KERWIN YOUNG'S CONCERT WORKS
2023
Battle for the Great Green
2023 (Work-In-Progress)
Instrumentation: 3333/8331/timp+3/hp/pno/stgs (16.14.12.10.8)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP
2022
After the Sun Goes Down
2022 (4’30 minutes)
Instrumentation: Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone, Piano
Commissioned by the Chautauqua Opera Company
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7075
Symphony No. 9 “Return of the Emperor”
2022 (23’ minutes)
Instrumentation: 3333/4331/timp+3/hp/pno-cel/stgs (16.14.12.10.8)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7074
2021
Far from Righteous
2021 (8’ minutes)
Instrumentation: String Quartet
Commissioned by Utah State University and GLFCAM
Premiered 08 April 2021 at the Caine College of the Arts, Utah State University
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc // Catalog #: KYMP 7068
Lyric for Violin and Harp
2021 (6’20 minutes)
Commissioned by Lucia Lin and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music
Premiered 05 April 2021, Luci Lin (Violin) and Charles Overton (Harp)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc // Catalog #: KYMP 7069
Sulwe : A Musical Adaptation
2021 (13’30 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3222/4231/timp+5/hp/cel/stgs
Commissioned by the DC Youth Orchestra
Premiered 15 May 2022, at University of DC, conducted by Evan Ross Solomon.
World Premiere 21 May 2022 – The Kennedy Center, conducted by Evan Ross Solomon.
Lisbon, Portugal Premiere 27 June 2022 – DCYOP conducted by Evan Ross Solomon.
Granada, Spain Premiere 02 July 2022 – DCYOP conducted by Evan Ross Solomon.
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7070
You Got Your Head Up In the Clouds
2021 (7 minutes)
Instrumentation: 1112(sax)1/1110/dr/synth/stgs
Commissioned by the Albany (NY) Symphony Orchestra
Premiered 11 June 2021, conducted by David Alan Miller
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7073
2020
Coming Forth By Day
2020 (20’ minutes)
Commissioned by ROCO for Oboe, Viola, Violoncello, and Baritone
Premiered 01 November 2020, at MECA in Houston, Texas; ROCO
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7064
Eva’s Ashes
2020 (3’ minutes)
Commissioned by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music
Premiered June 2020, Edward Kaplan (Viola)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7065
In the Amazon
2020 (10’ minutes)
Instrumentation: String Quartet
Created under the aegis of the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music
Premiered 27 June 2020 by the Del Sol String Quartet, San Francisco, CA
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7063
Nature’s Karmic Vengeance
2020 (3’45 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3222/4231/3perc, Strings
Commissioned by Play On Philly
Premiered: August 07, 2020 by Play On Philly
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7067
Legacy of Lefty LaMarque
2020 (10’30 minutes)
Instrumentation: Woodwind Quintet
Commissioned by Janet Grace Riehl
Instrumentation: Woodwind Quintet
Premiered 16 February 2020 St. Louis, Mo; IMI Chamber Players
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7061
PEace on the Left, Justice on the Right
2020 (3’ minutes)
Instrumentation: String Quartet
Commissioned by Tesla Quartet and GLFCAM
Premiered virtually, summer 2020 by the Tesla Quartet
** Winner of the Hausmann String Quartet Quarantine Composers Competition
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7066
Soccer Dance
2020 (3’ minutes)
Instrumentation: 1111/1110/2perc/hp, pno, string quartet
Commissioned by Inscape Chamber Orchestra
Premiered 04 April 2020 – Inscape Chamber Orchestra
Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7062
Symphony No. 8 (End of Reign)
2020 (34’ minutes)
Instrumentation: 3333/6331/timp+5/hp/pno-cel/stgs (16.14.12.10.8)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7060
2019
Symphony No. 7
2019 (75 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3233/4331/timp+4/hp/pno-cel/stgs (16. 14. 12. 10. 8)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7059
2018
American Caravan
2018 (9’20 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3333/4331/timp+3/hp/stgs (16. 14. 12. 10. 8)
Readings: March 06, 2019, Detroit Symphony Orchestra (Andre Raphel)
March 09, 2019, Detroit Symphony Orchestra (Andre Raphel)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7058
Chasing El Diablo
2018 (6 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3333/8331/timp+6/hp/pno/stgs (16. 14. 12. 10. 8)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7056
Dumas – Pushkin Suite (Ballet Suite)
2018 (22 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3333/6241/timp+7/2hp/cel/stgs (16. 14. 12. 10. 8)
Commissioned by the Nubian Arts Council
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7049
Over 200 Films
2018 (10 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3233/4000/timp+7/hp/pno-cel/stgs (16. 14. 12. 10. 8)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7043
Symphony No. 6 (The Plagiarist)
2018 (22 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3333/6331/timp+6/hp/cel/stgs (16. 14. 12. 10. 8)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7044
2017
A Composers Passion
2017 (4' minutes)
Instrumentation: Violin and Piano
Version for Oboe and Piano: Premiered 10 February 2019, Titus Underwood (oboe) and Peter Henderson (Piano), Maryville University, St. Louis, Mo
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7064
Bolivar
2017 (17 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3333/4331/timp+5/2 cl. gtr.,/cimb/hp/SATB/stgs.
