Compositions

Kathryn Woodard’s compositions are now available for digital purchase at www.soniccrossroads.com/kathryn-woodard 

Please use the contact page if you are interested in a work not available there.

Chamber music:

Click on titles (or videos) to hear samples from her work.

No One Knows the Time (for mezzo and piano, 2025); with poetry by Tina Chang


In einem Dasein (for mezzo and piano, 2024); with poetry by Georg Trakl (German)

 

From the opera-in-progress, Sweet Anna, a collaboration between Kathryn Woodard and Kendra Preston Leonard

The Calm Before... (for viola and piano, 2019)

Budapest 1919  (Three songs for high voice and small ensemble, 2016/2019)

Audio link includes trumpet; Video below clarinet and viola

 

revolutionary scarlet (Three character pieces for solo viola, 2015)

Glimmer (for oboe, clarinet, cello, piano, 2010)

 

Solo piano works (click titles to listen):

Vignettes (2024): Rhythm studies for late intermediate players. Includes Alchemy, Sailing at Night, Spirals, As Dusk Falls, and Hop, Skip and a Jump

Four Scenes (2024): A set of short pieces for the early intermediate student. Includes: Deep Sea Diving, On the Horizon, Merry-Go-Round, March of the Scarabs

Five to Seven (Toccata) (2023): A lively toccata with shifting ‘aksak’ meters (5/8 and 7/8). Suitable for advanced students whose span only reaches a seventh!

Whirlwinds (Etude) (2023): Constant swirling quintuplets in unusual scale patterns are set in cross-rhythms with a haunting melody. Challenges the player with unusual subdivisions and phasing patterns within tempo rubato.

Impromptus (2022): A set of three pieces that explore complex rhythms and lyrical melodies. Texturally simple for the late intermediate pianist but rhythmically challenging! •Water Sprites • Fireflies • By Moonlight 

Creepy Suite (2019) A set of six short pieces for early intermediate level students

 

Ancient Omens (2018) a set of three pieces for intermediate level students: Storm Clouds, Distant Fire, Circling Birds 


Individual pieces from Royal Portraits (2014) are now part of a larger set in progress - Sights of Istanbul. Single titles can be purchased from www.soniccrossroads.com


Lyric Suite (Improvisations for prepared piano, 2008) 

   • From the CD Journeys (click here to preview and purchase)

 

Large ensemble:

Victory March (1908) by Leyla Saz; arranged for concert band by Kathryn Woodard (2015).

   • Purchase the score from soniccrossroads.com

Ancient Omens is also available arranged for concert band. 
The three movements are:

    • Storm Clouds • Distant Fire • Earth Tremors

 

 

 

 

NEWS

 

~ Kathryn is available to present workshops to piano students, teachers and professionals, addressing creative practice and movement retracing. View the descriptions here.

 

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