Selected Compositions and Audio Excerpts
Large Ensemble
Flight: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (2005-06)
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Commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra with funding from Meet
the Composer/American Symphony Orchestra League.
Duration: 18 min. 30 sec.
Make a Joyful Noise (2004)
Commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
Duration: 6 min.
Instrumentation: solo pipa and 2(picc)222/2210/timp/1 perc/strings.
Music of Wonder (2002)
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Commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
Duration: 11 min.
Instrumentation: 2(picc)222/4200/timp/1 perc/strings.
Fire Cycle (2000)
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Commissioned by the Queens Symphony Orchestra with funding from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust.
Duration: 18 min.
Instrumentation: 2(picc)222/4221/timp/2 perc/piano/strings.
Short Stories (1998)
Duration: 10 min.
Instrumentation: 2(alto/picc)222/2221/timp/2 perc/harp/strings.
Sunan Dances (1995)
Commissioned by the Columbus State University Wind Ensemble.
Duration: 10 min.
Instrumentation: 3(picc)3(Eng hn)3(bass cl)3(contra)/4331/timp/3 perc/harp/strings.
Score and parts available 2005 through Warner Brothers Publishing,
Inc.
Solo
Still for oboe (2005)
Commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
Duration: 3 min. 30 sec.
Streams for viola (2005)
Commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Duration: 11 min.
Mirage 2 for flute (2004)
Duration: 5 min.
Available through the Canadian Music
Centre
Elegy for piano (2004)
Duration: 3 min.
Mirage for flute or saxophone (2000)
Duration: 5 min.
Available through Dorn
Music Publishing
Bloom for solo cello (1999) ![]()
Duration: 12 min.
Available through the Canadian Music
Centre
dark sea, silent stars for guitar (1999)
Duration: 3 min.
Small Chamber (2-4 players)
Beautiful Things for string quartet ![]()
Commissioned by Festival Vancouver for the
Smith Quartet.
Duration: 10 min.
Available through the Canadian Music
Centre
Walk on Water for alto saxophone and cello (2004)
Commissioned by Paul Bro and Kurt Fowler with funding from the Indiana State University Arts Endowment.
Duration: 10 min.
Available through Dorn Music Publishing
Four Vignettes for clarinet, horn, cello and piano (2004)
Commissioned by Brian Kilp with funding from the Indiana State
University Arts Endowment.
Duration: 7 min.
Embers for dizi, erhu, zheng and percussion (2003) ![]()
Commissioned by Music from China with funding from Chamber Music
America.
Duration: 15 min.
Obsess for saxophone quartet (2003)
Commissioned by the Chicago Saxophone Quartet.
Duration: 10 min.
The Light Fantastic for violin, cello and piano (2001)
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Duration: 14 min.
Score available through the Canadian Music
Centre
Miniatures for flute, cello and piano (1998)
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Duration: 8 min.
Score available through the Canadian Music
Centre
Lyria for bass and piano (1997)
Duration: 6 min.
Two Preludes for alto saxophone and piano (1993)
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Duration: 8 min.
Available through Dorn Music Publishing
Other Chamber (5+ players)
Waiting (2007)
Commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
Instrumentation: fl/picc, ob, cl, bn, alto sax, bari. sax, tpt, hn, trb, drum set, electric piano, 2 vlns, vla, vc, db.
Chamber Variations (2004)
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Commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
Duration: 14 min.
Instrumentation: flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn,
percussion, harp, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass.
Available through the Canadian Music Centre
Wind/Unwind (2002) ![]()
Commissioned by the Kylix New Music Ensemble with funding from the
Barlow Endowment for Music Composition.
Duration: 15 min.
Instrumentation: flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello,
piano.
Falling Sky (2000)
Commissioned by Collage New Music
Duration: 15 min.
Instrumentation: flute, clar, violin, viola, cello, bass, piano and
percussion.
Light Fragments (1997) ![]()
Duration: 8 min.
Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion.
Vocal
Three Small Songs of Night for soprano, flute, viola and guitar (2006)
Commissioned by the Continuum Consort with funding from the British Columbia Arts Council.
Duration: 10 min.
Songs of Woods and Water for soprano and piano (2004) ![]()
Duration: 5 min.
Autumn for mezzo-soprano and piano
Duration: 3 min.
Burning for soprano and piano (1998, revised 2004)
Duration: 8 min.
Recordings
Mirages: Music by Dorothy Chang
Available through the Canadian Music
Centre.
Journey: Columbus State University Wind Ensemble
For unpublished materials, please contact Dorothy Chang


