Composers
Brittany J. Green
1991 -About
Brittany J. Green is a North Carolina-based composer and educator. Described as “cinematic in the best sense” and “searing” (Chicago Classical Review), Brittany’s music works to facilitate collaborative, intimate musical spaces that ignite visceral responses. The intersections between sound, video, movement, and text serves as the focal point of these musical spaces, often questioning and redefining the relationships between these three elements. Recent works engage sonification and black feminist theory as tools for sonic world-building, exploring the construction, displacement, and rupture of systems.
Her music has been featured at concerts and festivals throughout the United States and Canada, including the Boulanger Initiative’s WoCo Fest, the Society of Composers National Conference, New York City Electronic Music Festival, SPLICE Institute, and Experimental Sound Studio. Her music has been commissioned and performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Transient Canvas, and Emory University Symphony Orchestra.
Brittany’s music has been awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Charles Ives Scholarship (2022), ASCAP Foundation’s Morton Gould Award (2021), and New Music USA’s Creator Development Grant (2021). She holds a BM in Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and a MM in Music Composition and Theory from East Carolina University. She is currently in residence at Duke University, pursuing a Ph.D. in Music Composition as a Deans Graduate Fellow. In her free time, Brittany enjoys traveling, being in community with others, reading poetry, and spending time in front of the bonfire.
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Works by Brittany J. Green
| Title | Collection | Voice Type | Range | Poet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Words for Our People (The Wisdom of Aunt Phoebe Boyd) | Voice | D4 - D6 | Traditional | Aunt Phoebe Boyd |
| Title | Published | Size | Solo with Ensemble | Duration Range | Level | Orchestration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In the Beginning | Yes | Orchestra | none | 5-10 | 222(+b.cl.)1/443(+b.tbn.)1/timp/4perc/hp/pno/strings | |
| Rencontres | Yes | Orchestra | none | 5-10 | 3(+picc)231/322(+b. tbn)1/timp/2 perc/hrp/pno/strings | |
| TESTIFY! | No | Orchestra | none | 5-10 | 2222/4231(+ b. tbn)/timp/2 perc/hrp/pno/strings |
| Title | Work | Instrumentation | Level | Number of Movements | Accompanied | Size | Duration Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | Viola, Electronics | 1 | No | Duet | 5-10 | ||
| A Quiet Lament | Cello | 1 | No | Solo | Under 5 | ||
|
abo ibawi |
Guitar, Electronics | 1 | No | Duet | 5-10 | ||
| An Elegy for the Living | Piano | 1 | No | Solo | Under 5 | ||
| bluedream | Piano, Electronics | 1 | Yes | Solo | 5-10 | ||
| daffodils | Piano | 5 | No | Solo | 5-10 | ||
| Edges | Cello | 1 | No | Solo | Under 5 | ||
| Embers | Trombone, Electronics | 1 | Yes | Solo | 5-10 | ||
| Flash! | Oboe | 1 | No | Solo | Under 5 | ||
| i get out. | Double Bass, Electronics | 1 | No | Duet | 10-20 | ||
|
i will carry you to the water |
Piano, Percussion | 1 | Yes | Solo | 5-10 | ||
| if i wr yng (i wld stretch u wth my wld wrds) | Alto Saxophone | 1 | No | Solo | 10-20 | ||
|
living is the journey of answering |
Electronics, Percussion | 1 | Yes | Solo | 5-10 | ||
| luminous golden spirit | Trumpet, Electronics | 1 | Yes | Solo | Under 5 | ||
| Portraits for Piano | Piano | 5 | No | Solo | 10-20 | ||
| Sonatina for Flute | Flute, Electronics | 1 | No | Solo | 5-10 | ||
| there is only you and i. | Flute, Electronics | 1 | No | Duet | 5-10 |