E.L. Bearer Music CV and Composition list May 31, 2020

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Elaine L. Bearer, B.M., M.A., M.D., PhD, FAAAS Curriculum vitae and List of Compositions

NPR Interview on Morning edition, Sept 21, 2018 http://www.kunm.org/post/neuropathologist-combines-music-composition-brain-research

Manhattan School of Music Distinguished Alumni Award, May 2019 https://youtu.be/Flu-56AA7f8

Nadia Boulanger: "she is gifted, serious, intelligent...." "j'ai surtout été frappée par la premiére de [ses] melodies...." SF Chronicle: "interesting shapes, moving sonorities...." Mendocino Beacon: the organ work, Quadrencased Shrines, is an "overwhelming tour-de-force...." Providence Phoenix: "I Corpi Celesti is a stunning, powerful piece" Email: elaine.bearer@gmail.com Website: http://pathology.unm.edu/faculty/faculty/ebearer.html Mailing Address: 321 Big Horn Ridge Dr. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87122 Telephone: (401) 258-9438 (cell); 505-272-2404 (assistant) Education: Bachelor of Music, Manhattan School of Music 1970 With studies in composition at: Carnegie Institute of Technology: Music and Computer Science 1965-67 Carlos Surinach, Virgil Thompson, Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Vaclav Nelhybel, Frederick Dorian, & French Horn with Forrest Stanley Conservatoire de Musique and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris: 1967-68 Certificat d'assistance, Fontainebleau School of Music Nadia Boulanger, Annette Dieudonnée, Georges Barboteu (Fr Horn) Manhattan School of Music: Theory and Composition Major 1968-70 Mario Davidovsky and Ludmilla Ulehla Master's of Art in Musicology, New York University 1974 New York University: Gustave Reese, James Haar, David Burrows, Jan LaRue 1970-73 Master's thesis: "Structural Innovation in the String Quartets of Joseph Haydn."

PhD dissertation (proposed): "16th century Italian Dance Music and its influence on tonality and the Sonata form

Stanford University: 1975-77 Computers and Music: John Chowning Studies in Human Biology and Neuroscience: Don Kennedy, teaching assistant John G. Nicholls, graduate research assistant M.D.-PhD, Experimental Pathology, University of California, San Francisco: 1983

University of California, San Francisco, PhD with Daniel S. Friend PhD thesis: "Anionic lipid domains in membranes"

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Residency in Anatomic Pathology UCSF Post-doctoral fellow, Centre Medicale Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland with Lelio Orci, Departement de Morphologie et Embryologie Post-doctoral fellow University of California, San Francisco with Bruce M. Alberts, University of California, San Francisco, CA Licensed for the practice of Medicine in California and New Mexico Board Certified in Anatomic Pathology 1987, voluntary recertification 2014. Academic Appointments: 2009- present: University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Harvey Family Professor with tenure Department of Pathology Professor of Neurosurgery Department of Neurosurgery University of New Mexico Professor of Music (secondary) Department of Music 1991- 2009 Brown University, Providence, R.I. Assistant, Associate, and full Professor with tenure

Division of Biology and Medicine & Division of Engineering Department of Music (secondary)

2005- present California Institute of Technology Visiting Associate Division of Biology and Beckman Institute 2004-05 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of Biology and Beckman Institute 2004 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Munro Distinguished Lectureship 1987-91 San Francisco Conservatory of Music Instructor and Course Director, Music of our Times Division of Humanities 1975-76 San Francisco Conservatory of Music Assistant Professor, visiting 1974-75 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA Assistant Professor of Music Music Department 1973-74 Lone Mountain College, San Francisco, CA Assistant Professor of Music, tenure track Department of Music Professional activities in musical organizations 2009-2017 Spatiotemporal Modeling Center, University of New Mexico Director of Training and Outreach,

Coordinator and curator of expositions “Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience” Santa Fe, New Mexico, annual show held at SF-X

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(2010-2012), Montezuma Gallery (2012-2014) and Gerold Peters Gallery (2015-present), Santa Fe, New Mexico

2004- present Pasadena Promusica, Pasadena, CA Composer and performer

2003-2004 Unitarian/Universalist's Musician's Network Composer-in-residence,

Ballou Channing District of Massachusetts and Rhode Island 1998-2004 Vibe of the Venue, Rhode Island Composers’ Network, let by

Barbara Kolb Composer 1992-2004 First Unitarian Church, Providence, R.I. Composer, vocalist, and Chair of the Music Committee 1990 Chamber Musicians of Northern California Workshop Composer.

