“redefining the very notion of classical music”
— Fredric Dannen, Atención San Miguel
selected works
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
• 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
Collaborative 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
• Don’t Fall in Love, Sam, for prepared piano and narrator, 2021
• 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
• The Search for UP, by Nicole Brancato & Evan Jagels, 2023
• it’s nice to be on the island, by Nicole Brancato & Evan Jagels, 2022
• Inner Strength, for online docu-series Building Strength, 2015
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
• 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
Scores may be purchased here:
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Nicole Brancato is a member of ASCAP
mundus cerialis - for pierrot ensemble and fixed media, premiered in March 2023 at National Sawdust (New York City) for the 2022 Hildegard Commission
Performed by the National Sawdust Ensemble:
Miranda Cuckson, violin Jeffrey Zeigler, cello
Brandon Patrick George, flute
Eric Umble, clarinet
Blair McMillen, piano
2063 - for quartet, presented at the Banff Centre for the Arts in August 2021 by oNSET Ensemble
to begin a/new - for piano and fixed media, premiered in June 2022 in Saratoga Springs, NY by pianist Blair McMillen
bound/less - for speaking pianist, premiered at Columbia University as part of their 2021-2022 guest artist concert series
Fire in which we Burn: “Prelude” - fixed media piece featuring field recordings, voice samples, two narrators, & electronics, 2022