Donald Crockett

With texts from Tuvan folk song lyrics, this work for SATB chorus was commissioned by Volti, Robert Geary, Artistic Director, for its 30th season.

The original Capriccio was commissioned in 2005 by the University of Southern California as a short piano concerto. Capriccio II is a response to, a re-thinking of, the original Capriccio, now for two...

Inspired by the poem The Red Leaves of Night by contemporary poet David St. John, this piano sonata was commissioned by Phillip Bush with support from the Ingeborg Reimer Fund for Creative Projects of...

CHACONNE is in honor of Donald Crockett's longtime friend and colleague at USC, Rick Lesemann, and his wife, pianist Susan Svrcek. This chaconne - a repeated chord progression - generally descends in...

This work for viola and piano was composed in memory of Sarah Gibson, the composer, pianist and educator who passed away in 2024 at the age of 38. From the program note by Donald Crockett: This ELEGY...

This Ritornello-Variations for Flute and Piano was commissioned by Conor Nelson with the support of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education of the University of Wisconsin...

Composed in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Summer Music Camp for Can't-Get-Enough-Chamber-Music Aficionados, aka the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East, Camera Oscura expl...

The first movement of Extant was originally composed as a 10th anniversary gift for the Los Angeles-based new music ensemble, Xtet; I joined the group as composer and conductor in the late-80s. The pi...

At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, the congruence of blazing and enchan...

At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being... It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, the congruence of blazing and ench...

Co-commissioned by Aspen Music Festival and School, Robert Spano, Music Director, and Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Timothy Weiss, Conductor.

Commissioned by Caramoor Music Festival in New York and premiered July 14, 2017 by the Argus Quartet, this work is in no small part a response to this quartet's sense of adventure and expressive emoti...

Commissioned by Caramoor Music Festival in New York and premiered July 14, 2017 by the Argus Quartet, this work is in no small part a response to this quartet's sense of adventure and expressive emoti...