1990-91 University of California, San Francisco Clinical Instructor and Research Biochemist Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics & Department of Pathology 1988-91 UCSF Symphony, directed by Jonathan Davis Composer-in-Residence 1989-1999 New Release Alliance, a California composer’s group led by JJ

Hollingsworth in San Francisco Member and Composer 1986-90 University of California, San Francisco Residency training and post-doctoral fellowships 1976-83 MD-PhD candidate 1987-89 Concerto Collective, San Francisco, CA Composer and member of the orchestra 1983-87 Trinity Chamber Music series, Berkeley, CA Composer and performer 1974-80 Swiss Singing Society, San Francisco, CA Conductor and composer-in-residence 1972-73 Edward Williams College, Fairleigh Dickinson University,

Hackensack, New Jersey Instructor and Course Director, Music Appreciation 1973 Omaha Arts Festival, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Composer in Residence 1971-72 St Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, 5th Ave, New York City Vocalist (paid) under Music Director and Organist, Jack Ossewaarde 1970-71 Second Presbyterian Church, 96th St New York City Vocal soloist and chorister (Paid) under Harold Stover, Music Director, choir conductor and organist 1968-1973 Victor’s House of Music, Ridgewood, NJ Instructor, Music theory and brass instrument performance 1968-1970 Hohokus, New Jersey public school system Music Specialist

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1965-1972 free-lance French horn player, including performances with Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York, NY Pittsburgh Symphony, under P. Steinberg, Pittsburgh, PA Orchestra du PTT, Paris, France Honors and Awards (Selected):

Scholarship for Excellence, Manhattan School of Music 1970 Graduate Scholars Fellowship in Music, NYU 1971-3 Chancellor's Award for Biomedical Research, UCSF 1981 Graduate Student Research Award, UCSF 1982 Dean's Prize, UCSF 1983 Contemporary Recording Society Composition Award 1987 Giannini-Bank of America Fellow 1987-88 Meet the Composer Grant (for the Piano Concerto) 1988 American Cancer Society Fellowship 1989-91 ASCAP Award for Creative Programming 1994 given to Paul Philips and the Brown University Orchestra for performance of Seaselves, by Bearer, and other pieces Munroe Memorial Lectureship, California Institute of Technology, 2004 Dart Scholar of Learning and Memory, Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, MA 2005 Symposium speaker, Chemist-Composers, Music and Mind 2006 American Chemical Society biannual meeting, Atlanta, GA March 27, 2006 Elected Fellow, American Association of the Advancement of Science 2011 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2012, “for distinguished

contributions in pathologic basis of disease, cargo motor attachments in axonal transport, actin dynamics, and neuropathology, and for distinguished service in interdisciplinary training.”

Distinguished Alumni Award, The Manhattan School of Music 2019 Honorary Professor, Strømstad Academy, Størmstad, Sweden 2020 Camaign Alumni Award, the most Audacious, University of California, San Francisco 2020

Recent media: Featured KUNM, Music Today, interview with Spencer Beckwith, 2014 Featured Cape Cod Magazine, October 2015, “Where Science and Art Merge” by Richard Holmes Interview on UNM-NPR, Morning Edition, September 2018 Musical Publications: Scores: Bearer, E.L. "i will wade out "(1974), MLA Press, Los Angeles, CA Musical score Bearer, E.L. "The Nicholls Trio" (1996) Hildegard Publishing Co. Bryn Mar, PA Musical score Essays and Music History

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Bearer, E.L. "Barriera", (1998 and 2001) article for Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Oxford University press, Ed. Stanley Sadie and John Tyrell. ISBN 0-333-60800-3, and ISBN 1-56159-239-0, and published online January 2001 | e-ISBN: 9781561592630.

Bearer, E.L. Self-confidence under siege (1999) in Doctor's Afield, edited by M. Curnan, Spiro and James, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Bearer, E.L. 2010. Songs My Mother Taught Me: Gene-environment interactions, brain development and the auditory system: Thoughts on non-kin rejection, Part II. In: Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior and Genetics, in Memoriam for Gilbert Gottlieb. Editors: Kathryn Hood, Carolyn Tucker Halpern, Gary Greenberg and Richard Lerner, Wiley Blackwell Publishers, Malden MA 2010. ISBN-13: 9781405187824; ISBN-10: 1405187824

Bearer, E.L. "Music of the Spheres" in Performance Art, ed by Charles Whitney, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA (unpublished chapter).

In addition, >190 individual peer-reviewed articles, abstracts, commentaries and reviews in

medical and scientific journals, some concerning the biological basis of hearing, current research focuses on the development of emotion connections during childhood.

Commercial Recordings: Film scores: "i will wade out" from Three Songs (1971) for Milos Forman's movie: Taking Off. (1974) LPs: Three Sonatinas for Four Hands 1988 Performed by Annamarie and John McCarthy Contrasts: Contemporary Record Society, CRS #8729 Woodwind Quintet 1990 Performed by the Edenboro Woodwind Quintet The winds and piano: Contemporary Record Society CRS # 8948 CDs: Bearer of Music: Music by E.L. Bearer 1996

The Nicholls Trio, Toccata, and Fenestrae Albany Records, Catalog #189 Spars Code: DDD

Radio performances: Numerous performances and radio broadcasts, including KQED, KPFA, WGBH, NPR and

KUNM. Recently: http://www.kunm.org/post/neuropathologist-combines-music-composition-brain-research, KUNM-NPR, YouTube and SoundCloud and Vimeo postings

NPR Morning Edition Interview, September 2018 http://www.kunm.org/post/neuropathologist-combines-music-composition-brain-research Manhattan School of Music Distinguished Alumni Award, May 2019 https://youtu.be/Flu-56AA7f8 UNM faculty website http://pathology.unm.edu/research/faculty-laboratories/elaine-bearer-research-and-scholarly-projects/index.html

