COLIN MARTIN, COMPOSER
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 Complete Works
 
2023
"Amerikinetics" for string octet (13')

Concerto #2 for Piano and Orchestra (30')
(2.2.2.2, 4.2.3.1, timp+3, solo piano, strings)

Capriccio for orchestra
(picc+2, 2.2+b.cl., 2+cbsn, 4.2.3.1, timp+3, harp, celesta, strings)

2022
Songs from "By Heart" (text by Karen McKinnon) (commissioned by the New Mexico Philharmonic) (16')
(1.1.1.1, 2 horn, timp, 1 perc, cel, soprano solo, str)- Second Prize, The American Prize in Orchestral Composition, Professional Division

"Tangos Artificiales" for marimba, piano, MIDI marimba and MIDI piano (9')

"Tempests and Temptations" for wind ensemble (10')

"Kanashimi: Concert Fantasy for Marimba and Chamber Orchestra" (20')

"A Land of Dust and Life" for guitar quartet (12')

Twelve Preludes for Piano (17')

Piano Sonata #3 (10')

Romance for Violin and Piano (7')

2021
"Love Finds a Way": chamber ballet for tape, string quartet, piano and keyboard percussion (24')

"Techno Etudes" for Piano and fixed electronics (18')

Concerto for Steel Pan and Orchestra (for Sachelle Thomas) (20')
(2.2.2.2, 2.2.3.1, timp+1, harp, celesta, solo steel pan, strings)

"Rainbow Bridge" for solo vibraphone (7')


2020
Songs from "By Heart" (text by Karen McKinnon) (commissioned by the New Mexico Philharmonic) (16')
(1.1.1.1, 2 horn, timp, 1 perc, cel, soprano solo, str)

"Coronavirus Fantasy" for solo cello (for Abigail Monroe) (6')

"Island Vibes" for tenor steel pan, marimba and vibraphone (written for So Percussion Summer Institute (SoSI) 2020) (4')

"Prapañca" for Solo Clarinet in E-Flat (Commissioned by Andrew Friedman) (7')

COVID Variations (for solo piano) (15')

Six Pieces for Solo Timpani (for Douglas Cardwell) (5')

Sonata for Trombone and Piano (for Tim Higgins) (16')

Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (for Robert Lau Giambruno) (16')

Sonata for Tuba and Piano (22')

Sonata for Horn in F and Piano (27')

Six Pieces for Piano (for Vladislav and Olga Kern) (22')

Three Pieces for Guitar (10')

"Fantasy" for Piano (11')

Partita for Solo Violin (10')

Sonatina for Solo Viola (10')


2019
Piano Sonata #2 "For a Summer Evening" (17')

String Quartet #2 (15')

"Stranded: a Solo Space Opera" for soprano and piano (libretto by the composer) (30')

Symphony No. 2 (45')
(2+picc, 2, 2+b. cl., alto sax, 2+cbsn, 6.4.3.1, 2 timp+3, harp, celesta, strings)

2018

Symphony #1 (written on commission for the New Mexico Philharmonic)
(2.2.2.2, 4.2.3.1, timp+3, strings) (24')

Piano Concerto in D Minor (2.2.2.2, 4.2.3.1, timp+2, piano solo, strings) (24')

Four Sylvia Plath Songs for soprano voice and cello (10')

Sinfonia for Two Pianos and Percussion (35')

Tragic Overture for large orchestra (2+picc., 3, 3, 2 + cb, 4.3.3.1, timp+3, strings) (10')

Sonata for Violoncello and Piano (17')



2017

Mad Girl's Love Song, for soprano voice and cello, text by Sylvia Plath (3')

Pixies, for solo piano (3')

The Guadiana for tenor voice and piano, text by Lord Byron (3')

Chicxulub, for large orchestra  (2+picc.2.3.2+cb, 4.3.3.1, timp+3, hp, cel, str) (10')

Ballade, for solo piano (9')

Y los sueños sueños son, for solo cello (5')

Three Movements on an Idee Fixe for Woodwind Quintet (10')

2016

Trio for Violin, Marimba and Piano (20’)
  1. I. Introduction
  2. II. Scherzo
  3. III. Romance
  4. IV. Finale

Three Etudes for Solo Piano (10’)
I. Allegretto
  1. II. Larghetto misterioso
  2. III. Presto furioso, sempre staccato

Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra (for Douglas Cardwell) (20’)
  1. I. Allegretto
  2. II. Andante
  3. III. Presto
 
Diabolico for solo viola (for Luis Bellorin and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Viola Project XI) (8’)
 
Six Miniature Etudes for Solo Clarinet in Bb (6')
  1. I. Capriccioso
  2. II. A Little Tipsy
  3. III. March
  4. IV. Gyroscope
  5. V. Dread
  6.  VI. Ice Storm

Three New Mexican Preludes for Guitar and Six-Mallet Marimba (7')
I. Baile del correcaminos (Dance of the Roadrunner)
II. Lamento de los alamos (Lament of the Cottonwoods)
III. El viento sobre el Rio Grande (The Wind Over the Rio Grande)

2015
 
Mesozoic Suite for Chamber Orchestra (1011-1211-tmp+1-pf-str 1.1.1.1.1) (20’)
  1. I. Introduction
  2. II. Coelophysis
  3. III. Seismosaurus
  4. IV. Archaeopteryx
  5. V. Parasaurolophus
  6. VI. Velociraptor
  7. VII. Quetzalcoatlus
  8. VIII. Triceratops
  9. IX. Tyrannosaurus Rex
  10.  X. Finale- Extinction
 
Piano Sonata No. 1 (20’)
  1. I. Allegro
  2. II. March
  3. III. Nocturne
  4. IV. Allegro tempestoso
 
Dystopia for Orchestra (1111-1110-tmp+1-pf-str 1.1.1.1.1) (10’)
 
El amor y la pérdida: Jorge Luis Borges Song Cycle for solo baritone and piano (10’)
Note: Songs set in the original Spanish
  1. Alhambra
  2. La lluvia
  3. El enamorado
  4. Despedida
  5. El suicida
 
 
 Three Preludes for Solo Marimba (10’)
  1. Dukkha
  2. Anapanasati
  3. Nirvana


2014
 
String Quartet No. 1 (2014-15) (20’)
  1. I. El hambre forzado
  2. II. El pensamiento- Confesión
  3. III. Dudas- La visión- Una vida que vale la pena
 
 





 
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