Catherine Neville
Catherine Neville
Catherine Neville’s music has been performed and commissioned by ensembles and solo artists alike: from solo violin in San Diego to toy piano in Boston, to The Heavy Metal Trio of the University of Central Oklahoma and Ictus Novus, electric guitar and percussion duo of New York. Her debut album, Hold Your Center, was released in May of 2022 on all streaming platforms, exploring themes of self-discovery. Neville’s music has been spotlighted in The Cello Museum and the Flute Examiner.
A clarinetist, Mrs. Neville has performed with several chamber and orchestral ensembles in the New York City area and has performed as a solo recitalist in venues across Long Island. She was a contributing editor to Serve the Music, a book of modern technique for clarinet, with Lawrence Sobol, in 2010. As a music educator, Mrs. Neville teaches Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Music Theory courses for high school students.
Neville graduated from the Aaron Copland School of Music in Queens, NY, in 2022 (MS, composition) Queens College granted Neville the “Hugo Weisgall Award for Music Theory and Composition” the same year. An alumna of Interlochen Arts Academy, Neville holds degrees from Hofstra University, (MS music education, 2001) and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (BA music performance, 1999).
Danses, for Solo Violin
Year: 2020
Duration (in minutes): 4 min
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo string instrument
Instruments: violin
Description: Commissioned and premiered by Dan Flanagan, after an 1898 lithograph of the same name by Fantin-Latour. This work for solo violin depicts the flowing movement of the woman in the lithograph.
Autumn, for Chamber Orchestra
Year: 2020
Duration (in minutes): 6 min
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players
Instruments: any brass, any string, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, contrabass, flute, horn, trombone, trumpet, viola, violin
Score PDF: neville_autumn_full_score-5.pdf
Description: Created with hiking in mind, this music expresses the memory of walking in the woods in the fall.
Prelude for Organ
Year: 2020
Duration (in minutes): 5 min
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano
Instruments: organ
Description: Composed in December of 2020, this piece depicts the grief and anger of surviving during a pandemic.
Dreams/Take Heart
Year: 2020
Duration (in minutes): 4 min
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Score PDF: dreams.take_heart_-_full_score-5.pdf
Description: An art song for soprano and piano using poetry by Langston Hughes, "Dreams," published 1922, and "Take Heart," Madison Julius Cawein, published 1913. Composed in March of 2020, this song is a reminder to us all that spring will come again.
Dreams - BY LANGSTON HUGHES
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Take Heart - BY MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN
Take heart again. Joy may be lost awhile.
It is not always Spring.
And even now from some far Summer Isle
Hither the birds may wing.
Leaving This Earthly Plane
Year: 2020
Duration (in minutes): 6 min
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, viola, violin
Score PDF: leaving_this_earthly_plane_-_full_score-5.pdf
Description: For flute and string trio, this music reflects a soul's journey into another world. From a somber beginning, the soul dances joyfully to a better place.
Three Movements of Sun and Shadow
Year: 2024
01 Alma Caribeña Liova Bueno
02 Valsa da saudade (Waltz of Longing) Joanna Estelle
03 Cello Fantasia Paul Halley
04 Awakening L Peter Deutsch
05 Three Movements of Sun and Shadow: II. Adagio and III. Reflective. Catherine Neville
06 Becoming Ray Fahrner
07 We Will Never Witness Another of His Kind John A. Carollo
Composers: Liova Bueno, Joanna Estelle, Paul Harvey, L. Peter Deutsch, Catherine Neville, Ray Fahrner, John A. Carollo
Label: Navona
Label's Website: https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6646/
Year: 2024
1. Drinking Coffee on the Front Porch on a Sunny Winter Morning by Carly Sage
2. A Day in Columbus Park - Quiet Morning by Nailah Nombeko
3. Four Scenes from Marquette, MI by Kyle Wernke
4. Éros by Joseph Rebman
5. Stay For Me by Joseph Rebman
6. Serenade by Daniel Perttu
7. Water Triptych by Mackenzie Jacob LaMont
8. Glittering Afternoon by Seolhee (Snow) Kim
9. A Year Later by Catherine Neville
Composers: Carly Sage, Nailah Nombeko, Kyle Wernke, Joseph Rebman, Daniel Perttu, Mackenzie Jacob LaMont, Seolhee (Snow) Kim, Catherine Neville
Label: Imaginary Animals
Label's Website: https://www.imaginaryanimals.ninja/eros?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0HYcC_DkhTvSCb_LRRU-o2deO8kJCOZsGwIazozTHfdDT78gMxxi_JSXQ_aem_w1lLzC8eedIGsEF1dLPLAQ
Red, Blue, Green
Year: 2023
1. Red Accent
2. Blue
3. Green
Composers: Catherine Neville
Label: Ictus Novus
Label's Website: https://www.ictusnovus.org/bio
Buy URL: https://ictusnovus.bandcamp.com/album/three-pieces-on-paintings-by-kandinsky
Year: 2022
1. Attitudes—solo clarinet
2. I’d Like to Hear More of This—clarinet, viola, guitar
3. Dreams/Take Heart—soprano, clarinet, piano
4. August Meditations—clarinet and bassoon
5. Mukuntuweap—reed trio and piano
movement 1: Sanctuary 3:35
movement 2 Grafton 3:40
movement 3 Mukuntuweap
6. Danses—solo violin
7. Idyll, solo violin
8. Hold Your Center, solo viola
9. Eighteen Lava Lamps—marimba and Orff ensemble
Composers: Catherine Neville
Label: Polyphony
Label's Website: https://www.polyphonyartists.com/
Buy URL: https://music.apple.com/us/album/hold-your-center/1616934115
Buy URL 2: https://open.spotify.com/album/23ePar6ooE7WkvNyMcmQzF
Attitudes
Year: 2021
Composer: Catherine Neville
Description: For solo clarinet, created and performed by Catherine Neville
Video URL: https://youtu.be/l74TXmBYfbM
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A clarinetist, Mrs. Neville has performed with several chamber and orchestral ensembles in the New York City area and has performed as a solo recitalist in venues across Long Island. She was a contributing editor to Serve the Music, a book of modern technique for clarinet, with Lawrence Sobol, in 2010. As a music educator, Mrs. Neville teaches Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Music Theory courses for high school students.
