Conducting



Kirk is the conductor ofThe Lafayette College Concert Band and the Lafayette College Contemporary Music Ensemble.

Previous to his Lafayette appointment, Kirk was an Assistant Conductor for the Lamont Symphony Orchestra and the Timberline Symphony Orchestra (now the Boulder Symphony). He also appeared as a guest conductor with the Boulder Concert Band. He has studied with Steven W. Pratt and Joe Martin; he has also participated in clinics by Mallory Thompson, Jerry Junkin, Allan McMurray, and Andrew Yozviak.

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Wind Ensemble Repertoire


Samuel Barber
Commando March

Roland Barrett
Sunchasers

Robert Russell Bennet
Suite of Old American Dances

Warren Benson
The Leaves are Falling
The Solitary Dancer

Hector Berlioz
IV. March to the Scaffold from Symphonie fantastique

Leonard Bernstein
Danzon from Fancy Free
Overture to “Candide”
Somewhere (arr. Bowcock)
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (arr. Lavender)

Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture (trans. Hindsley)

Steven Bryant
Dusk

John Barnes Chance
Incantation and Dance

Aaron Copland
An Outdoor Overture
Emblems
Fanfare for the Common Man
The Promise of Living

Norman Dello Joio
Scenes from "The Louvre"

Pete Deshler
We Choose The Moon

Edward Elgar
Nimrod from Enigma Variations (trans. Alfred Reed)

Conni Ellisor
Keepers of the House

Roshanne Etezady
Anahita

Eric Ewazen
Hymn for the Lost and the Living

Henry Fillmore
Americans, We

Giovanni Gabrielli
Sonata Pian'e Forte (trans. O'Riordan)

Alexandra Gardner
Perseids

George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue (arr. Verrier)

David Gillingham
Heroes, Lost and Fallen

Alberto Ginastera
Danzas del Ballet Estancia (trans. Donald Patterson)

Percy Grainger
Irish Tune fron County Derry
Lincolnshire Posy
Mock Morris
Molly on the Shore
Shepard's Hey

Jennifer Higdon
Mysterium

Paul Hindemith
March from Symphonic Metamorphosis (trans. Keith Wilson)

Gustav Holst
I. Mars and IV. Jupiter from The Planets, op. 32
Suite no. 1 in Eb
Suite no. 2 in F

Karel Husa
Music for Prague 1968
Smetana Fanfare

Anthony Iannacone
After a Gentle Rain

Charles Ives
Variations on “America”

Zach Jones
Visions From A Quiet Valley

Justin Kogasaka
We Choose The Moon

Ashley Kushner
Would I Have Broke This Happy Dream?

Anthony J. Lanman
Premeditated Attacks (with Massive Interruptions)

Morten Lauridsen
O Magnum Mysterium (trans. H. Robert Reynolds)

Ronald Lo Presti
Elegy for a Young American

John Mackey
A deep reverberation fills with stars
Asphalt Cocktail
Aurora Awakes
Hymn to a Blue Hour

David Maslanka
Give Us This Day (A Short Symphony for Wind Ensemble)
Requiem
Tears

Darius Milhaud
Suite Francaise

Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
(orchestrated by Kirk O'Riordan)

Kirk O’Riordan
Fanfare and Procession
I Dwell in Possibility
Inaugural Fanfare
Iris
On Vincent's Swirling Skies
Return, Forgotten
Sacred Spaces
Shiki (The Four Seasons)
The Hanging Gardens

Clint Needham
Legacies

Giovanni di Palestrina
Missa Papae Marcelli [Kyrie and Gloria] (trans. O'Riordan)

William Pfaff
Second Mesa

Giacomo Puccini
Nessun dorma (trans. O'Riordan)

Kevin Puts
Millennium Canons (trans. Mark Spede)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Procession of the Nobles

Gioachino Rossini
Barber of Seville Overture (trans. Duthoit)

William Schuman
Chester Overture

Dimitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture (trans. Hunsberger)
Folk Dances (trans. Curnow)

Jean Sibelius
Finlandia (trans. Hindsley)

Rob Smith
Beacon Fires

John Phillip Sousa
The Liberty Bell
The Stars and Stripes Forever
The Washington Post

Richard Strauss
Allerseelen (trans. Ashley Kushner)

