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Christopher Deane - Etude for a Quiet Hall

for marimba solo

Brett Dietz - Madison’s Unicorn

for marimba solo

Mark Ford - The Surface of Life

for solo vibraphone and percussion 5tet

Kyle Gann - Olana ‡

for vibraphone solo

Christos Hatzis - Fertility Rites

for marimba solo + electronics

David Lang - String of Pearls

for marimba solo

Antonio Lauro (arr. Cotto)

Valses Venezolanos

I. Natalyia

II. Yambu

for marimba solo

John Luther Adams - The Farthest Place

for violin, doublebass, piano, vibraphone, and marimba

        Red Arc, Blue Veil

        for piano, keyboards (vibes & crotales), +    

        processed sounds

        Strange & Sacred Noise

        for percussion quartet

        Inuksuit ‡

        for 9 to 99 percussionists in an outdoor

        space

Christopher Adler - Signals Intelligence

for percussion ensemble

        Pines Long Slept in Sunshine

        for percussion quintet

Bob Becker - Unseen Child

for percussion ensemble

Eve Beglarian - Machaut in the Machine Age I

for piano + percussion

John Cage - Third Construction

for percussion quartet

        Credo in Us

        for piano +  2 percussion

James Campbell - Terra Cotta Warriors

for percussion trio

Mario Davidovsky - Synchronisms No. 5

for percussion quintet + tape

Christopher Deane - Pyriphlegethon ‡

for percussion ensemble (10 players)

        Vespertine Formations

        for marimba quartet

Dennis DeSantis - Shifty

for percussion quartet

Áskell Másson - Prím

for snare drum solo

Áskell Másson - Kím

for snare drum solo

John Supko - This River ‡

for solo percussionist + electronics

James Tenney - Having Never Written a Note for Percussion

for percussion solo

Ben Wahlund - The Whimsical Nature of Small Particle Physics

for snare drum solo + electronics

Iannis Xenakis - Rebonds

for percussion solo

Chamber Repertoire

Steve Reich - Drumming

for percussion ensemble, voices, and piccolo

        Music for Pieces of Wood

        for percussion quintet

        Nagoya Marimbas

        for two marimbas

        Six Marimbas

        for percussion sextet

Christopher Rouse - Ogoun Badagris

for percussion quartet + video (B4 arr.)

        Bonham

        for percussion ensemble

Alvin Singleton - Greed Machine

for piano + percussion

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Tierkreis

for melody + chordal instrument

John Supko - This Window Makes Me Feel...

for piano, flute (or voice), and percussionist + audio/video

Joan Tower - DNA

for percussion quintet

Edgard Varese - Ionisation

for percussion ensemble

Ben Wahlund - The New Objectivist ‡

for percussion quartet

Nigel Westlake - Omphalo Centric Lecture

for marimba quartet + percussion

Christian Wolff - Rosas

for piano + percussion

‡ = World Premiere

Solo Repertoire

Brett Dietz - Exit Wounds

for percussion sextet

Morton Feldman - Durations IV

for chamber ensemble

Graham Fitkin - Hook

for marimba quartet + percussion

Charles Griffin - The Persistence of Past Chemistries

for percussion quartet

David Hollinden - The Whole Toy Laid Down

for percussion quartet

David Lang - Cheating, Lying, Stealing

for cello, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, and 2 brake drums

        So-Called Laws of Nature (mvt. 3)

        for percussion quartet

        Little Eye

        for cello solo + 4 non-percussionists

Paul Lansky - Threads

for percussion quartet

Áskell Másson - Rhythm Strip

for snare drum duo

Nathan Michel - Megaphone

for clarinet, piano, & percussion

Akira Nishimura - Concerto for Timpani & 5 Percussion

for solo timpanist + percussion quintet

        Kala

        for solo marimba  + percussion sextet

        Ketiak

        for percussion sextet

        Tala

        for percussion sextet

Thomas Osborne - like still water

for piano + percussion