Michael Boyd – Bit of nostalgia…
  • Joo Won Park – Gainesville Soundscape
  • Israel Neuman – Turnarounds
  • Liviu Marinescu – Bach Variations
  • Jay C. Batzner – Blue Jaunte (whispers of Gouffre Martel)
  • Peter Van Zandt Lane – Triptiek

Available through Navona Records.

Mosaic CD coverSCI CD No. 25 Mosaic [NV 5825]

  • Hee Yun Kim – Memoir of Dong-Hak
  • Soo Jin Cho – Exodus for 2 Pianos
  • Tasos Stylianou – Aneresis
  • James Romig – Transparencies
  • Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy – Undertow
  • Sally Reid – Fiuggi Fanfare
  • Stephen Yip – Gorintou- Five Rings Pagoda

Available through Amazon.com.

Soliloquies CD coverSCI CD No. 24 Soliloquies [CPS 8812]

  • John Allemeier – Alone
  • Curt Veeneman – Pneuma
  • Aaron Gervais – Culture no. 1
  • Aaron Alon – Hibakusha
  • Christopher Gainey – Iago
  • Jonathan McNair – Sonata for Solo Percussion
  • Charles Ditto – High Wood
  • Jack Behrens – Music for Two Pianos

Journeys CD coverSCI CD No. 23 Journeys [CPS 8809]

  • Samson Young – Feathery Telegraph
  • Douglas Boyce – 102nd and Amsteram
  • Dorothy Chang – The Light Fantastic
  • Eun Young Lee – a quiet way
  • Ching-chu Hu – In Frozen Distance

Musings CD coverSCI CD No. 22 Musings [CPS 8787]

  • Kyong Mee Choi – Kandinsky
  • Janice Misurell-Mitchel – Sometimes the City is Silent
  • Dimitri Papageorgiou – …d’ogne luce muto
  • Mike McFerron – Stationary Fronts
  • Carl Schroeder – 88 Keys
  • Karim Al-Zand – Four Fables
  • Dorothy Hindman – Needlepoint
  • Nathan Davis – Churn
  • Jonathan Chenette – Posthumous Orpheus
  • John Bilotta – Shadow Tree

Mood Shifts CD coverSCI CD No. 21 Mood Shifts [CPS 8748]

  • Bruce Mahin – Blue
  • Per Bloland – Prelude: Dissent
  • Alejandro Rutty – Witchcraft Recipes no. 9 and 9b
  • Grace Choi – Chansons Innocentes II
  • Greg Bartholomew – From the Odes of Solomon
  • Tom Lopez – Hollow Ground II
  • Charles Argersinger – Seven Deadly Sins

Soundscapes CD coverSCI CD No. 20 Soundscapes [CPS 8741]

  • Lewis Nielson – White Vision (the horizon divides)
  • Jack Fortner – S pr ING
  • David Congo – Chronos II
  • Gregory Hutter – Three Pieces: Dialogue, Aria, Ostinato
  • Arthur Gottschalk – Contrary Variants
  • Stephen Wilcox – Lego Dominatrix
  • Andrián Pertout – Görüşmeler

Cornucopia CD coverSCI CD No. 19 Cornucopia [CPS 8725]

  • Mark Applebaum – Entre Funérailles
  • Robert Paterson – Sonata for Bassoon and Piano
  • Sabang Cho – Aqua for Piano Trio
  • Jason Haney – An die Musik
  • D’Arcy Reynolds – Five Preludes for Viola and Piano
  • Lansing McLoskey – breake, blowe, burn

Sonic Images CD coverSCI CD No. 18 Sonic Images [CPS 8712]

  • Ralf Yusuf Gawlick – Concerto Concertante per Sei Instrumenti
  • Jonathan McNair – Huckleberry Finn in the Museum of Art
  • Steven Ricks – Leave Song

Milestones CD coverSCI CD No. 17 Milestones [CPS 8701]

  • Maria Niederberger – Piano Quintet
  • Nickitas Demos – Postscript
  • Jeff Myers – Five Parametric Etudes
  • Gregg Wramage – Into Black Oblivion
  • John Allemeier – Light Blossom
  • Emily Doolittle – Night Black, Bird Song
  • Paul Richards – Kalidophone

Inspirations CD coverSCI CD No. 16 Inspirations [CPS 8690]

  • James Curnow – On Poems of John Keats
  • Lori Dobbins – Sketches for Silvano
  • Keith Kothman – Surface Inventions
  • Steven Everett – Another Reunion
  • Chihchun Chi-sun Lee – Liam-Hiong
  • Paul Rudy – …and every island and mountain were moved from their place…

Cultivated Choruses CD coverSCI CD No. 15 Cultivated Choruses [CPS 8674]

  • Orlando Jacinto Garcia – Celebramos
  • Karen Tarlow – Five Shaker Lyrics
  • Milton Babbitt – Three Cultivated Choruses
  • Lansing McLoskey – Non avrà ma’ pietà/Quando con gran tempesta/Non vivam ultra
  • Zae Munn – Five Animal Songs
  • Phillip Schroeder – Lux aeterna
  • Frank LaRocca – Exaudi

Inner Visions CD coverSCI CD No. 14 Inner Visions [CPS 8670]

  • Allen Strange – Velocity Studies IV: Flutter
  • Martin Rokeach – Sonata for Cello and Piano
  • James Paul Sain – Dystopia
  • Hi Kyung Kim – Unknown Lives

Connections CD coverSCI CD No. 13 Connections [CPS 8660]

  • Jeremy Beck – Songs without Words for flute and harp
  • Robert Eidschun – Bantam Masai for small ensemble
  • Paul Epstein – Palindrome Vatiations for flute, cello, and piano
  • Edward Miller – Duo Concertante for viola and piano
  • Mark Phillips – String Quartet No. 2 “Another Lark Quartet”

Transcendencies CD coverSCI CD No. 12 Transcendencies [CPS 8656]

Features works for orchestra.

