Alexander Wright

Stage

2019

off/stage - mono-opera, female vocalist and piano, 25’ (for the mixed theatre show off stage)

The Magi - opera, three singers and chamber ensemble, 40’


2018

Things We Did in the War - secular oratorio, three singers and large chamber ensemble, 35’


2017

“If We Shadows” and select incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, for voice, trumpet, clarinet, oboe, viola and cello, 5’ total

“If It Wasn’t True,” “It’s the Girl,” and “What I Think,” from This Is Not a Musical: The Musical! for solo voices, SATB choir, and piano, with Seth Climenhaga –  approx. 3’30” each, 12’ total

 
 

Chamber Music

2019

Walking Through Walls, and Other Impossible Tasks - two remote violins, viola and cello, 10’ (for the Edinburgh Quartet).

Nocturnes - string quartet, 12’ (honourable mention in the 2019 Walter & Dinah Wolfe Memorial Award)

Snapdragon - clarinet, violin, cello, and double bass, 4’ (for the Red Note Ensemble)

The Shape In Grove Park – flute and guitar, 12’ (for The Okapi Duo)


2018

'Haikus (Nos. II-IV) – string quartet, 3’30”

A Year From Now flute and piano, 9’

Haiku I – flute and piano, 12’


2014-17

Mikroskopijne Walce – string quartet, 8’30” (2017)

Vignettes – wind quintet, 10’ (2017)

String Quintet No. 1, “Prufrock”  – 8’ (2016)

Ainudlindalë, or Three Thoughts – flute, bassoon, and piano, 3’30” (2016)

Waxing Poetic – 5-piece improvisational ensemble (2016)

The Ghosts Come Out at 12:53 – string trio, 3’ (2015)

This Provincial Life – woodwind quartet, 11’30” (2014)

 

Vocal

2019

that colossal wreck – two sopranos and piano, 2’30”


2017

Song for Ghosts – voice, piano, vibraphone, viola and cello, 2’

The Magi – SATB choir, harp, and piano, 6’

 

Large Ensemble

2018

Windmills – orchestra, 6’


2017

Wonderland – orchestra, 12’


2016

Chihuly – mixed chamber ensemble, 9’

Valkyrie’s Day Off – orchestra, 7’ (for the Kitchener-Waterloo Youth Orchestra)

 

Electronics

2019

landscapes no. 1 (for pink guitar) - electric guitar and live electronics (for the 21st Century Guitar Conference 2019)

obfuscation – fixed media work, 7’ (for Sound Thought 2019)


2017

Rabbit Hole - improvised live electronics, processed electric guitar, and piano (with Seth Climenhaga)

Life, the Universe, and Everything, generative installation for Max/MSP

Water_Music fixed media work, 3’

The Journey of the Magi fixed media work, 3’30”

 

Arrangements

2019

2017

Incidental music for Giamatti! Giamatti! Giamatti! - arranged theme and stings for their episodes on the show John Adams.

Hina Na Ho (Celebration) for large SATB choir, with guitar, piano, bass, and percussion accompaniment (for the Waterloo County Teacher’s Choir).