Scores and parts available upon request.
CHAMBER MUSIC
Don’t Cry Bird
World premiere on March 4th, 2024 at CUNY Recital Hall, NYC
Flute: Laura Cocks, Violin: Marina Kiferstein
Direction ca: 11′ (Score upon request)
Love dies on an avocado tree
Commissioned by Fang jiayi World premiere at Roy Barnett Hall, 6361 Memorial Rd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada on Nov. 28, 2018
Duration ca: 10’ (Score upon request)
Die Verfolgung for String quartet
World premiere by Signum String Quartet at the Princeton University
Richardson Auditorium in Princeton, NJ on October 4, 2016.
Performance by Contando Quartet at the Auditorium in Nichni Novgorod, in Russia on July 4, 2017
Performance by Paul Klee String Quartet at the Auditorium Centro Culturele Altinote San Gaelano in Padova, Italy on September 17, 2017
Duration: 4′ (Score upon request)
Spirare, potes Spirare
World premiere at the HIDEOUT by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) in Chicago, IL on Nov 9, 2014
Claire Chase, flute Katinka Kleijn ,violoncello Duration: 8’59” (score upon request)
Cercle de la Lune
for piano, violin, four large gong ageng. Written for jingjingLuo’s exclusive art and calligraphy exhibition at the Beck Center for the Arts in Westlake, OH on Jan 11, 2013. World premiere by the Oberlin Conservatory String Quartet with Jingjing Luo and Randall Chase Camacho on Percussion.
Duration: 6’55” (score upon request)
Cage 100 Project 2013
for ob.bsn, tpt in C, trb, Mar, Vib, Xyl. Accordi. Pno, Vln, Vla and Vc.
Invitation from the Forum of Contemporary Music Leipzig Committee. World premiere on Oct 17th, 2013 at Miller Theatre, NYC and Aug 22-Sept 15th, 2013 in Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig Gfzk, Germany.
(Score upon request)
The Empty Mirror
for fl. Cl. Alto sax. Hr in F, Tube, Percs. Pno. Accordi. Vln.
Duration ca: 6’45’ (Score upon request)
Wild fire, Wild Grass
for 4 violoncellos, 1 double bass, 2 percussion players, 1 trumpet in Bb, 1 bass clarinet in Bb. Commissioned by the Contemporary Music Festival of Stanford University. The world premiere by the Symphony Orchestra of Stanford at Music Auditorium in Stanford University on Feb.21,2007.
Duration: ca. 7′ (Score upon request)
A Thousand Miles Away
for bass clarinet in Bb and vibraphone. Commission award by the Fortnightly Musical Club of Cleveland. Premiered by Thomas Reed and Jeff Nietzker at Cleveland Institute of Music on March 17, 2007.
Performance by the New Ear Contemporary Chamber Ensemble in Kansas City, MO on Mar 13, 2010. CD available at Capstone Recordings. 2007.
Duration: 8’49” (Score upon request)
The Daunting Bird
for five traditional Chinese instruments, flute and percussion Commissioning Award by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation. World premiere by the Music From China at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City on Nov.11, 2006.
Duration: 8’25” (Score upon request)
A Drama for Four Spirits
for pno. cl. vc. vn. Commissioned and premiered by the Contrasts Quartet at Saint Peters Church in NYC on May 1, 2005.
Performance by the Juilliard Continuum at Merkin Concert Hall in NYC on April 18, 2009
Performance by the New Music New Ear Ensemble at Music Auditorium of Kansas City University of Missouri Conservatory of Music in Kansas City, MO on May 3, 2010
Duration: 8’42” (Score upon request)
Die Kindern Spirits
for voice, 2 double basses, a prepared electric bass, two saxophones, and 2 Percussionists. Commissioned by the Commissions Project of New York. World premiere by the New Music Ensemble at the Concert Hall of Nazareth College of Rochester New York on May 9, 2003
Duration: 9’27” (Score upon request)
How Silent it is…
for soprano voice, alto flute, two marimba players and1 piano. Commissioned by the Commissions Project of New York. Premiered by the New Music Ensemble at the Concert Hall of Nazareth College of Rochester, NY on Feb 9, 2003
Performance by the New Ensemble of University of Las Vega on May 9,, 2004.
Duration: 13’50” (Score upon request)
Four Images from China
for alto saxophone and guitar. Commissioned and premiered by the Ruyoanji Duo at the Temple Theater in Viroqua, WI. on July 17, 2000, Performance at the Music Festival in Milan, Italy on July 25, 2005.
Performance at Musik Festival of Wurzburg in Germany on May,22, 2010. CD available on Liscio Recording 2003.
Duration: 11’17” (Score upon request)
Slash and Burn
for Chinese instrumental ensemble. World premiere by the Music From China at Merkin Concert Hall on Nov. 6th, 1999. First Prize Winner of Music From China International Composition Competition.
Duration 7’42 (Score upon request)
The Drunken Man
for flute and dialing harp. Dedicated to Jocelyn Chang and Michael Lees
Duration ca: 6’05” (Score upon request)
Yui, Yui
for piccolo and two percussionists. World premiere by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony during the CCS summer composers workshop on Aug 8th 1998, Cleveland, OH. Winner of the International Composition Competition of Alea III, Boston, MA 1999
Duration: 6’ (Score upon request)
Tiger
for basso voice, brass quintet and percussions Commissioned by the basso Tom Paul and Eastman Brass Quintet and percussions. The work was dedicated to Paul and Eastman Brass Quintet as a tribute to James Undercofler upon his inauguration as the director of the Eastman school of Music.
Duration: 7’ (Score upon request)
Amida
for string quartet. Commissioned and premiered by Cassatt Quartet for the
Celebration ceremony of the Buddha at the Shinto Temple in upstate New York.
Dunes
for Chamber Orchestra. The work was dedicated to Edwin London, the formal music director of Cleveland Chamber Symphony.
Duration ca: 6’ (Score upon request)
Piano Trio “Meng”
For Violin, Cello and Piano. World premiere with Evelyn Luest’s piano Trio in New York City, 1995. (Score upon request)
The Spell
for 2 cellos, flt, cl, pno and perc. Commissioned and premiered by the Stony Brook Contemporary Ensemble in 1993
European premiere by the Neuiw Ensemble of Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Holland on May 27, 1995 Tan Dun conductor.
Performance by the Network for New Music at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, PA on Feb. 24, 2002
1996 Walter Hinrichsen Award sponsored by C.F. Peters Corp., and presented via the auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Duration: 9’29” (Score upon request from C.F. Peters Corp.)
Mo
for Alto flute, bass clarinet in Bb and soprano saxophone and glass bottles. World premiere by Robert Dick and his trio at St Peter’s church in NYC on Aug, 20,1993.
Duration ca: 7’45” (Score upon request)
Mosquito
World premiere by Evelyn Luest at the Bloomingdale House of Music Auditorium in NYC on Aug 8, 1992
Performance by Mary Kathleen Ernst at Merkin Concert Hall in NYC, 1993 Honorary Prize from the Fourth Fanny Mendelssohn International Composition Competition in Germany, 1993. CD available on INNOVA, 2014. New World Records, 2001
Duration: 5’26” (Score upon request)
String Quartet No. 2
Duration ca: 7’01” (Score upon request)
Dream Image
for double bass, also flute doubles beer bottle, voice and percussion.
World premiere by the ensemble at American Dance Festival, Durham, NC
1990 Performance by Marlees Yarby Dance company at the Lincoln Center Outdoor Festival 1992.
Duration ca: 6’ (Score upon request)
Beyond Beta
for violin and piano. World premiere by Stony Brook Contemporary Ensemble, 1987. Performance by Nueva Música Dúo in the Festival International de Arte Contemporaneous de Leon Auditorio Jorge Ibarguengoitis Form Cultural Guanajuato, Aug 7, 2008. Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico (See video in Media).
