Originally for violin and piano; transcribed for cello by Carter Brey and the composer.

Songlike and melodic, Air is the purest and sparest piece composed by Kernis in years. The original version, for violin and piano, was written in 1995 for Joshua Bell. This version was premiered by Ransom Wilson in Alice Tully Hall in NYC in February of 2004.

This piece comes from Ecstatic Meditations which includes "Effortlessly Love Flows," "How the Soul Speaks to God," "I Cannot Dance, O Lord," and "How God Answers the Soul.

This piece comes from Ecstatic Meditations which includes "Effortlessly Love Flows," "How the Soul Speaks to God," "I Cannot Dance, O Lord," and "How God Answers the Soul.

This piece comes from Ecstatic Meditations which includes "Effortlessly Love Flows," "How the Soul Speaks to God," "I Cannot Dance, O Lord," and "How God Answers the Soul.

This piece comes from Ecstatic Meditations which includes "Effortlessly Love Flows," "How the Soul Speaks to God," "I Cannot Dance, O Lord," and "How God Answers the Soul.

Garden of Light (A Millenium Symphony), for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, chorus and orchestra, was commissioned for the Third Millennium Celebration by Walt Disney Pictures, premiered in October 1999 by the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Kurt Masur, with the New York Choral Artists and The American Boychoir.

SATB Chorus and piano with Soprano and Tenor soloists

SATB chorus and piano with Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor and Baritone soloists.

SATB chorus a cappella with Soprano, Mexxo-Soprano, Tenor and Baritone soloists.

SATB chorus, treble or women's voices and piano with Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor and Baritone soloists. Text by David Simpatico and Menna Elfyn

with Mezzo-Soprano solo and optional Handbells. Melody by Janicka Vandervelde. (4:45)

Arranged for string orchestra by Kernis based on the second movement of his String Quartet (1990). Premiered in March 1992 by the Sinfonia San Francisco. The title refers to "the singing of angels in heaven in praise of God without end." Duration: ca. 11 minutes.

A dazzling new solo guitar piece from one of our most exciting young composers. Duration ca. 22 minutes.

The composer called this music "mournful, tragic, and elegiac. A single slow movement in three large sections with two themes plus an extended coda, the piece is also "unified by the influence of medieval and Jewish music and their use of long, unbroken melodies." Premiered in November 1993 as part of the Princeton University Concerts Chamber Masterworks Series.