WORKS

Chris Portercomposer

FILM SCORES

• untitled animation - 3 min. (2010) dir. Nalena Kumar

  • The Circus

• The First Adventure of Morton the Hedgehog - 4 min. (2010) dir. John Dusenberry

  • Hey, Morton (sung by Chris Kallmyer)

• Hank Danger and the Space Mummy's Tomb - (2009) dir. Joshua Courtade

• Playing House - 9 min. (2009) dir. Joshua Courtade

  • Main Title

• Piece of Cake - 3 min. (2009) dir. Eliza Ivanova
  Winner of the 2009 Walter and Gracie Lantz Animation Prize
  Selected for the 2009 CalArts Producers' Show
  Finalist in the 2010 Student Academy Awards

  • Complete Score

• Paper Lantern - 4 min. (2009) dir. Davis Vu
  Selected for the 2009 CalArts Producers' Show

  • Abridged Score and Sound

• To Life - 3 min. (2009) dir. Megan Hughes
  Selected for the 2009 CalArts Producers' Show

  • Abridged Score and Sound

• Hank Danger and the Fountain of Death - 68 min. (2009) dir. Joshua Courtade

• Spayeti and Meatball - 4 min. (2008) dir. Davis Vu

• The Hand Trilogy - 36 min. (2007-2008) dir. Joshua Courtade

• Murder for Dummies - 10 min. (2007) dir. Joshua Courtade

  • The Chase

   

THEATER PROJECTS

• The Witches (2010)
  conceived, co-adapted, directed, and designed by Ariel Boroff
  co-adapted, written, and composed by Chris Porter
  based on the novel by Roald Dahl

  • The Witches' March

  • The Witch's Song (featuring Anne Yatco)

   

CHAMBER ENSEMBLE/SOLO

• Caryatid (2010) for cello and piano (dedicated to the Elegua Duo)

• Hymnody I-IV (2010) commissioned for the Little William Theater | Festival of New Music

• Tenebrae (2009) for trumpet, two horns, four-hand piano, and percussion

  • Virgin Ears Workshop Reading at the 2009 Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium

• AGATHA (2009) for percussion trio

• Pelycan (2009) for chamber ensemble

  • The New Century Players

• Lūssi (2008) for cello and bass

• Riddle Music - "Mothe" (2008) for flute trio and speaker

• Two Bagatelles for Violin Duet (2008)

• This Advisable Metal (2008) for brass quintet

• Perpetual Devices (2008) for bassoon quartet

  • Mvt. 4 "Hymn" - Julie Feves, Maciej Flis, Kathryn Nockels, and Chris Porter

• Variant I (Tocatta Variations) (2006) for four hands-one piano

• Aesop: seven movements for marimba (2006)

• Piano Sonata (2006)

• The Martyrdom of St. Stephen (2005) for chamber ensemble

• Daguerreotypes for Oboe and Cello (2004)

• Vagaries for Woodwind Quintet (2003)

LARGE ENSEMBLE

• Moving Picture Show (2008) for youth string orchestra
  Premiered by the Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra May 2009

  • a sight-reading session with the CalArts Orchestra under Mark Menzies

• Variant II (2007) for an ensemble of any size

• Horsefeathers: a suite from the comic ballet for children (2006) for chamber orchestra

• Keystone Kops (2006) - written for Dwight Oltman and the Baldwin-Wallace Symphonic Wind Ensemble

  • The Baldwin-Wallace Symphonic Wind Ensemble under Dwight Oltman

   

ODDITIES

• The Telephone Project (2008-2009) - with Beth McMullin and Scott Cazan (and additional development with Casey Anderson and Jordan Bartee)

• Bird Crazy (2008) a composition of sound distortion

• song (2008)

  • Lorna Kohler-singer

• Stuck in a Drift (from Spayeti and Meatball) (2008)

• The Tale of the Frozen Soda Bottle (2004) for barbershop quartet