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Compositions
​[recordings]
List of Works​

Music of Ellen Bender


The Tragic Triad {2007}

​Self Portrait I {1998}

​Self Portrait III {1998}

​Song {1993}

​Solitudes {1993}

​Solitudes {1993}

​Fragments of a Dream {1987}

​*Rondo for Three {2005}

*Writt​en for and performed by three students of Ellen Bender: Nicole Ajamian, Lauren Markella, Alison Ruth {grade 11}

Dickinson Songs {1999}, Complete Performance


Mine- by the right

​Beauty crowds me

​Come slowly- Eden

​They dropped like flakes

​Exultation

​Unable are the loved

List of Works by Ellen Bender

  Still, for orchestra {2020}
Oboe and the Storm, for narrator and flute choir {2019}  
    Fanfares, for flute choir, snare drum, suspended cymbal, optional trumpet in B flat {2018}; performed 2019
Oboe's Duck Pond, for narrator and flute choir {2017}; performed 2018    
    Two Songs, for soprano and piano, based on poems of Wallace Stevens {2016}
Little Fugue, for flute choir {2015}; performed 2016
    Turbolenza, for chamber orchestra {2015}
Cry of the Loon, for solo flute and flute choir {2014}; performed 2015
    Romance for Flute and Piano {2014}
Grief, for piano solo {2013}
    Sketches, for flute and string trio {2012}
Elegy, for two flutes {2012}
    The War Prayer, for flute choir, cello, and narrator {2010}, performed 2011
Nocturne, for piano {2010}
    Without Words, for piano, based on poems of Georgia Douglas Johnson {2009}
Sonnet, for flute solo {2008} 
    Suite, for flute solo {2008}
The Tragic Triad, for orchestra {2008} 
    Dreams, for flute choir {2008}; performed 2013
The Tragic Triad, for piano, four hands {2007} 
    Coda, for baritone voice and piano {2007} 
Poems of Love, twelve songs for soprano, tenor, and piano {2007}
    Theme with Variations, for flute and piano {2006}
Melancolique, for flute and piano {2005}; performed 2006
    Rondo for Three, for three flutes {2005}; performed 2006
Trio, for flute, viola, and piano {2005}
    Twelve Poems, for baritone and piano {2004}
Meditation, for flute and piano {2003}; performed 2004, 2005
    Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra {2001}
Dickinson Songs, for soprano and piano {1999}; performed 2000, 2001
    Self Portrait, for piano {1998}; performed 2001
The Marble Faun, an opera in two acts {1996}
    Letters of Love, for chorus, solo soprano, horn, piano {1993}
Song, for soprano, flute, harp {1993}; performed 1993
    Solitudes, for string quartet {1993}; performed 1993, 1994
Poem, for tenor, two flutes, piano {1992}
    Dramatic Verses, for soprano, tenor, piano {1992}; performed 1992
Rappaccini's Daughter, an opera in one act {1990}; performed in concert version 1992
    Fragments of a Dream, for soprano, baritone, flute, clarinet,horn, violin, cello, bass, harp {1987}: performed 1988, 1992
Three Songs for soprano, violin, cello, piano {1987}; performed 1987, 1988
    Variations for Flute and Piano {1986}; performed 1987
Three Movements for Flute, Strings, and Timpani {1985}
    Variations for Orchestra {1984}
Twelve Variations on Two Sarabandes by Brahms, for piano {1982}
    Quartet for Tenor, Violin, Horn, and Piano {1980}
Quartet for Flute, Violin, Horn, and Piano {1980}
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