Shane Scott Cook

Composition Portfolio

Works are listed in suggested listening order, with suggested areas to focus on within each piece if there is limited time for review. You can also access all scores and recordings here.

Instrumentation: string quartet

Length: 10 min 23 sec

Performers: Del Sol Quartet / MIDI mockup

*note to committee: due to health issues within the ensemble, we were only able to record a demo of the first half of the work, instead of the full recording originally planned. The premiere of the entire work is slated for January 2025.

1. Toccata (2024)

3. the distance between (2021/23)

mvt i. this happens all over (ca 3’)

mvt. iii coping mechanisms (ca 4’30)

mvt. iv where do we go from here? (ca 9’)

Instrumentation: high voice + vocoder, chamber orchestra (fl/picc, ob, Bb/Eb cl, bsn, hn, tbn, pno, 2 perc, strings)

Length (full work): 26 min

Length (excerpts for review): 7 min 30 sec (minimum);16 min 30 sec (maximum)

Performers: Lindsay Kesselman, soprano; UT Austin New Music Ensemble; Marc Sosnowchik, director

*If limited time for review: Please review the entirety of Movements I and III. If there is time, review approximately the first three minutes of Movement IV.

4. Two Letters to Self (2023)

mvt i. the gate

mvt ii. to my distant past

Instrumentation: SATB divisi voices, a cappella

Length: 7 min 50 sec

Performers: Consonance Chicago Choral Artists; Michael Costello, director

*If limited time for review: Please review the entirety of Movement I (the gate) and approximately the first two minutes of Movement II (to my distant past).

5. i am (2024)

Instrumentation: high voice, piano

Length: 5 min 45 sec

Performers: Amanda Kohl, soprano; Florence Mak, piano

2. sky, and sea, and stone (2024)

i. on the precipice, eyes skyward

ii. pebbles

iii. seafoam on sandstone

Instrumentation: flute, violin, piano

Length: 11 min

Performers: Salastina (Benjamin Smolen, flute; Maia Jasper White, violin; HyeJin Kim, piano)

*If limited time for review: please begin at Movement I measure 25 (score pg. 5; audio 2:10) and continue through Mvt. III measure 90 (score pg. 26; audio 9:20)