Catherine NevilleComposer/Clarinetist/Educator
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Welcome! Have a look at my current projects.
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The fall of 2025 brings with it a busy concert schedule: from all the way in Greenport on Long Island, to Queens, to Manhattan's National Opera Center, I am looking forward to several premieres this season! New music for string quartet, woodwind trio, trombone trio, wind quintet, and a flute and piano duo are scheduled this year, all of them following on the heels of the premiere of 'R.C. Variations' for solo oboe this past September.
Last summer, the second movement, Aria, of "Three Romantic Pieces" for cello and piano was well-recieved in Chicago. M.L. Rantala, reviewer for the Hyde Park Herald, had this to say: This was followed by music of Catherine Neville, a New York composer. The duo took on the second movement of her “Three Romantic Pieces” with Wurtz in her introduction saying “I hope she’s watching,” which added to my anticipation and I’ll guess for others watching the stream. The piece began with brooding sound from the cello with the piano echoing that mood. There was pleasing polyphony with the duo giving it beautiful shape and smoothness. The main melody was sorrowful and attractive. The work was short yet memorable. Last July also brings a recording of "Parley," for acoustic guitar and double bass duet. Premiered in March by Saffron Sonoda and Joana Moura at 'Her Endangered Melody,' a benefit concert for the Donne foundation, the music is an abstract conversation happening in a language not quite understood by the listener--a musical depiction of understanding the intent and the emotion of a conversation, even when one does not understand the language. I'm very excited that "Spheres," the 3rd movement of The Dance for orchestra, premiered on June 1st. Performed by the Massapequa Philharmonic, "Spheres" opened a program of works inspired by the cosmos. On June 8, the Cobalt Quartet performed "Exploratory" in South Huntington. What a treat to hear this work again! 
Photos throughout this site created by:
Len Marks Photography Many thanks to Dick Shanley for the gracious use of his sculptures: Dick Shanley, Artist "Catherine Neville’s Danses should really be choreographed, so successfully did she evoke the spirit of dance by mere suggestion. All the elements of Fantin-Latour’s painting were there– melody, articulation, rhythm – but in short bursts that sketched a body in motion." David La Marche, New York Concert Review
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Scores Published by American Concert Editions
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Upcoming Events
January 11 2026
Music for String Quartet Floyd Memorial Library Greenport, NY January 25, 2026 Music for Wind Quintet the Bryant Library Roslyn, NY January 25, 2026 Skybones Trombone Trio National Opera Center New York, New York February 22, 2026 Parhelion Trio flute, clarinet, piano Church-in-the-Gardens Queens, New York June 14, 2026 New Music for Strings South Huntington Public Library, Huntington, NY |
Discography and Awards
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
(ASCAP) Plus Award 2025 Joseph Rebman, Eros: Music for Solo Harp Bright Shiny Things May 31, 2024 Ovidiu Marinescu and Noreen Cassidy-Polera Resurgence: New Music for Cello and Piano Navona Records July 2024 Global Music Awards Silver Medalist: Chamber Music Category Ictus Novus: Three Pieces on Painting by Kandinsky Vibraphone and Electric Guitar October 2023 Hold Your Center Music by Catherine Neville May 2022 Global Music Awards Silver Medal Chamber Music: Movements of Sun and Shadows for Cello and Piano, on the Resurgence Album Hugo Weisgall Award for Music Theory and Composition Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College 2022 Featured Work: Birds, for Flute Quartet with Fixed Electronics The Flute Examiner October 2022 Featured Composer: The Cello Museum 2022 Link to article Semi-Finalist: Juventas New Music Ensemble Musical Reflections of Memory and Hope 2021 Audience Choice Award 2020 The Spread Spectrum Music Festival, Moscow Featured Composer: The Muse's Voice A Barnard College, NYC concert series focusing on contemporary women composers 2019 |
Past
Projects November, 2025
Quartet for Clarinet, Vibraphone, Harp, Piano The Casanatense Library in Rome Villa Taticchi in Perugia September 21, 2025 William Wielgus, Oboe R.C. Variations, for solo oboe National Opera Center New York, New York Massapequa Philharmonic "Spheres" World Premiere June 1, Massapequa, NY Cobalt Quartet "Mukuntuweap" South Huntington Public Library June 8, 2025 Amy Wurtz Three Romantic Pieces Chicago, IL July 15, 2025 September 28, 2024 Ovidiu Marinescu, cello Noreen Cassidy-Polera, piano Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall NYC December 1 Trio Calliope, Once in Early Spring Ascoli Piceno, Italy Teatro V Basso December 6, 2024 Love Stories Javier Oviedo, alto saxophone Classical Sax Project Dimenna Center for Classical Music, NYC December 8, 2024 Dances of the Winter Solstice Massapequa Philharmonic Orchestra David Bernard, conductor Massapequa, NY December 18 