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7052
Season of Autocracy
2017 (9'20 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3343/4231/timp+3/hp/stgs (16. 14. 12. 10. 8)
Premiered 22 April 2018 by the University City Symphony Orchestra (Leon Burke III);
Received Official Proclamation by University City Mayor, Shelly Welsch
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7045
Symphony No. 5 (Perseverance)
2017 (46' minutes)
Instrumentation: 4333/6331/timp+5/2hp/cimb/stgs (16. 14. 12. 10. 8)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7041
2016
Cellét
2016 (10’20 minutes)
Instrumentation: 10 cellos; choreography
Commissioned by Catherine Lehr Ramos and the UMKC Women's Council
Premiered 30 May 2016 - Webster University, St. Louis, Mo, David Commanday (cond.)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7037
Reclamation
2016 (28 minutes)
Instrumentation: 5344/8332/timp+6/2hp/pno/cimb/mixed ch/stgs (16. 14. 12. 10. 8)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7035
Songbirds: Suite for Violin and Piano
2016 (20 minutes)
Instrumentation: Violin, Piano
Commissioned by Tami Lee Hughes, funded by the Sphinx Mpower Artist Grant
World Premiere: 30 January 2017, Rust College (Holly Springs, MS)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7038
What I Think of Academia
2016 (50 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3333/4321/timp+2/pf/SATB/stgs
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7042
2015
Doll Collection of Mrs. Wynn
2015 (7 minutes)
Instrumentation: percussion, harp, celesta, children’s chorus and strings
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7040
Mark Lewis in Hong Kong
2015 (9’25 minutes)
Instrumentation: string quartet
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7031
Symphony No. 4 (Kasufhetep I)
2015 (46 minutes)
Instrumentation: 4333/6332/timp+6/2hp/pno/cimb/stgs (16. 14. 12. 10. 8)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7036
Symphony No. 2 (Khemet West)
2015 (66 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3333/5331/timp+6/cel/2hp/cimb/cl. gtr/mixed ch/stgs (16. 14. 12. 10. 8)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7015
The Teen and the Talking Trees
2015 (7 minutes)
Instrumentation: flute choir and narrator (Edna Sophia Martinson – Libretto)
Commissioned by Blue Valley Southwest High School
Premiered 27 February 2015, KMEA Conference, Wichita, Kansas; Mary Shemon (cond.)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7062
U.S. Marshall : Bass Reeves
2015 (8’15 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3123/4131/timp+4/hp/2 cl. gtr./acc./ m. ch./stgs (12. 10. 8. 8. 6)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7032
2014
Amplitudes and Attitudes in Hertz, Ohms, and Decibels
2014 (4 minutes)
Instrumentation: (Wind Band) 53535/64422/timp + 5/pno
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7026
Conflict Between the Pen and the Sword
2014 (4’20 minutes)
Instrumentation: (Chamber Orchestra) tenor sax, tpt, tbn, bs. tbn, timp./stgs.