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Wikipedia: Elaine Bearer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Bearer The Scientist, September 2017 https://www.the-scientist.com/features/do-microbes-trigger-alzheimers-disease-30999 Music and Mind lecture series (2011) The Santa Fe Complex, Art and Science of Systems Biology

1. Music and Mind, Part I: Music of the Spheres, E L Bearer SF_X.mov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_svXcw7i9k8&t=13s 2. Music and Mind, Part II: How we hear, E L Bearer SF_X.mov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-oMktD8iPI&t=46s 3. Music and Mind, Part III: Herpes virus and Alzheimer's, E L Bearer SF_X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=599LAhpbELk&t=24s 4. Music and Mind, Part IV: Memory and pleasure circuitry by MRI, E L Bearer SF_X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yOGJFl5otA&t=11s 5. Music and Mind, Part V: Beauty, Truth, and Joy, E L Bearer SF_X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehT9wpO2KCo&t=9s Brain Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IqYbu2deZw Magdalene Passion X https://soundcloud.com/ebearer/magdalene-passion-10 Inca Sun, Movement II from the Nicholls Trio https://soundcloud.com/ebearer/inca-sun-scherzo-allegro-1

Compositions and premiere performances: World premier performances after 1974 and a few selected repeat performances are listed. The performances list is abbreviated, as most pieces have received at least three performances, and several as many as 20 or more public performances by professional musicians. Title date duration Thahu: Four Curses 1967 6 min Four violin and cello duets Student performances at Carnegie Tech, 1967 Premier performance: Medical Musical Concert, Brown University, 1992 Bearer, violin; Karen Romer, cello Romance 1967 12 min viola and piano Three Places 1967 12 min"

1. New Hampshire, 2. Red River, 3. Usk

Chorus SSATB, accompaniment optional Performances: Sanford Dole Ensemble, San Francisco 1997 First Unitarian Church choir, Providence, RI (5-6 times 1991-present) Neighborhood Church Choir, Pasadena CA Texts by TS Elliot, Landscapes, 1922

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Three Songs on texts by ee cummings 1967 12 min 1. The sky is candy 2. Cruelly 3. Into the smiting sky a tree leaps Soprano and piano (re-arranged in 1978 for soprano, flute, cello and bassoon)

Multiple performances, premiered at the Fontainebleau Schools of Arts in France summer ’68 for Boulanger, in San Francisco at multiple venues, and through to present.

La Dernière requête de la Vierge 1968 3 min Text by Jean Michel (1436-1501) Soprano solo Le temps a laissé son manteaux 1968 3min Text by Charles d’Orleans (1394-1465) Choir (SATB) a cappella Alba 1968 3 min

Greek texts translated by Ezra Pound, "Speech for Psyche in the Golden Book of Apuleius" in Canzoni (1911)

Soprano, flute, and cello Premier: New York City, June 1972

Re-arranged for flute, French horn, and cello, and preformed at Omaha Arts Festival, summer 1973

Adam's Ale 1968 10 min Piano solo Twelve short preludes A Fish 1968 3 min text by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, from Coney Island of the Mind, New Directions Publisher (with permission of the poet and publisher) chorus SSATB Prelude 1969 3 min piano solo Piano Sonata 1969 12 min String Quartet No. 1 1970 20 min Andante Allegretto---Variations

Performance: Graduation piece for Bachelor of Music in Theory and Composition from The Manhattan School of Music, New York City, 1970.

Summer: Three Songs for soprano and prepared piano 1971 7 min Texts by Andre Venables (unpublished, with permission of the poet) 1. Hunters; 2. Estuary; 3. Footprints Performed for Nadia Boulanger at Fountainebleau, 1978

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Vespers '73 1972-3 18 min four sopranos, amplified male voice,3 horns, flute, bassoon, trumpet, xylophone, thumb

piano, and percussion text by Thomas Murray, Esq.(unpublished, with permission of the poet) Premier, Church of St Joseph’, Greenwich Village, New York City, June 1973 Reviewed in Summit Herald "I will wade out" 1973 2 min text by ee cummings (permission requested) soprano and piano, later arranged for soprano, flute, violin cell and bassoon Performed for Milos Forman's film "Taking Off" Premiere stage performance, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, 1975 Steppenwolf 1973 10 min two movements for string quartet Commissioned: Omaha Arts Festival, Premier: performed Omaha, Nebraska 1973 Four Movements for Trio 1973 8 min Flute, French Horn, Cello Commissioned, Omaha Arts Festival performed Omaha, Nebraska 1973 "i" 1973 12 min Soprano solo, chorus SATB, and chamber orchestra (two flutes, violin, viola, two celli,

harpsichord, and xylophone. Texts: Euripedes' Medea and Jean Michel (1436-1501) Premier: Lone Mountain College, 1974 Doria 1974 6 min Greek text translated by Ezra Pound Soprano, flute, 4 celli, and percussion Five Pieces for Organ 1974 22 min Commissioned: Wyatt Insko, organist Premier: 1974, Wyatt Insko, Organist, First Unitarian Church, San Francisco, CA

Other performances: American Guild of Organists National Convention, Berkeley CA, 1976; Catedral Basilica, Puebla, Mexico, 1987; Magdalene College, Oxford University, England, 1989

Songs of Innocence 1974 6 min Text by William Blake 1. Introduction; 2. The Blossom; 3. Laughing Song Chorus SSAB (unaccompanied)

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Premier: Lone Mountain College chorus, San Francisco, CA, 1974

Repeat performances: New Release Composer’s series, first Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, Sanford Dole vocal group, 1988. University of Rhode Island chorus, 2004; and on tour to Ireland, 2005.

