Works
Orchestral Works
Letter from Across the River for full orchestra, chorus & soprano and baritone soloists
Date: May 2026
Duration: 18 minutes
World Premiere: Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Oct. 15, 2026)
Commission: The Azrieli Foundation
A Scrapbook for Masza: a Double Concerto for Violin & Accordion
Date: October 2024
Duration: 28 minutes
World Premiere (TBA): Duo Karolina Mikolajcik & Iwo Jedynecki
Sirens: a Concerto for Theremin & Orchestra
Date: August 2017
Duration: 28 minutes
World Premiere: Boston Modern Orchestra Project (Oct. 4, 2019)
New York Premiere: Albany Symphony (Nov. 9, 2019)
Recording: Sirens (BMOP/sound, April 2025)
Responses for orchestra
Date: August 2016
Duration: 14 minutes
World Premiere: Bowling Green Philharmonia – Emily Freeman Brown
European Premiere: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester – Alan Gilbert
Recordings: Sirens (BMOP/sound, April 2025), New Music From Bowling Green (Albany Records)
Conjuring Tristan for piano and orchestra
Date: November 2014
Duration: 25 minutes
Commission: Grand Rapids Symphony – David LockingtonWorld Premiere: Grand Rapids Symphony; David Lockington, conductor; Dalit Warshaw, piano soloist
After the Victory for orchestra and chorus
Date: April 2006
Duration: 25 minutes
Commission: Grand Rapids Symphony – David Lockington; North American Choral Company
Al ha-Shminit: Interludes on a Bygone Mode for chamber orchestra
Date: April 2003
Duration: 12 minutes
Commission: Joel Sachs and the New Juilliard Ensemble
Camille’s Dance
Date: September 2002
Duration: 10 minutes
Recordings: Sirens (BMOP/sound, April 2025)
Performances:
- Grand Rapids Symphony – David Lockington
- American Composers Orchestra – Dennis Russell Davies
- New England Philharmonic – Richard Pittman
Beethoven’s Symphony op. 26
An orchestration of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in Ab Major, including his own transcription of the work’s “Marcia Funebre”
Date: January 2002
Performances:
- The Beethoven Festival, sponsored by Friends of the Arts Camerata NY – Richard Owen
- Performance lecture: The Juilliard School
Maid of Domremy
Date: March 1995
Duration: 16 minutes
Commission: Empire State Youth Orchestra – Francisco Noya
Other Performances: Knoxville Symphony Orchestra – Kirk Trevor
The Mountain
Date: October 1992
Duration: 22 minutes
Text: Hilan Dov Warshaw
Commission: Roanoke Symphony Orchestra – Victoria Bond
Other Performances: The Juilliard Symphony – Gisele Ben Dor
Dolphy
Date: April 1992
Duration: 15 minutes
Text: Hilan Dov Warshaw
Commission: Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston – Gisele Ben Dor
Other Performances: New Century Ensemble – Emory Waters
Musings
Date: March 1992
Duration: 17 minutes
Text: Hilan Dov Warshaw | Book of Isaiah
Commission: Colorado Symphony Orchestra – David Lockington | Sandra Schwarzhaupt, soprano
The Kingdom of Lord Dolphy
Date: December 1990
Duration: 15 minutes
Text: Hilan Dov Warshaw
Commission: Rockland Symphony – Edward Simons
The Doom of King
Date: February 1988
Duration: 15 minutes
Commission: Knoxville Symphony Orchestra – Kirk Trevor
Other Performances: Augusta Symphony Orchestra – Gisele Ben Dor
Ruth
Date: April 1986
Duration: 12 minutes
Commission: Israel Sinfonietta – Gisele Ben Dor
Other Performances:
Boston Symphony Orchestra – Grant Llewellyn
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra – Jesus Lopez-Cobos
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra – Kirk Trevor
Portland Symphony Orchestra – Toshiyuki Shimada
Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra – David Lockington
Conflicts in Genesis
Date: December 1985
Duration: 12 minutes
Commission: Rockland Symphony – Edward Simons
In the Beginning
Date: September 1984
Duration: 27 minutes
Commission: Rockland Symphony – Edward Simons
Other Performances:
New York Philharmonic – Zubin Mehta
Israel Philharmonic – Zubin Mehta
Cleveland Orchestra – Jahja Ling
Houston Symphony – Toshiyuki Shimada
Albany Symphony – Victoria Bond
Little Orchestra Society – Dino Anagnost
