NEW RECORDING
My SATB arrangement of the Yiddish folksong Tumbalalayka is included on French vocal quartet Æsthesis’ 2022 album O Do Not Move.
SCENE FROM LILITH
The clip above is from West Edge Opera’s 2022 performance of a prototype scene in their SNAPSHOT showcase of works in progress.
IN PRINT
REDBIRDS published by COLLA VOCE MUSIC
Commissioned by the Organization of American Kodály Educators (OAKE), REDBIRDS, for children’s choir and piano, was premiered by the national children’s honor choir at the OAKE national conference in 2022. Poem by Sara Teasdale (1884 – 1933).
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Chamber music titles now available from UNIVERSAL EDITION
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- String Quartet No. 1 (“City Walks”)
- Zwei Hülshoff Lieder, for soprano, clarinet, viola, piano
- American Standard ,for clarinet and piano
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| Name | Category | Instrumentation | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
Tumbalalayka | ChoralSATB | SATB a cappella | 2’30” |
The Noble Art of Music | ChoralSATB | SATB a cappella | 2’ |
Fare Ye Well, My Darlin’ | ChoralSATB | SATB a cappella | 4’40” |
Ducks in the Garden | ChoralSATB | SATB a cappella | 2’25” |
The Ballad of the Lost Lamb | ChoralSATB | SATB a cappella | 6’ |
Are Friends Delight or Pain? | ChoralSATB | SATB a cappella | 2’14” |
Roll the Tide | ChoralSATB | SATB a cappella | 3’50” |
Cycle of Friends | ChoralOrchestralExtended | for soprano solo, SATB choir, and chamber orchestra | 25’ |
Psalm 117 (“Halelu et Adonai”) | ChoralSSA | for SSA children's or adult choir and piano | 2’ |
Redbirds | Choral2-part Equal | for 2 voices in equal parts & piano | 4’45” |
Most This Amazing | ChoralExtended | SATB, 1 perc, 2 pno | 11’45” |
| Name | Category | Instrumentation | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
Cycle of Friends | ChoralOrchestralExtended | for soprano solo, SATB choir, and chamber orchestra | 25’ |
Misterium Tremendum | Orchestral | for full orchestra | 11’ |
Letter to Hungary | Orchestral | for string orchestra | 15’15” |
| Name | Category | Instrumentation | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
String Quartet No. 1 (“City Walks”) | Chamber | 2 vln, 1 vla, 1 vc | 12’30” |
Zwei Hülshoff Lieder | ChamberVocal | for soprano, clarinet, viola, and piano | 9’ |
American Standard, for clarinet & piano | Chamber | cl, pno | 9’ |
By Hook or by Crook | Chamber | for horn quartet | 6’45” |
Fanfare | Chamber | for small brass & percussion ensemble | 2’20” |
Michael Kaulkin is a composer and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Trained at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary, he is an avid adopter and adapter of the Kodály Method and is on the Musicianship and Composition faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory’s Pre-College Division. An avid adopter and adapter of the Kodály Method in teaching Musicianship, he has also served on the faculties of summer Kodály programs at Holy Names University and Portland State University.