Beowulf 1975 17 min Texts from the Old English translated by William Ellery Leonard (1876-1944) published 1922 Audio visual projector slides, soprano, tenor, harp, string orchestra, bassoon, and percussion Premier: Piano Club in Berkeley, CA, 1975 Repeat performances at Old First Church Concert series, San Francisco, CA, May 21, 1975

(reviewed by SF Chronicle); and 9/21/75 (Old First Church, with tape of instruments and live voices/slides)

Songs of Death and Immortality 1976-86 22 min Texts in German by Nelly Sachs (Nobel laureate 1966) from “O the Chimneys” Und Wundertaetig Der Schwann In der blaue ferne Taenzerin Soprano and piano Commissioned: Nancy Corwin Middleton

Premier: Der Schwann and Und Wundertaetig, Sept 25, 1985 First Unitarian Church Concert Series, Joanne Condrin, soprano, John McCarthy, piano; Premier: In der blaue ferne and Tanzerin: University of California Arts and Lecture Series, San Francisco, CA, March 16, 1986, same performers Most recent performance: Pasadena Schubertiade, Boston Court Theater, Pasadena, CA. Performers: Zora Mikhailovich, piano, 2015

Peter Rabbit: a Spoof 1976 8 min narrator and piano Text by Beatrix Potter

Various party performances, including Beethoven’ Birthday party at the home of Bruce and Ruthie McCubbrey in Marin, CA

Psalm 1977 7 min Text from the Psalms, King James version of the Bible Chorus SSATB and organ Bergdorfchen 1975-77 15 min chorus SATB texts from Swiss German folk poetry (Volk-lieder, published 1896) Four movements Premier: Swiss Singing Society of San Francisco Spring Concert 1978

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Performances at the Annual Swiss Singing Society Congress, Vancouver, 1979 Piano Quartet on D 1979-85 19 min

i. Sonata-Allegro ii. Rhetorical iii. Rondo-Allegro Piano Trio: Violin, viola, cello, piano Premier: Sept. 25, 1985, First Unitarian Church Concert series, San Francisco, CA

Performed by John McCarthy, piano, and members of the Evergreen Quartet Fenestrae (Quatro) 1979-83 9 min

1. Opening: Letting in the light 2. Morning sunshine through Venetian blinds 3. Afternoon breezes through an open window 4. Colors of sunset fall on the Persian rug

String Quartet: 2 violins,viola, cello Premier: Sierra String Quartet, Nov. 15, 1989, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA

** Commercially recorded by Charleston String Quartet, on the CD, Bearer of Music, Albany Records

Three Sonatinas for piano four hands, wood block and child's party whistle 1981 13 min

i after Overture--Playfully ii hymn-like--simply--hymn-like iii with mystery and vigor

Premier: Sept. 25, 1985, Unitarian Church Concert, San Francisco, CA Performed by John and Annamarie McCarthy, piano duo * Commercially recorded, Contemporary recording studios label #8729 (1988) Chant 1982 8 min

i. Prelude ii. Psalm

Brass ensemble, organ, percussion Commissioned: Royal Court Brass Ensemble Premier: Oct. 1982 Gracie Cathedral, San Francisco, CA Performed by Royal Court Brass Ensemble Quadrencased Shrines 1982 27 min Texts based on the inscriptions on the four shrines of Tut Ankh Amon Organ with male voice (narrator) and percussion Commissioned, Wyatt Insko, organist Premier: Sept. 25, 1985 Star King Unitarian Church, San Francisco, CA Performed by Wyatt Insko, Peter Elias (voice), and EL Bearer (Percussion) Miniscules 1983-84 11 min Suite for piano solo and 35 mm slides of electron microscopic images