Y Chamber Orchestra – Amy Kaiser
Eugene Symphony – Marin Alsop
Fun Suite
Date: September 1983
Duration: 15 minutes
Commission: Rockland Symphony – Edward Simons
Other Performances:
Denver Symphony – David Lockington
Disney’s Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra – Daniel Hege
Toledo Symphony – Ole Schmidt
- Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestra of Pittsburgh – James Meena
- Vallejo Symphony – David Ramadanoff
Chamber Works
Swimming Toward Fire for clarinet, violin, ‘cello, & piano
Date: 2022
Duration: 27 minutes
Commission: Thomas Piercy and the New York State Council for the Arts
Premiere: The “Here and Now Winter Festival, Bargemusic | Thomas Piercy, clarinet; Georgy Valtchev, violin; Daniel Hass, cello; Tengku Irfan, piano
Stories for Strings for string quartet
Date: November 2012
Duration: 15 minutes
Commission: Thomas Piercy and the New York State Council for the Arts
Performances:
- Quatuor Intercontemporain de Fontainebleau
- Monadnock String Quartet, Monadnock Music Festival
Solstice for violin & marimba
Date: April 2012
Duration: 12 minutes
Performances:
- Miranda Cuckson, violin; Bill Solomon, marimba; Azure Ensemble| Merkin Concert Hall, NY
- Wang Xu, violin, Luke Rinderknecht, marimba | Bowdoin International Music Festival, Gamper Festival
Night Lights for flute, violin & tuba
Date: May 1, 2010
Duration: 12 minutes
Performance: Composers Concordance | Lynn Bechtold, violin; Helen Richman, flute; Jay Rozen, tuba; Dalit Warshaw, theremin
Chamber of Dreams for horn, violin & piano
Date: January 2009
Performance: Eli Epstein, horn; Sharan Levanthal, violin; Karl Paulnack, piano
Sonate Francaise (The Unwritten Chapters) for flute, oboe/Eng. hn., clar./bass clar., horn, string quintet, piano, percussion
Date: August 2008
Duration: 13 minutes
Commission: The Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music
Performance: Grand Rapids Symphony Players | Collage New Music
Transformation for string quartet and theremin
Date: July 2007
Duration: 7 minutes
Performances:
- San Francisco Symphony Chamber Series, Davies Hall | The Momenta Quartet; Dalit Warshaw, theremin | Haverford College; The Boston Conservatory
- Utrecht String Quartet; Thorwald Jorgensen, theremin
- Friction String Quartet; Thorwald Jorgensen, theremin
- Acacia String Quartet; Thorwald Jorgensen, theremin
Elegy for string quartet and theremin
Date: July 2007
Duration: 10 minutes
Performances: The Momenta Quartet and Dalit Warshaw, theremin | Haverford College
Fable for string quartet
Date: July 2007
Duration: 7 minutes
Performances: The Momenta Quartet
Elegy on a Theme of Sappho for string quartet
Date: December 2006
Duration: 10 minutes
Performances:
- The Momenta Quartet | Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies; Yeshiva University; Amphibian Concert Series; among other venues
- Northwest New Music Ensemble
The Departure for string orchestra and theremin
Date: January 2008
Performances:
- Hemenway Strings | The Boston Conservatory | Camerata Notturna, conductor Jonathan Yates; Dalit Warshaw, theremin
Tehinnot for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, ‘cello and piano
Date: July 2004
Duration: 21 minutes
Commission: Bowdoin International Music Festival
Performance: Re’ut Ben Zeev, soprano; Christina Jennings, flute; Igor Begelman, clarinet; Jacqueline Ross, violin; John Root, piano; Simone Fontanelli, conductor
Nizk’orah for theremin, ‘cello and piano
Date: April 2001
Duration: 7 minutes
Other Versions: Piano trio (see next); 2 theremins & piano
Performances:
- San Francisco Symphony Chamber Players; Dalit Warshaw, theremin; Barbara Bogatin, ‘cello; Robin Sutherland, piano
- Memorial Concert for Clara Rockmore | Steinway Hall; Pamelia Kurstin, theremin; Dorothy Lawson, ‘cello; Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
- Paul Hall, The Juilliard School; Dalit Hadass Warshaw, theremin; Ariel de Wolf, ‘cello; Deborah Lee, piano
Nizk’orah for piano trio
Date: 2011
Duration: 7 minutes
Other Versions: Theremin, ‘cello & piano (see previous); 2 theremins & piano
Performances:
