Ulysses Kay

Ulysses Kay's Fugitive Songs, written for mezzo-soprano and piano, was first performed at Illinois Wesleyan University in May of 1956. The song cycle includes eight short songs, all dedicated to his w...

This setting of three scriptural psalms for SATB Voices and Baritone solo with Piano was commissioned and first premiered in 1984. Fragments of celebratory and jubilant text are taken from Psalms 8, 6...

Mentored by the likes of William Grant Still, Paul Hindemith, and Howard Hanson, Kay was an impressive composer by any metric, winning a Fulbright Scholarship, the prestigious Rome Prize, a Guggenheim...

Commissioned by flutist John Solum and written in 1967, Aulos was premiered in 1971 by the Indiana University Chamber Orchestra, with John Solum acting as the soloist and Wolfgang Vaccano conducting....

Mentored by the likes of William Grant Still, Paul Hindemith, and Howard Hanson, Kay was an impressive composer by any metric, winning a Fulbright Scholarship, the prestigious Rome Prize, a Guggenheim...

Ulysses Kay favored neoclassical tendencies in his works, featuring lyricism, contrapuntal textures, clear formal designs and a tonal, yet chromatic harmonic vocabulary, all of which are evident in hi...

Mentored by such greats as William Grant Still, Paul Hindemith, and Howard Hanson, Ulysses Kay was a prolific and respected African American composer who won many accolades during his lifetime, includ...

Among his many other honors and scholarships, groundbreaking composer Ulysses Kay was the first African-American to receive the "Prix de Rome" award that offered promising composers the opportunity to...

This set of five pieces for violin and piano by American composer Ulysses Kay was commissioned by the McKimi Fund of the Library of Congress. Completed in 1972, the work was premiered by violinist Rug...

A brief, ultradynamic solo for the flute, beginning slowly, reflectively, then scaling the heights. An excellent substitute for the standard Debussy Syrinx or Hoover Kokopelli. For advanced flutists....

Prolific composer Ulysses Kay composed Heralds for eight brass instruments in 1968 during his tenure at Lehman College in New York City. This work introduced new tendencies that would become prominent...

This carol is a lilting and uplifting setting of a traditional text about the prophecy of Christ's birth, as received by Joseph from an angel. The accessible musical language, with interesting harmoni...