Premiered September 2014 - Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, Renee Baker (cond.)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7028
Mis-treatment of the Honorable
2014 (10 minutes)
Instrumentation: alto flute/vibraphone/string quintet
Premiered 23 April 2014 by the Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, Renee Baker (cond.)
Revised for: English horn/vibraphone/string quintet
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7018
Music for Steven Spielberg’s Next Film
2014 (6 minutes)
Composed for: solo alto saxophone and piano
World Premiere 22 February 2015 at the NASA Regional Conference in Norman, Oklahoma; John Kelly (Alto Saxophone) and Wen Zhang (Piano)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7029
Skyfall (Adele Adkins / Paul Epworth)
2014 (5’ minutes)
Arrangement for Jazz Big Band
World Premiere 21 April 2015 – UMKC Conservatory Jazz Band (Matt Baldwin – Tenor Saxophone); Bobby Watson (cond.)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7034
Theme from the Motion Picture: It Happened in January
2014 (5’40 minutes)
Composed for: solo horn and piano
World Premiere 23 May 2014 Southwest Horn Convention, San Diego, California; Jeff Nielsen (solo Horn)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7016
2013
An Old Bolivian Jaguar Tale
2013 (4 minutes)
Instrumentation: string orchestra
Commissioned by: David Tourtellot for youth string orchestra
World Premiere May 2014 - Sunset Valley Elementary School Orchestra
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7017
Cry of the Queenless King
2013 (7 minutes)
Instrumentation: bass-baritone and piano
World Premiere 27 May 2016, at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Carl Dupont (bass-baritone); Qiao Zheng Goh (piano)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7014
逃離邪惡帝國 Escape from the Evil Empire
2013 (14’30 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3333/4331/timp+4/choir/sop./hp/pno/stgs (14. 12. 10. 8. 6)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7012
Sakanoue No Tamuramaro
2013 (19’40 minutes)
Instrumentation: chamber ensemble and solo percussion - 2222/2000
Premiered 03 November 2013 by the Midwest Chamber Ensemble, Greg Haynes (Perc); Steve Lewis (cond.)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7010
Serpent’s Venom/Vulture’s Talons
2013 (8’40 minutes)
Instrumentation: clarinet, bassoon, piano
Premiered 04 April 2013 - the Filamental Trio
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7008
Symphony No. 3 (Captain Paul Cuffe and the Traveller)
2013 (40 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3333/4231/timp+3/hp/pno-cel/stgs (16. 14. 12. 10. 8)
Readings: April 2013 - Kansas City Symphony conducted by Aram Demirjian
April 2013 - UMKC Orchestra conducted by Parinya Chucherdwatanasak
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7009
2012
犯罪心理 Criminal Minded
2012 (7 minutes)
Instrumentation: solo guzheng
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7024
Evening Music for Clarinet and Piano
2012 (11 minutes)
Instrumentation: solo clarinet and piano
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7033
Fantasy of a Lonely Man
2012 (8'30 minutes)
Instrumentation: erhu and pipa
World Premiere 26 October 2013 by Music From China, New York City
Wang Guowei (erhu) and Sun Li (pipa)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7013
白茶 Gateway at Preah Vihear
2012 (3'30 minutes)
Instrumentation: solo guzheng and distortion pedal
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7023
House of Price (Drama for String Orchestra)
2012 (8’34 minutes), Rev. (2013)
Instrumentation: string orchestra (14. 12. 10. 8. 6)
Premiered September 2012 - Midwest Chamber Ensemble conducted by Steve Lewis
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7011
我独自步行 I Walk Alone
2012 (4 minutes)
Instrumentation: solo guzheng
World Premiere 23 February 2013 - Zhou Jing (Zheng); Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7022
If Not the Sun
2012 (3'10 minutes)
Instrumentation: SATB
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7019
Inescapable (Concerto for Contrabass and Wind Symphony)
2012 (16 minutes)
