Large Ensemble Music

Prelude: Seeking Refuge

Prelude: Seeking Refuge. 2024. for symphony orchestra (6.2 minutes). Recording (with score video above) performed by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra, conducted by Michelle Rakers. Perousal Score. Program note: This piece was composed during spring and summer of 2024, during several international wars (notably in Ukraine and the Middle East) as well as intense political conflict in the United States. I thought of the many people who were hurt or displaced and living in fear. This composition is dedicated to them and all who seek refuge.

Late Dappled Light

Late Dappled Light. 2024. for piano (2.3 minutes). Recording (with score video above) performed by Clare Longendyke. Perusal Score.

The Circuitous Path. 2024. for piano (3.3 minutes). Recording (with score video) via midi rendition. Perusal Score.

Just a Moment. 2024. for symphony orchestra (1.8 minutes). Recording via midi rendition. Perusal Score.

Toccata and Fugue. 2023. for symphony orchestra (24.5 minutes). Recording via midi rendition. Perusal Score.

Interlude. 2022. for string orchestra (15.0 minutes). Recording via midi rendition. Perusal Score.

Diverging Confluences. 2022. for woodwind quintet, in three movements (15.0 minutes total). Recordings via midi rendition: Movement 1, Movement 2, & Movement 3 (with score video above). Perusal Scores: Movement 1, Movement 2, & Movement 3.

Irregular Congruences. 2022. for violin and piano (12.0 minutes). Recording via midi rendition. Perusal Score.

Caprice Oblique. 2021. for wind symphony (5.0 minutes). Recording via midi rendition. Perusal Score.

Seven Songs on the Meaning of Things. 2021. for soprano voice and piano (13.0 minutes). Recording via midi rendition. Perusal Score. The lyrics for the seven songs come from poetry our family (Jessica Biggs, Matthew Biggs, Jeanette Kosorok, Pamela Kosorok, and me) wrote during various poetry slams over several years.

Women of Faith. Lyrics by Matthew B. Biggs. 2021. for soprano voice with descant and piano (3.5 minutes). Recording (via YouTube video). Perusal Score. Recording credits:  Voices: Jessica Biggs, Matthew Biggs and Pamela Kosorok; Piano: Bradley Layton; Sound  engineer: Donovan Dorrance; Logistics: Jeanette Kosorok and Michael Kosorok. Art in the video is from The Divine Feminine in LDS Art & Theology Exhibition at the Center Gallery in New York City in 2022.

A Great Light. Lyrics by Calvin D. Olsen. 2019. for choir (SATB) and piano or symphony orchestra (11.0 minutes). Recordings via midi rendition: with symphony orchestra (with score video) or piano. Perusal Scores: with sympohony orchestra or with piano. Program note: lyrics are inspired by passages in the books of Isaiah and Revelations.

Vestige Symphony. 2020. for symphony orchestra, in four movements (38.0 minutes total). Recordings via midi rendition: Movement 1 (Remnants), Movement 2 (Lamentation and Prayer), Movement 3 (Danse Macabre), & Movement 4 (Synthesis). Perusal Scores: Movement 1, Movement 2, Movement 3, & Movement 4. Program note: A key goal of this symphony is to express the tragedies, hopes, fears, craziness, loss and resilience which the world experienced during 2020.

A Great Light. Lyrics by Calvin D. Olsen. 2019. for choir (SATB) and piano or symphony orchestra (11.0 minutes). Recordings via midi rendition: with symphony orchestra (with score video) or piano. Perusal Scores: with sympohony orchestra or with piano. Program note: lyrics are inspired by passages in the books of Isaiah and Revelations.

Recursive Pursuit. 2017. for piano (6.0 minutes). Recording performed by Mat Eisenstein. Perusal Score.

A Singular Continuity. 2007. for string orchestra (4.0 minutes). Program note: premiered in 2007 by the Chapel Hill High School Orchestra under the direction of Barbara Bridges Smith at the Hanes Auditorium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Elliptical Ascent. 1999. for chamber ensemble: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, french horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, two violins, viola, cello, and double bass (11.5 minutes). Program note: premiered in 2000 by the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble in Music Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Chamber Music

Unrestrained Reverie. 2024. for solo cello (2.2 minutes). Recording via midi rendition. Perusal Score.

Diverging Confluences, Movement 3

Interactions. 1996. for Violin and Piano (4.5 minutes). Recording (with score video) of premier performance by Steve Kadlecek on violin and Jeffrey Gibbens on piano. Program note: premiered in 1997 in the Morphy Recital Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Perusal score.

Mechanizations. 1995. for piano, in four movements (10.0 minutes). Program note: premiered in 1995 by Geoffrey Gibbens in the Morphy Recital Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Rondo. 1988. for pucussion ensemble: six percussionists plus piano (10.0 minutes). Program note: In 1987 I received a comission from Brigham Young University (BYU) to serve as composer in residence for the Brigham Young University Percussion Ensemble and to compose a concert work. The result of the commission was Rondo which was premiered by the (BYU) Percussion Ensemble in 1988 in the Madsen Recital Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center at Brigham Young University.

Vocal and Choral Music

Silver Eyes

Silver Eyes. Lyrics by Alixa Brobbey. 2024. for SATB choir (6.9 minutes). Recording via midi rendition (with score video above). Perusal Score. The lyrics were inspired by the following passage in the New Testament (Matthew 20:13): “Woman, why weepest thou?”

Contemplation in March. Lyrics by Michael René Kosorok. 1985. for soprano and piano. Recording (live). Perusal Score.

Silent Forest

Silent Forest. Lyrics by Michael René Kosorok. 1980. for tenor and piano. Recording (live with score video above). Perusal Score.

Solo Piano Music

And Out of Chaos Came the Dancing Rose. 1980. for piano. Recording (live). Perusal Score.