Daniel bernard roumain (DBR), composer
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) is a Black, Haitian-American composer who sees composing as collaboration with artists, organizations and communities within the farming and framing of ideas. He is a prolific and endlessly collaborative composer, performer, educator, and social entrepreneur. “About as omnivorous as a contemporary artist gets” (New York Times)… Read more
WORKS: SOLO Strings Piano CHAMBER OrchestRAL VOCAL & OPERA
SOLO STRINGS:
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for solo violin
Hip-Hop Dances and Prayers
for solo violin
We Say Their Names
for solo violin
An Apology for Black Women
for solo viola
Why Did They Kill Sandra Bland?
for solo cello
We Say Their Names
for solo cello
PIANO:
america, NEVER beautiful
for piano
I Need to Cry But Can’t
for solo piano
It Feels Like a Mountain, Chasing Me
for piano and recorded voices
Seventeen Soul Settings of Three Bach Chorales
for solo piano
Songs for the Alone
for solo piano
CHAMBER:
24 Bits: Hip-Hop Studies & Etudes
for solo or mixed ensemble
Femiel
for violin and piano
An Apology for Black Women;
Why Did They Kill Sandra Bland?
for viola & cello
Navassa (National Anthem)
for violin & piano
Sonata for Violin and Turntables
for violin & turntables, laptop or iPad
Twin Stars: Diamond Variations for Dae’Anna
for mezzo soprano, tenor, piano & string quartet
Uncertainty, Our Country
for piano quartet
ORCHESTRAL:
Farah (Joy)
for voice & orchestra
Father Antonio’s Contrapuntal Prayers for Michael
for orchestra & youth orchestra
Home, Migrations, and Our Imaginary Daughter
for orchestra
Forgiveness
suite for spoken word & orchestra
i am a white person who ______ Black People
for string orchestra & timpani
America, To US
Concerto for violin & orchestra
VOCAL & OPERA:
Farah (Joy)
for voice & piano
Farah (Joy)
for voice & orchestra
They Still Want to Kill Us
for mezzo soprano and piano
Twin Stars: Diamond Variations for Dae’Anna
for mezzo soprano, tenor, piano & string quartet
We Shall Not be Moved
an opera for singers, strings, keyboards, percussion & drum kit