Repertoire

Below is a list of music programmed by Castle of our Skins over the years.
​World premieres/commissions are indicated with an asterisk*.

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solos

Alberga, Eleanor

• If the silver bird could speak - piano

Bach, Johann Sebastian

• Chaconne - vibraphone

Berio, Luciano

• Selections from 34 duos for Two Violins 

Bland, Ed

• For Flute
• For Violin
• Sketches Set #7, segments I, II, & V - piano

Bonds, Margaret

• Troubled Water (from Spiritual Suite) - piano

​​Burleigh, Henry Thacker “Harry” (H. T.)

• "On Bended Knee" from "Songs from the Southland" - piano​

Casseus, Frantz

• Dance of the Hounsies - guitar
  

Capers, Valerie

• Portraits in Jazz - piano

Coleman, Valerie

• Danza de la Mariposa - flute
• Fanmi Imen - flute

Green, Anthony R.

• A Little History ~ 9 Little Poems about 9 Legendary People - solo narrating violist*
• dhakira: a middle eastern impression - sax*​

Hailstork, Adolphus

• 3 Pieces for flute​

Holland, Jonathan Bailey

• Intimacy of Harmony - piano

Loggins-Hall, Allison

• Homeland - flute

Joachim, Nathalie

• Awake - flute, recorded voice and electronics 

Joplin, Scott​

• Maple Leaf Rag - piano

Kay, Ulysses

• Prelude - flute

Kinney, L. Viola

• Mother’s Sacrifice - piano

Lateef, Yussef

• Klockology - sax

Montgomery, Jessie

• Rhapsody No. 1 - viola
• Rhapsody No. 1 - violin

Moore, Undine Smith

• Before I'd Be a Slave - piano

Mumford, Jeffrey

• eight musings...revisiting memories - violin
• revisiting variazoni elegiaci - viola​

Myers, Andre

• Falling Skyward - flute

Nash, Gary Powell

• Argemarillo Fantasy No. 3  - piano
• Sui Generis Bastion - viola

Nombeko, Nailah

• Preludes for Piano

Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor

• Black Folksong Suite - cello

Perry, Zenobia Powell

• Homage - piano

Tillis, Frederick

• Three Showpieces for Viola "Soliloquy"

Traditional

• Deep River - marimba

Wallen, Errollyn

• Remember - marimba
  
• Walk Me to Work - guitar

Weston, Trevor

• Eurythmy Variations - piano
• Wafting Clouds - piano​

vocal

Adams, H. Leslie

• Love Memory - voice, piano
• Nightsongs - voice, piano
• Prayer - voice, piano

Bailey, Maible

• Seasons - voice, piano
• Birdsong - voice, piano
• Seven Days - voice, piano

Baker, Renée C.

• No Safety In Silence - voice, clarinet, piano quintet*​

​Banfield, William C.

• A Place in This World - soprano, viola
• Spiritual Songs - tenor, cello​

Beebe, Samuel

• Rocking Chair Child - soprano, tenor, piano quintet* ​

Bonds, Margaret

• Three Dream Portraits - voice, piano

Brown, Charles

• Song Without Words - voice, piano

​​Burleigh, Henry Thacker “Harry” (H. T.)

• Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel - voice, piano
• Deep River - voice, piano
• Lovely, Dark, and Lonely One - voice, piano​​

Eastman, Julius

• Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc -voice

Flores, Trey

• After the Dark/Deed of Uplift - soprano, viola

Grant Still, William

• A Black Pierrot - voice, piano

Green, Anthony R.

• ... all that is good ... - soprano, piano*
• Conduct thy footsteps..- soprano, piano
• Her Phantom Happiness - soprano, piano quintet
• How Could I Know - soprano, piano
• In Between the Moon and Us - soprano, piano
• Oh, Freedom! - spoken word, voice, flute, viola, cello*​
• p e r d u e (Maram al-Masri) - soprano, piano
• Sonnet LXXXI - soprano, piano
• Three Adinkra Miniatures - voice, piano*
• To Curse or Not to Curse - soprano, piano*
• untitled (I can't evoke his name) - voice*

Greene, Ethan Frederick

• Three Eady Songs - mezzo-soprano piano

Hailstork, Adolphus

• Robeson: The Opera (excerpt) ​
• Slave Songs - baritone, piano
• Songs of Love and Justice - soprano, piano
• Summer. Life. Song - soprano, piano
  
• Who is Sylvia? - soprano, violin, piano
  

​​Hairston, Jacqueline B.

• On Consciousness Streams - soprano, piano

Harper, Joi

• Aspirations and Sorrows - soprano, piano, string ensemble*

​Hayes, Roland

• Steal Away - voice, piano
• You're Tired Chile - voice, piano

Joachim, Nathalie

• Madan Bellegarde from "Fanm d’Ayiti" - voice, flute, electronics, string quartet ​

Leon, Tania

• Oh Yemanja - voice, cello, piano

Li, Frank S.

