Stefania de Kenessey
Stefania de Kenessey
Stefania de Kenessey is a leading figure in contemporary classical music: “Shades of Light, Shades of Dark”, a CD of her compositions, received rave reviews as “fully worthy to share a program or disc with the masterpieces by Mozart or Brahms” (Fanfare). She recently completed an opera based on Tom Wolfe’s best-selling novel “The Bonfire of the Vanities”, heard in a reading at Dixon Place; Innova Records has released a recording of her “Spontaneous D-Combustion”, performed by pianist Mary Kathleen Ernst on her debut solo disc “Keeping Time”, and soprano Adina Aaron has just recorded her humorous cabaret songbook, “The Well-Tempered Woman”.Honored repeatedly with awards from ASCAP, de Kenessey’s music is performed nationally at venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, as well as throughout the world. Her output ranges from choral, vocal and operatic pieces to chamber and orchestral work, as well as scores for documentary films, theater and dance companies. She has written concertos for such virtuosos as Chris Gekker and Elizabeth Mann; she has had premieres with the Singapore Symphony, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and the Absolute Ensemble, conducted by Kristjan Jarvi. Her work can be heard on Center Stage Records as well as on the North/South, TCC, ERM, Opus One, Leonarda and Tugboat Music labels; North/South Records is also scheduled to release the first disc devoted exclusively to de Kenessey’s vocal music, “Gotham Siren”, sung by soprano Adina Aaron, mezzo Adriana Zabala and baritone Christopheren Nomura.Ms. de Kenessey currently serves on the board of the Martina Arroyo Foundation and the International Alliance for Women in Music.She received her BA in music summa cum laude from Yale and her Ph.D. in composition from Princeton University, where she studied with Milton Babbitt.She teaches music at The New School and has served as the Dean of Eugene Lang College, its undergraduate division, as well as the Chair of the MA in Liberal Studies at the graduate level.Website: stefaniadekenessey.comFacebook: stefania.dekenesseyEmail: dekeness@newschool.edu
Windswept, Op. 45
Year: 1995
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: any high voice, any male voice, any voice, piano, tenor voice
Description: single movement work in C minor, moderate difficulty.
Wintersong, Op. 44
Year: 1995
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe, viola
Description: vc, cb a gentle. slow, pavane-like movement in B minor.
Chicago Moves, Opp. 42-43
Year: 1995
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, bassoon
Description: on humerous poems by Jack Prelutsky.
Three By Three, Opp. 39-43
Year: 1995
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: song cycle originally written for children's birthdays, three humerous poems by Jack Prelutsky.
Life Of Man Upright, Op. 36
Year: 1994
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: on Elizabethan poem.
Whether Men Do Laugh Or Weep, Op. 37
Year: 1994
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Elizabethan poem.
Sunburst, Op. 33"
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: in F major, with bright, explosive opening, moderate level of difficulty."
Parting Gifts
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poems by Anne and Emily Bronte.
Jumping Jacks, Op.29
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: may be done with solo voices or chorus; on poems by Jack Prelutsky, all very humerous: 6 of them.
Jumping Jacks
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) a cappella
Description: Suitable for solo voices or chamber choir. Six humorous songs; poems by Jack Prelutsky.
Summer Nights, Op. 26b
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Description: va, vc (string sections).
Monster Bed
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 30'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera
Description: Comic one-act opera. Piano reduction also available.
Piano Sonata, Op. 2"
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 27'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Stevens Songs, Op. 27
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Summer Nights, Op. 26
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument sextet
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, flute, piano, viola, violin
Songs Of Love, Op 25
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: also for TTBB solo voices, pn.
Two Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 24
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any voice, piano
Description: also for SSA chorus, pn.
