Haskell Small's compositions are equally influenced by his classical training and early jazz background.  His works are both highly structured, at times using traditional forms, while also featuring freer, through-composed forms to embrace his interest in music that is more spatial and mystical in nature.

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Orchestral Works
Piano Works
Chamber Works
Vocal Works

Compositions

Orchestral Works

  • For Bassoon, Piano and Orchestra

    Premiered June 2 and 9, 2003 by the Mount Vernon Orchestra.

    16 minutes

  • For Narrator and Orchestra

    Premiered by the Mount Vernon Orchestra as part of an American Composers’ Forum grant.

    15 minutes

  • For Orchestra

    5 movements premiered accumalatively on each of 5 concert pairs on the Mount Vernon Orchestra's 2001-2002 series.

    11 minutes

  • For Piano and Orchestra

    Performed in Carnegie Hall in 1982

    10 minutes

  • For Piano and String Orchestra

    15 minutes

  • Transcribed for Orchestra

    12 very little pieces of blues and jazz. Written for Dutch pianist Marcel Worms for his multi-national "Blues Project". Published by PeerMusic Classical.

    3 minutes

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Piano Works

  • For Narrator and Piano

    Commissioned by 21st Century Classical. Premieres in New York and Berlin by pianist Soheil Nasseri.

    Subsequent performances in Poland and Washington DC by the composer. Settings of 6 war poems.

    28 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    13 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    17 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    26 minutes

  • Premiered at the Washington Conservatory on May 16, 2015

    31 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    Written for Lucia Leith, a gift for her years of dedicated service to the Washington Conservatory of Music.

    7-8 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    Premiered at the Washington Conservatory of Music on May 4, 2013

    8 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    A musical realization of the paintings in the Rothko Room at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

    27 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    Inspired by Schumann's Kinderscenen, a 10-part piece for adults looking back on their childhood. Premiered at the Washington Conservatory of Music on May 12, 2012.

    14 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    A short, feisty theme with 26 short variations plus a coda. Premiered at the Washington Conservatory of Music on May 16, 2009.

    5 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    Commissioned by The Phillips Collection and premiered at The Phillips in April 2006. Published by PeerMusic Classical.

    30 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    12 very little pieces of blues and jazz. Written for Dutch pianist Marcel Worms for his multi-national "Blues Project". Published by Peer Music Classical.

    3 minutes

  • For Solo Piano (right hand only)

    Modified version used as music for "Subterranean", a ballet choreographed by Lynn Cote and performed live by Haskell Small on the Washington Ballet's 1997 Winter Series at the Kennedy Center.

    33 minutes

  • For Orchestra

    5 movements premiered accumalatively on each of 5 concert pairs on the Mount Vernon Orchestra's 2001-2002 series.

    11 minutes

  • For Piano and Orchestra

    Performed in Carnegie Hall in 1982

    10 minutes

  • For Piano and String Orchestra

    15 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    Premiered at the Austrian Embassy on Mar. 24, 1993.

    7 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    1 minute

  • For Solo Piano

    Commissioned by the La Gesse Foundation and premiered in the Kennedy Center on Nov. 17, 1985.

    9 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    Modified version used as music for "Subterranean", a ballet choreographed by Lynn Cote and performed live by Haskell Small on the Washington Ballet's 1997 Winter Series at the Kennedy Center.

    33 minutes

    Sixty-Second Puzzle (1996)
    1 minute

    Three Etudes in Sound (1993)
    Premiered at the Austrian Embassy on Mar. 24, 1993.
    7 minutes
    Sonata No. 4 (1985)
    Commissioned by the La Gesse Foundation and premiered in the Kennedy Center on Nov. 17, 1985.
    9 minutes
    Twenty-Five Preludes (1984)
    Premiered in Frankfurt in Jan. 1985.
    28 minutes
    Sonata No. 3 (1982)
    Commissioned by the Washington Performing Arts Society and premiered in the Kennedy Center in 1983.
    13 minutes
    Three Impressions (1979)
    Published by Elkan-Vogel, Inc.
    3 minutes
    Fantasy-Variations on the Theme of the Little Drummer Boy (1971)
    Revised 1993 for the Great Falls Concert Series Christmas Concert.
    6 minutes
    For Two Pianos
    A Game of Go (1987)
    Premiered at the 3rd U.S. Go Congress, summer, 1987; featured on NPR's "All Things Considered", Mar. 6, 1988.
    10 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    Premiered in Frankfurt in Jan. 1985.

    28 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    Commissioned by the Washington Performing Arts Society and premiered in the Kennedy Center in 1983.

    13 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    Published by Elkan-Vogel, Inc.

    3 minutes

  • For Solo Piano

    Revised 1993 for the Great Falls Concert Series Christmas Concert.

    6 minutes

  • For Two Pianos

    Premiered at the 3rd U.S. Go Congress, summer, 1987; featured on NPR's "All Things Considered", Mar. 6, 1988.

    10 minutes

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Chamber Works

  • For 2 Violins, 2 Cellos and Clarinet (alt. Bass Clarinet)

    Two works created for The Interior Castle, a mixed-media theater production by Musica Aperta premiered in May 2015 at St. Ignatius Church; Boston College with subsequent performances in a number of U.S. cities.

    7-12 minutes

  • For Bassoon and Piano

    Commissioned by Shigeru Ota and premiered in Tokyo on Oct. 3, 1995.

    11 minutes

  • For Flute and Piano

    Written for flutist David Lonkevich and premiered at the Washington Conservatory of Music on November 3, 2012 as a two movement work. A middle slow movement was added later, creating a 3 movement version.

    11 minutes

  • For Flute and Violin (Also available for cello and flute)

    Commissioned by Summer Serenades and premiered at the Strathmore Arts Center, summer 1986. Published by Brixton Publications.

    10 minutes

  • For Flute, Bassoon and Piano

    Premiered in Tokyo, Oct. 3, 1995.

    6 minutes

  • For Flute, Clarinet, Cello and Piano

    Premiered in Spring of 2000 by the Associacion Decadence at the 2000 for 2000 Festival in Southern France.

    2½ minutes

  • For Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Cello and Piano

    Commissioned by the Georgetown Symphony Orchestra.

    11 minutes

  • For Piano Sextet

    Commissioned by the Amadeus Orchestra and performed in Carnegie Hall in 1990.

    15 minutes

  • For Solo Cello

    Published by ISG Publications.

    10 minutes

  • For Soprano, clarinet, piano and narrator

    7 minutes

  • For Two Oboes

    Premiered at the 1998 "Suite Treat" program in Wheaton, Md. on Feb. 28, 1998. Published by Brixton Publications.

    5 minutes

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Vocal Works

  • For Chorus, Soloists, Brass and Piano

    Commissioned by the Paul Hill Chorale and premiered in the Kennedy Center in 1983.

    11 minutes

  • For Soprano and Piano

    My Letter to the World, Surprise, and Wild Nights.

    5 minutes

  • For Soprano and Piano

    William Carmichael

    1½ minutes

  • For Soprano and Piano

    Peter Viereck

    1½ minutes

  • For Soprano and Piano

    James Joyce

    2 minutes

  • For Soprano, French Horn and Piano

    Premiered in New York's Alice Tully Hall in 1983. Chinese poetry (in English).

    7 minutes

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