• The Heart of a Woman - soprano, string quartet*

Montgomery, Jessie

• I Want to Go Home - soprano, string quartet

Moore, Dorothy Rudd

• Frederick Douglass (opera excerpt)
  • ​Ah Been a Slave All My Life
  • Lullaby
• Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death - voice, piano, violin

Moore, Undine Smith

• Love Let The Wind Cry...How I Adore Thee - soprano, piano
• Scenes From the Life of a Martyr (oratorio excerpt)​

Okoye, Nkeiru

• Songs of Harriet Tubman - soprano, piano

Owens, R.L.

• Heart on a Wall - voice, piano
• Mortal Storm - voice, piano

​​​Perry, Zenobia Powell

• The Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah - flute, voice, piano

Price, Florence B.

• A Flea and a Fly - voice, piano
• Beside the Sea - voice, piano
• Hold Fast to Dreams - voice, piano
• My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord - voice, piano
• Night - voice, piano
• Song to the Dark Virgin - voice, piano
• Sympathy - voice, piano

​Roumain, Daniel Bernard

• Music for Black People​ - voice, flute, cello, piano*

Swanson, Howard

• I Will Lie Down in Autumn - baritone, piano
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers - baritone, piano

Tawengwa, Tanyaradzwa A.

• Moyo Muti Unomera Paunoda - voice and movement*
• Misozdi YaMarimba - narrator, SATB, piano, bass, percussion

​​Weston, Trevor

• Comfort Songs - soprano, piano
• Evening Songs - baritone, piano
• Songs for the Anonymous Lover - soprano, viola, cello

White, L.J

• ​Way Down Yonder - soprano, string trio*

Williams, Julius

• Songs for Baritone - baritone, piano​ ​​

duos

Amis, Kenneth

• Inflections - flute, tuba

Berio, Luciano

• 34 duos for Two Violins (arr. for Violin and Viola)

Britton-Smith, Irene

• Sonata for Violin and Piano

Chevalier de Saint-Georges

• Sonata for harp and flute - flute, harp

Coleman, Valerie

• Fanmi Imèn ("Human Family") - flute, piano

Green, Anthony R.

• …on top of a frosted hill… - viola & piano*
• …on top of a frosted hill… - cello & piano
• Passeios - flute, harp
• Scintillation II - viola, cello​
• various arrangements of traditional folk songs, spirituals, civil rights songs, Christmas songs, hymns, and more 

​Hailstork, Adolphus

• Sanctum Rhapsody for Viola and Piano ​
• Two Romances for Viola and Orchestra - viola, piano

Kay, Ulysses

• Suite for Flute and Oboe

​Montgomery, Jessie

• Duo for violin and cello

Mumford, Jeffrey

• ​eight aspects of appreciation II - violin, cello​
• through the filtering dawn of spreading daybright - viola, bass

Ndodani-Breen, Bongani

• Khanyisa, elegy for violin and piano - violin, piano

Still, William Grant

• Mother and Child - flute, piano
• Romance - sax, piano​​

​Walker, George

• Cello Sonata, arr. for viola - viola, piano​​ ​
• Cello Sonata - cello, piano

trios

Baker, David

• Roots II “Boogie Woogie” - violin, cello, piano

​Coleman, Valerie

• Portraits of Langston - flute, clarinet, piano, narrator

Green, Anthony R.

• Collide-oscope III - oboe, clarinets in B-flat, bassoon*​
• various arrangements of traditional folk songs, spirituals, civil rights songs, Christmas songs, hymns, and more ​​

León Tania

• Á Tres Voces - string trio​

​Mays, Jessica

• Bear - countertenor, cello, piano*

Moore, Undine Smith

• Afro-American Suite - flute, cello, piano
• Soweto - piano trio​​

Mumford, Jeffrey

• in soft echoes...a world awaits - string trio​

Nabors, Brian Raphael

• Piano Trio - violin, cello, piano

Ndodani-Breen, Bongani

• Somnyama - flute, viola, harp*
• Two Nguni Dances for piano trio - violin, cello, piano​

Simon, Carlos

• Be Still and Know - violin, cello, piano

Singleton, Alvin

• Jasper Drag - violin, clarinet, piano​

Skye, Derrick

• Crossings - flute, viola, harp​

​​Taylor-Perkinson, Coleridge

• Movement for String Trio - violin, viola, cello

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string quartet

Alberga, Eleanor

• Remember
• String Quartet No. 2

Banfield William C.

