Small Fools
Small Fools is a classically-inflected cosmic folk project I started with my brother Nathan. Our music was recently featured on ABC, Australia’s national public radio.
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Classical Music
I have been commissioned by choirs, orchestras, and opera companies across the country to write lyrics and libretti. I particularly love creating exciting new pieces for kids and family programs.
List of works include:
Kids and Family Pieces
What About the Duck? - a sequel to Peter and the Wolf, written for chamber orchestra and narrator, with composer Andrew Maxfield. Premiered by the Utah Symphony, March 2024 to two sold-out shows.
Happy Birthday Opera – A ten-minute family-friendly opera about the most ubiquitous song in the English language, in collaboration with composer Andrew Maxfield. Commissioned by the Utah Opera, July 2022
Choral Pieces
Surface - choral text commissioned by the Thomas Circle Singers, with composer Arianne Abela, set to premier in May 2024
Night Sky, What Do You Know? – Commissioned by Whitman College Chamber singers to write a new choral text, with Arianne Abela, March 2021
Now We Can Begin – Commissioned by Classical Movements' Eric Daniel Helms New Music Program for the 2020 Serenade! Washington, D.C. Choral Festival, with Arianne Abela, July 2020
Because You Sang Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club to write a text commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Coeducation at Yale, with Arianne Abela, Apil 2020
Grow
Demos for Grow, a cartoon pitch about anthropomorphic plants. Written and recorded with my brother, NYC-based composer Nathan Prillaman.