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Compositions

Prelude on the Sea

Film

A Puppet film written and performed by Kristin Hurst and Jack Dauner

Recorded in 2024 with the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra (Conductor: David Hernando Rico).

Toadette the Frog Opera

Opera

Chamber opera for 5 singers and a small orchestra.

Premiered as a puppet film in 2021 and at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival, London, in 2022

A Concert of Birds

Chamber Music

A short chamber work inspired by bird songs heard in Burgenland, Austria. For flute, clarinet (A), 2 trumpets in C, percussion, piano, violin, and double bass (or cello).

Premiered at Joseph Haydn Private University in June, 2023, conducted by Jack Dauner

Nine Variations for Piano

Piano Solo

Recorded at Joseph Haydn Private University in 2023

Prelude in B Minor

Piano Solo

Premiered in Vienna, June 2019

Winterfriede

Lied

A winter song in German for mezzosoprano and piano. The text was written by Rita Becker.

Recorded in December 2022 with Rita Becker

F. Chopin: 2nd Sonata, 1st Movement

Orchestra / Arrangement

The first movement of Chopin's B Flat Minor piano sonata, arranged for orchestra

Am Flusse

Lied

Romantic style-copy of the poem by Goethe.

Der Abschied

Lied

Neo-romantic setting of the poem by Goethe.

Papa Haydn

Lied

A comic piece (or rather a parody) about Haydn's parrot. For piano and solo voice.

Premiered at Joseph Haydn Private University in 2024 by Georg Wacks

Rastlose Liebe

Lied

Neo-romantic setting of the poem by Goethe.

String Quartet in A

Chamber Music

My first attempt at writing in Vienna Classical style – it still turned out sounding more Romantic...

The Builder

Choral

A setting of the poem of the same name by Willard Wattles. For 2 bass and 3 treble voices a cappella.

Premiered by the class of KS Wolfgang Bankl at the Allegro Vivo Festival in Horn, Austria

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