i. Prelude ii. Chaconne

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iii. Toccata

Premier: Dec. 17, 1984, Geneva Switzerland, Piano recital series, Conservatoire Performed by E.L. Bearer Spill of Stars 1985 7 min Text by Dorothy Hughes Bearer Soprano, flute, violin, viola, cello Premier: Sept 25, 1985, Star King Unitarian Church, San Francisco, CA Joanne Condrin and the Evergreen ensemble Repeat performance: May 14, 2014, Neighborhood Unitarian Church, Pasadena, CA Pogo's Christmas 1985 3 min A spoof, text by the composer Narrator, piano, and wilted daisy Premier: Dec. 18, 1985, Beethoven's Birthday Party, Bruce and Ruthie McCubbrey, Marin, CA Moon Mirror 1986 5 min Text by the composer Soprano, flute, violin, viola, cello Premier: March 12, 1986, University of California Arts and Lectures series JoAnn Condrin and the Evergreen ensemble Repeat performance: May 14, 2014, Neighborhood Unitarian Church, Pasadena, CA Fire Deer 1986 30 min a dance in three movements, based on Native American Legends Flute, piano four hands, and percussion Premier: March 7, 1987, Trinity Chamber Concerts, Berkeley, CA John McCarthy, Annamarie McCarthy, and the composer on percussion Anthems 1987 12 min Texts by Jacob Trapp i. Desert Twilight ii. We Stars Chorus SSAATB and organ (optional) Desert Twilight: Premier: April 18, 1993, First Unitarian Church, Summit, NJ We Stars: Premier: March 31, 1992, First Unitarian Church, Providence, RI Repeat performance: May 14, 2014, Neighborhood Unitarian Church, Pasadena, CA Woodwind Quintet 1987 18 min i. Luminous vistas of solitude ii. Allegro iii. Scherzo alla Beethoven flute, oboe, clarinet, F horn and bassoon Commissioned: Bay Area Woodwind Quintet

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Premier: March 12, 1987, Trinity Chamber Concerts, Berkeley, CA, Repeat performance, New Release, XX *Commercially recorded on CRI #8948 1990 by Edenboro woodwind quintet Symphony of Sounds 1987 5 min A spoof using mouth sounds, in four parts, for any group of singers. Premier: Dec. 17, 1987, private musical party at Bruce McCubbery's, Marin, CA

Also performed at Brown University as part of the Women Writers weekend workshop organized by Robert Coover in 1993 as audience participation performance art.

Spring Fun 1988 15 min For Children's Chorus in three parts with piano accompaniment

Also uses mouth sounds, mouth whistling as well as synthetic whistles, body movements and normal singing.

Commissioned: Marin Children's Choir Premier: June 12, 1988, Marin Civic Center, Marin, CA Performed by Marin Children’s Choir Piano Concerto 1988 23 min i. Ode to the White Crown Sparrow ii: In Light and Shadow for piano solo and chamber orchestra

Commission: Symphony of the Redwoods

Premier: Nov. 19, 1988, Fort Bragg, CA, conducted by E.L. Bearer with Tyler Lincoln, piano, and the Symphony of the Redwoods, which includes members of the San Francisco Symphony

**Meet the Composer Award Incidental Music for the Ballet "Fits and Starts' 1989 16 min Choreography by Ruth Langridge For taped synthesized percussive sounds Commissioned: Langridge Dance Studios Premier: April 24, 1989, New Performance Gallery, San Francisco Toccata 1989 7 min Inspired by the Alma Duo for viola and guitar Premier: May 15, 1991, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, by Michael Harding (guitar) and Chris Bystroff (viola)

**Selected for choreography by Colleen Cavanaugh and performed at Body Builders in New York City March 2002, reviewed in NY Times. ***Commercially recorded by the performers for Albany Records on the CD, Bearer of Music.

Valley of Death 1990 12 min Two movements (untitled) Wind ensemble

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Commissioned: Pacific Wind Ensemble Premier: Oct. 24, 1990, Pacific Wind Ensemble, W. Halseth, conductor, Oakland, CA Ah-toosh-mit: Overture for Orchestra 1990 12 min Commissioned University of California Arts and Lectures for the 125th anniversary of UCSF. Premier: March 14, 1990, Herbst Hall, San Francisco, Performed by UCSF Symphony, Jonathan Davis, Conductor Two Songs 1967-1991 25 min Two versions: tenor and chamber orchestra; tenor and piano Texts by lawrence ferlinghetti,

1. In woods where many rivers run; 2. The penny candy store behind the El" from Coney Island of the Mind

Premier: Fed. 4, 1992, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA Performed by Rouvaishyana, tenor, Charles Worth, piano Excerpts from L'Inferno del Dante 1992 22 min Text by Dante Alighieri, in Italian

Dramatic piece in four movements for baritone, contrabass, computer-driven synthesizer and electronic voice tape. Electronic voice modulation assisted by Troy Sutton.

Commissioned: Vince Ricento, Inc. Premier: June 12, 1992, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA, New Release composer’s series Performed by Vince Ricento String Quartet around E 1993 27 min Commissioned: Charleston String Quartet, Resident string quartet of Brown University

Premier: Spring, 1995, Sierra String Quartet, Oakland Art Museum, New Release composer’s series

Edges/Fits and Starts 1993 12 min Commissioned: Ruth Langridge Dance Studio Trio in three movements Flute, cello and taped synthesized sounds Premier: Ariel Trio, Dec. 18, 1993, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA Prayer 1994 10 min Text by Tom Ahlburn, minister at First Unitarian Church, Providence, R.I. SSATB and organ Commissioned: the choir of the First Unitarian Church, Providence, R.I. Premier: June 12, 1994, Choir of the First Unitarian Church, Providence, R.I. Seaselves 1994 28 min Text by lawrence ferlinghetti "The sea and ourselves at Cape Anne" Orchestra with narrator Commissioned: Brown University Orchestra

