ADAM JACOB SIMON, COMPOSER
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 Selected list of compositions:

Choral Music:

Nunc Dimittis 2018 for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir c. 4’30”
commissioned by Schola Cantorum of Boston


Lullaby 2017 for unaccompanied SATTB choir c. 3’15” text John Addington Symonds listen here

Nativity Hymn 2017 for SATB choir optional piano or organ accompaniment c. 4’00” text Richard Watson Gilder listen here

Come My Beloved, Haste Away 2017 Hymn for SATB choir c. 3’40” text: Isaac Watts

Dying Sinners 2017 Hymn for SATB choir c. 4’00” text: Abner Jones

Joys Above His Power 2015 for SATB choir c. 4’00” text Isaac Watts arrangement for SSAA available here 
commissioned by Lorelei Ensemble 

The Village Green 2014 for two part treble choir and piano accompaniment c. 3'00" 
text: Jane Taylor
commissioned by the Lynnfield Middle School Pioneer Singers 

Nunc Dimittis 2014 for unaccompanied SATB choir

Inman 2013 for SSAA choir c. 3’30” text Isaac Watts published here

Marching to Zion 2011 for unaccompanied SATB choir c. 2’30” text Isaac Watts published here  -  listen here

Chamber Music

Sinner Man 2019 c. 7'00" for 3 part treble choir, string orchestra, and soloists (voices and strings both)
co-commissioned by A Far Cry and Lorelei Ensemble

Suite for String Orchestra 2019 c. 12'00”
commissioned by Palaver Strings


Scherzetto for woodwind quintet 2019 c. 3’00”

Interlude for violoncello and piano 2017 c. 3’45”

Theme and Variations 2015 for solo cello - c. 9’00”

Songs in Response to the Shoah 2012 for SATB choir, string orchestra and English horn c. 20'00"
commissioned by the Makhayla Choir in Lexington MA


Piano Trio in B Major 2013 c. 27’00” listen here

“Humming” 2011 for piano trio c. 9’00”  video
commissioned by the Rivers Conservatory

Sonata for violin and piano 2011 c. 9'00"
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String Quartet in G Minor 2010 c’ 25’00” listen here

Portrait of Ukraine 2007 for flute, strings, piano, and marimba+percussion c. 8'00"
commissioned by Longitude New Music Ensemble

Pozzo Presto 2006 for woodwind quintet c. 5'00"


Vocal Chamber Music:

Spell to Bring Lost Creatures Home 2019 for mezzo-soprano solo and mixed ensemble c. 7'00" text Kathleen Raine
Premiered by Parallax Ensemble and mezzo-soprano Sophie Michaux


A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day 2018 for solo voice, piano, harpsichord and congregation c. 14’00” text John Dryden

I Envy Seas 2017 for SATTB chamber choir, piano and violoncello c. 5’15” text: Emily Dickinson listen here

Come Slowly – Eden! 2017 for SATTB chamber choir, piano and violoncello c. 4'00" text: Emily Dickinson listen here

Art Song:

​I taste a liquor never brewed 2018 for voice and piano c. 2'00" text Emily Dickinson

All the Way Down 2018  for voice and piano c. 5'00" text Thomas Merton
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Mizmor l'David 2017 for voice and piano c. 4'00" text: Hebrew Psalm 23
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Sweet Mountains 2015 for soprano, tenor and piano c’ 5’00” 
commissioned by Conspirare, text: Emily Dickinson

Dawn 2013 for baritone and piano  text: Kim Sowohl translation by Sekyo Haines
commissioned by WordSong Boston

Three Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano 2012 c. 12’00” total text: E. E. Cummings
They have hung the sky with arrows
A painted wind has sprung
You shall sing my song, O earth

STRIDE 2011 four songs for baritone, violoncello and piano on poems of E. E. Cummings c. 15’00” total
for any ruffian of the sky
devil crept in eden wood
night - with sunset hauntings
Sapphics


In Just- Spring 2009 for mezzo-soprano, violoncello, and marimba c. 5’00” 
commissioned by WordSong Boston
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