Timothy Lee Miller | composer
String Music
WOODWINDS | SAXOPHONES | BRASS | STRINGS | PERCUSSION | GUITAR | PIANO | HARP | ORGAN | MIXED
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String Duets
Mirror, Mirror (2020)
Violin and cello
Duration: c. 7'
Commissioned in September 2020 by Dan Qiao and Carolyn Regula for their Mirror-2-Mirror recording project.
The premiere performance was on June 14, 2023, at the 2023 Mostly Modern Festival, Saratoga Springs, New York.
Piano Trios
Something More (2016)
Violin, cello, piano (also available for mixed sextet and percussion quartet)
Duration: c. 6'
Premiered as a sextet (oboe, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion) on June 14, 2019, by the American Modern Ensemble conducted by Alfonso Piacentini at the 2019 Mostly Modern Festival, Saratoga Springs, New York.
Awarded 3rd Place in the 2020 American Prize for Excellence in Composition.
String Trios
Carmina solis et lunae (2017)
Violin, viola, bass (or cello)
Duration: c. 7'
The premiere performance was on August 10, 2017, by Holly Mulcahy, violin; Anna Kruger, viola; and Rick Barber, bass, at the Wyoming Festival-New Music in the Mountains, Grand Teton National Park.
Three Miniatures for String Trio (2014)
Violin, viola, cello (also available for woodwind trio)
Duration: 7'
The premiere performance was given on September 9, 2021, by Gregor Kitzis, violin; Artie Dibble, viola; and Molly Aronson, cello, at the Little Church Around the Corner, New York City.
Piano Quartets
Old Poets (2024) NEW!
Soprano, violin, viola, cello, and piano (also in Italian with string quartet, see below)
Text by Alfred Joyce Kilmer
The world premiere took place on February 2, 2025, featuring soprano Valerie Gonzalez, pianist Craig Ketter, violinist Gabriel Anker, violist Elijah Spies, and cellist Andrew Janss at the Mahwah Library in Mahwah, New Jersey.
Duration: c. 4'
Poets (2019)
Soprano, violin, viola, cello, and piano (also in Italian with string quartet, see below)
Text by Alfred Joyce Kilmer
The world premiere took place on February 2, 2025, featuring soprano Valerie Gonzalez, pianist Craig Ketter, violinist Gabriel Anker, violist Elijah Spies, and cellist Andrew Janss at the Mahwah Library in Mahwah, New Jersey.
Duration: c. 3'
String Quartets
224 slices of pi (2015)
String quartet (also available for mixed quartet and woodwind quartet)
Duration: c. 6'
Premiered June 19, 2015, as a mixed quartet by Chris Schelb, flute; Hannah Mayer, cello; Andrea Lodge, piano; Ryan Patterson, percussion, at the 2015 nief-norf Summer Festival for Contemporary Music in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Dappled light 'mid mountains gleams (2017)
String quartet (also available for saxophone quartet)
Duration: c. 5'
Premiered in December 2017 as a saxophone quartet by Sean Mix, Bennett Parsons, Morgan Smallwood, and Andy Wilds at the Lilypad in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Poeti (2024) NEW!
Mezzo-soprano (in Italian), string quartet (also available in English with piano quartet, see above)
Text by Alfred Joyce Kilmer (Italian translation by Dominika Zamara). Premiered on October 17, 2024, at Sala della Protomoteca, Campodoglio, Rome, Italy by Dominika Zamara, soprano, Quartetto d’archi Mozaika, Maestro Antonio Brena conducting.
Duration: c. 3'
String Quartet No. 1 "Brevis et dulce" (2009)
String quartet
Duration: c. 7'
String Quartet No. 2 "Dance Suite" (2011)
String quartet
Duration: c. 12'
String Quartet No. 3 "l'Ode au Vermont" (2012)
String quartet
Duration: c. 17'
The premiere performance was given on June 14, 2022, by the Klang Quartet: Gregor Kitzis, Katie Thomas, violins; Artie Dibble, viola; and Molly Aronson, cello, at the Church of the Transfiguration, New York, New York.
Vecchi Poeti (2024) NEW!
Mezzo-soprano (in Italian), string quartet (also available in English with piano quartet, see above)
Text by Alfred Joyce Kilmer (Italian translation by Dominika Zamara). Premiered on October 17, 2024, at Sala della Protomoteca, Campodoglio, Rome, Italy by Dominika Zamara, soprano, Quartetto d’archi Mozaika, Maestro Antonio Brena conducting.
Duration: c. 4'
String Quintets (or more)
Chase The Wind (arr. 2009)
String quintet & piano (or marimba)(also for marimba quartet, mixed chamber ensemble, and string orchestra & piano)
Duration: c. 3'
The premiere performance was given on July 31, 2009, by the Conductor's Institute Chamber Ensemble at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, with the composer conducting.