Compositions
Steven has composed for ensembles of all sizes. Below is a list of compositions for Chamber Ensembles, Large Ensembles, and Keyboard. For more information about these scores, please Contact Steven.
Art Songs
"All Our Stories," from Confluence (a collaboration with the Composers' Collective of Vancouver, BC, Voice, Flute, & Piano, 2012)
American Fragments (from the poetry of Sandburg and Dickinson, for soprano & piano, 2016)
An Hour is a Sea
Under the Harvest Moon
I am afraid to own a body
Dying at my music!
Two
"Baltic Fog Notes" (poem by Carl Sandburg, for soprano & piano)
"Black Riders" - 5 songs from the poetry of Stephen Crane (for voice and piano, 2019)
Black riders
Mystic shadow
Three little birds
Places among the stars
I saw a man pursuing the horizon
"Confessions" - 5 songs from the poetry of Amy Lowell and Walt Whitman (for Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano [3 songs], Baritone/Tenor [2 songs] & piano, 2018)
Opal
June
Aubade
To a Stranger
Venus Transiens
Five Children's Songs (for voice, piano, and plucked piano strings OR voice, piano, bongos, and glockenspiel, 2019)
Twinkle, Twinkle
Little Star
Do you know?
Jack fell down
Are you sleeping, Frère Jacques?
Five Norwegian Songs (for Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello, & Piano, 2010) -Recording-
Five Sombre Songs (for Soprano & Piano, 2011) -Recording 1- -Recording 2-
"Human Nature" (for soprano & piano, A collaboration with the poet Val Mallinson, 2017) -Recordings-
Saltwater Heart
Leave No Trace
Way Finding
I Call to the Earth and Sea - Four Songs from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (for Soprano & Piano, 2013) -Recording 1- -Recording 2- -Recording 3-
You Sea!
Twenty-Eight
Night
Immortality
"Irradiations" - Three songs to poetry by J G Fletcher
Irradiations XXIV (All you stars up yonder)
Irradiations XX (I dance, I exist in motion)
Irradiations XXXV (What weave you, what spin you?)
"July Midnight" (Poem by Amy Lowell, 2022)
"Nuit Blanche" - Three songs inspired by French poetry (for Soprano & Piano, 2018)
The house should be full of roses
Dance the Jig
Nuit Blanche
Obstfelder Songs - Four songs in Norwegian with poetry by Sigbjørn Obstfelder (for Soprano & Piano, 2018)
Eva
Kan Speilet Tale
Regn
Psalme
"Precipitations" - Nine songs to poetry by Evelyn Scott (2021)
Isolation Ward
Tropical Life
Interlude
The Assumption of Columbine
The Naiad
Snow Dance
Precipitations
Destiny
To a Sick Child
"Resistance" - Five songs to poetry by Joanne Kennedy Frazer (for Soprano & Piano, 2018)
Work
Tweet, tweet, tweet
Communion
A would-be prophet
Re-visioning
Sandburg Songs
The poetry of Carl Sandburg continues to inspire Steven to compose. He has set the following poems to music, and they may be performed in various combinations (as song cycles) or individually.
