Solo – 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[…]

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,[…]

Dreams in War Time

2014 | for tenor and piano | 15’ Amy Lowell’s “Dreams in War Time” is an evocative series of seven loosely connected images, published shortly after the end of World War I. In setting this[…]

Hex

2013 | for solo flute | 5’ Hex is a concert etude for unaccompanied solo flute, meant to exhibit a wide variety of extended techniques. The piece’s combination of ancient and modern sound worlds lend[…]

Labyrinth

2013 | for solo double bass | 3’ Labyrinth is a short solo piece for double bass inspired by Portugese artist Jorge Queiroz’ 2012 painting of the same name. In classical design, a labyrinth is[…]