Works – 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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Antique Suite

2014 | for flute, harp, and bassoon | 15’ Antique Suite is a set of character studies for the very unusual combination of flute, bassoon, and harp. This piece is my personal experiment in writing[…]