Libby Larsen

The music is composed to create layers of tonality which overlap in space, especially in a vast space with a long acoustic decay.

This excellent addition to the tuba repertoire allows this oft-neglected instrument to demonstrate its more versatile side. Concert Piece explores a 3-octave range, allowing the tuba to combine fast-p...

This song cycle uses texts by women poets and focuses on women's experience with great humour and irony. The cycle will appeal to singers with real interpretative flair and is accessible to advanced s...

The texts are selected from the letters of Calamity Jane to her daughter Janey, from 1880-1902. The five songs present a stirring picture of an independent woman's struggle to earn a living to support...

Based on poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese explores the finding of a mature love by a woman who wonders what part of her must she sacrifice to the lover and to the world...

A song cycle for soprano and piano drawn from Brenda Ueland's 1938 autobiography. Although Ueland's life was nothing out of the ordinary, the philosophy of her writing is to find the joy in everyday e...

Margaret Songs are a collection of three songs of Margaret Elliot, a character in Libby Larsen's chamber opera, Eric Hermannson's Soul, based on a short story of Willa Cather. It charts one woman's em...

Larsen's song cycle is based on the novel by the American writer, Willa Cather, and the songs recount Jim Burden's memories of Ántonia Shimerda during their shared experiences of the pioneering period...

Try me, good King is a group of five songs drawn from the final letters and gallows speeches of the six wives of King Henry VIII. The cycle is a psychologically intense monodrama that presents technic...

The texts are selected from the letters of Calamity Jane to her daughter by Wild Bill Hickok. The five songs present a stirring picture of an independent woman's struggle.

For soprano and piano. Based on poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese explores the finding of a mature love by a woman who wonders what part of her must she sacrifice to the...

A song cycle for soprano and piano drawn from Brenda Ueland's 1938 autobiography.