Neville graduated from the Aaron Copland School of Music in Queens, NY, in 2022 (MS, composition) Queens College granted Neville the “Hugo Weisgall Award for Music Theory and Composition” the same year. An alumna of Interlochen Arts Academy, Neville holds degrees from Hofstra University, (MS music education, 2001) and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (BA music performance, 1999).
Danses, for Solo Violin
Year: 2020
Duration (in minutes): 4 min
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo string instrument
Instruments: violin
Description: Commissioned and premiered by Dan Flanagan, after an 1898 lithograph of the same name by Fantin-Latour. This work for solo violin depicts the flowing movement of the woman in the lithograph.
Autumn, for Chamber Orchestra
Year: 2020
Duration (in minutes): 6 min
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players
Instruments: any brass, any string, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, contrabass, flute, horn, trombone, trumpet, viola, violin
Score PDF: neville_autumn_full_score-5.pdf
Description: Created with hiking in mind, this music expresses the memory of walking in the woods in the fall.
Prelude for Organ
Year: 2020
Duration (in minutes): 5 min
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano
Instruments: organ
Description: Composed in December of 2020, this piece depicts the grief and anger of surviving during a pandemic.
Dreams/Take Heart
Year: 2020
Duration (in minutes): 4 min
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Score PDF: dreams.take_heart_-_full_score-5.pdf
Description: An art song for soprano and piano using poetry by Langston Hughes, "Dreams," published 1922, and "Take Heart," Madison Julius Cawein, published 1913. Composed in March of 2020, this song is a reminder to us all that spring will come again.
Dreams - BY LANGSTON HUGHES
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Take Heart - BY MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN
Take heart again. Joy may be lost awhile.
It is not always Spring.
And even now from some far Summer Isle
Hither the birds may wing.
Leaving This Earthly Plane
Year: 2020
Duration (in minutes): 6 min
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, viola, violin
Score PDF: leaving_this_earthly_plane_-_full_score-5.pdf
Description: For flute and string trio, this music reflects a soul's journey into another world. From a somber beginning, the soul dances joyfully to a better place.
Three Movements of Sun and Shadow
Year: 2024
01 Alma Caribeña Liova Bueno
02 Valsa da saudade (Waltz of Longing) Joanna Estelle
03 Cello Fantasia Paul Halley
04 Awakening L Peter Deutsch
05 Three Movements of Sun and Shadow: II. Adagio and III. Reflective. Catherine Neville
06 Becoming Ray Fahrner
07 We Will Never Witness Another of His Kind John A. Carollo
Composers: Liova Bueno, Joanna Estelle, Paul Harvey, L. Peter Deutsch, Catherine Neville, Ray Fahrner, John A. Carollo
Label: Navona
Label's Website: https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6646/
Year: 2024
1. Drinking Coffee on the Front Porch on a Sunny Winter Morning by Carly Sage
2. A Day in Columbus Park - Quiet Morning by Nailah Nombeko
3. Four Scenes from Marquette, MI by Kyle Wernke
4. Éros by Joseph Rebman
5. Stay For Me by Joseph Rebman
6. Serenade by Daniel Perttu
7. Water Triptych by Mackenzie Jacob LaMont
8. Glittering Afternoon by Seolhee (Snow) Kim
9. A Year Later by Catherine Neville
Composers: Carly Sage, Nailah Nombeko, Kyle Wernke, Joseph Rebman, Daniel Perttu, Mackenzie Jacob LaMont, Seolhee (Snow) Kim, Catherine Neville
Label: Imaginary Animals
Label's Website: https://www.imaginaryanimals.ninja/eros?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0HYcC_DkhTvSCb_LRRU-o2deO8kJCOZsGwIazozTHfdDT78gMxxi_JSXQ_aem_w1lLzC8eedIGsEF1dLPLAQ
Red, Blue, Green
Year: 2023
1. Red Accent
2. Blue
3. Green
Composers: Catherine Neville
Label: Ictus Novus
Label's Website: https://www.ictusnovus.org/bio
Year: 2022
1. Attitudes—solo clarinet
2. I’d Like to Hear More of This—clarinet, viola, guitar
3. Dreams/Take Heart—soprano, clarinet, piano
4. August Meditations—clarinet and bassoon
5. Mukuntuweap—reed trio and piano
movement 1: Sanctuary 3:35
movement 2 Grafton 3:40
movement 3 Mukuntuweap
6. Danses—solo violin
7. Idyll, solo violin
8. Hold Your Center, solo viola
9. Eighteen Lava Lamps—marimba and Orff ensemble
Composers: Catherine Neville
Label: Polyphony
Label's Website: https://www.polyphonyartists.com/
Buy URL 2: https://open.spotify.com/album/23ePar6ooE7WkvNyMcmQzF
Attitudes
Year: 2021
Composer: Catherine Neville
Description: For solo clarinet, created and performed by Catherine Neville
Video URL: https://youtu.be/l74TXmBYfbM
Image for Video: