Works & Audio

Chronological Works List:
PDF File | Word Document

-If interested in full scores, recordings, and parts, please contact Laura-

Orchestral

Laura Kramer Mercurial Tempers (2008-09), for orchestra, 8 min. (Revision of Thesis for Master of Music in Composition, formerly called Anemoi)
PDF Score Excerpts | Program Note

Blooming Lavender (2007), for symphony orchestra, 2 min. Audio | PDF Score | Program Note

  • Written for Kids Compose 2006-07
  • Arrangement of melodies by elementary students:
    Sarah Williams and Agnes Zhu.
  • Premiered Feb. 2007.
    Indiana University Symphony Orchestra,
    Steven Smith, conductor. Indiana University.

Illusions (2005), for orchestra, 12 min. Program Note

  • Reading Session, December 2005
    West Chester University Symphony Orchestra

Chorus With Ensemble

In Vision I Roamed (2008) for SATB chorus and 9 instruments, 6 min. Audio Excerpt | PDF Score Excerpt
Program Note & Text
Text by Thomas Hardy

  • Premiered Nov. 2008, Indiana University, Masters Recital
    Fawzi Haimor, conductor
  • Selected as a finalist for the 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
  • Selected for "Composing New Works For Voice": Workshop with Sven-David Sandström
    Indiana University
    July 29-Aug. 2, 2008
  • read by the Indiana University Contemporary Vocal Ensemble under Carmen Telléz, Oct. 2008

Chamber

Kaleidoscopic Shifts (2010), for fl./alto fl., cl/bass cl., perc., pno., vn., vc, 5:30 min. Audio Excerpt |PDF Score Excerpt | Program Note

Strings (2009), for saxophone quartet, 9 min. PDF Score | Program Note

  • Bend
  • Inflections
  • Sidetracks
  • written for the Zzyzx Saxophone Quartet

Different Sorts (2008), Duo for violin and guitar, 10 min. PDF Score Excerpts | Program Note

  • Commissioned by violinist Liana Gourdjia and guitarist Guido Sánchez
  • Premiered Nov. 2008, Indiana University, Masters Recital

Conglomerations, Fanfare for brass quintet (2007-08), 3 min. Program Note

  • Premiered Nov. 2008, Indiana University, Masters Recital

Chasing Echoes (2007), for five pianos, 5 min. Program Note

  • Commissioned by the West Chester University Piano Ensemble

Sneaky Exponential (2007), for trumpet, trombone, percussion, bass, 5 min.

  • Written for the IU Hammer and Nail Project:
    Composer/Choreographer Collaboration
    Choreography by Beth Rodriguez
  • Premiered April 2007, The Waldron Center, Bloomington
  • Performed November 2007, Comstock Hall, University of Louisville

Camaïeu (2007), for clarinet, horn, marimba, and cello, 10 min. Audio Excerpt | PDF Score Excerpt | Program Note

  • Premiered April 2008, Composition Recital, Indiana University
  • Performed November 2008, Masters Recital, Indiana University

Color Phases (2006), for five pianos, 5 min.

  • Commissioned by the West Chester University Piano Ensemble
  • Premiered April 2006, Senior Recital, West Chester University

Contemplations (2005) for saxophone quartet, 7 min. Audio Excerpt | Program Note

  • Premiered April 2005, Saxfest, West Chester University
  • Performed April 2006, Senior Recital, West Chester University

Looking Forward (2005), for violin and cello, 5 min Audio Excerpt | Program Note

  • Reading session, January 2006, Network for New Music

Voice

How Life's Reverberation (2005), for baritone voice and piano, 10 min.
Texts by Emily Dickinson Program Note & Text
  • Their height in heaven comforts not Audio
  • I felt a funeral in my brain Audio
  • Except the heaven had come so near Audio
  • Sleep is supposed to be Audio
  • Premiered Nov. 2005, New Music Concert, West Chester University
  • Performed April 2006, Senior Recital, West Chester University

Electroacoustic

Warped (2007-08) for alto saxophone and electronics, 5 min. Audio Excerpt | Score available from Dorn Publications| Program Note

  • Premiered Jan. 2008, Computer Music Studio recital, Indiana University
  • Performed:
    • 2008 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference,
      University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, April 2008
    • Nov. 2008, Masters Recital, Indiana University
    • Feb. 2009, Midwest Composers Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    • Mar. 2009, International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room Project (WEALR), California State University- Fullerton
    • Apr. 2009, SEAMUS National Conference, Sweetwater Sound Campus, Fort Wayne, IN
    • Nov, 2009, Composition Showcase, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    • To be performed March 2010, New Music Festival, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL

Tranquil InDensity (2007), 6 min. Audio | Program Note

  • To be premiered Apr. 2010, SEAMUS National Conference, St. Cloud University, St. Cloud, MN

Pure Distortion (2006), 4 min. Audio | Program Note

 

Solo

Stray (2009) for classical guitar, 3 min.

Undulations (2008) for cello and piano, 3 min.

  • Performed by Bill Meyer in cello master class with Sharon Robinson,
    Indiana University, April 2008

Prelude (2007), for solo piano, 3 min.

  • Premiered April 2007, Elaine Lee, pianist
    Students of Don Freund and Jean-Louis Haguenauer Recital

Tangents (2006) for solo piano, 8 min. Audio Excerpt | PDF Score Excerpt | Program Note

  • Premiered Feb. 2007 at the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, University of Chicago.
  • Performed April 2007, Alexandra Gorlin-Crenshaw, pianist
    Composition Recital, Indiana University
  • Performed April 2007, Alexandra Gorlin-Crenshaw, pianist
    Students of Don Freund and Jean-Louis Haguenauer Recital
  • Performed Nov. 2008, Bethany Pietroniro, Masters Recital,
    Indiana University

Fast-forward (2006), for solo alto saxophone, 8 min.

  • Premiered March 2006, New Music Concert, West Chester University

Theatre

Incidental Music for:
An Ideal Husband
, by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Fontaine Syer

Performance by the Indiana University Theatre Department
Feb. - Mar. 2009

About the Play

Opening - Ballroom Waltz Audio
Act I - II Audio
Act II Ending Audio
Act III Opening Audio
Act III- IV Audio
Ending Audio
Curtain Call Audio

 

Arrangements / Transcriptions

Le Api (2007) for alto saxophone and piano, 2 min.

  • Written for Otis Murphy, Original music by Antonino Pasculli, transcribed by Kenneth Tse
Faith (2006, chamber ensemble arrangement), 3 min