Chromatic Butterflies William Wielgus, oboe, with Gonzalo Aguilar, piano National Opera Center Scorca Hall 330 7th Ave, NY NY March 28, 2025 Parley Saffron Sonoda and Joana Izabelle Sacred Trinity Church Manchester March 2, 2025 WHM Trio Piano Trio no.1 Roslyn, NY November 3, 2024 Roslyn, NY Mukuntuweap Cobalt Quartet Greenport, NY November 2, 2024 Dissolution, for flauto d'amore and piano New Jersey Youth Symphony Ginevra Petrucci, flauto d'amore 570 Central Ave, New Providence, NJ October 22, 2024, NY Love Stories Javier Oviedo, alto saxophone New York Women Composers Fall Gala March 23 and April 14, 2024 Astoria Music Project Once, in Early Spring Art House Astoria April 21, 2024 The Cobalt Quartet Scholes Street Studio Brooklyn, NY April 14 June 9, 2024 Long Island Chamber Music South Huntington Public Library Huntington, New York Movements of Sun and Shadow March 25, 2024 Dan Flanagan, violin Danses and Idyll, for solo violin Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, NYC October 28, 2023 the Cobalt Saxophone Quartet Exploratory, for Saxophone Quartet The Church-in-the-Gardens, Queens, NY October 7, November 16, December 7 Françoise Vanhecke Cinderella for soprano and fixed electronics Fine arts & Gallery Wouter De Bruycker Toi Toi Drome Kortrijk Antwerp, Belgium November 4, 2023 Nassau Universal Unitarian Church, NY Music for Flute, Cello, and PIano Elements November 13, 2023 Bryant Library, NY An Evening of Art Songs Mutibility, for tenor and piano Dreams/Take Heart, for soprano, clarinet and piano November 19, December 2, December 8 50-for-50 New Music Collage Fire, for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano Simultaneous premieres in Sydney, Amsterdam, and Denver August 13, 2023 Dan Flanagan, Violin Danses, for solo violin Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA May 7, 2023 Namaste Clarinet Quintet Marianum Auditorium Perugia, Italy The Bow and The Brush program: Danses and Idyll, for solo violin Feb 17: Stern Pissaro Gallery, London March 5: UC Berkely August 16: Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA April 23: Music and Poetry: Jenny Kiss'd Me; Dreams/Take Heart; Inspiration Locust Valley Library, NY January 6, 7, and 8: Symmetry for Clarinet Quartet Namaste Ensemble Freeport, NY Southold, NY Greenport, NY December 10, 2022 Forbidden Playground String Trio Queens College LeFrak Hall October 16, 2022 New York Women Composers Fall Gala Lavender, for solo flute National Opera Center NY, NY October 23, 2022 Once, in Early Spring for flute, horn, piano The Bryant Library Roslyn, NY May 27, 2022 International Women in Brass Conference Once, In Early Spring, for horn, flute, and piano, Performance by the Heavy Metal Trio April 21, 2022 Contemporary Classical Music, presented by the New York Composers Circle Three Pieces on Paintings by Kandinsky, for Electric Guitar and Vibraphone April 8,9, and 23, 2022 The Fog Comes on Little Cat Feet, for harp, marimba, cello, and piano. Performances by the VibraHarp Ensemble Concert Series: Trevignano Romano, Gubbio, and Fabriano, Italy April 10, 2022 Piedmont Center for the Arts, Oakland, CA Danses for solo violin, performed by Dan Flanagan March 15, 2022 Symmetry, for saxophone quartet Performances by the Cobalt Saxophone Quartet Live at Lefrak Concert Hall, Queens New York *also streaming online March 29, 2022 As Tides Obey the Moon, for orchestra Queens College Orchestra Lefrak Concert Hall February 16, 2022 A Year Later, Joseph Rebman, Harp Lincoln Memorial University, TN December 15, 2021 Hypercube "Music by Women Composers," Greenwich House, Manhattan Three Pieces on Paintings by Kandinsky December 14, 2021 Queens College New Music Group February Meditations, for Violin and Horn A Year Later, for solo harp Reflectance, for solo harp Mukuntuweap, chamber music for winds and piano November 23, 2021 Beth Ratay: A Year of New Music for Flute June in the Wildlands posted online here. November 16, 2021 Queens College New Music Group YouTube Livestream Hold Your Center, for solo viola Mukuntuweap, for Reed Trio and Piano October 17, 2021 Danses for Solo Violin Sonata for Cello and Piano Bryant Park Library, Roslyn, New York September 30, 2021 Facebook Live Event A Year Later, for solo harp Joseph Rebman, Harp September 23, 2021 Facebook Live Event Two Works for Solo Flute: June in the Wildlands Destruction of the Habitat, for solo flute Nicaulis Alliey, Flute September 9, 2021 Mukuntuweap, for String Quartet Little Church Around the Corner, Manhattan August 11, 2021 Works for Solo Organ Church of the Transfiguration, Manhattan. June 20, 2021 Audrey Wright, violin An Die Musik Live, Baltimore, MD May, 2021 Ictus Novus Commission Works for Electric Guitar and Vibraphone October-May, 2020-2021 Queens College New Music Group Aaron Copland School of Music August 2020 Ladies Quintessential Quintet Virtual Residency “Filaments,” for Wind Quintet July 2020 "Spread Spectrum" Online Music Festival Moscow, Russia April 2020 Bow and Brush Commission Dan Flanagan, Violin October 26, 2019 "The Muse's Voice" Concert Series Barnard College, NY, NY March 23, 2018 The Witch, for Violin, Clarinet ,and Piano Church of the Transfiguration 1 E. 29th St. Manhattan |