Composition
As a wilderness composer Stephen reveals a holistic view of the world. Stephen’s love for vast wilderness landscapes has led him on a decade long wilderness composing adventure in search of inspiration from our country’s wildest places. Listen to and perform the stories of wilderness through many of Stephen’s orchestral and chamber compositions available here.
Orchestra
Symphony Orchestra
Absaroka: Where Crows Sing of Wildflower Love and Grizzly Queens (9:14) 2019
A Wilderness Dream (9:40) 2017
Red River Symphony (6:22) 2016 (featuring: Piano accompaniment and solos)
String Orchestra
Teklanika: an emerald from Cantwell (7:06) 2015
Pentagon Cabin a suite for string orchestra (9:10) 2015 (middle school string orchestra)
I. The Great Wall
II. Elegant Elk
III. Pentagon Peak
Sawmill Gulch (2:47) 2016 (middle school string orchestra)
Pierrot Ensemble
Sound Ecology (18:31) 2019
II. Apalchicola (6:50) 2018
String Quartet
The Gladie Suite (12:33) 2016
I. Gladie Cabin
II. Sandstone
III. The Little Ones
IV. The Clifty Wilderness
King Fisher: for the gentle giant of the North (4:39) 2008
Kalmi Latifloria (3:48) 2018
Composed as a wedding gift for my wife – Lauren.
Kalmi Latifloria is the latin name for the Mountain Laurel.
A most beautiful flowering Appalachian tree.
String Quintet
Viola sororia: the birth flower of February (8:29) 2013
original instruments: string quintet (vln (2), vla, vcl, bs)
arrangement: standard quartet
Two movements 2002 (12:03)
I.
II.
String Trio (with featured woodwind)
An Evening on Chase Prairie (4:57) 2014
original instruments: sop. sax, vln, vla, vcl
Diamorpha smallii: a granite phenomenon (6:19) 2013
original instruments: oboe, vln, vla, vcl
String Trio for Dance (14:46) 2004
original instruments: vln, vla, vcl
Piano Trio (vln, cl, pn)
The Chattooga (5:00) 2018
Woodwind Quartet
Roadless (5:28) 2015
The Shy Maiden: a single delight, moneses uniflora (5:56) 2013
original instruments: fl, ob, cl, bsn
Yawning of the River for the depths and braids of the Yukon (5:28)
original instruments: (3) bsn, c. bsn
Woodwind Sextet
Digital Transgressions (8:19) 2002
original instruments: fl, ob, eh, Bb cl, b. cl, bsn
I. cellutricity (3:32)
original instruments: fl, ob, eh, Bb cl, b. cl, bsn
II. a lost land (4:47)
original instruments: fl, ob, eh, Bb cl, b. cl, bsn
Mixed Ensemble
Untrammeled: a point of view from Slaven’s bluff (6:06) 2014
The Plains of Murie (6:21) 2017
original instruments: string quartet and percussion.
arrangement: vln, (2), vla, b.cl.
Dabae and the River Beauty (8:24) 2013
original instruments: vln, vcl, fl, bsn,
Variations on the Theme of Alicia (9:08) 2009
original instruments: fl, asax, bcl, pno, gtr
Solo
Celestial Seasons (17:06) 2015/2016 – cello
I. a spring thaw
II. a mid summer’s day
III. a fall change
IV. winter stillness
Elegy for the Earth (9:35) 2012 – viola