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Premier: Brown University Orchestra, April 29 and 30, 1994, Providence Rhode Island: Narrator: Salty Brines; Conductor: Paul Phillips **ASCAP award The Nicholls Trio 1994 27 min for three performers: violin-occarina, cello, piano-narrator with bean and gourd rattle

i. Allegro sopra Beethoven ii. Inca Sun (text by Texcoco) iii. Cigit une rose iv. Hiruda medicinalis basiliensis

Commissioned: Ken Muller and the Neuroscientists, University of Miami

Premier: Society for Neurosciences Annual Meeting, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, Nov. 12, 1994

Performed by Thomas Moore, violin; Andy Kolb, cello; Bernice Harbaugh, piano ***Commercially recorded by the performers for Albany Records on the CD, Bearer

of Music. Guatemala` 1995 12 min Oboe, flute, cello and marimba

Commissioned: UN50--City of San Francisco for the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Treaty

Premier: June 17, 1995, Ariel Trio, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA To Make a Prairie 1995 7 min Text by Emily Dickenson Chorus (SSATB) and keyboard Commissioned: Unitarian Church of Youngstown, PA, dedicated to Cynthia F. Bearer Premier: Youngstown Ohio, Laurie Ryan Director and Organist, 1996 Premier: March 24, 1996, First Unitarian Church, Providence, RI. Music of the Spheres 1996 5-10 min one bass instrument and the audience Commissioned: Harvard University Dept of Astrophysics

Premier: Oct 14, 1996, Harvard Astrophysics Symposium, Parallels in Creativity Does a Deer/Winterberry Holly 1997 6 min Text by Dr. Steven G. McCloy, Medical Director Occ. Health and Rehab, RI Chorus SSATB Premier: February, 1997, First Unitarian Church worship service, Providence RI La Realidad y el Deseo 1997 7 min Text by Argentine poet, Olga Orozco (in Spanish) A tango for bass/baritone and piano +/- tango band

Premier: Old First Concert series, San Francisco, CA, March 24, 1998, New Release composer’s series

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Tango Two, Too 1998 4 min for violin, piano and optional tango band percussion Premier: Old First Concert series, San Francisco, CA, March 24, 1998

New Release composer’s series Winter Buds 1998 7 min for 35 mm slide projectors, flute and viola structured improvisation Premier: Paris, France, March 13, 1998 and Woods Hole, MA, August 1998 Lillies: String Quartet no. 3 1998 16 min String quartet in three movements

Commissioned: Onyx string quartet Premier: Onyx string quartet, Old First Church Concert Series (directed by Norma Della Joio's widow), Oct 25, 1998, San Francisco, CA

This Child 1998 6 min Text by S.G. McCloy Chorus (SATB) and piano Commissioned: First Unitarian Church choir, Providence Premier: Christmas eve, midnight service, 1998 The Magdalene Passion 1999 1 hr

An hour-long oratorio in 12 movements for full chorus,5 vocal soloists, chamber orchestra (oboe, strings, percussion, tympani,

harp) and organ Commissioned: Providence Singers conducted by Julian Wachner, and the RI Council for

the Arts Premier: May 22, 1999, Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, Providence, R.I.

Repeat performances: Movement V, Three women at the foot of the cross, is used for the sound track for the web site "Women archeologists" http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/ Pasadena Promusica, Nov. 2013, Alleluia, under direction of Stephen Grimm

Waterfire congo sounds 1999 3min to 1 hr Requested: Waterfire festival/Barnaby Evans 10-100 congo drums, installation piece for performance along the Naragansett River Three Marys 1999 6 min Three women dancers, solo viola and blue lights Premier: Agua y Tambor, August 28, 1999 Wood Hole MA Jumping Genes: A tribute to Barbara McClintock 1999 9 min Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and woman speaker

Commissioned by City Winds, resident wind ensemble at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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Premier: Oct 15, 1999, New Release concert series, San Francisco, CA Old First Church, read by Dr. Jennifer LaVail How Best to Love this World 2000 14 min Inspired by text of Mary Oliver Soprano (wordless), clarinet, cello, 2 marimbas Commissioned: Bay Area Percussion Ensemble (LuAnne Warner) Premier: June 22, 2000, Old First Concert series, San Francisco, California Performed by Bay Area Percussion Ensemble (LuAnne Warner) Repeat performances: University of Rhode Island, March 2003; Vibe of the Venue, 2007 Two anthems Open 2000 8 min This Day Two Anthems for SATB choir and keyboard Text by Rumi Commissioned for the Ordination of Peter Newport at Frist Unitarian Church Providence RI. Premier: March, 2000, First Unitarian Church, Providence, RI Music Director: Fred Jodry Emergence/Divergence 2000 35 min Includes twelve individual movements Dance and music structured improvisation on the abstract scores

for flute, viola, clarinet/saxophone and percussion, light design artist and two dancers Commissioned: Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, and Women in the Arts Premier: Newport Music Festival, Newport Art Museum, as part of the graphics art show “By Virtue of Excellence”, July 9, 2000