- Grand Rapids Symphony players: Christopher Martin, violin; Alicia Eppinga, ‘cello; Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
- Juventas New Music Ensemble: Olga Patrmanskaya-Bell, violin; Minjin Chung, ‘cello; Julia Scott Carey, piano
And the Furies Wept for piano, four hands
Date: January 1997
Duration: 6 minutes
Choreography: Lorena Egan
Performances:
- Wednesdays at One Concert Series at Alice Tully Hall, The Juilliard Theater | Yi-heng Yang, piano; John Root, piano
The Nameless for flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, ‘cello & piano
Date: July 1993
Duration: 14 minutes
Commission: The Carlysle Project and Boston Ballet II
Other Performances:
- Rebecca Kelly Dance Company
- Bowdoin Summer Music Festival
Quartet on the Roof for clarinet, violin, ‘cello & piano
Date: Jan. 1990
Duration: 6 minutes
Commission: Northwest Indiana Chamber Players
Other Performances:
- Aspen Contemporary Ensemble
- The Juilliard Theater
- Miller Theater
- Steinway Hall
Morning After the Victory for string orchestra, flute & piano
Date: December 1988
Duration: 5 minutes
Commission: Northwest Indiana Symphony – Robert Vodnoy
Other Performances: Misgav Chamber Ensemble – Lukas Foss
Woodwind Trio for flute, English horn & bass clarinet
Date: July 1990
Duration: 5 minutes
Performances: Music Amici
Ruth arranged for piano, four hands
Date: 1989
Duration: 12 minutes
Performances: Merkin Hall, memorial concert for Nadia Reisenberg, Rockland Community College | Ruti Hadass Warshaw, piano; Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
Vocalise for ‘cello (or soprano) & piano
Date: 1995
Duration: 3 minutes
Performances: Les Ecoles Americains des Beaux Arts de Fountainbleau | Hila Plitmann, soprano; Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano; | Paul Hall, The Juilliard School
“No More Bad Dreams, My Child” for clarinet & piano
Date: 1985
Duration: 3 minutes
Horah & Variations for violin & piano
Date: 1984
Duration: 3 minutes
Opera
The Letters of Mademoiselle C.
A semi-staged dramatic song cycle based upon the life and letters of fin-de-siecle Parisian sculptor Camille Claudel
Date: January 2002
Grant: Recipient of the 2017 OPERA America Discovery Grant for Female Composers
Text and Music: Dalit Warshaw
Performances: National Opera Center, Cutting Edge Concerts at Symphony Space | Nancy Allen Lundy, soprano | Dalit Warshaw, piano
Choral Works
After the Deluge for SATB choir & chamber orchestra
Duration: 11 minutes
Text: The Book of Genesis, Chapter 8
Performances: The Northwest Sinfonietta and Pacific Lutheran University | Choral Union – David Lockington
After the Victory for SSAB (young people’s chorus) or SATB choir & orchestra (or piano reduction)
Date: January 2006
Duration: 25 minutes
Text: Excerpts from the Song of Deborah
Translations: Hilan Dov Warshaw, King James
Scenario: Hilan Dov Warshaw
Performances: North American Choral Company and the Grand Rapids Symphony – David Lockington
Ki le-Olam Ashirah for SATB choir
Date: November 2001
Duration: 30 minutes
Text: Selections from the Psalms: Jeremiah I | “Birkat ha-Kohanim” (The Priests’ Blessing)
Birkat ha-Neshamah for SATB choir
Date: March 2002
Duration: 1½ minutes
Text: Excerpts from the Jewish Morning Service
Vocal
“Dream Deferred” for baritone & piano
Date: March 2009
Text: Langston Hughes
Performances: Rockport Music (MA), Emmanuel College and other locations | Aaron Engebreth, baritone; Sumner Thompson, baritone; Linda Osborn-Blaschke, piano
But Not Forgotten
Date: June 2006
Duration: 25 minutes
Texts: Muriel Rukeyser; Sappho (trans. Mary Barnard); Dorothy Parker; Christina Rossetti
Performances: The Boston Conservatory | Aliana de la Guardia, soprano; Anna Christina Ward, soprano; Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
Tehinnot for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, ‘cello & piano
Date: June 2004
Duration: 21 minutes
Commission: Bowdoin International Music Festival
Performance: Re’ut Ben Zeev, soprano; Christina Jennings, flute; Igor Begelman, clarinet; Jacqueline Ross, violin; John Root, piano; Simone Fontanelli, conductor
