M Joseph Willette, Composer & Educator

M Joseph Willette, Composer & EducatorM Joseph Willette, Composer & EducatorM Joseph Willette, Composer & Educator

M Joseph Willette, Composer & Educator

M Joseph Willette, Composer & EducatorM Joseph Willette, Composer & EducatorM Joseph Willette, Composer & Educator
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Catalogue of Works

Large Scale Works

Working Hard & Hardly Working

(2024)

Chamber operetta with libretto by Luke "Skippy" Harbur

Commissioned by No Divide KC in partnership with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City

Juniper

(2022)

Chamber opera in one act

She Moved the Prairie

(2021)

Dance Film, in collaboration with the Wichita State University Dance Department and School of Digital Arts


Solo

Dear Creature

(2024)

for unaccompanied voice (ca. 4:00)

Neon//Electric

(2024)

for bass clarinet and fixed electronics (ca. 4:00)

The Things You Love

(2022)

for viola and piano (ca. 4:00)

GrindrLiedr

(2022)

for cello and electronics (ca. 2:00)

Lavender Martian

(2021)

for solo multi-percussion (ca. 5:00)

Basketful of Water

(2020)

for solo alto flute (ca. 3:00)

Daize

(2020)

for solo marimba (ca. 5:00)

For: Anyone

(2019)

for any solo instrument or voice (duration varies)

Pastorale: Rhodora

(2019)

for solo double bass and accompanying poem (ca. 4:00)
accompanying poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Public Domain)

Look About You

(2019)

for solo flute (ca. 5:00)

The Well of Yourself

(2017)

for solo piano (3:30)


Chamber - Instrumental

RUSH

(2023)

for bass clarinet and marimba (ca. 5:00)

Something About a Brick

(2023)

Commissioned by the Charlotte Street Foundation

for tenor saxophone, percussion, and electronics (ca. 5:00)

Squid Lips

(2023)

for woodwind quintet (ca. 5:00)

The Horse You Rode In On

(2022)

for tenor saxophone, electric guitar, piano, and percussion (ca. 8:00)

Where're'yer Manners?

(2021)

for percussion quartet (ca. 6:00)

Gefunden

(2021)

for mixed chamber ensemble (flute, clarinet, trombone, violin, cello, piano, percussion) (ca. 12:00)

Spoken Words

(2020)

for oboe, violin, viola, and double bass (5:00)

text by Autumn Baggett-Griggs (with permission from the author)

Sea Wall

(2020)

for trombone septet (3:00)

Leo Sketches

(2020)

commissioned by Shelly Alexander and the KSU Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble

for tuba/euphonium ensemble (6:30)

i. incantations

ii. dispositions

iii. luminations

Regurgitations

(2020)

for saxophone quartet SATB (3:00)

The Falling Star

(2019)

for horn quartet, narrator, and percussion

text by Sara Teasdale (Public Domain)

Two Pieces for Brass Quintet

(2019)

for brass quintet (6:30)

i: on this day

ii: sitting quietly; doing nothing

Tender Thoughts

(2018)

for horn quartet (5:00)

Empires

(2018)

for clarinet quartet (2:30)


Chamber - Vocal

Requiem

(2020)

for Baritone and Piano (3:30)
text by Robert Louis Stevenson (Public Domain)

ode to the flute

(2018)

for flute, voice (high), and piano (4:40)

text by Ross Gay (with permission from the author)

Chanson d'Automne

(2018)

for voice (low) and piano (5:00)

text by Paul Verlaine d


Choral

Instrument of Your Peace

(2020)

SAB Choir (5:00)
text by anonymous (Public Domain)

Invitation to Love

(2020)

SATB div. Choir (3:45)
text by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Public Domain)

Oh, Stay at Home

TTBB Choir (4:30)

text by A.E. Housman (Public Domain)

Garden Hymn

(2018)

SATB div. Choir (3:30)
text by Anonymous, from the book Northern Harmony (Public Domain)

God Be in My Head

(2018)

SSAA Choir (1:30)

text from the Sarum Primer (Public Domain)


Wind Band

Before April

(2018)

concert march (3:00)

La Lune

(2018)

Runner Up: Davidson High School Wind Ensemble Contest 2018 & 2019

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