James Matheson

James Matheson's Times Alone is a 20-minute song cycle on five surrealist poems by the Spanish writer Antonio Machado dating from 1907. The composer has written 'Antonio Machado's early poems are imag...

In the middle of a lake sits a solitary house on an island. The water ripples around it, the surroundings are beautiful, geese and a pair of swans fly and swim, toads croak at night. It is evocative a...

James Matheson's Capriccio was composed for Jennifer Koh who premiered it as part of the 2016 NY Philharmonic Biennial. Playing against the expectations of flamboyant violin caprices, Matheson's work...

Composed for violinist Baird Dodge; James Matheson's Spin is a three-movement study in various meanings of the word spin. I. Gyre has the character of a whimsically spinning object in a sort of arena....

James Matheson's Violin Concerto began life with the compound honor of being co-commissioned by the Chicago Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic. The Concerto was premiered in the 2011-12 season by v...

James Matheson's Pound for piano was written at the request of Xak Bjerken; pianist; Cornell faculty member and close friend of the composer. Given Bjerken's incredible technique and musicianship; Mat...

Commissioned by pianist Nadia Shpachenko, Cretic Variations is a virtuosic fantasy on the simple rhythmic motif of long-short-long, known in poetry as a 'cretic foot.' James Matheson (whose last name...

Commissioned by Justus and Elizabeth Schlichting for the Segerstrom Center for the Arts' chamber music series; the String Quartet was premiered in February 2014 by the St. Lawrence String Quartet at t...