Reveries, Op. 23
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quintet
Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe
Fancies, Op. 22"
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: any woodwind, oboe
Two Songs From Blake, Op. 20
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Two Songs Of Innocence, Op. 21
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Violin Sonata Op. 16
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 24'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, piano, violin
Flute Sonata Op. 19
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano
Prayer, Op. 18, No. 2
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) a cappella
Birthday, Op. 18 #1
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Two Canzonets, Op. 17
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Suite, Op. 15
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 22'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, oboe, piano
Oboe Sonata Op. 14
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, oboe, piano
Clarinet Quintet, Op. 13
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 26'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, viola, violin
Ashes Of Life, Op. 10
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 26'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Dreams, Op. 9
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Notre Petite Compagne, Op. 12
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Two Songs, Op. 11
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Trio Op. 4
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 38'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, cello, piano, violin
String Quartet Op. 1
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 41'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, cello, violin
Serenade Op. 6
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any low voice, any male voice, any voice, any woodwind, bass voice, clarinet, piano
Viola Sonata, Op. 5"
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: viola
Tale, Op. 3
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Three Songs, Op. 7
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 14'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Gotham Siren
Composers: Stefania de Kenessey
Label: North/South Recordings
Buy URL: http://www.northsouthmusic.org/product.asp?dept_level=2&p_id=1061
Shades of Light, Shades of Dark
Performed by the Andiamo Chamber Ensemble.
Composers: Stefania de Kenessey
Label: North/South Recordings
Buy URL: http://www.northsouthmusic.org/Stefania-de-Kenessey--Shades-of-Light-Shades-of-Dark
Buy URL 2: https://www.amazon.com/Stefania-Kenessey-Shades-Light-Dark/dp/B0000507WN
Windswept, Op. 45
Year: 1995
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: any high voice, any male voice, any voice, piano, tenor voice
Description: single movement work in C minor, moderate difficulty.
Wintersong, Op. 44
Year: 1995
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe, viola
Description: vc, cb a gentle. slow, pavane-like movement in B minor.
Chicago Moves, Opp. 42-43
Year: 1995
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, bassoon
Description: on humerous poems by Jack Prelutsky.
Three By Three, Opp. 39-43
Year: 1995
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: song cycle originally written for children's birthdays, three humerous poems by Jack Prelutsky.
Life Of Man Upright, Op. 36
Year: 1994
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: on Elizabethan poem.
Whether Men Do Laugh Or Weep, Op. 37
Year: 1994
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Elizabethan poem.
Sunburst, Op. 33"
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: in F major, with bright, explosive opening, moderate level of difficulty."
Parting Gifts
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poems by Anne and Emily Bronte.
Jumping Jacks, Op.29
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: may be done with solo voices or chorus; on poems by Jack Prelutsky, all very humerous: 6 of them.
Jumping Jacks
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) a cappella
Description: Suitable for solo voices or chamber choir. Six humorous songs; poems by Jack Prelutsky.
Summer Nights, Op. 26b
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Description: va, vc (string sections).
Monster Bed
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 30'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera
Description: Comic one-act opera. Piano reduction also available.
Piano Sonata, Op. 2"
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 27'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Stevens Songs, Op. 27
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Summer Nights, Op. 26
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument sextet
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, flute, piano, viola, violin
Songs Of Love, Op 25
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: also for TTBB solo voices, pn.
Two Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 24
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any voice, piano
Description: also for SSA chorus, pn.
Reveries, Op. 23
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quintet
Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe
Fancies, Op. 22"
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: any woodwind, oboe
Two Songs From Blake, Op. 20
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Two Songs Of Innocence, Op. 21
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Violin Sonata Op. 16
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 24'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, piano, violin
Flute Sonata Op. 19
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano
Prayer, Op. 18, No. 2
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) a cappella
Birthday, Op. 18 #1
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Two Canzonets, Op. 17
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Suite, Op. 15
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 22'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, oboe, piano
Oboe Sonata Op. 14
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, oboe, piano
Clarinet Quintet, Op. 13
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 26'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, viola, violin
Ashes Of Life, Op. 10
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 26'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Dreams, Op. 9
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Notre Petite Compagne, Op. 12
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Two Songs, Op. 11
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Trio Op. 4
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 38'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, cello, piano, violin
String Quartet Op. 1
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 41'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, cello, violin
Serenade Op. 6
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any low voice, any male voice, any voice, any woodwind, bass voice, clarinet, piano
Viola Sonata, Op. 5"
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: viola
Tale, Op. 3
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Three Songs, Op. 7
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 14'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Shades of Light, Shades of Dark
Performed by the Andiamo Chamber Ensemble.
Composers: Stefania de Kenessey
Label: North/South Recordings
Buy URL 2: https://www.amazon.com/Stefania-Kenessey-Shades-Light-Dark/dp/B0000507WN