Repeat performance: Brown University Dance Department, Homecoming, October 2003 Time piece 2000 10 min Violin, viola, flute and percussion and live video, improvised Premiere: Woods Hole Collaboration (on Cape Cod) with Genie Kuffler Oppenheimer Project 2001 20min

The life of a scientist and the making of the bomb-- text by Richard Rhodes, with choreographer D.J. McDonald

Narrator, video projection, string quartet, solo dancers (young boy and adult female) and Improvised koto (electronic)

Premier of Scene VII: Oct. 27, 2001, Brown New Music Ensemble Scraping Skies, Brown University, Providence, R.I. with Nate Stumpff Psalm 27 2002 6 min Text from Psalm 27, King James Version, the Bible Soprano and cello

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Commissioned: Rhode Island Composers League, Vibe of the Venue Premier: Insalata Mixta, with Bunny Harvey, graphic artist, and Barbara Kolb, composer,

University Club, Providence, R.I., October, 2002. Performed by Diana McVey (soprano) and Christine Harrington, cello.

Galileo/I Corpi Celesti 2002-03 16 min Digitized and synthesized sound piece for choreographer Colleen Cavanaugh

Sound includes soprano, trio of voices whispering, string quartet composed in score, performed, recorded and engineered, and synthesized sounds. Recorded and engineered by Bearer.

Commissioned: Festival Ballet Providence and Colleen Cavanaugh, choreographer Premier: May 2-4, 2003 Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence, R.I.

Music Performed by Charleston String Quartet (Chuck Sherba, Consuelo Sherba, Harp, and Lorna XX , voices by E.L. Bearer, Steven McCloy and William Beeman, and danced by Festival Ballet Providence with sets. Reviewed Providence Journal & Providence Phoenix.

Torso/Suspended 2004 14 min Digitized sound for The Global Heart Project led by Christianne Corbat

Electronically recorded heart beats, Tibetan monk chanting, viola, wild birdsong, Magnetic resonance imaging, and bells, from tiny temple bells to gongs and the largest bell cast by Paul Revere, performed, recorded and engineered by Bearer.

Commissioned: Global Heart Project; choreographed by Colleen Cavanaugh Premiers: Jan.25, 2004 (movements 1-2), Barrington Library, Barrington Rhode Island

April 27, 2004, Medical Musical Concert, Festival Ballet on Hope St, Brown University Sept. 11, 2004 , (movements 1-4) for 9/11 anniversary at URI Feinstein Auditorium, Sept. 25-26, 2004 (Festival Ballet Providence , "Up Close on Hope performance series) Mar 15, 2013 (John Ronald Dodd Composer’s Showcase, University of New Mexico Moment 2004 14 min Text by Vincent Giuliano (d. 1991) and William Blake (1757-1827) Chorus, boy soprano, string quartet, trumpet, percussion Commissioned: Pasadena ProMusica and Connie Hood in memoriam for her son, Edward Redifer

Premier: Nov. 7, 2004, Pasadena ProMusica, directed by Stephen Grimm, boy soprano: Michael McCarthy.

Circle Text by Jeanne Lohmann (1923-2016) and Frederic Niezsche (1844-1900) Chorus and piano 2005 4 min Commissioned for the installation of the new minister, Neighborhood UU Church Pasadena, CA. Text with permission from the poet. Premier: March 6, 2005, Neighborhood Church Choir, Pasadena, CA Pasadena Promusica, Directed by Stephen Grimm

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Snow 2005 9 min Texts inspired by Jane Hirshfield (b. 1953) and Robert Frost (1874-1963) Chorus, clarinet, viola, percussion 1. Snow 2. Stopping by woods Commissioned: Pasadena ProMusica Premier: Jan 27, 2006, Pasadena ProMusica, Pasadena, CA, Stephen Grimm director Deep 2006 6 min

Piano and digital image projector 2006 9 min Images by Russell Jacobs Commissioned: American Chemical Society, Heritage group Premier: Sept 12, 2006, Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA. Performed by Victoria Bragin, winner of a Van Cliburn award Repeat performances: November 4, 2013, Pasadena Science and Art Festival, Allen Gier, piano, Pasadena, CA; April 25, 2014, Zora Mihailovich, pianist, UNM Music Department, special performance, April 25, 2014.

Ultrasonic I 2006 11 min Chamber Orchestra with three tympanists

Commissioned: St. Matthew's Music Guild, Pacific Palisades Premier: Oct. 27, 2006, Pacific Palisades, CA Performed by St. Matthew's Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Tom Neenan

Benediction 2006 3 min Text inspired by Don Cameron, written by E.L. Bearer Chorus (SATB) and keyboard

Commissioned: First Unitarian Church, Providence, R.I. for the Installation of the new minister, Donald J Cameron. Premier: Nov. 12, 2006, Providence, R.I. Performed by First Unitarian Church choir under Fred Jodry, Music Director, Providence, R.I.

The Alberts’ Quartet 2007-08 12 min For Bruce M. Alberts, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, former president of the National Academy of Science (USA) and Editor in Chief of Science Magazine Clarinet, ‘cello, keyboard and percussion Commissioned: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA. Premier: Genentech Hall, UCSF Mission Bay campus, April 11, 2008 Performed by: Jonathan Goldstein, percussion; Cheyenne Henderson, piano; Ricki Nelson, clarinet; Michelle Kwon, ‘cello.

