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Fanfare (2008)

for symphony orchestra (2-2-2-2, 4-3-2-1, timp, strings)

Commissioned by the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra
World premiere: January 2009, Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, Randall Craig Fleischer, conductor, Atwood Concert Hall, Anchorage, Alaska
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03 February, 2015

Prologue: The Quechol’s Cry (2011)

for children’s choir, prepared piano and string quartet

Commissioned by PALS Children's Chorus Boston
World premiere: March 2011, PALS Children's Chorus, Alysoun Kegel, conductor, First Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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03 February, 2015

Within Earth, Wood Grows (2010)

for chamber orchestra and Vietnamese dan bau (fl.[+picc.], ob., cl. (+ bass cl.), bsn., hn., dan bau, Vietnamese perc., hp, pno., strings)

Commissioned by Southwest Chamber Music in Los Angeles by the Schoenberg Family Charitable Fund
Written in honor of the 15th anniversary of the normalization of relations between the United States and Vietnam
World premiere: March 2010, Southwest Chamber Music, Jeff von der Schmidt, conductor, Ascending Dragon Music Festival, Hanoi Opera House, Hanoi, Vietnam; Zipper Hall, Los Angeles, California (U.S Premiere)
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03 February, 2015

In Beauty, May I Walk (2009)

for women’s choir, children’s choir, clarinet (+bass cl.), violin, two violas, cello and double bass

Commissioned by Present Music
World premiere: October 2009, Present Music with the Milwaukee Choral Artists and the Milwaukee Children's Choir, Kevin Stalheim and Sharon Hansen, conductors, Cathedral of St. John, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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03 February, 2015

Lumino(c)ity (2004)

for mixed amplified ensemble (2 fl. [+picc.,alto], alto sax, baritone sax, electric guitar, bass guitar, perc., amplified violin and amplified cello

Commissioned by the Bang on a Can Summer Music Institute
World premiere: July 2004, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can Festival Fellows, Dante Anzolini, conductor Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA), North Adams, Massachusetts
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03 February, 2015

A Requiem for the Living (2001 original) (2012 arrangement)

for string orchestra (2012)

Original version for two violins, viola, and two double basses. Arranged for string orchestra
Dedicated to the victims of 9/11 in the United States and the victims in Iraq of the United States’ invasion of Iraq in 2003
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03 February, 2015

Júdica Me (2001)

for SATB a cappella choir

Commissioned by the La Schola Cantorum
World premiere: July 2001, EAMUSIC, Paris, France
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03 February, 2015

(photo: vocalist and composer Meredith Monk and composer Alexandra du Bois after Kronos Quartet's London premieres of their string quartets at the Barbican. 2004)

Four Lorca Songs (2001)

for mezzo soprano and orchestra (2-2-2-2/ 4-3-2-1, perc.,strings)

World premiere: April 2001, Marcy Richardson, mezzo soprano, Vince Lee, conductor, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
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03 February, 2015

Our Eyes (2000)

for double SATB a cappella chorus

Commissioned by the University Chorus and Chamber Singers at the University of Massachusetts at Boston in honor of the 35th anniversary of the University Chorus in 2000 World premiere: November 2001, University Chorus and Chamber Singers at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Jeffrey Rink, conductor, Snowden Hall, Boston, Massachusetts...Read more

03 February, 2015

Exploration of Dead Ends (2014)

Written and directed by Pierre St. Jacques
World premiere: November 2014, Station Independent Gallery, Tribeca, New York City
Original soundtrack and sound design by Alexandra du Bois and Kirk Miller (AerialCreatures)
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03 February, 2015

Author: Alexandra

for symphony orchestra (2-2-2-2, 4-3-2-1, timp, strings)

for children’s choir, prepared piano and string quartet

for chamber orchestra and Vietnamese dan bau (fl.[+picc.], ob., cl. (+ bass cl.), bsn., hn., dan bau, Vietnamese perc., hp, pno., strings)

for women’s choir, children’s choir, clarinet (+bass cl.), violin, two violas, cello and double bass

for mixed amplified ensemble (2 fl. [+picc.,alto], alto sax, baritone sax, electric guitar, bass guitar, perc., amplified violin and amplified cello

for string orchestra (2012)

for SATB a cappella choir

for mezzo soprano and orchestra (2-2-2-2/ 4-3-2-1, perc.,strings)

for double SATB a cappella chorus