Brooklyn Art Song Society is currently one of the largest commissioners of new songs. We have commissioned more than two dozen works in the past several years. BASS has worked with our New Music Advisory Board to ensure maximum diversity of voices represented in our commissioning projects. For more information on a specific work, feel free to email brooklynartsongsociety@gmail.com
Commissioned Works
Katherine Balch: Estrangement (2021)
Soprano, Piano
Text: Katie Ford
(25’)
Doug and Brad Balliett: Swan Song (2021)
Soprano, Tenor, Piano
Text: Doug and Brad Balliett
(30’)
Lembit Beecher: After the Fires (2022)
Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Baritone, Clarinet, Piano
Text: Liza Balkan
(‘25)
Eve Beglarian: Only Your Dolls are Cheerful (2022)
Mezzo soprano, piano
Text: Jane Bowles, Lucille Clifton, June Jordan, Anne Sexton
(‘15)
Iain Bell: Somerton Moore (2023)
Tenor, Piano
Text: C.H Sisson
(‘10)
Daniel Felsenfeld: For Clara (2019)
Soprano, Piano
Text: Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, Laura Mulvey, Brenda Shaughnessy
(15’)
Daniel Felsenfeld: San Francisco (2024)
tenor, piano
Text: Vijay Sheshardi
(‘5)
Herschel Garfein: A Tuesday Spot (2021)
Soprano, baritone, piano
Text: KC Trommer
(‘8)
Daron Hagen: The Art of Song (2019)
2 sopranos, 2 mezzo sopranos, tenor, baritone, piano
Text: Various
(‘60)
Daron Hagen: To A Street Person (2021)
Tenor, Piano
Text: Charles Baudelaire
(‘3)
Mikhail Johnson: Praise to the Mother of Jamaican Art (2023)
Soprano, Piano
Text: Lorna Goodison
(‘5)
James Kallembach: Autumn Violets (2021)
Soprano, Piano
Text: Christina Rosetti
(‘10)
Libby Larsen: The Other Side of Silence (2021)
Soprano, Piano
Text: George Eliot
(‘13)
Gilda Lyons: A Little Piece of You (2023)
Soprano, Piano
Text: Anne-Marie Racine
(‘7)
James Matheson: Pessoa Songs (2019)
Baritone, Piano
Text: Fernando Pessoa
(‘10)
Harold Meltzer: From a Book of Beautiful Monsters II
Soprano, Piano
Text: Aracelis Girmay
(‘8)
Jessica Meyer: with a gift for burning (2024)
Mezzo Soprano, Viola, Piano
Text: Adrienne Rich
(‘10)
Reinaldo Moya: Nocturno (2022)
Baritone, Piano
Text: Ruben Dario
(‘13)
Matthew Rickets: The Three Fold Terror of Love (2024)
Baritone, Piano
Text: W.B Yeats
(‘10)
Kurt Rohde: It Wasn’t a Dream (2018)
Soprano, Tenor, Piano 4 Hands
Text: Diane Seuss
(‘35)
Huang Ruo: Song of Everlasting Regret (2023)
Soprano, Piano
Text: Huang Ruo
(‘10)
Carlos Simon: American Sonnets (2023)
Baritone, Piano
Text: Terrance Hayes
(‘10)
Andrew Staniland: Earthquakes and Islands (2016)
Soprano, Baritone, Piano
Text: Robin Richardson
(’40)
Scott Wheeler: 3 Russian Nocturnes (2021)
Baritone, Piano
Text: Anna Ahkmatova, Alexander Blok, Osip Mandelstam trans. Jody McAuliffe
(‘8)
Jorell Williams: Kinderlebeslieder (2023)
Soprano, Violin, Piano
Text and Original Melody: Ilse Weber
(‘10)