Shulamit Ran

Melia Watras; a foremost performing violist and professor of viola; has commissioned a good number of composers for new works for her instrument. In her commission of Ran; she requested that a startin...

For Clarinet Solo. Solo part. Composed 1978. 8 pages.

This intriguing 11-minute work builds on alternations between declamatory unmetered phrases (beginning as 'sonorous; rubato; with great aplomb and resonance') and strictly motoric rhythmic sections; d...

A commission from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, for any combination of instruments of her choosing, quickly sparked Shulamit Ran to create a trio for Flute, Viola, and Harp. She writes of this...

Charmingly packed with wit, grace, symbolism, and irony, Shulamit Ran's THE FLIGHT OF THE BRAVE CHICKEN celebrates the life and work of a graphic artist and illustrator (who played clarinet), who lost...

For Two Flutes

For Violin, Cello, and Piano - Score and Parts

Excursions is a one-movement work exploring two principal 'characters': a rhapsodic; descending passage introduced by the cello; and a static; chorale-like phrase for the violin and cello. Two individ...

For Violoncello

For Solo Flute

Shulamit Ran has created many powerful and sparkling works for flutists, but none for Flute and Piano until the Chicago Flute Club commissioned this work to be premiered at the 2014 NFA convention in...

Spirit was composed in memory of the renowned clarinetist Laura Flax. Laura commissioned Ran's first solo clarinet work, For an Actor: Monologue for Clarinet (114-40236), to premiere with the Da Capo...

For Solo Violin

Ran was asked for a new work for Mimi Stillman's Dolce Suono Ensemble and their Mahler/Schoenberg 2012 concert series. Creating a piece that would be at once an homage and a companion piece to Schoenb...

For Bb clarinet and Violoncello

Shulamit Ran's delicately tinted chamber work Birkat Haderekh...glowed with a sense of gentle but firm supplication; its title rendered from the Hebrew as 'Blessing for the Road.' -- Jeremy Eichler; T...

In celebration of its 75th anniversary season; the Tanglewood Music Center commissioned a mixed quartet from Shulamit Ran; resulting in this work's original 2015 scoring for Bb Clarinet; Violin; Cello...

Commissioned by the International Beethoven Project for 'Beethoven Festival 2011: Man and Muse' as part of the Bagatelle Project (Ode to Joy theme) curated by IBP's New Music director Mischa Zupko. Co...

The Pulizer Prize winning Israeli-American composer Shulamit Ran composed these four settings for the Bar Mitzvah occasions of her two sons. From the story of creation to passages such as How fair are...

Pulitzer prize winning composer Shulamit Ran here provides us with a grand statement in praise of the pursuit of knowledge. Wisdom, understanding, and learning are highlighted as a means to justice, j...

Pulitzer prize winning composer Shulamit Ran here provides us with a grand statement in praise of the pursuit of knowledge. Wisdom, understanding, and learning are highlighted as a means to justice, j...

Stream for Clarinet and String Quartet (2015) was commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society in celebration of its 30th Anniversary Season; through support of The William Penn Foundation....

For String Quartet. Score and parts.