  • Zack Browning – Breakpoint Screamer for five trumpets and tape
  • Morris Moshe Cotel – Five Quatrains for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble
  • Jack Fortner – Symphonies for orchestra
  • Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez – M.E. in Memoriam for chamber ensemble
  • Ann S. Hankinson – light/shadow for orchestra
  • James Neng-Hsien Ho – Bon for chamber ensemble
  • Jonathan Sheffer – Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra

Chamber Works CD coverSCI CD No. 11 Chamber Works [CPS 8651]

  • Brian Belet – Four Proportional Etudes
  • Carlos Delgado – Fugaz
  • David Epstein – Piano Variations
  • Kari Juusela – Ilta Pala(a)
  • Andrew Rindfleisch – Tears
  • Alexandre Rudajev – Sonate pour piano et violone

Illuminations CD coverSCI CD No. 10 Illuminations [CPS 8643]

  • Charles Bestor – Of Time and Their Places
  • Herbert Bielawa – Stone Settings
  • Hayg Boyadjian – Googleegoo
  • Ling Chao Chen – Echo
  • Warner Hutchison – Poe-Songs
  • John Richey – Variations for Piano

Grand Designs CD coverSCI CD No. 9 Grand Designs [CPS 8639]

Features works for large ensemble (or which create the illusion through use of electronic effects).

  • Charles Argersinger – Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
  • Brian Bevelander – Synthecisms no. 4 for Piano Four-hands, Orchestra and Pre-recorded Tape
  • James Lentini – Music for Brass
  • Daniel McCarthy – Harmonizer for Violin and Synthesizer
  • Emilio Mendoza – RainForest for Percussion Ensemble
  • Laura Elise Schwendinger – Chamber Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Intimate Thoughts CD coverSCI CD No. 8 Intimate Thoughts [CPS 8632]

Includes vocal works and a complete chamber opera.

  • Curt Cacioppo – Wolf
  • Dinos Constantinides – Intimations
  • Donna Kelly Eastman – Just Us
  • Elizabeth Lauer – Seven Songs on Poems of James Joyce
  • Tera de Marez Oyens – Three Hymns

Evocations CD coverSCI CD No. 7 Evocations [CPS 8631]

Features compositions for solo instruments and small ensembles.

  • Harry Bulow – Contours
  • Brian Fennelly – Scintilla Prisca
  • Jackson Hill – Rhapsody
  • Dennis Kam – Fantasy Variations
  • Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy – WindrideriFinalAscent
  • Jan Krzywicki – Snow Night
  • Alex Lubet – Shabbat Shalom

Extended Resources CD coverSCI CD No. 6 Extended Resources [CPS 8626]

Features works for unusual instrumental combinations and computer-generated sounds.

  • Cindy Annice Cox – Four Studies of Light and Dark
  • C. P. First – Tantrum
  • Edward Mattila – Primordius
  • Paul Paccione – …Like Spring
  • Curt Veeneman – The Wiry Concord

Songfest CD coverSCI CD No. 5 Songfest [CPS 8618]

This release features several vocal compositions.

  • Mary Jeanne van Appledorn – Freedom of Youth
  • Elizabeth Scheidel-Austin – Sonnets from the Portuguese
  • Susan Hurley – Wind River Songs
  • Robert Newell – New London Street Cries
  • William Penn – A Comfield in July
  • Alan Schmitz – Four Songs from “Green Lotus Man”

Contra-Punctus CD coverSCI CD No. 4 Contra-Punctus [CPS 8615]

This release features several pieces of chamber music.

  • Martin Rokeach – Sonata for violin and piano
  • Allen Brings – Duo Concertante for cello and piano
  • John Davison – Sonata Pastorale for flute, cello and piano
  • Cynthia Folio – Developing Hues for flute and bass clarinet

America Sings! CD coverSCI CD No. 3 America Sings! [CPS 8613]

This release features compositions for voice and various instruments.

  • George Belden – Gilgamesh for contralto, piano and percussion
  • Gregoria Karides Suchy – Twelve Greek Maxims for soprano and piano
  • Diane Thome – Three Psalms for chorus and instrumental ensemble
  • Elizabeth Vercoe – Herstory 11 for soprano and piano
  • Joelle Wallach – Mouming Madrigals for soprano, tenor, flute and harp

Potpourri CD coverSCI CD No. 2 Potpourri [CPS 8609]

A variety of styles and media are represented, performed by new music specialists.

  • Emmanuel Ghent – Five Brass Voices
  • Leo Kraft – Second Fantasy for flute and piano
  • Elliot Schwartz – Reading Session for clarinet and piano
  • Victor Saucedo Tecayehuatzin – Fluxions
  • John D. White – Sonata for violoncello and piano

View from the Keyboard CD coverSCI CD No. 1 View from the Keyboard [CPS 8606]

A View from the Keyboard features piano works by John A. Lennon, Raoul Pleskow, Hilary Tann, and six others.

  • Thomas Benjamin – That Old Second Viennese School Rag
  • Cariton Gamer – Piano Raga Music
  • Arthur Digby Kurtz – Six Preludes on Ostinato Basses and Omamentations
  • John A. Lennon – Death Angel
  • William Matthews – Ferns
  • Edward Mattila – Six Little Arrays
  • Vincent McDermott – Magic Ground
  • Raoul Pleskow – Caprice
  • Hilary Tann – Doppleganger

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