Patricia Wallinga

Driftless Valley Variations

2016 | for solo viola | 7’ The Driftless Area of the Midwestern United States is a small patch of the continent that the glaciers forgot to flatten. Lined with rolling hills and bluffs, carved[…]

Welcome to my new headquarters on the web! This is where you’ll be able to find news about my upcoming performances and newly released recordings. I’ll also periodically post thoughts on my musical experiences, recent[…]

The Opheliad

2016 | for soprano and piano | 10’ Poor Ophelia! The doomed girl from Shakespeare’s Hamlet is beloved as a symbol in works from artists across many mediums and centuries, yet so often neglected as[…]

Elementary

2016 | for symphony orchestra | 4’ With apologies to my extremely supportive parents, it is just barely an exaggeration to say that I was raised by the symphony orchestra. As a teenager, I spent[…]

tu flos es

2016 | for solo double bass, three voices, and continuo | 6’ tu flos es is a concert solo suspended in social commentary, presenting the solo double bassist as a narrative protagonist operating within a[…]

Songs of Days Past

2014 | for medium voice and piano | 9’ Songs of Days Past is a collection of three songs for medium voice that pair texts from three different poetic periods with music meant to evoke[…]

little girl blue

2015 | for solo harp or marimba | 6’ little girl blue is a piece composed entirely of melodies. In theory, the four melodies that comprise this piece are of equal importance. In practice, however,[…]

Full of Grace (Thursday’s Child)

2015 | for SATB vocal quartet | 5’ This piece, written in collaboration with choreographer Sydney Harmon, is born of a mutual fascination with lullabies— the motions and melodies used across generations to soothe a[…]

WARP

2015 | for modified Pierrot ensemble | 4′ WARP is the score to an experimental short film of the same name by Tyler Strzelecki and Exsenet Esler, created and premiered as a collaboration for the[…]

Swallow the Stars

2014 | a one-man concert opera for baritone, oboe, violoncello, and piano | 35’ Swallow the Stars is a one-man concert opera in five scenes, written for a solo baritone accompanied by oboe, cello, and[…]