COMMISSIONS

Lorelei Ensemble is creating a living repertoire for a living audience.

We commission new music for women’s and treble voices that demands fierce flexibility and openness from each artist and each listener, new music that elevates diverse voices and perspectives, and new music that reflects and documents our current world: our experiences, our ideals, and our questions. We are commissioning music that preserves our present and shapes our future, as artists and as humans.

FEATURED WORKS

Commissions by year

2025

songs and interludes
Katherine Balch

2024

[breathe]
Charlotte Greve

[breathe]
Jason Treuting

[breathe]
Wendel Patrick

[breathe]
Ken Thomson

2023

Beaufort Scales
Christopher Cerrone

Suspended in Spin
Elijah Daniel Smith

2022

Her Story
Julia Wolfe

2019

I long and seek after
Jessica Meyer

Hurry to the Light
Kareem Roustom

Wayfaring Stranger
Jonathan Woody

Sinner Man (arr. sith strings)
Adam Jacob Simon

2017

Mother of Exiles
Mary Montgomery Koppel

Antigone: The Writings of Sophie Scholl
James Kallembach

Rose/Riddle/Rainbow
Shawn Kirchner

Dream of the Song
George Benjamin

2016

Unmask your sonic story
Reiko Yamada

love fail (choral version)
David Lang

2015

The Debrecen Passion
Kati Agócs

The Dawning Light
Carson Cooman

Of a rose synge we
Bryan Christian

There is no rose of such virtue
Tim Takach

Lullaby
Adam Jacob Simon

Nowell out of your slepe aryse
Carson Cooman

Peace is a Woman in a House
Shaw Pong Liú

The Oper&
John Supko

2014

Nokomis' Fall
Mary Montgomery Koppel

La douce pensée
Mary Montgomery Koppel

Ficus enim non florebit
Sungji Hong

North Woods
Scott Ordway

Saro
Joshua Shank

Reconstructed
Joshua Bornfield

so we must make the journey around the world
Daniel Schlosberg

O Fragile Human, Speak
Travis Alford

2013

Motet
Karin Höghielm

drishti
Mary Montgomery Koppel

Field Guide to Pilgrim Tracks
Reiko Yamada

The Familiar Spirit
Isaac Schankler

Magnificat for the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Joshua Shank

Tsukimi
Peter Gilbert

2012

Love Credo
Erin Huelskamp

Infinite Mercy
Anita Kupriss

Farewell (Long Time Travelin')
Joshua Bornfield

Golden Callings
Carson Cooman

Into Hell
Daniel T. Lewis

2011

Dona Nobis Pacem
Heather Gilligan

A la Lune
Mary Montgomery Koppel

At Dawn
Mary Montgomery Koppel

Dona Nobis Pacem
Howard Frazin

Dona Nobis Pacem
Robert Kyr

Dona Nobis Pacem
Scott Ordway

Dona Nobis Pacem
Thomas Schnauber

æther
Jordan Nobles

2010

A Single Decade Rosary
Justin Casinghino

Portum in Ultimo
Jeremy Van Buskirk

The Maid Servant at the Inn
Julia Scott Carey

Winter Wind
Heather Gilligan

Surely Happiness is Reflective
Erin Huelskamp

Hymn to the Sun
Mary Montgomery Koppel

Every Iridescent chip of Ice
Oliver Caplan

This is the Month of Dreams
Scott Ordway

Christ/Anti-Christ
Rudolf Rojahn

El Sueño
Daniel Schlosberg

Ubi Sunt
Harry Stefylakis

Variations on the Word Sleep
Mark David Buckles