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Two Monk Miniatures
(2006) 3'
arrangements of two Thelonious Monk standards:
Blue Monk and Brilliant
Corners
- one for tuned percussion, the other for "found"
percussion
Performed by So
Percussion, Taplin Auditorium, Princeton Univ., February
27, 2006
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1, 000 Kisses
(2005) 5' 
features Cathy Bowman’s speaking of her poem 1, 000
Kisses, integrated into an electronic poem-scape
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Côte d’Azur
(2004) 12'
clarinet, cello, piano, tenor
text: "Côte
d'Azur," by Sarah Arvio
The
Nash Ensemble of London with John Gilchrist, Princeton Univ.,
April 2005
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Titlipur
(2003-2004) 13'
interactive sound-dance performance with video projections
All sound by Miriama Young,
with performance, choreography & costume created by Sara
Baird of Anemone Dance
Theater in collaboration with Video Artist Lee
Whittier

Gallery
138 Installation, Chelsea, New York, February 2005
Australasian Computer Music
Conference, with dancer Kristian Larsen
Victoria University, NZ, June
2004
The Puffin Room, Soho
New York, Anemone Dance Theater, May 2004
"Double Bar" Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University,
May 2004
"Listening
in the Sound Kitchen" Electronic Music Festival, Princeton,
Nov. 2003
"Raw Material" Dancespace
Center, Soho, New York, Sept. 2003 |
L'Horloge (The Clock)
(2003)
11'
pierrot ensemble plus percussion
text: "L'Horloge," by Charles Baudelaire
"My Metal Throat
Can Speak All Tongues"
Now
Ensemble with Sarah Chalfy, Taplin Auditorium, Princeton
Univ., Dec. 2006 Now Ensemble
with Miriama Young, Tenri Cultural
Institute, NYC, Feb. 2006
Proteus Ensemble
with Melissa Madden-Gray,
Taplin Auditorium, Princeton Univ., May 2003
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Snapdragon
(2003) 9'
baritone saxophone & percussion
Composed for and premiered by the Yesaroun'
Duo

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Michael
Jamieson, ArtEZ
Conservatorium, The Netherlands, June 2007
Released on the CD Waiteata
Collection of NZ Music - Chamber Music II, 2005
Score published by Waiteata
Music Press, 2005
Yesaroun' Duo, Taplin
Auditorium, Princeton University, May 2003
Bang on a Can Summer
Institute, MassMoca,
MA, July 2003
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Speak
Volumes (2000) 9'
electronic, featuring the composer's pre-recorded spoken voice

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"Voices in the Air" Victoria
University, New Zealand August 2002
Features on the CD New
Zealand Sonic Art 2000
"Experiments in Sound" Adam Art Gallery Victoria University,
NZ, August 2000
"The
dark and ominous murmurings in the music are simply the dark
castles of Chronos at the End of Time crumbling under the sweeping
magic of Miriama's wand!" - Sonoloco Record Reviews
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Iron
Tongues (2000,
revised 2004) 7'
percussion trio
Commissioned and premiered by Strike
Percussion Ensemble,
with support from Creative
New Zealand

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Quey
Percussion, Bloomsburg University, PA, Oct. 2006
Quey Percussion,
River Crossings Concert Series, East Hartford, CT, Oct. 2006
Quey Percussion,
The Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT, Nov. 2006
So Percussion Ensemble,
Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, NJ, April 2006
TimeTable Percussion,
Day of Percussion, Saratoga, NY, Jan 2005
So Percussion, Taplin
Auditorium, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Dec 2004
Strike Percussion, Nelson
College, NZ, July 2001
Strike Percussion, Massey
University, Wellington, NZ, May 2001
Strike Percussion, Baycourt
Theatre, Tauranga, NZ, April 2001
Strike Percussion, NRSM,Manchester,
UK, Nov 2000
Strike Percussion, Wellington
Town Hall, NZ, October 2000
Strike Percussion on CD New
Zealand Percussion Music Jan. 2000
"Iron Tongues by Miriama Young...
explored the phenomenal timbre of the marimba beautifully."
- The Nelson Mail (New Zealand), July 19 2001
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Caul
(1999) 10'
clarinet & electronics
Concert of Contemporary New Zealand
Music, IAML Conference, July 1999
Imaginary Space, Australasian
Computer Music Conference, July 1999
Musicwomen Aotearoa: Third Composing Women’s Festival,
NZ, April 1999
"Gum", Amalgam's Show in the Wellington
Fringe Festival, NZ, February 1999
First Prize - Victoria University Composers’ Competition,
NZ, September 1998
Wellington City Council Music Prize, NZ, 1998
"First prize was won by the
same student as last year, Miriama Young... for Caul for solo
clarinet and tape. It was of exquisite refinement, careful construction,
and a cumulative emotional impact that drew you increasingly
into it." - Lindis Taylor, The Evening Post (New Zealand),
September 16, 1998.
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Like
Two Balls of Liquid Silver Pedalling the Sky
in four easy movements
baritone saxophone & electronics
"Banging, Blowing and Bowing",
Wellington
Fringe Festival, NZ, February 1998
First Prize - Victoria University Composers’ Competition,
NZ, September 1997
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