“…radiant...”
David Patrick Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer
“…confident miniatures, rich in implications.”
Jon Pareles, New York Times
“A tour de force of quartet writing...”
Dan Visconti, New Music Box
“…a soulful meditation…” Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
“…an evocative form of sonic architecture.”
Niels Swinkels, San Francisco Classical Voice
“…a terrific satire on the inflections that give language meaning.” Joan Reinthaler, Washington Post
“White made the most distinctive musical statement of the night.”
Jeff Winslow, Oregon Artswatch
Portraits © Deidre Huckabay 2021
Featured projects:
Songs from The Best Place for This EP - out now!
Purchase on Bandcamp or listen on all streaming platforms.
This EP, made with my voice (pre-testosterone and post-testosterone modal and falsetto registers) and studio techniques, contains newly adapted selections from an earlier work, The Best Place for This, which set various texts by different authors on the theme of finding one’s place, in every sense - geographical, within relationships with oneself and others, career, gender, etc.
With poetry by David Ebenbach, Ali Shapiro, and Tala Abu Rahmeh, additional production by Daniel Dehaan and Elliot Cole, mixing and mastering by Murat Çolak at GERYON, and cover art by Aiden K. Feltkamp.
Great Marsh Songs
Commissioned by the Manship Artists Residency and Artists for the Great Marsh, this five-movement work for student singers at Rockport Middle & High School, of Rockport, MA, and Endicott College, with text by Gloucester poet Caroline Harvey, celebrates the Great Marsh, located on the coast of northern Massachusetts and New Hampshire, while advocating for action to combat climate change.
Premiered on March 7, 2023 at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, MA. To watch the concert and a video about the project, go here and click on “The Great Marsh Concert.”
fly, into the light…
Virtual performance by Helen Kim, with dance by Post:Ballet, hosted online by the San Francisco Symphony as part of Playing Changes, a program that also features music by Samuel Adams, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Ambrose Akinmusire, Elizabeth Ogonek, and Philip Glass.
Attractive Forces
Commissioned by the University of Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition
Premiered virtually by the Grossman Ensemble - watch here
Community Acoustics
Commissioned by Brenda and Steven Schick for the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra - watch here
Arrangement for 13-piece chamber ensemble commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and performed on the orchestra’s MusicNOW series
a carol called love
Commissioned by The Crossing as part of “Carols After a Plague,” a program and album of new works responding to the March 2020-March 2021 time period. With text by Alex Dimitrov.
Premiered December 2021. Released on the Grammy-nominated album Carols After a Plague (New Focus Recordings) in December 2022. Find it here
We Don’t Eat Dead Things
Commissioned by Ensemble Dal Niente and released March 25th, 2022, on the Sideband Records album object/animal. Find it here
Zin zin zin zin
Performed by the Spektral Quartet numerous times across the world, including on the Ecstatic Music Festival (New York, NY) and the Ear Taxi Festival (Chicago, IL)
Recorded on their album CHAMBERS - listen here
Everything Means Nothing To Me
Written in collaboration with composers Chris Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Ted Hearne, Robert Honstein, and Scott Wollschleger, based on the music of Elliott Smith.
Commissioned, premiered, and recorded by Third Angle Ensemble
Album available for purchase here
You Are
Commissioned jointly by the Cornell University choral ensembles and the Longmeadow High School choral ensembles
Developed in collaboration with students, who created text and a virtual performance video - watch here