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Interweaving 2009 4 min Text by Denise Levertov (1923-1997) https://uuwestport.org/web/ Chorus (SATB) and organ,. Commissioned: for installation of James Ishmael Ford by the First Unitarian church choir Premier: Feb 8, 2009, First Unitarian Church Choir, Providence RI Premier: March 24 2018, Neighborhood Unitarian Church, Pasadena, CA March 17, 2019, Neighborhood Unitarian Church, Pasadena, CA (postponed to 2021 due

to COVID-19) "Amyloid precursor protein mediates transport in the axon" 2010 3 min

Video sequence of high resolution live imaging, with electronic music, digitally extracted and modified from Fenestrae, Torso, and Gallileo/i corpi celesti, written, recorded and engineered by Bearer. Submitted to NIH for a Pioneer award, played for the public at SF_X, Santa Fe, NM March 2010. Premier: STMC Art of Systems Biology and Nanosciences, March 27, 2010.

Tiger 2011 6 min Chorus (SSATB), flute percussion and live video interaction projections by John

Carpenter. Commissioned for the Science and Art Festival, Pasadena CA Premier: by Pasadena ProMusica under direction of Stephen Grimm, February 11,

2011. La Danse de la Terre (La Realidad) 2013 6 min

Violin, flute, clarinet, cello and marimba, for the John Ronald Dodd Composers’ Showcase, Albuquerque, NM.

Premier: Played by David Felberg and members of Chatter, 2014. - recording posted on my faculty website at Cast up (revised “Fish”) 2013 4 min Text with permission by lawrence ferlinghetti, Chorus and congo drums, written for Paul Cienewa and Sine Nomine Full of Grace 2014 8 min Music video about women in the 3rd world, recorded and engineered by Bearer. Premier: John Donald Robb Composer’s Showcase, UNM, March 2014 Songs and Elements v.1 2014 22 min With John B. Carpenter, interactive video projection artist

1. Sphinx (electronic cello) 2. Density (flute) 3. Songs (electronic viola) 4. Brain Music (Trio)

Electronic cello, electronic viola, flute and interactive video projections

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Premier: Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, June 12, 2014 Performed by EL Bearer, Tom McVeety, Tina Termini, and John B. Carpenter Songs and Elements v.2 2014 22 min With John B. Carpenter. interactive video projections.

1. Singing with light (choir, organ, cello and percussion) 2. Density Silver Water (flute solo) 3. Brain Music (choir, organ, cello, flute and percussion)

Premier: Pasadena Art and Science Festival 2014, Pasadena, CA, Oct. 4 2014 Performed by Pasadena Promusica, choir, Stephen Grimm, organ; EL Bearer conducting,

and John B Carpenter, video projections Tribute to John Nicholls 2015 6 min Video digitally engineered sounds and images, recorded and engineered by Bearer. Commissioned: John G. Nicholls Premier showing: May 14, 2015, Trieste Switzerland for JG Nicholls Symposium Cambrian Explosion 2015 19 min

A Musical Tribute to Thomas Sargent Reese Text modified from Langdon Smith, Evolution For Baritone, flute, violin, viola, cello and percussion

1. In the Paleozoic time 2. A dog's waltz 3. Majestic Julius Caesar Handel-esque

Premier: Lillie Auditorium, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole MA July 18, 2015 Performed by: Josh Zimmerberg, baritone; Genie Kuffler, flute; Martha Kim, viola; Jonathan Davis, Cello, John Chludzinski, rock drums; EL Bearer conducting.

Casper 2016 4’22” Text by E.L. Bearer SSATB and piano

Commissioned for the installation of Reverend Lissa Anne Grundlach, Neighborhood UU Church, Pasadena, CA Premier: Performance March 14, 2016 Music Director Stephen Grimm, Neighborhood Church Choir

Density Silver Water v.2 2018 6' flute solo interactive video projections by John B. Carpenter.

Performed March 24, 2018 by Jesse Tatum, flute, John Donald Robb Composer's Showcase, Keller Hall, UNM, Albuquerque, NM,

L'alma rapita 2018 8'

text by Carlo Gesualdo, from "Moro, Lasso" VI Book of Madrigals and Giovanni Battista Guarini

SATB plus string quartet Performed March 16, 2018, Pasadena ProMusica, directed by Stephen Grimm Violin: Amy Hershberger, Rebecca Chung; Viola, Robin Ross; Cello, Maggie Edmonson

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Replication Machine 2018 10' Viola and clarinet duet with audience participation texts by B.M. Alberts modified by E.L. Bearer, with permission of the author

Performed April 14, 2018 by Laura Manko, viola, and Sarah Bonomo, clarinet, Metropolitan Club, San Francisco, CA, for Bruce Alberts' Symposium

In process: Music of Chemistry String quartet in two movements 2019-2021 10' Commissioned by Strømstadt Academy, Sweden in preparation for performance June 15, 2021 in Strømstadt, Sweden