Duration: 7’01” (Score upon request)
Wind for string quartet No.1
World premiere by the Cassatt Quartet during the Composers Forum’s Concert Series in NYC. Performance at Aspen Music Festival 1989 Performance by the Cassatt Quartet at the Bar Harbor Music Festival, Bar Harbor, ME, 1990
Duration ca: 7’ (Score upon request)
One Woman’s Pilgrimage
for cello solo, Gu Qin (seven string lute), Xun (clay wind), stereo playbacks.
Recorded at Tellio Audio Studio in NYC. Funding from New York State Foundation for the Arts. Commissioned and premiered by the Netherlands Dans Theatre and choreographed by Kai Takei at Amsterdam, Holland 1989 during the International dance festival. Mark Steward on Cello, Jingjing Luo on Gu Qin and Xun.
Duration ca: 10’
Cicada Slough
for strings, piano and percussionists
Duration ca: 6’55” (Score upon request)
Monologue
for two voices, persons and stereo playbacks. Vocalists JingJing Luo, Marni Rice, percussion Tagaki, mixing at Tagaki home studio, Boston, MA. Work was selected by the Kai Takei Moving Earth Dance Company for the world premiere performance at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in Jan,1989. Work is on Alliance Recording label, 1999, Chicago, IL.
Duration ca: 7’05”
Estuary
for voice, flute, Yamaha DX-7, Alesis-16 drum machine mixed in Aphonic Recording Studio of NYC. Jing Jing Luo on vocal, James Papoulis on flute, Sound engineering.
Duration ca: 8’
Three Dunhuang Poems
for piano solo. Cui Shi Guang, Piano solo. China National Publishing House, 1985. Recorded on HK International Records Inc., Ltd. 1983. Jing Jing Luo’s work debut album.
Duration: 13’ (Score upon request)
VOCAL / OPERA AND CHORAL MUSIC
Ashima Monodrama
for countertenor, b.cl, flt, (doubles alto, bass and piccolo), perc./stereo playbacks, video installation. Award of Discovery Grant for Female Composers supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation from the National Opera Center America. Workshop by TAK ensemble with Jordan Rutter, counter tenor. Produced by American Opera Project at Studio G. South, in Brooklyn, New York on Nov.4, 2016.
Duration ca: 14’ (Score upon request)
1) Shocking
2) Struggle Session
3) Baba
4) Sani
5) Ich… Ich…
6) Water in Dream
7) Splitting Sand at The Shadow
Three Acts of Opera / A Song of Unending Sorrow
for voice and guitar. Commissioned and premiered by Rob Nathanson and Nancy King at Concert Hall of University of North Carolina, in Wilmington, NC on May 16, 2008.
Performance at the Temple Theatre during the Driftless Jazz festival in Viroqua, WI on Sept. 5, 2010. CD available on Ravelio
Records with PARMA Recording Co., 2018.
Duration: 9 minutes. (Score upon request)
Four Seasons
for SSA and piano.
Commissioned and premiered by the Nazareth College of Rochester Choir at the Chapel in Rochester, NY May, 2004.
Performance by University of California, Berkeley – April 16, 2025. Recording on UC Berkeley label.
Duration: 11’00” (Score upon request)
An Huan, a Chinese Requiem
for a cappella, mixed choral and a large tam tam. Commissioned and premiered by the Dale Warland Singers at St. Mary’s Basilica Church in St. Paul, MN on April 20, 1996
The 1996 Winner of Dale Warland Singers Reading Series Competition made possible through a grant from The Jerome Foundation.
Duration: 20’46” (Score upon request)
No Home to Return
for voice and piano. World premiere by Mary Chan and Eric Gotlieb at NYU’s Concert for New Music Series, 1991. Mary Chan’s Solo Album ‘Six Times Solitude’ by China Recording Corporation, 1994, Beijing, China.
The work won the Best Song Writing Prize during the Contemporary Song Writing competition in Beijing, China 1995.
