“little ones” performed by Hear Us Hear Them Ensemble

Danielle is an active composer and arranger of song, choral, opera, and theatre works. Recent works have been premiered by New Native Theater, University of Portland Garaventa Center, Hear Us Hear Them Ensemble, MUSE Cincinnati Women’s Choir, First Readings Project, Renegade Opera and American Patriots Project.

Upcoming premieres include What Do You See by Voices of Ascension | Voices of the New, American Patriots, a chamber opera, as well as the live premiere of Resilient at Sister Singers Convention.

Recent performances include a set of choral miniatures entitled little ones, premiered in February 2022 by Hear Us Hear Them (Cincinnati, OH), a Gichi-mookomaan, a song cycle for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano for Samantha Williams (Ann Arbor, MI), Resilient by Artemis Singers in Chicago as well as the Common Women’s Chorus in North Carolina, and Come with Me by In The Pocket (Portland, OR).

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Selected Works

Works for Choir

little ones, SSAATTBB, premiere by Hear Us Hear Them, February 2022 (video)

Dark Times, SSAA +2 soloists (video)

Alleluia No.1, SATB (audio)

Resilient by Rising Appalachia, arr. SSAA, piano, opt. banjo and percussion, premiere by MUSE Cincinnati Women’s Choir, January 2022 (video) (perusal)

Come With Me, SATB divisi, premiere by Hear Us Hear Them, November 2021 (audio)

Song and Opera

Learn Something for Me, for voice and vibraphone, premiere by Colleen Bernstein, January 2024

The Flag, for voice and vibraphone, premiere by Colleen Bernstein, January 2024

Gichi-mookomaan, song cycle in 4 movements for mezzo-soprano and piano (Video, II. Learn Something For Me) (video, III Sovereignty) (score)

Mother, suspended cymbal, toy xylophone, found percussion, voice (audio)

Orfeo in Underland an adaptation of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, arranged for small vocal ensemble and piano quintet (video)

Instrumental Solo and Duo

This is How We Got Here for solo cello, premiere by New Native Theatre, March 2023 (perusal)

Learn Something For Me for cello and marimba, premiere by Philip Kettler and Colleen Bernstein, September 2023