works

ORCHESTRAL

Sweet Return
for string orchestra
First performance 7 October 2000
See also: CHAMBER

CHAMBER

Beads on a String
violin and cello

It's bright the sky
flute, clarinet, violin and cello

Pictures of an Inhibition
3 soprano saxophones
First performance April 1994
Michigan State University

Sweet Return
soprano, saxophone, cello and piano
See also: ORCHESTRAL

Molecules (1986)
flute and piano

Red Powdered Pomegranates (1987)
song cycle for mezzo-soprano and violin

The Sky is Singing (2006)
ensemble + gospel choir
Commissioned Lontano Contemporary Classical Music Ensemble
First performance September 2006
Lontano and Vox Simba Gospel Choir
St Giles, Cripplegate, London UK

VOCAL

The Dig-Dag Song
3 amplified female voices

Ding Dong Merrily on High
arrangements for 5 voices for a cappella group Ekhoze

Let Me In
piano and voice

No Blame
piano and voice

Sentimental Journey
arrangements for 5 voices for a cappella group Ekhoze

Shimmering
SAATB

The Water is Wide
arrangements for 5 voices for a cappella group Ekhoze

Yellow Bird
arrangements for 5 voices for a cappella group Ekhoze

Her Belly (1986)
mezzo-soprano and clarinet

STONE SEA (1989 rev. 2010)
Stone Sea for 3 voices and Type writer, developed in workshops with Cerys Hogg and Selena Kay
Text: V.Firnberg
3 amplified voices, 1 typewriter on percussion stand
Cerys Hogg, Selena Kay, Virginia Firnberg
The Green Carnation

Cracked Hymn (1992)
4 amplified voices
First performance 1992
Electric Phoenix
University of Illinois

Complexity (2009)
Text: V.Firnberg
Voice and Piano
duration: 4 minutes
Virginia Firnberg
The Green Carnation, Soho, London

MERCURY (2010)
Text: Virginia Firnberg
Voice and Piano
duration: 3 minutes
Virginia Firnberg
The Wellcome Trust, Euston Road, London
Commissioned by The Wellcome Foundation for 'The Elements' open evening exhibition

PIANO

Child's Thoughts

Crushed

Fig

On Green Lanes

Snack Maniac

Stepping Out

PERFORMANCE PIECES

'The ..AIR the CH...'
an opera in one long curtain
University of Illinois

Plastic Strip Opera for props, poet and DJ

The Chief's Knife
a collaboration with story teller Inno Sorsy to create a vocal rhythm theatre piece at Millfield's School in Hackney

WHEN THE SUN SHINES AND THEY HAVE - TABLE, WINEGLASS, SAUCEPAN, NAPKIN, FRUITBOWL
for 4 performers, movement, percussion objects and stage piece