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) NEW!

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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String Quartet No. 1 "Brevis et dulce" (2009)

String quartet

Duration:  c. 7'

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String Quartet No. 2 "Dance Suite" (2011)

String quartet

Duration:  c. 12'

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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.

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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, the composer conducting.

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