Kiddush ha-Levanah for soprano & piano
Date: July 2002
Duration: 17 minutes
Text: “Seder Kiddush ha-Levanah,” from the Sabbath Prayer Book
Performances: Cutting Edge Concert Series at Greenwich House, The Juilliard School, Middlebury College, The Boston Conservatory | Re’ut Ben-Ze’ev, soprano; Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
Rose of Sharon for soprano, mezzo-soprano & piano
Date: March 1996
Duration: 6 minutes
Commission: New York Festival of Song
Performances:
- Nancy Allen Lundy, soprano; Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano; Michael Barrett, piano
- Moab Festival, The Juilliard School | Karin Caspi, mezzo-soprano; Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
Notes from the Jaded Balladeer for soprano, mezzo-soprano & piano
Date: January 1996
Duration: 8 minutes
Text: “Pour Prendre Conge,” Dorothy Parker
Performance: The Juilliard School | Hila Plitmann, soprano; Shelly Watson, mezzo-soprano; Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
Musings for soprano & piano
Date: January 1992
Duration: 15 minutes
Texts: Poems by Hilan Dov Warshaw and excerpts from the Book of Isaiah
Performance: Merkin Hall | Monica Yunus, soprano; Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
Poetry for narrator & piano
Date: April 1997
Duration: 5 minutes
Text: Hilan Dov Warshaw
Performances: Clark Studio Theater | Hilan Dov Warshaw, narrator; Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
The Pheasant & the Serpent for narrator & piano
Date: April 1987
Duration: 8 minutes
Text: Hilan Dov Warshaw
Performance: Young Audiences at Lincoln Center | Hilan Dov Warshaw, narrator; Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
The War of Gettysburg for narrator & piano
Date: 1984
Duration: 8 minutes
Text: Hilan Dov Warshaw
Performances: WQXR, “The Listening Room,” Rockland Community College | Hilan Dov Warshaw, narrator; Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
Solo Instrumental
Monsieur Pichon Finds His Mazurka for solo piano
Date: November 2024
Duration: 10 minutes
Premiere: Paul Hall at the Juilliard School | Yiheng Yang, piano
Notes on an Improvisation (Hommage a Nadia Boulanger) for piano
Date: March 2022
Duration: 10 minutes
Premiere: Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Music Center | Dalit Warshaw, piano
Other Performances: Musica Reginae | Beata Moon, piano
Different Loves, A Cycle of Classical Portraits for piano
Date: January 2021
Duration: 52 minutes
Virtual Premiere: Presented on YouTube by Composers Now | Dalit Warshaw, piano
Live Premiere: Solo recital at Bargemusic | Dalit Warshaw, pianoOther Performances: Keyed Up Music Project and Cutting Edge Concert Series | Dalit Warshaw, piano
Furtive Aurora Peeks Out the Window for solo clarinet
Date: June 2020
Duration: 3 minutes
Performances: “Tokyo to New York: Moments In Time,” “Here and Now” Series at Bargemusic | Thomas Piercy, clarinet
Conflagration for solo violin
Date: March 2017
Duration: 15 minutes
Performances: Cornelia St. Café; Casa Italiana, Columbia University | Joseph Morag, violin
Winter Dream (in memoriam Charlotte Salomon) for piano
Date: November 2016
Duration: 13 minutes
Performances: Musica Lirica at the Greenwich House Music School | Ensemble for These Times, San Francisco; Dalit Warshaw, piano
Farewells for piano
Date: October 2016
Duration: 12 minutes
Premiere: “Here and Now” Series at Bargemusic | Dalit Warshaw, piano
Encounters for piano
Date: October 2014
Duration: 12 minutes
Premiere: “Here and Now” Series at Bargemusic | Dalit Warshaw, piano
Ballade for piano
Date: May 2015
Duration: 13 minutes
Premiere: “Dalit Warshaw and Jessica Meyer: Intimate Voices” – Spectrum NYC | Dalit Warshaw, piano
Confessional [or: The Trial and the Ecstasy of Chiara Signorini] for piano
Date: May 2013
Duration: 23 minutes
Performances: Spectrum Sunday Salon Series, Boston Conservatory Faculty Recital, Temple University Guest Artist Series | Dalit Warshaw, piano
First Love Song for solo piano
Date: February 2013
Duration: 9 minutes
Performances:
