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SELECTED WORKS

[*] designates myself as performer

2025

*I AM A PUMPJACK (in progress), album for voice, synths, electronics, field recording, bongo, guitar, saxophone

         commissioned by the Gabriela Lena Frank Academy as a part of the Composing Earth Residency

2024

*USELESS ARMOR, performance artist, pop tabs

UNBEAUTIFIED/search and playtext score for daegeum, haegeum, and voice

2023

TWILIGHTS, voice, loop pedal, singing bowl, bells, thunder tube, contact mic, synth, accordion | 30 mins

          created and premiered at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

 

*RACHEL/COMPOSER/EMPRESS, performance artist*, props, laptop, AI voice| 20 mins

premiered at California Institute of the Arts 

 

SPIDERLILY, opera for voice*, electronics, violin, viola, cello, bass, haegeum | 1 hour

Before the Banquet, voice, electronics

Siren Song, voice, electronics, haegeum

Love Song, voice, electronics

Boat of Cypress, voice, 4 strings, djembe

Siren Song II, voice electronics

Surrender, Sleep, voice, electronics

Sea Ghosts, voice, loop pedal

Awake, voice, 4 strings, electronics 

Strike, voice* 4 strings, electronics

Siren Song III, voice, electronics

Red, voice, electronics, 4 strings

premiered at California Institute of the Arts

 

*MANTRA, performance art performance, film | 5 hours/5 days  

CRYSTAL | 1 hour
MIRROR | 1 hour
EARTH | 1 hour

BLOOD | 1 hour

BLOSSOM | 1 hour

featured as installation at California Institute of the Arts 

 

CHIRP with Drew Sensue-Weinstein | 12 mins

voice*, accordion*, guiro*, microphone*, guitar, field recordings

premiered at California Institute of the Arts

2021-22

 

TANTALUS, with M.A. Harms and Jeonghyeon Joo | 45 mins

voice*, autoharp, haegeum, electronics*

premiered at The Open Book 

 

Letter to my body, voice*, singing bowls, guitar/pedals | 5 mins 

performed and composed at Art Omi: Music 2022

 

Learning to see

Learning to Unsee, voice*, accordion*, loop pedal* | 10 mins

Wild Pink, voice*, loop pedal*, electronics* | 8 mins

Go Where the Road Ends, voice*, percussion, piano*, accordion* | 4 mins

premiered at California Institute of the Arts

Forest Deep, voice*, audience members | 4 mins 

Chanting Blessings, voice*, accordion* | 5 mins 

premiered at California Institute of the Arts

 

2020

 

SPIDERLILY

*5 of 11 songs from the opera completed during 2020

2019

 

Chant of the Ghost Pipes, piano four hands and melodica | 5 mins

composed for and premiered at Gabriela Lena Frank Academy of Music by ZOFO 

 

2018

 

GLOCKNROCK, piano, 2 percussionists | 6 mins 

premiered at University of Michigan 

 

GLOSSY WARS, orchestra | 5 mins

premiered by the University of Michigan Philharmonic Orchestra

 

SAVIOR, voice*, accordion* | 5 mins 

premiered at University of Michigan 

2017

Wind Sleepers, SATB Choir | 7 mins

 

Girly!, performance artist/voice*, glockenspiel, toy keyboard, toy drum set | 5 mins

premiered at 2017 Midwest Composers Symposium and So Percussion Summer Institute

 

Elixir Party, percussion quartet 

premiered by So Percussion Ensemble at So Percussion Summer Institute 

 

Webbed, bassoon, violin | 7 mins

commissioned by and performed by Leah Kohn and Niv Ashkenazi

 

One of an Other, voice*, guitar, pedals | 5 mins

featured on YEE EP (see below) 

 

Untitled, piano*, guitar, vibraphone | 6 mins

featured on YEE EP (see below)

2016

 

I’M NOT WITH MYSELF, clarinet, piano, violin, flute | 6 mins

premiered at New Music on the Point, Atlantic Music Festival, and by Unheard-of//Ensemble 

 

wait, winter, piano*, voice* | 8 mins

premiered at University of Michigan 

 

To Our Wounds, voice*, string trio | 6 mins

commissioned and performed by Castalia Quartet (Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra Quartet) at Grand Rapids Art Museum 

 

As We Come, solo voice* | 5 mins 

premiered at University of Michigan 

 

2015

Time Arrives, flute quartet | 6 mins

premiered at Fresh Inc. Festival 

 

Appulse, piano*, 2 violins | 5 mins

premiered at the University of Michigan

2014

Still, orchestra | 3 mins

commissioned by and premiered by the Grand Rapids Symphony and Grand Rapids Ballet Company

 

RECORDINGS

 

2022

 

MY SKIN with Michael Echaniz, voice*, piano | 5 mins

improvisation recorded at Capitol Records 

2018

 

YEE Extended Play with experimental improvisation trio Glitter Glam | 30 mins

released on Raisin Toast Records 

    ©2025 by Rachel Epperly. All rights reserved.

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