Sarah Kirkland Snider
Orchestra
2024
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.
A 21' seven-movement orchestral work about memory and photography, with optional film by Deborah Johnson.
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
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.
27' work for full orchestra and optional film by Mark DeChiazza. A meditation on home, memory, loss, and nostalgia.
2005
(2005, rev. 2012) 14' work for full orchestra. A meditation on unspoken words.