Duration: 6’ (Score upon request)
ORCHESTRA AND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Sonus for Orchestra
Hakka for Orchestra
World premiere by the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra at Taipei National Symphony Hall in Taipei, Taiwan on October 10, 2014. EarShot Readings: Naples Philharmonic, scheduled for May 15-16, 2023
Duration: 8’05” (Score upon request)
Shadow of Dream
For large orchestra. Commissioned and premiered by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra in celebration of its 50th anniversary at the National Theater and Music Concert Hall in Beijing, China on May 9, 2012
Duration: 13’59” (Score upon request)
Tsao Shu for Orchestra
US premiere by the New Juilliard Ensemble under the baton of Maestro Joe Sachs, Sep 24th, 2011 at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, NYC. Performance by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra at the Princeton University Richardson Auditorium Jan 31, 2016.
Overseas world premiere by the Shanghai Philharmonic at Shanghai Auditorium in Shanghai, China on May 13, 2011.
Duration ca. 6’40″ (Score upon request)
Lagrimas Y Voces
(This work was funded by the Composer Assistance Program from the American Music Center)
For flute and large ensemble. Commissioned and premiered by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony at the Music Settlement School in Cleveland on October 25, 2009.
Duration: 8’49″ (Score upon request)
The Slough
For chamber orchestra. World premiere by the San Francisco Women’s Philharmonic at Davis Hall in San Francisco, CA on Feb 11, 1999. Performance by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony in May, 2000. The Prize Winner of the International Composers Competition. Third Prize Winner at the Winnipeg International Symphonic Music Festival, Canada. Performance by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in Winnipeg, Canada on Jan, 21, 2001. Performance by Shen Zhen Symphony Orchestra in Hong Kong on March 21, 2004.
Duration: 8’56” (Score upon request)
Cicada Slough
for Chamber Orchestra.
Duration ca: 8’07” (Score upon request0
Capriccio
for Orchestra.
Duration ca: 7’55”
Le Grun
for Orchestra
Duration ca: 8’
If only it would rain…
for Chamber Orchestra. World premiere by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony at Drinko Hall, 1994.
Duration ca: 7’05” (Score upon request)
Dwarf for Orchestra
Duration ca: 8’11” (Score upon request)
Two Easy Pieces
for String Orchestra. Commissioned and premiered by the National Opera House Orchestra under the baton of Zheng Xiao Ying at Beijing Music Concert Hall on October 5, 1991
Duration: 6’25” (Score upon request)
Died Flowers
for Mezzo soprano and orchestra. World premiere by Luo Tian Chan, mezzo-soprano, Central Philharmonic of China under the baton of Li De Lun. HK International Records Inc., Ltd. 1983. Jing Jing Luo’s work debut album.
Duration ca: 7’20”. (Score upon request)
Two Movements for Orchestra
for Shiao and Orchestra World premiere by the Central Philharmonic of China, Beijing, China. HK International Records Inc., Ltd. 1983. Jing Jing Luo’s work debut album.
Duration ca: 7’ (Score upon request)
Piano Concerto
for piano and orchestra World premiere by Wu Ying, piano solo, Orchestra of the Central Opera, Beijing, China. Under the baton of Zheng Xiao Ying. Performance by Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in Shanghai Concert Hall, 1985. HK International Records Inc., Ltd. 1983. Jing Jing Luo’s work debut album.
Duration: 19’40” (Score upon request)
Selected Electroacoustic Music
Multiple Objects
for cello solo, multiple Objects and stereo playbacks. Aaron Wolfe, solo cello. Jingjing Luo, multiple objects.
Studio performance and recording at TIMARA of Oberlin Conservatory of Music in May, 2014
One who walked without direction
for 24 Macintosh laptop computers real-time, string trio and two percussion, actor and a conductor. Commissioned and premiered by Stanford University for the Pacific Music Festival-the Rim of Wire in Stanford, CA on April 29, 2008.
Duration: 12 minutes. (Score upon request)