“redefining the very notion of classical music”
— Fredric Dannen, Atención San Miguel
selected works:
Film, Opera, & Theater
• Dissolution, for mezzo soprano, cello, and prepared piano, with director Alex Helfrecht, 2026 (in progress)
• Otsego County, USA, by Nicole Brancato & Evan Jagels, 2025
• Infinitesimal, a chamber opera for baritone, piano, and electronics, (with Jeremy Weiss) 2024
• The Search for UP, by Nicole Brancato & Evan Jagels, 2023
• it’s nice to be on the island, by Nicole Brancato & Evan Jagels, 2022
• Don’t Fall in Love, Sam, for prepared piano and narrator, 2021
• Inner Strength, for online docu-series Building Strength, 2015
Chamber Ensembles
• freely breathes her native air, for piano four-hands and fixed media, 2023
• mundus cerialis, for pierrot ensemble and fixed media, 2023
• 2063, for flute, bass clarinet, violin, and piano, 2021
• Down by the Greenwood, for soprano, tenor, clarinet, violin, viola, and cello, 2020
• Carnivorous by Nature, for flute and tenor saxophone, 2020
• Prayer for Mankind, for trumpet, alto saxophone, and piano, 2016
• My Sax Life is All Fached Up, for jazz piano trio and two voices, 2013
Solo / Solo with Fixed Media & Electronics
• 6 States of Flow, open instrumentation graphic scores, 2025
• Sentient Circuitry, for flute and live electronics, 2025 (in progress)
• Elevator Music, for live electronics inside an elevator, 2024
• to begin a/new, for piano and fixed media, 2022
• First/Last Meditation, setting of Frederico Garcia Lorca for speaking pianist, 2021
• Siren in Silence, setting of Maya Angelou for speaking pianist, 2021
• Note to Self, for unaccompanied voice, 2021
• for someone / for no one / for anyone at all, for piano as part of The Illustrated Pianist project, 2021
• Tricks of Light, for prepared piano as part of The Illustrated Pianist project, 2020
• No Matter, for piano as part of The Illustrated Pianist project, 2020
• Vexations 2020, for speaking pianist and electronics, 2020
• The Plum Suite, for speaking pianist, 2018/2020
• Sample of a Daily Commute, for piano and electronics, 2016
Multimedia Compositions
• High Voltage Wires (by Dr. Sal Brancato!), for prepared piano, violin, bass, & electronics, (Persephone & the Phoenix) 2023
• 9 Ways to Destroy a Violin, for prepared piano, violin, fixed media, and installation of sound, video, & sculpture, (Persephone & the Phoenix) 2023
• Fire in which we Burn, for prepared piano, violin, viola, electric bass, and live electronics, (Persephone & the Phoenix) 2022
• Autonomous, by oNSET quartet for the Banff Center’s EvoFest, 2021
• Hangers 101 & a Litany of Hashtags, for piano and narrator, 2021
• Zofia’s Postludes, for piano and time-lapse painting, 2020
Electronic Pieces
• 6 Interludes for Deconstruction Cowell, stereo fixed media, 2024
• Prelude to Fire in which we Burn, field recordings, voice samples, two narrators, & fixed media, 2022
• should be, pianist, narrator, & electronics, 2020
Recordings of Compositions
• High Voltage Wires (by Dr. Sal Brancato!), by Nicole Brancato & Teagan Faran (Persephone & the Phoenix), 2023
• /listening_sessions/summer.soundfullness, by Nicole Brancato & Douglas Paulson (.soundfullness), 2022
• /listening_sessions/winter.soundfullness, by Nicole Brancato & Douglas Paulson(.soundfullness), 2022
• fleeting moments in the infinity loop, vol. 1 & 2, by Nicole Brancato, 2022
• Hangers 101 & a Litany of Hashtags, by Marie Christine Katz & Nicole Brancato, 2021
• should be, by Nicole Brancato, 2020
• Building Strength, by Nicole Brancato, 2015
Arrangements
• Titanics big band - over 100 arrangements of popular songs, from Madonna to The Smiths to Nicki Minaj
mundus cerialis for pierrot ensemble and fixed media, premiered in March 2023 at National Sawdust (New York City) for the 2022-23 Hildegard Commission
Performed by the National Sawdust Ensemble:
Miranda Cuckson, violin Jeffrey Zeigler, cello / Brandon Patrick George, flute / Eric Umble, clarinet / Blair McMillen, piano
Song of Whitman from Brancato’s opera Infinitesimal
fusing memoire with near-death experience research
(with Jeremy Weiss, recorded by Yamaha)
2063 for quartet, presented at the Banff Centre, Canada in 2021 by oNSET Quartet
to begin a/new - for piano and fixed media, premiered in 2022 at Zankel Hall in Saratoga Springs, NY by pianist Blair McMillen
bound/less for speaking pianist, premiered at Columbia University as part of their 2021-22 guest artist series
distractions are a way - .soundfullness project
live-processed, participatory, salvaged prepared piano
(with Douglas Paulson at Scorates Sculpture Park, NYC)
Scores may be purchased here:
Please contact Nicole for inquiries about scores not currently available in the Shop.
Nicole Brancato is a member of ASCAP