CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FOR VIOLIN

This section explores diverse contemporary violin music, encompassing modern violin compositions for solo performance, violin and piano works, and extensive violin chamber music repertoire. It highlights cutting-edge pieces, including vocal music with violin, showcasing works by Lior Navok.

contemporary violin repertoire

UNACCOMPANIED VIOLIN MUSIC

SOLO

In Memoriam (Yizkor)

4' | solo violin

This section presents contemporary solo violin music, featuring diverse modern unaccompanied violin compositions and new solo violin pieces from the 20th and 21st centuries. It highlights innovative, avant-garde, and cutting-edge repertoire, showcasing compelling solo performances, including works by Lior Navok.

VIOLIN CHAMBER MUSIC

Chamber

DUOS

This section explores contemporary chamber music with violin, encompassing diverse modern chamber ensemble pieces and new chamber music repertoire for string quartets and other configurations. It highlights unique, trendsetting, and 21st-century works, including those by Lior Navok.

Capriccio

5' | flute and violin

Violin Sonata

18' | violin and piano

TRIOS/ QUARTETS / QUINTETS

Piano Trio

22' | violin, cello and piano

Voices from India
string quartet no. 1

17' | string quartet (2 violins, viola and cello)

Hope Cycles

string quartet no. 2

24' | string quartet (2 violins, viola and cello)

Whispered Questions

string quartet no. 3

17' | string quartet (2 violins, viola and cello)

Soliloquy

string quartet no. 4

17' | string quartet (2 violins, viola and cello)

Little Suite

12' | clarinet, violin, viola and cello

Piano Quintet

18' | piano, violins (2), viola and cello

V5 – Quintet for Vibraphone and String Quartet

for vibraphone and string quartet

17' | vibraphone, violins (2), viola and cello

CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Quicksand

for Pierrot Ensemble

11' | bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano

Sextet

for Pierrot ensemble

22' | flute / piccolo/ bass flute, clarinet / bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano

Elegy for the Future

for Pierrot ensemble

13' | piccolo / alto flute; clarinet; violin; cello; percussion; piano

After a Tango

for chamber ensemble

16' | recorders (3), clarinet, trumpet, trombone, guitar, percussion, violin, double bass

Three Episodes for Chamber Ensemble

for chamber ensemble

12' | flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, percussion (1), piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass

VOCAL MUSIC WITH VIOLIN

VOCAL MUSIC WITH FLUTE

Bestiarius (The Book of Monsters and Creatures)

for alto/mezzo-soprano and ensemble

11' | alto / mezzo-soprano, flute + piccolo, clarinet, bassoon, violin, percussion (2), harpsichord

This section presents contemporary vocal music with violin, encompassing diverse modern vocal ensemble pieces and vocal chamber music featuring violin. It highlights innovative, cutting-edge, and experimental vocal and violin compositions, including original works by Lior Navok.

Found in a Train Station

for soprano and ensemble

11' 30" | soprano, mandolin, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

stage

STAGE MUSIC WITH VIOLIN

Beauty and the Beast

for narrator and ensemble

31' | actress, violins (2), viola, cello double bass and piano

The Little Mermaid

for actress and chamber ensemble / chamber orchestra

36' | actress, flute/piccolo, clarinet, percussion (1), two pianos and string quintet

OR

actress, flute/piccolo, clarinet, percussion (1), two pianos and string section

Sheet Music for Violin:

List of Key 20th–21st Century Violin Repertoire

Solo Violin

Béla Bartók – Sonata for Solo Violin – solo violin – 1944
Luciano Berio – Sequenza VIII – solo violin – 1976
Elliott Carter – Four Lauds – solo violin – 1984-2000
John Cage – Freeman Etudes – solo violin – 1977-1980
György Ligeti – Sonata for Solo Violin – solo violin – 1991-1994
Olivier Messiaen – Theme and Variations – solo violin – 1932
Igor Stravinsky – Elegy – solo violin – 1944
Toru Takemitsu – Hika – solo violin – 1966
Krzysztof Penderecki – Cadenza – solo violin – 1984
Brian Ferneyhough – Unsichtbare Farben – solo violin – 1999

Violin and Piano

Sergei Prokofiev – Violin Sonata No. 1 – violin and piano – 1938-1946
Dmitri Shostakovich – Violin Sonata – violin and piano – 1968
Francis Poulenc – Violin Sonata – violin and piano – 1942-1943
Maurice Ravel – Violin Sonata No. 2 – violin and piano – 1923-1927
Claude Debussy – Violin Sonata – violin and piano – 1916-1917
Alban Berg – Violin Sonata – violin and piano – 1910
Paul Hindemith – Violin Sonata in E – violin and piano – 1935
Aaron Copland – Violin Sonata – violin and piano – 1943
John Adams – Road Movies – violin and piano – 1995

Violin Chamber Works

Anton Webern – Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7 – violin and piano – 1910
George Crumb – Four Nocturnes – violin and piano – 1964
Karlheinz Stockhausen – Tierkreis – violin and piano – 1974-75
Harrison Birtwistle – Pulse Shadows – violin and ensemble – 1989-1996
Tania León – Axon – violin and ensemble – 2001
Kaija Saariaho – Nocturne – violin and electronics – 1994
Steve Reich – Different Trains – violin and tape – 1988
Tristan Murail – Tellur – violin and electronics – 1977
Helmut Lachenmann – Toccatina – violin and ensemble – 1986
Gérard Grisey – Anubis-Nout – violin and ensemble – 1983