Year composed: 2016, rev. 2023Duration: 9′Instrumentation: 16-member SATB choral ensemble, with four soloists: Soprano 1, Alto 1, Tenor 1, and Bass 1 Notes: looking roundthere’s nothingnot a flower— John Campion auto-catalytic loopsedimentation, consortiareplicator, generator, co-habitating, multicomponentedmeshworks— Cindy Cox back to full catalog

Year composed: 2017Duration: 4′Instrumentation: soprano, mezzo, and baritone soloists with choral ensemble Notes: Written for San Francisco Choral Artists, Magen Solomon, Artistic Director Wakah-chan /Wa’-kah-chan/ is the World Tree at the center for the ancient Maya universe. Translated from K’iche’ as “raised-up-sky,” it is the axis-mundi of the world and the divine portal connecting the…

Year composed: 1989Duration: 20′Instrumentation: mezzo soprano and chamber orchestra (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, trombone, percussion, harpsichord, 2 violins, viola, cello) Notes: Premiere by ALEA III, Theodore Antoniou conducting, Boston, 1992 (single strings version) From The Sonnets to Orpheus, II, 13By Rainer Maria RilkeTranslated by Stephen Mitchell Be ahead of all parting, as though it already…

Year composed: 1993Duration: 14′Instrumentation: orchestra Notes: Commissioned and premiered by the Women’s Philharmonic, May 1993National Symphony, Leonard Slatkin conducting, January 1997National Symphony, East Coast Tour, Spring 1997 back to full catalog

Year composed: 2012Duration: 14′Instrumentation: orchestra (3.2.3.3/4.2.3.0/timp.1 perc/strings) Movements:I. Las aguas del sur (“The southern sea”)II. La tierra caliente que duerme (“The sleeping warm earth”)III. Ballenas australes y pingüinos de Magallanes (“Southern right whales and Magellanic penguins”) Premiered by the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra at the International Women’s Forum/World Leadership Conference, San Francisco 10/26/2012

Year composed: 2024, in progressDuration: 90′Instrumentation: four singers, narrator, 2 dancers, chorus, field recordings, electronics, and large ensemble (flute, clarinet, keyboard sampler, 2 percussion, prepared piano, violin, viola, cello, double bassConcept and Libretto: John Campion Funded with support from the Guggenheim and Mellon Foundations Eco Ensemble, Music of Cindy Cox – Photo credit: Grant Kerber…

Seven Studies in Harmony and Resonance Year composed: 2003Duration: 30′Instrumentation: solo piano Movements:I. Strong, JoyousII. DelicateIII. SonorousIV. Meditative, StillV. Playful, But DrivenVI. FleetingVII. Transcendent Notes: The hierosgamos is an ancient principle which reveals the ultimate wholeness concealed among pairs of apparent opposites. Literally “sacred marriage”, this mysterious union involves a simultaneous moment of creation and…

Perusal score Purchase Text: My daughter brought a shell and bade me put my ear to it: —That’s the sound of the ocean, I said. —Is the ocean inside of it, she asked? —The shape of the shell causes the sound, I said. —Then the ocean is the shaper of things, said Sophia. You throw…

Year composed: 2011Duration: 28′Instrumentation: string quartet Movements: I. Las aguas del sur (“The southern sea”)II. La tierra caliente que duerme (“The sleeping warm earth”)III. Ballenas australes y pingüinos de Magallanes (“Southern right whales and Magellanic penguins”)IV. La tierra fría que duerme (“The sleeping cold earth”)V. La cruz del sur y el cielo que gira “(The…

Year composed: 2021Duration: 12Instrumentation: full orchestra (3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/timp.2 perc/strings) World premiere of the full orchestra version by the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Milnes, on September 22-23, 2023. Notes: Dreaming a world’s edge was commissioned by the League of American Orchestras with the generous support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. The movements are…