Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Commissioned by a large consortium for the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio; along with violist Michael Tree and contrabassist Harold Robinson; Zwilich infuses her new quintet with characteristic dept...

Faced with the same instrumentation as Messiaen's iconic Quartet for the End of Time, composed in a POW camp during World War II, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was moved to give voice to those less fortunate p...

In 1990; Charles M. Schulz saluted Zwilich in the Peanuts strip for her flute concerto. This led to a fast friendship between the two talents and Zwilich's masterwork Peanuts Gallery; a six-movement p...

For Orchestra - Full Score

For S.A.T.B. Chorus and Organ

Ellen Zwilich was already imagining music for contrabass and piano when bassist Michael Cameron serendipitously contacted her to commission such a work for premiere at the 2017 ISB convention. The res...

For Flute and Orchestra

Zwilich's Concerto Elegia for flute and strings was commissioned by a consortium of 11 orchestras and premiered by flutist Trudy Kane at University of Miami's Frost School of Music. The work's three m...

Ellen Zwilich has enjoyed a lifelong love of chamber music for mid-size ensembles and atypical scorings. Her fascination for Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet has inspired several works that include contraba...

SHADOWS was composed in 2011 as a commission for pianist Jeffrey Biegel and an international consortium of orchestras, anchored by the Louisiana Philharmonic. Zwilich wrote: 'As people have migrated f...

FOR HORN AND STRING ORCHESTRA

For String Orchestra (Score)

In her powerful Foreword to the music, violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins has written: "There are great works which give voice to important moments for generations, and this is one of them." The tragedy of...

Orchestra. For Piccolo, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon, Contra Bassoon, English Horn, Horn, Trumpet, Tenor, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Timpani, Piano, Viola, Cello, Violin I, Violin II,...

For Flute, Piccolo, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon, Contra Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Tenor, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Timpani, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Tambourine, Violin I, Violin...

For Violin, Cello and Piano

Continuing a long history of fruitful collaborations between Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and the famed Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio; the KLR celebrated their 40th anniversary by commissioning Zwilich for...