• Suite for Susan "Dawn"

Bartok, Bela

• String Quartet No. 4, Allegro Molto 

Blackwell, Lavell

• On the Impulse to Move*

Bologne, Joseph “Chevalier de Saint-Georges”​​

• String Quartet Op. 14 No. 3 
• String Quartet Op. 14 No. 6 

​Cameron White, Clarence

• Spiritual from “From the Cotton Fields” Op. 18, arr. for string quartet

Chun-ting, Pang

• Static Dance*

Coleman, Valerie

• Umoja 

​​Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

• Fantasie-stüke Op. 5

Dawson, William

• Largo for String Quartet

Dvorak, Anton

• Quartet movement in A minor, Andante appassionato con sordino

​Ellington, Duke

• Pigeons and Peppers

Green, Anthony R.

• various arrangements of traditional folk songs, spirituals, civil rights songs, Christmas songs, hymns, and more 
• Chance

Hailstork, Adolphus

• String Quartet No. 1
• String Quartet No. 2: Variations on Swing Low Sweet Chariot
• Deep River Rhapsody

Holland, Jonathan Bailey

• Forged Sanctuaries

Joplin, Scott

• Bethena, a Concert Waltz
• Heliotope Bouquet Rag 
• Solace, a Mexican Serenade

Koapeng, Mokale 

• ​Komeng

Kurtág, György

• Hommage a András Mihály for String Quartet, Op. 13

​​Lamar, Kendrick

• All the Stars - arr. by Amanda Pang

Montgomery, Jessie

• Break Away
• Source Code
• Strum 
• Voodoo Dolls 

​​Moore, Dorothy Rudd

• Modes for String Quartet​

Masebe, Monthati 

• Nomadic Nirvana

Mumford, Jeffrey

• a veil of liquid diamonds 

​Nabors, Brian Raphael

• Linstead Market*

Ndodani-Breen, Bongani

• Apologia At Umzimvubu
• Impepho​

Price, Florence B.

• Five Folksongs in Counterpoint
• Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint
• String Quartet in G Major
• String Quartet in a minor

Roumain, Daniel Bernard

• ​String Quartet No. 2 "King"
• String Quartet No. 5 "Parks"

Singleton, Alvin

• Secret Desire to Be Black

Skye, Derrick

• American Mirror

Still, William Grant

• Danzas de Panama 
• Lyric Quartet

Taylor-Perkinson, Coleridge

• String Quartet No. 1 "Calvary"

Tamasuza, Justinian

• Ekitundu Ekisooka

Tillis, Frederick

• Spiritual Fantasy No. 12

Walker, George

• String Quartet No. 1

Washington, Shelley

• Middleground

Weston, Trevor

• Fudo Myoo
• Juba

mixed chamber music

​Baker, Renée C.

• Black Woman Tears - mezzo soprano, violin, viola, cello, e-guitar, piano, vibraphone*​
• Uncovered/Extended: the Black Holocaust from Slavery to Prison Industry - violin, viola, sax, double bass*​

Brown, Elizabeth

• Housetop - flute, string quartet, piano, spoken voice​*

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

• Clarinet Quintet Op. 10 in F-sharp minor
• Piano Quintet

Eastman, Julius

• Holy Presence of Joan D'Arc - 10 cellos plus dance

Joachim, Nathalie

• Seen - woodwind quintet
• Fanm D'ayiti (excerpts) - voice, flute, electronics and string quartet

Green, Anthony R.

• 3 Controlled Improvisations: Outrage, Perplexed, Protesting - violin, viola, sax, double bass* 
• It All Must Be Done in Darkness - open instrumentation ​*
• various arrangements of traditional folk songs, spirituals, civil rights songs, Christmas songs, hymns, and more 

Holland, Jonathan Bailey

• ​Synchrony - oboe, bassoon, violin, cello, piano, tape 

Ingram, Clifton

• Tyaphaka - dancer, string trio*​​

Kendall, Hannah

• Network Bed - piano quartet
• Vera - clarinet, string trio

Lancaster, Yaz

• Articulated Objects - mezzo soprano, violin, viola, cello, e-guitar, piano, vibraphone

León, Tania

• De Memorias - woodwind quintet​​

Loggins-Hull, Allison

• The Pattern - flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, piano 
• Shine - flute, viola, piano, soprano

Lolda, Julian

• Dance Improvisation​

McCall, Lauren

• Quilting Codes - flute, string quartet, piano, spoken voice*

Masebe, Monthati

• Solar Plexus Chakra Soundbath - electronics, poetry, movement​

Menard, John Karly Fils 

• Kòd kreyòl ​

Ndodani-Breen, Bongani

• Safika: Three Tales of African Migration - piano quintet
• Intlanzi Yase Mzantsi - piano quintet

Price, Florence

• Piano Quintet No. 2 

Raphael Nabos, Brian

• Kwanzaa Suite - tenor, string quartet
• Piano Quintet

Rzewski, Frederick

• Attica - mixed ensemble​

Sanford, David

• Untitled - oboe, clarinet, string trio*​

Skye, Derrick

• As I Heard When I Was Young - string quintet

Taylor-Dixon, Kennedy

• A Place For You - children's choir, string trio

Williams, Evan

• Bodies Upon the Gears - flute, viola, fixed media audio​