Sarah Kirkland Snider
Orchestra
2025
11' impressionistic orchestral tone poem, inspired by the sea and oceanic movement.
2024
A 22' eight-movement orchestral work about memory, innovation, and cultural transformation, with optional film by Deborah Johnson.
Drink The Wild Ayre (for string orchestra) is 12:30 piece for harp and string orchestra that is, by turns, mysterious, rhythmic, dancing, and lyrical.
2020
15' work for full orchestra inspired by the American women's suffrage movement; a meditation on faith, doubt, and what it means to persevere.
2018
Embrace is a 39-minute narrative ballet choreographed by British choreographer George Williamson, the inaugural commission of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new Ballet Now program.
2015
27' work for full orchestra and optional film by Mark DeChiazza. A meditation on home, memory, loss, and nostalgia.
A 12' work for full orchestra on notions of resilience, inspired by a poem by Philip Levine. The 2014 Detroit Symphony Orchestra Elaine Lebenbom Prize Commission.
2005
(2005, rev. 2012) 14' work for full orchestra. A meditation on unspoken words.