Bethany Younge

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Bethany Younge's acoustic and electronic music explores the manifold kinesthetic properties of musical performance. For her, the act of music-making cannot be divorced from the physical presence of the human instigator. Her works often incorporate instrumental deconstruction, exaggerated movement, motion tracking, sounding costumes, and/or other aesthetic devices to sonically heighten corporeal expressivity. Younge is currently serving as the Technical Director and Lecturer at Dartmouth College. Her works have been featured in the 2020 National Sawdust New Works Commission, the Long Beach Opera Songbook, the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, Resonant Bodies Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, The 16th International Young Composers Meeting, the Frequency Festival, Ear Taxi, and many other festivals. She has worked with many ensembles including JACK Quartet, TAK Ensemble, ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble, TILT Brass, KLANG, Ereprijs Orkestra, Fonema Consort, AndPlay, Chartreuse, Gyre Ensemble, Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble, Mocrep, and others throughout Europe and the USA. She has been awarded the Stipend Prize at the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, the Kanter/Mivos Prize, the Barcelona Festival Mixtur Commission award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives award, a Fromm Commission award, and was nominated for the Gaudeamus award.
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Ordered by year. Most recent works appears first

Instrumental Music

Undergrowth / Polka for chamber ensemble and electronics (2023)
Stardust as Body for b-flat clarinet, viola, cello, double bass, and feet (2023)
You, Penumbra Me for chamber ensemble and electronics (2022)
FEAST OF SELVES for chamber ensemble + electronics (2021)
To Touch is to Feel Oneself Being Touched for chamber ensemble + electronics (2020)
I'll Bleed Your Lines for chamber ensemble (2020)
Limbs / Uttered / Spirits / Neglected / Flesh for chamber group and accoutrements (2020)
At Midnight I Walked Into The Middle Of The Desert chamber ensemble + electronics (2019)
Nobody's for Rage Trombones & foot keyboard (2018)
Yappy Pace for two vocalizing percussionists with DIY/toy instruments (2017)
Ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing into for violin, viola, and electronics (2017)
Electric Speak! Junk for Me! for percussionist with a voice and a whole lot of electric junk (2017)
Bodyscape for chamber ensemble and no-input mixer (2016)
Crisscrossed with Corrections for accordion, saxophone, and percussion (2016)
Orbits for flute, bass clarinet, trombone, percussion and PVC pipes (2016)
Her I Is She This for Mocrep (2015)
Beyond Semiotics for flutist with a voice (2015)
Concrete for pianist with a voice (2015)
Doublespeak for soprano, clarinet, and percussion (2014)
Northern Lights Vigil for flute ensemble (2014)
Gyre for orchestra (2011)

Chamber Group ( 2 - 4 instruments )

Stardust as Body for b-flat clarinet, viola, cello, double bass, and feet (2023)
Limbs / Uttered / Spirits / Neglected / Flesh for chamber group and accoutrements (2020)
Carving Our Wooden Bodies for String Quartet and Objects (2018)
Nobody's for Rage Trombones & foot keyboard (2018)
Ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing into for violin, viola, and electronics (2017)
Bodyscape for chamber ensemble and no-input mixer (2016)
Crisscrossed with Corrections for accordion, saxophone, and percussion (2016)
Orbits for flute, bass clarinet, trombone, percussion and PVC pipes (2016)
Her I Is She This for Mocrep (2015)
Waters-Water-Waters for Chartreuse Trio (2015)
Doublespeak for soprano, clarinet, and percussion (2014)

Chamber Ensemble (5 - 9 instruments)

I'll Bleed Your Lines for chamber ensemble (2020)
At Midnight I Walked Into The Middle Of The Desert chamber ensemble + electronics (2019)

Voices and Instruments

Where Waste Piles Mezzo Soprano and Violin (2019)

Soloist (Instrument or Voice) and Fixed Electronic Media

ALAMARGO for soprano and electronic voices (2018)

String Quartet

Carving Our Wooden Bodies for String Quartet and Objects (2018)

Soloist (Instrument or Voice) and Real Time Electronics

Oxygen and Reality for piccolo, balloons and electronics (2017)

Solo Instrument

Electric Speak! Junk for Me! for percussionist with a voice and a whole lot of electric junk (2017)
Beyond Semiotics for flutist with a voice (2015)
Concrete for pianist with a voice (2015)

Vocal Ensemble

Speech Factory for four human speakers (2016)

Vocal Music

Where Waste Piles Mezzo Soprano and Violin (2019)
Speech Factory for four human speakers (2016)
Her Disappearance for two voices and PVC pipe (2015)

String Trio

Waters-Water-Waters for Chartreuse Trio (2015)

Large Ensemble (20 - 35 instruments)

Northern Lights Vigil for flute ensemble (2014)

Orchestral Music

Gyre for orchestra (2011)
ALAMARGO for soprano and electronic voices (2018)
At Midnight I Walked Into The Middle Of The Desert chamber ensemble + electronics (2019)
Beyond Semiotics for flutist with a voice (2015)
Bodyscape for chamber ensemble and no-input mixer (2016)
Carving Our Wooden Bodies for String Quartet and Objects (2018)
Concrete for pianist with a voice (2015)
Crisscrossed with Corrections for accordion, saxophone, and percussion (2016)
Doublespeak for soprano, clarinet, and percussion (2014)
Electric Speak! Junk for Me! for percussionist with a voice and a whole lot of electric junk (2017)
FEAST OF SELVES for chamber ensemble + electronics (2021)
Gyre for orchestra (2011)
Her Disappearance for two voices and PVC pipe (2015)
Her I Is She This for Mocrep (2015)
I'll Bleed Your Lines for chamber ensemble (2020)
Ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing into for violin, viola, and electronics (2017)
Limbs / Uttered / Spirits / Neglected / Flesh for chamber group and accoutrements (2020)
Nobody's for Rage Trombones & foot keyboard (2018)
Northern Lights Vigil for flute ensemble (2014)
Orbits for flute, bass clarinet, trombone, percussion and PVC pipes (2016)
Oxygen and Reality for piccolo, balloons and electronics (2017)
Speech Factory for four human speakers (2016)
Stardust as Body for b-flat clarinet, viola, cello, double bass, and feet (2023)
To Touch is to Feel Oneself Being Touched for chamber ensemble + electronics (2020)
Undergrowth / Polka for chamber ensemble and electronics (2023)
Waters-Water-Waters for Chartreuse Trio (2015)
Where Waste Piles Mezzo Soprano and Violin (2019)
Yappy Pace for two vocalizing percussionists with DIY/toy instruments (2017)
You, Penumbra Me for chamber ensemble and electronics (2022)