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Title: Desolation
Commission: 1979
Completed: 1980
Instrumentation: chorus
Premiere Location:
Premiere Ensemble:
Notes: Composed for the Swingle Singers.

Title: Windsor Jambs
Commission:
Completed: 1980
Instrumentation: mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble
Premiere Location: Whitney Museum, NYC
Premiere Ensemble:
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Title: Letters for the Times
Commission: 1979
Completed: 1980
Instrumentation: chorus and chamber ensemble
Premiere Location: Tanglewood Music Center, MA
Premiere Ensemble:
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Title: Yet That Things Go Round
Commission: 1980
Completed: 1987
Instrumentation: chamber ensemble
Premiere Location: 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
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Title: Trobar Clus
Co...

Title: Dynamic RAM and Concert Grand
Commission: 2011
Completed: 2014
Instrumentation: piano and laptop
Premiere Location: New York, NY
Premiere Ensemble: Vicky Chow and Neil Rolnick
Notes:

Composer Neil Rolnick pioneered the use of computers in musical...

Title: Quintet
Commission: 1992
Completed: 1993
Instrumentation: clarinet and string quartet
Premiere Location: Mandel Hall, University of Chicago
Premiere Ensemble: University of Chicago Department of Music
Notes:

The American composer Mark Gustavson was born...

Title: Music of Amber
Commission: 1979
Completed: 1980
Instrumentation: chamber ensemble
Premiere Location: Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY
Premiere Ensemble: Da Capo Chamber Players
Notes: Only the first movement, “Wind, Willow, Whisper,” was completed for the...

Title: T120
Commission: 2017
Completed: 2021
Instrumentation: piano trio
Premiere Location: October 4, 2021 at Duke University
Premiere Ensemble: Horszowski Trio
Notes:

I have been on the faculty at Duke since the fall of 1990, having earned degrees in music...

Title: Mirrors
Commission: 2022
Completed: 2023
Instrumentation: Tenor/baritone, oboe, bass clarinet, Bb trumpet, vibraphone, piano, violin, double bass
Premiere Ensemble: International Contemporary Ensemble
Premiere Location: November 1, 2023 at Merkin Hall...

Title: Paraphonia
Commission: 1977
Completed: 1978
Instrumentation: chamber orchestra
Premiere Location: Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, PA
Premiere Ensemble: Penn Contemporary Players
Notes:

Deeply influenced by Carnatic (South Indian) music and jazz...

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Title: Music for Trumpets and Strings
Commission: 
Completed: 1982
Instrumentation: two trumpets and string quartet
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Title: Chamber Symphony
Commissi...

Celebrated for his “waves of colorful sounds” (New York Times) and “smart, appealing works” (The New Yorker), Robert Honstein (b. 1980) is a New York-based composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and film music.  

Ensembles and performers that have...