Lynn Gumert
Composing a Life through Creativity
LIST of COMPOSITIONS
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Music Theatre and Dance
Cutting Edge, for soprano, chorus, orchestra, dance, and video, work in progress
Migrations: Resistance and Endurance, Original compositions and arrangements of Spanish and Latin American baroque music for
SSAT, recorders, strings, percussion; March 2010
Helen and Teacher, a musical in two acts with script and libretto by Susan Russell and music by Lynn Gumert; March 2008.
Arrangements for male a cappella choir for Carlo Goldoni’s The Liar; April 2009
Milkweed, for solo soprano; March 2006
SSA arrangements of songs for Cicely Hamilton’s Diana of Dobson’s; March 2005
Songs and Incidental Music for Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechuan; October 2001
Orchestral Works
River, work in progress
Women´s Voices: A Cantata, for soprano, mezzo, contralto, and chamber orchestra, Dec. 1998
Kriobolos for orchestra, June 1993
Instrumental Chamber Music
Undercurrents, for viola da gamba; Feb. 2011
Roundabout, for flute, percussion, 2 trombones, and double bass; April 2006
Moirologia, for piano solo; March 2004
El Pájaro Cautivo for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin and violoncello; March 2004
Nothing but Flowers and Songs of Sorrow, for guitar and tenor recorder: Dec. 1994
Todavía Cantan for 2 fl, clar, bsn, 2 hrns, 2 perc., 2 vln, vla, and vlc; April 1994
Shifting Colors for solo harp; Nov. 1993
When You Wake for piano and marimba; Nov. 1991
Prisms, for solo guitar; Nov. 1991
Maror for clar, tpt, harp, vln, vlc: Dec. 1989
Chiaroscuros for solo piano; Feb. 1988
Grendel Dancing for solo contrabass; Feb. 1988
Syzygia for violin, viola, and piano: April 1987
Circles for woodwind quartet; Oct. 1986
Choral Works
Tres Estampas Navideñas, for SSA(A) chorus, harp and percussion; Dec. 2001
Sephardic Songs of Spain and Sarajevo, for a cappella women's chorus (SSA(A)); May 1999
Irish Benediction, for SATB chorus with keyboard accompaniment; April 2000
God is our Mother for SATB chorus with 2 recorders and 3 viols; Oct. 1999
O virtus Sapientiae, for SATB chorus and optional organ; May 1999
Canciones Infantiles Costarricences, arr. for adult/child chorus; May 1998
Traditional Songs of Costa Rica, arr. for a cappella chorus, SATB; Oct. 1997
He Nacido con Voz for a cappella chorus, SSAATTBB; Dec. 1994 and Oct. 2010
Stepping Westward for Women's Chorus, SSA with piano; Nov. 1989 and Mar. 2005
Works for Solo Voice(s) with Instrumental Accompaniment
Desert Song, Soprano, Violin, and Harpsichord;
Honorable Mention in the Eighth Aliénor International Harpsichord Composition Competition, 2012
Arrangements of Sephardic Music, Latin American folk music, and Spanish Baroque music, voices, recorders, percussion,
harpsichord, viola da gamba; 2002-2013
Quemar las naves, SSAT, recorders, strings, percussion; March 2010
Exile, SSAT, recorders, strings, percussion; March 2009
Hago de lo flaco fuerte, SSAT, recorders, strings, percussion; March 2008
D’Estas Aves, SSAT, recorders, strings; March 2007
Milkweed, for soprano solo; Mar. 2006
La Niña Guerrera, for early music ensemble; Aug. 2002
Mary's Lullaby, for soprano and flute; Dec. 2000
Six Songs from the Japanese for soprano and violoncello; Nov. 1995
That Night, that Year of Now Done Darkness, for soprano, contralto, and piano; Dec. 1994
The Night Lies Poised, four songs for soprano, alto flute, and guitar; Nov. 1991
Words Will Bite for Soprano, Contralto, and Percussion: Oct. 1987
Love Songs for Contralto and Cello; Oct. 1986
Electronic and Video
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