Baltic Fog Notes
Between Two Hills
Bringers
Flux
From the Shore (for voice & flute)
Grieg Being Dead
Have Me
Monotone
My People
Prayers of Steel
Sea-Wash
Stars, songs, faces
Summer Stars
Swirl
Two
Under the Harvest Moon
Valley Song
"Sea Songs" (Five songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano, 2019) (Text by Fearnside, Jeffers, St. Vincent Millay, Teasdale, and Sandburg)
On Christmas Eve
Ebb-Tide
Low Tide
Peace
Sea-Wash
"Skovvise" (for Soprano and Piano, text by Sigbjørn Obstfelder, 2023)
"Smoke and Steel" (Five songs to poetry by Carl Sandburg, for Soprano & piano)
Under the Harvest Moon
Prayers of Steel
Monotone
Stars, songs, faces
Valley Song
"Solveig's Song" (for Mezzo-Soprano & Piano, 2011)
"Song Offerings" (five songs for unaccompanied treble voice with text by Rabindranath Tagore, 2020)
Pilgrimage
The Wall
Sleep
Night
Light
Teasdale Songs
A December Day
Other Men
Peace
There Will Come Soft Rains
Tides
When I am with you
The Years
Three Biblical Songs (for Soprano & Piano, 2008) (Recording)
Lament
Song
Revelation
Three Folk Songs of the Pacific Northwest (for voice & piano, 2016)
Seattle Illahee
The Girl with the Striped Stockings On
The Old Settler
Three Norwegian Songs (for Soprano & Piano, 2015)
Holder du af mig
Diset Kvæld
Det første møde
"We Wear the Mask" - Four songs from the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar (for Mezzo-Soprano & Piano, 2018)
We Wear the Mask
Theology
Curtain
In Summer
Whitman Songs (ongoing project, begun in 2016)
Keyboard
Over 80 pieces for solo piano
Air and Ground Dance for solo organ (2016) -Recording-
Etude for solo harpsichord (2019)
Meditations on American Hymn Tunes (2016)
Nocturne (2008) -Recording-
Rhythmic Suite (2010)
Suite of Primitive Dances (2007)
Suite Parisienne (2008)
Mixed Chamber Ensembles
Canzonetta (for Viola and Bassoon, 2016)
Ceremony (for Flute, Alto Saxophone, and French Horn, 2019)
Four Dances (for Flute, Violin, Viola, & Piano, 2008) -Recording-
Norwegian Rhapsody (for Violin, Viola, & Piano, 2020 - Commissioned by the National Nordic Museum) (Recording)
Remembrance (Trio for Oboe, Viola, & Piano, 2018) -Recording-
Rite (for Flute, Viola, & Harp, 2011) -Recording-
Opera
Valparaiso (for mezzo-soprano, soprano, two baritones, and piano - Composed 2023, Premiered March 2024)
See the Valparaiso page for more info!
Transcriptions and Arrangements
F. Melius Christiansen: Lullaby on Christmas Eve (for voice, viola, & piano - 2020)
Edvard Grieg: Bergliot (New English Translation - 2023) (Recording)
Edvard Grieg: Der Skreg en Fugl (for voice, flute, & piano - 2023)
Edvard Grieg: Foran Sydens Kloster (for 11 piece orchestra [fl/ob/cl/bn/hn/pno/vln/vln/vla/vlc/cb] with soprano and alto soloists and treble chorus - 2023) (Recording)
Edvard Grieg: Holberg Suite, op. 40 (for vln/vln/vla/vlc/cb/pno - 2024)
Edvard Grieg: Jeg Elsker Dig (for voice, flute & piano - 2023)
Alf Hurum: Ave Maria (from Lilja) (for soprano & piano - 2023)
Laura Netzel: Three Songs (For soprano & string quartet - 2023)
Strings
Dance for Viola and Piano (2015) -Recording-
Elegy for String Sextet (2008) -Recording-
Fantasy for Viola and Piano (2009) -Recording-
Folk Dances for Solo Viola (2012)
Intermezzo for Viola and Piano (2014) -Recording-
Sacred Suite (for Viola and Piano, 2016) -Recording-
String Quartet (2012)
Winds
Brass Quartet (2011)
Ceremony (for Flute, Alto Saxophone, and Horn, 2019) -Recording-
Four Pieces (for Flute & Piano, 2009) -Recording-
Five Impromptus (for Solo Flute, 2014)
Melodious Fragments (for Oboe & Viola, 2017)
Northwest Coast Pictures (for two Flutes, 2017)
Prayer (for Flute & Piano, 2012) -Recording-
Prelude (for Flute Choir, 2013) -Recording-
Suite for Flute and Piano (2014) -Recording-
Sax Quartet (2011)
Sonata for Oboe and Piano (2016) -Recording-
Wind Quintet (2010)
Various Large Ensembles
Handbells
Campanile - Surround Sound Etude for Handbell or Handchime choir
Introit & Prayer - "Many and Great, O God" (for 4 handbell ringers and piano, 2017)
Lament (Commissioned by the ringers of Des Moines United Methodist Church, 2017)
Prelude - Now the Green Blade Riseth (Commissioned by the ringers of Des Moines United Methodist Church, 2015)
Winter Rose (for Handbell Soloist) (2016)
Wind Ensemble
Lament (2011) -Recording-
March, Melody, & Jig (2006)
Orchestra
Dark Dances (2011)