'Air' a 'song without words', 'pure melody and wide open lyricism'. Available in the original version for violin and piano, or in the cello and piano version (transcribed).

Available in the original version for violin and piano, or in the cello and piano version (transcribed).

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

For flute, violin and cello.

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.

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in Music. ca. 39 minutes.

In writing Trio in Red, Kernis imagined various shades of red evoked by the music. Originally titled Seeing Red, a reference to both the color as well as the state of rage just before control can break down.