Selected Compositions by MELIA WATRAS

 

Photo inspiration for Melia Watras: Reflection for violin and viola or for two violas (2021)
Photo by Michelle Smith-Lewis

 

SOLO
Violin
Recitativo e danza for violin solo (2024)
Salix lasiandra sings for violin solo (2024)
A dance of honey and inexorable delight for violin solo (2022)
Hertabuise for violin solo (2021)
Dear Nightingale for violin solo (2020)
Echo for violin solo (2020)
Cadenzas to Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 (2020)
Homage to Swan Lake for violin solo (2018)
Selvaggio for violin solo (2018)
Doppelgänger Dances for violin solo (2017)
Luminous Points for violin solo (2013)

Viola
Salix lasiandra sings for viola solo (2024)
Sarabanda for viola solo (2022)
Blue Rose for viola solo (2021)
The cloud that touched the ground for viola solo (2021)
Dear Nightingale for viola solo (2020)
Black wing, brown wing for viola solo (2019)
Lament for viola solo (2016)
Prelude for viola solo (2014)
Sonata for viola solo (2012)
Ansioso for viola solo (2012)
Photo by Mikel for viola solo (2012)

Cello
Vetur for cello solo (2016)
Prelude for cello solo (2014)

Piano
Summer Songs for piano (2020)
Otra vez for piano (2019)

Voice
Weeping Pendula for voice and loop pedal (2021)
Mozart Doesn't Live in Seattle for voice (2017)
Vetur öngum lánar lið for voice (2016)

Recorded voice
Seeing Cypresses with Catherine C. for recorded voice (2017)

Animoji voice
A Nik, a Nat, a Knot for Animoji cats (2022)
Penicilli-yum! for Animoji mouse (2020)
Sotto squeako for Animoji mice (2020)
Baby, I Love You for Animoji mouse (2020)

Accordion
3 Songs for Bellows, Buttons and Keys for accordion (2021)

CHAMBER MUSIC
For 2
2 violins
Sphere for two violins (2024)

Violin and viola
The almond tree duos : a collection of 18 duos for violin and viola (2019-2021)
Lontano for violin and viola (2017)
Vetur öngum lánar lið for violin and viola (2017)
Wise Tentacles for violin and viola (2017)
Berceuse for violin and viola (2015)
Liquid Voices for violin and viola (2013)

Recorded voice, violin and viola
The Lesson for recorded voice, violin and viola (2017)

Violin and cello
Vetur öngum lánar lið for violin and cello (2017)
Wise Tentacles for violin and cello (2017)

2 violas
The almond tree duos : a collection of 15 duos for two violas (2019-2021)

Viola and piano
Schumann Resonances for viola and piano (2015)

Voice and violin
A dance of honey and inexorable delight for narrator and violin (2022)
Hertabuise for narrator and violin (2021)
O. Reverie for voice and violin (2018)
William Wilson for voice and violin (2016) (can be played by 1 or 2 performers)

Voice and viola
Viola for narrator and viola (2017)
Berceuse with a Singer in London for voice and viola (2015)

Voice and cello
Vetur öngum lánar lið for voice and cello (2016) (can be played by 1 or 2 performers)

For 3
Violin, viola and cello

Kreutzer for violin, viola and cello (2016)

Viola, percussion and violin
Source for viola, percussion and violin (2015)

Voice, violin and viola
5 Poems of Herbert Woodward Martin for narrator, violin and viola (2021)

Voice(s), viola and cello
(one) for voice(s), viola and cello (2018)

Voices and cello
Firefly for voices and cello (2018)

For 4
String quartet
Memories - shadows - dreams for string quartet (2024) 
Mnemosyne’s breath for string quartet (2023)
Contemplation of Beethoven’s Op. 18, No. 4 for string quartet (2020)

For various
Viola ensemble
Fantasies in alto clef for viola ensemble [4 parts] (2023)

2-8 voices
Weeping Pendula for 2-8 voices (2021)

Various voices and instruments
Firefly Songs for various voices and instruments (2015-2018)
String Masks for voices, violin, viola, Harmonic Canon, Cloud-Chamber Bowls and Bass Marimba (2017)

CONCERTOS
Viola and harp
A brazen butterfly alights for solo viola, harp and strings (2021)

ARRANGEMENTS
Violin, viola and cello

Bach Browser for violin, viola and cello (2017)

EDITIONS
Viola solo
John Corigliano: Fancy on a Bach Air for solo viola (edited by Melia Watras)