Igor Stravinsky
Berceuse and Finale from Firebird

Tielman Susato
Selections from "The Danserye" (trans. Dunnigan)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Finale from Symphony no. 4 (trans. Sato)

Augusta Read Thomas
magneticfireflies

Omar Thomas
Shenandoah

Frank Ticheli
Vesuvius
Rest
An American Elegy
Amazing Grace

Michael Torke
Javelin

Ralph Vaughn Williams
Toccata Marziale
English Folk Song Suite

Giuseppe Verdi
La Donne e mobile (trans. O'Riordan)
Overture: La Forza del Destino (trans. O'Riordan)

Richard Wagner
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (trans. Caillet)

Eric Whitacre
Lux Aurumque
October
Sleep

Dana Wilson
Colorado Peaks

John Zdechlik
Chorale and Shaker Dance

Zhou Tian
Nocturne



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Orchestral Repertoire


Johannes Brahms
Tragic Overture

Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring (chamber version)

Eddie Davis
All Rich Girls…

Sam Friedman
Adagio Anteros

George Friedrich Handel:
Christmas Choruses from Messiah

Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony no. 104 in D Major, "London" Hob. I/104

Michael Kull
Set in Opposition

Fanny Mendelssohn
Overture

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto in C, K. 467
Symphony no. 25 in G Minor, K. 183

Mussorgsky/Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition

Carl Nielsen
Helios Overture

Kirk O’Riordan
Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra
Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra
Return, forgotten (large Cello Ensemble)
River Lights for Orchestra   

Igor Stravinsky
Berceuse and Finale from Firebird

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Excerpts from The Nutcracker
Symphony no. 4 in f minor

Giuseppe Verdi: Overture
La Forza del Destino



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Chamber Repertoire


Jay C. Batzner
Goodnight, nobody [fl, vln, vc, perc.]

Kyle Benson
Secret Glances [fl, ob, cl, vln, vla, vc, pno]

John Cage
Music for _______ [fl, ob, cl, vln, vc, pno, perc] (performed without conductor)

Sharon Chen
Dawn [fl, vln, vc, hp]

Ryan Dupuis
Serenity [vln, vla, vc, cb, pno]

Zach Freiheiter
Dreams of the Wayfarer [solo alto saxophone, jazz combo, and strings]

Sam Freiheiter
Kaleidoscope [fl, cl, asx, bsn, vln, vla, vc, pno, perc.]

Ruth Gipps
Seascape

John Gossick
Undulations [fl, cl, asx, pno, 3 perc.]

David Heuser
The Sun, The Plough, and The Hazel Tree [fl, ob, cl, vln, vc, pno]

Gavin Hobbs
Theme and Variation [2fl, 2 vln, vla, vc, 1 perc.]

Ashley Kushner
Spring [fl, cl, aux, bscl, pno, cb, perc.]

Zach Jones
A Rose Reawakened [fl, ob, cl, vln, vc, pno, perc.]

Darin Lewis
To Elysium [fl, ob, cl, hn, vln, vc, pno, perc.]

Victoria Mulligan
Losing Grip [2 vln, vla, vc, pno]

Kirk O'Riordan
Mantra [fl, cl, 2 vln, vla, vc, pno; 3 perc.]
Five Dreams for Five Players [fl; cl; vln; vc; pno]
Time Lapses [fl, cl, asx, bsn, hn, tpt, 2 mar.]
Twelve Adjectives [fl, cl, asx, bscl, pno, perc]

Robert Paterson
The Thin Ice of Your Fragile Mind [fl, cl, van, vc, pho, perc]

Brian Payne
A Blue Twilight [fl, cl, vln, vc, electronics]
Daniel Perttu
Auguries of Forest Dwellers [fl, vln, vc, pno, perc.]

William Pfaff
Tracery [fl, cl, tpt, vla, vc, cb]
Beyond The Anchoring Ground [fl, ob, cl, vln, vc]

Kala Pierson
Lu shan [fl, vln, vc, perc.]

Terry Riley
In C (performed as synthesizer player)

Michael Ryan
Scenes from the Arctic Circle [fl, cl, bscl, hn, tot, 2 perc.]

Jason Sheng
Alive [cl, vln, vla, vc, cb, hp, perc.]

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Aus den seiben Tagen (performed without conductor)

Haruki Yamaguchi
Continuous Uncertainty--Quartet [vln; vla; vc; pno]


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