- Keyed Up Music Project, “Dalit Warshaw: Intricacy, Intimacy and Expression” | Marc Peloquin, piano
- Spectrum Sunday Salon Series, Boston Conservatory Faculty Recital, Temple University Guest Artist Series, Rockland Symphony Chamber Series | Dalit Warshaw, piano
- Juventas New Music Ensemble | Julia Scott Carey, piano
Responses for solo piano
I. …Op. 119, no. 1
II. …Op. 116, no. 5
III. …Op. 76, no. 3
Date: January 2013
Duration: 12 minutes
Performances: Keyed Up Music Project, “Dalit Warshaw: Intricacy, Intimacy and Expression,” Spectrum Sunday Salon Series, Boston Conservatory Faculty Recital, Temple University Guest Artist Series | Dalit Warshaw, piano
The Sexton Preludes for solo piano
I. “Three Green Windows”
II. “The Silence”
III. “The Kiss”
Date: May 2012
Duration: 12 minutes
Performances: Spectrum Sunday Salon Series; Boston Conservatory Faculty Recital; Temple University Guest Artist Series | Dalit Warshaw, piano
Naissance for solo ‘cello
Date: December 2010
Commission: Rhonda Rider, cello
Performances: Fort Worth, TX; Grand Canyon, AZ; The Boston Conservatory; and other locations
The “Dreidl” Variations for solo piano
Date: August 2010
Performance: Black Cove Festival – New England Women Composers | Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
Invocation for solo theremin
Date: January 2009
Performance: “Composers as Performers, Performers as Composers”: Theremin recital at the Boston Conservatory | Dalit Hadass Warshaw, theremin
Muse III: Euterpe for solo oboe
Date: 2006
Performance: The Boston Conservatory | Angela Lickiss, oboe
Muse IV: Erato for solo harp
Date: 2006
Performances:
- Cutting Edge Concerts at Symphony Space; Percussia, Hudson Opera House | Susan Jolles, harp
- Boston Harp Festival (Boston Conservatory) | Tomina Parvanova, harp
Muse V: Terpsichore for solo trumpet
Date: 2006
Muse VI: Urania for solo vibraphone
Date: 2006
Desert Call for ‘cello solo
Date: July 2001
Duration: 10 minutes
Performances:
- Bargemusic; The Boston Conservatory; New Jersey City University | Wendy Warner, ‘cello
- BMOP Club Concert Series | David Russell, ‘cello
- Les Ecoles Americains des Beaux Arts de Fontainebleau | Chagit Glaser, ‘cello
- The Juilliard School; Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Clarice Jensen, ‘cello
- Middlebury College; University of Georgia | Craig Hultgren, ‘cello
- Yamaha Piano Salon; The Boston Conservatory; Michigan State University | Victor Coo, ‘cello
Lessons from the Muir Woods for solo flute
Date: September 1997
Duration: 4 minutes
Commission: Dancing Bear Ensemble, Interlochen Arts Academy | Tara Gilb, flute
Prelude to Charlotte for solo piano
Date: November 1996
Duration: 7 minutes
Performances:
- Zoom! Concert Series at Merkin Hall | Emma Tahmizian, piano
- The Juilliard School | John Root, piano
- Les Ecoles Americains des Beaux Arts de Fountainbleau; SUNY at Stony Brook | Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
- The Boston Conservatory | Sonia Rose, piano
Lone Conversation for clarinet
Date: July 1994
Duration: 6 minutes
Performances:
- The Aspen Music Festival | Anthony Burr, clarinet
- The Juilliard School | Aaron Zachko, clarinet
- Music Amici
- The Boston Conservatory | Megan Ankuda, clarinet
- New Gallery Concert Series; Radius Ensemble | Eran Egozy, clarinet
Three Intermezzi for solo piano
I. For Saba and Forgotten Souls
II. To the Fireflies and Others Not Thought Of As Souls At All
III. Agitata
Date: July 1994
Duration: 15 minutes
Performances: The Aspen Music Festival, The Juilliard School, Les Ecoles des Beaux Arts de Fountainbleau, International Piano Festival of Jerusalem at Tel Hai, The Boston Conservatory | Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
The Nameless for solo piano
Date: June 1993
Duration: 14 minutes
Performances: International Piano Festival of Jerusalem at Tel Hai, Les Ecoles de Beaux Arts de Fountainbleau, The Boston Conservatory | Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano
Ruth arranged for piano solo
Date: 1989
Duration: 12 minutes
Performance: New York University | Marija Stroke