Repertoire

Partial List of 20th & 21st Century Repertoire

*indicates premiere performance

Solo Guitar Works

Chris Albanese – forget together*

John L. Baker – Fantasy No. 5*

Eve Beglarian – Until it Blazes

Luciano Berio – Sequenza XI

Naithan Bosse – Fractured Fractal*

Benjamin Britten – Nocturnal, op. 70

Leo Brouwer

  • El Decameron Negro
  • Hika

Elliott Carter – Changes

Carlos Chávez – Three Pieces for Guitar

Craig Day – Mount Pleasant Suite*

Britney Do – Arabian Tango*

Nimus Dilasso – Six Point Two*

Wolf Edwards – Chains*

Scott Edward Godin – gwan

Matthew Reid Horrigan – gourd motor mindscape

Peter Hannan – Punkt not punked*

Alex Jang

Nicole Lizée – Modern Hearts

Diego Lozano

Julia Mermelstein – Fear of Falling (into the unknown)

Mohammad Motevaselan – Serenade*

Tristan Murail – Vampyr!

Dubravko Pajalic – Preludes*

    Cavatina in E*

Steve Reich – Electric Counterpoint

Giacinto Scelsi – Ko Tha, Three Dances of Shiva

Rodney Sharman

John Mark Sherlock – Musiquita*

Glenn Sutherland – Seed on the Wind*

Toru Takemitsu – All in Twilight

Michael Trew – Meditations I*

                             Meditations II*

Kamran Shahrokhi – Lucent Moon*

Works for Three Guitars

John Gordon Armstrong– Flight*

Benjamin Britten – Lachrymae (excerpt), Op. 48, arr. Verdejo

John Cage – Composition for Three Voices arr. Verdejo

Scott Edward Godin

Lou Harrison – Elegy for Harpo Marx

Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) arr. Verdejo

  • Avril 14th*
  • aisatsana [102]
  • Alberto Balsalm

Jordan Nobles

Astor Piazzolla

  • La Muerte del Angel arr. Verdejo
  • L’Evasion arr. G. Tremendo

Benton Roark – Mystic Veil*

Patrick Roux – Carnaval

Rodney Sharman

John Mark Sherlock – Musiquita*

John Weinzweig – Conversations

rd wraggett

Works for Viola and Guitar

Murray Adaskin – Duo

John Gordon Armstrong – Incantations

Tim Brady – Frame 4: Still

John Cage – Dream* arr. Verdejo

Aris Carastathis – Encounters*

Wolf Edwards – Cluster Bomb Unit *

David A. Jaffe – Three Musicians (after the Picasso paintings)

Jan Järvlepp

Érik Marchelie – Eclipse

Arvo Pärt

Denis Poliquin – Ballade

Eric Schwartz – Thrash

Elliot Vaughan – prick

Works for Flute and Guitar

Astor Piazzolla – Histoire du Tango for flute and guitar

Ravi Shankar – L’Aube Enchantée for flute and guitar

Kaija Saariaho –Adjö for soprano, flute and guitar

Toru Takemitsu – Toward the Sea for alto flute and guitar

Anthony Genge – Night Rain for alto flute and guitar

David Leisner – Trittico for flute, cello, and guitar

Vivian Fine – Canciones y Danzas for flute, cello, and guitar

Ignacio Baca-Lobera – Dúo for flute and guitar

Jennifer Butler – Four Horses* for flute, guitar, and soprano

Jocelyn Morlock – Verdigris* for alto flute and guitar

Kara Gibbs – Tegami* for soprano, flute and guitar

Rodney Sharman – Missing You*

Hiroki Tsurumoto – voice box v*

Celso Machado – Musiques populaires brésiliennes

Gabriela Ortiz – 5 pa’ 2

Gabriella Yorke – Sapphic Lament* for Bass/Alto Flute and Electric Guitar

rd wraggett – Vicissitudes*

Sam Meadahl – Ethereal Fluidity*

Leslie Opatril – Greenslide in Springtime*

Michael Trew – Recalling the Night (Meditations 3)*

Diane Berry – Where We Meet*

Nadia Schibli – Dance of Disoriented Figures Burning in a Box*

Albin Rickman – Swedish Rondo*

Works for Voice and Guitar

Steven Botel – A Dark Place* for tenor and guitar

Dominick Argento – Letters from Composers for voice and guitar

Elliott Carter – Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred for voice and guitar