Instrumentation: solo contrabass - 22321/4221/timp+3/hp
Premiered 19 March 2013 – Jeffrey Kail (Contrabass) and the UMKC Conservatory Wind Symphony; Steve Davis (cond.)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7007a
Journey to the Center of the Floor
2012 (4’40 minutes)
Instrumentation: 0111/2110/4perc/kybd/elec. gtr/elec. bs
Commissioned by: Meghan Phadke
Premiered 11 October 2012 at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7081
Love Aint Nuthin’ But itty bitty Feelings
2012 (12 minutes)
Instrumentation: jazz quartet (a.sx/pno/bs/dms)
Premiered 16 March 2012 by The Brett Jackson Quartet, Kansas City, Missouri
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7082
2011
Movements In Space for Mime and Ensemble
2011 (24 minutes)
Instrumentation: mime and small ensemble
World Premiere 16 March 2012 - Natalie Parish (Mime) and string quartet
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7006
The Nebraska Plains
2011 (3'15 minutes)
Instrumentation: brass quintet
World Premiere 10 April 2012 by pFive, Kansas City, Missouri
Chicago Premiere: 29 February 2016 by Fulcrum Point Brass, Chicago, Illinois
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7004
The Nebraska Plains
2011 (3'15 minutes)
Instrumentation: Concert Wind Band (1040+3saxes/2323/3perc)
World Premiere 7 November 2016 University of South Carolina-Aiken Wind Band, Hayes Bunch (cond.)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7004WE
Symphony No. 1 (Empire of Kasuf)
2011 (34 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3333/4331/timp+3/hp/cel/choir/stgs (16. 14. 12. 10. 8)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7001
白茶 White Tea
2011 (7 minutes)
Instrumentation: erhu (zhonghu), yangqin, da ruan, percussion
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7011
2010
Atchafalaya Expedition
2010 (9 minutes)
Instrumentation: woodwind quintet
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7005
Batter Up
2010, rev. 2014 (5 minutes)
Instrumentation: jazz big band
First performed: 07 April 2010 - UMKC Conservatory Concert Jazz Big Band conducted by Bobby Watson; Hermon Mehari (Trumpet), Brett Jackson (Alto Saxophone)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7025
For Reasons and Seasons I Can’t Explain
2010 (6 minutes)
Instrumentation: solo piano
World Premiere 16 March 2012 - Andrew Oullette (Piano)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMO 7083
In the Presence of Great Spirits
2010 (7'20 minutes)
Instrumentation: gu-qin and erhu
World Premiere 20 April 2010 - Zhou Juan (guqin) and Chiung-I Huang (erhu);
Chinese Music Society of North America - Honorable mention (2011)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7084
Rabat Waterfront Fantasy
2010, rev. 2012 (5’30 minutes)
Instrumentation: wind band 33343/24211/timp+3/hp
World Premiere 26 April 2013 - UMKC Wind Ensemble; Joe Parisi (cond.)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7003a
Rabat Waterfront Fantasy
2010, rev. 2012 (5’30 minutes)
Instrumentation: Pierrot ensemble
World Premiere September 2013 - Midwest Chamber Ensemble; Steve Lewis (cond.)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7003b
Rabat Waterfront Fantasy
2010, rev. 2012 (5’30 minutes)
Instrumentation: orchestra 3332/3121/timp+2/cel/hp/stgs (14. 12. 10. 8. 6)
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7003
2009
Gardener and the Tyrant
2009, rev. 2012 (10 minutes)
Instrumentation: 3333/4031/timp+2/pno(cel)/hp/stgs (14. 12. 10. 8. 6)
Reading: UMKC Symphony Orchestra
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7002
2008
An Observation of Squirrels
2008 (4'20 minutes)
Instrumentation: woodwind quintet
Premiered 17 November 2009 at the University of Missouri Kansas City
Publisher: Kerwin Young Music Publishing, Inc. // Catalog #: KYMP 7027
Tales of a Fon Griot
2008 (7 minutes)
Instrumentation: chamber ensemble
Commissioned by Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi
Premiere 21 April 2008, Jackson State Univ. Symphony Orch.; Dr. Robert Blaine (cond.)
2007
Kalakuta Republic
2007 (6 minutes)
Instrumentation: string quartet
World Premiere 12 November 2007, Spelman-Morehouse College String Quartet