January 2019 News

I'm thrilled that my In this short Life for SATB Choir won The Capital Hearings 2018 Young Composer Competition and was premiered by the group in Washington, DC in September! The work is a setting of two short poems by Emily Dickinson that meditate on the transience and preciousness of life and what one can (or can’t) accomplish within it. Please have a listen to the superb recording of the premiere here, I think it is my best choral work to date!

I'm happy to share that my Kyrie Eleison for SATB Choir has been selected as a finalist in this year's Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest . I'll be heading to Ithaca on March 23rd to hear a yet-to-be-named high school choir premiere the work at the Ithaca College Choral Composition Festival.

The Chorosynthesis Singers have released their recording of my Do You Hear How Many You Are? as a sneak preview of Empowering Silenced Voices, their upcoming double-CD of socially conscious choral music! Have a listen, it sounds amazing!

This past semester, I had the opportunity to write a new work for the Eastman Graduate Composers' Sinfonietta. The piece, called A Hymn of Life, is somewhat inspired by Bach's famous C major Prelude from the first book of The Well Tempered Clavier. Watch a video of the performancehere.

To my Boston-area friends, if you missed the other performances of my Appalachian Trail Symphony, it will be performed by the Wellesley Symphony Orchestra on February 10th at Mass Bay Community College ! Otherwise, you can always listen to a recording of the work online. Here is one set to a slideshow of photos from my hike .

Also at Eastman, I had several of my piano preludes performed in October by the intrepid Kevin Wang , including the premieres of Prelude No. 12 (88-Keys) and No. 13 (Waves). You can watch a video of the performance here . Kevin also became the first person other than myself to perform my somewhat notorious (played with a glove on the left hand!) Prelude No. 3 (Homage to Nancarrow) and we later made a professional video of him performing the work as a project for my digital media class. Take 3 minutes to watch it , it sounds and looks great and I'm very proud of my filming and editing skills that I learned during the process.

Speaking of more videos, I'm a nerd who loves those youtube videos where you can follow a score to a piece while listening to it, so I've made a bunch of those videos with my own pieces for others to enjoy! Check out this playlist where I have 15 such works of mine synched up to images of the score.

Featured Video

An Appalachian Trail Symphony: New England (slideshow)

Recording of "An Appalachian Trail Symphony: New England" performed by the Clafin Hill Symphony Orchestra set to photos from my hike.

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Keane Southard — Prelude No. 3 (Homage to Nancarrow)

3 Jan 2019

3:42

Do You Hear How Many You Are? by Keane Southard, Chorosynthesis Singers

31 Dec 2018

4:36

Claflin Hill presents Appalachian Trail Symphony by Keane Southard

30 Sep 2018

30:06

April-England by John Foulds

19 Jun 2018

7:25

Prelude No. 3 (Homage to Nancarrow) by Keane Southard

19 Jun 2018

3:20

Prelude No. 14 (Berceuse) by Keane Southard

19 Jun 2018

4:04

Dança Negra by Camargo Guarnieri

19 Jun 2018

3:46

Improviso No. 2 by Camargo Guarnieri

19 Jun 2018

3:45

Maria Lucia by Camargo Guarnieri

19 Jun 2018

1:48

Recollections of Ancient Greek Music by John Foulds

19 Jun 2018

15:08

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Southard: Piano Sonata no 2

Southard: Homage to L. M. Gottschalk

Southard: Fantasy in B flat minor

Southard: Prelude No. 1 (Jazz) for Piano Solo

Southard: Prelude No. 2 (Drops) for Piano Solo

Southard: Prelude No. 3 (Homage to Nancarrow) for Piano solo

Southard: Prelude No. 4 (O Woozy Suzy!) for Piano solo

Southard: Prelude No. 5 (Precision) for Piano solo

Southard: Tidal Wave Rag for Piano solo

Southard: No-Name Rag for Piano solo

Southard: Prelude No. 9 (Guante-ango) for Piano solo

Southard: Prelude No. 7 (Perfect Ostinato) for Piano Solo (2010)

Southard: Prelude No. 10 (For Ken Girard) for Piano solo

Southard: Prelude No. 14 (Berceuse) for Piano Solo

Southard: A Waltz for Diane

Southard: Prelude No. 13 (Waves)

Southard: Prelude No. 12 (88 Keys) for Piano

Southard: Prelude No. 8 (Chromatic) for Piano Solo

Rzewski: Down By the Riverside

Finzi: Eclogue for Piano and Strings in F major, Op. 10

Ives: Sonata for Piano no 2 "Concord, Mass 1840–60"

Gottschalk: Union, RO 269/Op. 48

Guarnieri: Valsa no 5

Guarnieri: Valsa no 9

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras no 4 for Piano, A 264

Guarnieri: Dansa negra

Nazareth: Odeon

Nazareth: Xangô

Villa-Lobos: A Lenda do Caboclo, W 166

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras no 4 for Piano, A 264

Guarnieri: Improviso II

Guarnieri: Maria Lucia

Guarnieri: Dansa negra

Santoro: 7 Paulistanas

Gnattali: Negaceando

Warlock: Folksong Preludes

Foulds: English Tune with Burden

Foulds: April – England, Op. 48 no 1

Foulds: Dance Tunes from Punjab

Foulds: Recollections of Ancient Greek Music

Southard: Concerto for Solo Piano and Solo Organ

Southard: Blazonry for 8 Percussionists

Southard: And Death Shall Have No Dominion

Southard: Chorale for Brass Quintet

Southard: Variations on a Hymn (Beecher) for Organ

Southard: Duo for Clarinet and Cello

Southard: Duo for Violin and Piano

Southard: String Quartet no 1

Southard: In My Craft or Sullen Art

Southard: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Southard: Music for the Film "Glava" (excerpt)

Southard: Piano Quintet 'New England'

Southard: Sonata no 1 for Violin and Piano

Southard: Quintette de Cuivres

Southard: Variazioni Semplici for Violin and Harp

Southard: Swansong for Cello and Piano

Southard: The Dove in the Ash Grove for Cello and Piano

Southard: Two Minutes for Saxophone Quartet

Southard: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

Southard: Seven Short Studies for String Orchestra

Southard: Mini-Symphony for Chamber Orchestra

Southard: A Day of Sunshine for Chorus and Orchestra

Southard: Waltzing Dervish for Wind (powered) Ensemble

Southard: Do You Hear How Many You Are?

Southard: "Classical" Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra

Southard: Do You Hear How Many You Are? for Concert Band

Southard: Carousel for Concert Band

Southard: Showers over Peaks and Vales for Orchestra

Southard: No Interior do Rio de Janeiro for Orchestra

Southard: Uma Passacalha Brasileira for Wind Ensemble

Southard: The Glastonbury Wilderness for Orchestra

Southard: Um Ano no Brasil (A Year in Brazil)

Southard: No Interior do Rio de Janeiro for Wind Ensemble

Southard: Concertino for Piano and Wind Ensemble

Southard: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" for SAB choir

Southard: In the Spaces of Thought" for SATB Choir

Southard: "A Blessing of Discomfort" for SSA Choir

Southard: An Appalachian Trail Symphony: New England (Symphony No.1)

Southard: A Hymn of Life

Southard: "In this short Life" for SATB Choir

Gottschalk: Union, RO 269/Op. 48

Southard: Piano Sonata no 2

Finzi: Eclogue for Piano and Strings in F major, Op. 10

Ives: Sonata for Piano no 2 "Concord, Mass 1840–60"

Southard: Improvisation 1/31/10

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