Catherine Laub – A Sonnet to Orpheus III* for tenor, guitar, and flute

Alvaro Rojas – In Darkness Let Me Dwell* for tenor and two electric guitars

Rodney Sharman – She Walks in Beauty* for soprano and guitar

Manuel de Falla – Siete canciones populares españolas for voice and guitar

Lou Warde – Songs of Earth and Sea* for tenor and guitar

Lloyd Burritt – For the One I Love for SATB, oboe, guitar, string bass, violin, piano arr. Verdejo

Ariel Ramírez – Misa Criolla for SATB, guitar, charango, and traditional instruments

Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco – Romancero Gitano, Op. 152 – for SATB and guitar

Stan Rogers – Watching the Apples Grow for SATB and two guitars- arr. Ron Small/Verdejo

Marco Del Rio – L’infinito* for SATB and guitar

Emile Deedes-Vincke – Ignite* for SATB and guitar

Works for Small Ensemble

John Cage arr. Verdejo

  •  In a Landscape (2 guitars)
  •  Dream (2 guitars)

Steve Reich – Nagoya Guitars for two guitars

John Oliver – Prismophony for guitar quartet

Celso Machado – Danças Populares Brasileiras for guitar quartet

Jacob TV – Jesus is Coming for guitar quartet arr. Alexander Dunn

Stephen Goss – Under Milk Wood Variations for guitar quartet and narrator

Matt Kaufhold – Canyon Epitaph* for trombone, flute and guitar

Radamés Gnattali – Sonata for cello and guitar

Alfredo Santa Ana – A Short Song for the Longest Night of the Year for 2 voices, piano, violin, electric guitar

Joaquín Mendoza Sebastián – …if you don’t pick up the phone… the phone will pick up you…* for electric guitar and small ensemble

Remy Siu – Difference* for violin & guitar

John Oliver – Hommage à Bruce Mather* for Harp and Guitar

Elizabeth Knudson – Anatomy of a Spanish Garden* for mandolin and guitar

Benton Roark – Songs from the Rainshadow’s Edge* for soprano, electric guitar, double bass, percussion, flute, viola, narrator

Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) – Rhubarb for flute, cello, double bass, viola, guitar arr. Verdejo

Nimus Dilasso – Quintet for flute, clarinet, cello guitar and double bass*

Jordan Nobles – Shattered Mirrors for marimba, vibraphone, piano, electric guitar

Nicole Lizée

  • Solstice Noir* for piano, guitar, violin and voices
  • Karappo Okesutura for voices, percussion, keyboards, bass, violin, cello electric guitar

Michael Finnissy – Casual Nudity for bass flute, double bass, piano, vibraphone and guitar

John Mutter – Elephant Stamps* for saxophone, flute, violin, cello, piano, electric guitar

Marga Richter – Divers (Diverse) Divertimento for flute, oboe  and guitar

Gheorghi Arnaoudov – FOOTNOTE (…und Isolde/ns Winkfall lassen…) * for soprano, cello, bass, violin, viola, horn, clarinet, flute, piano, and guitar

Works for Large Ensemble

Kurt Weill – The Threepenny Opera – (guitar and tenor banjo)

Rodney Sharman – Elsewhereless (guitar)

Friedrich Gulda – Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra (Classical and electric guitar)

Peter Hannan – 120 songs for the Marquis de Sade (electric guitar)

George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue (tenor banjo)

Terry Riley – In C

Moshe Denburg – Ani Ma-amin

John Oswald – Refuse* (electric guitar soloist)

Frank Zappa – Peaches en Regalia (electric guitar)

Harry Stafylakis – Source Code* (electric guitar soloist)

Works for Electric Guitar Ensemble

James Tenney – Septet for Six Electric Guitars and Bass

Jordan Nobles

Lisa Cay Miller – helix*

Alfredo Santa Ana – Under An Orange Sky* 

Rita Ueda – Life of a Snowflake*

James Beckwith Maxwell  – That thing, over there (pointing)* 

Benton Roark – Drunken Cathedral* 

Tim Brady     

  • 100 Very Good Reasons Why 
  • For Jordan*