Sincere thanks to all who have performed and are performing my music,
including countless violists and others not represented here.

Red Cedar Chamber Music, a superb ensemble based in Iowa City,
has a YouTube channel where you can hear many fine performances not listed here.

I also have started my own YouTube channel
where you can hear other works of mine not listed here.

Most of my viola music can be purchased by emailing me at
mkimber@centurylink.net. For more information visit Music of Michael Kimber.

Concertino
1st movement
2nd movement
3rd movement
Geneviève Overy, viola
with Iowa City Community String Orchestra (premiere, 2012)

Night Music
Geneviève Overy, viola
with Iowa City Community String Orchestra (premiere, 2014)

Night Music
Donghee Han, viola
with Iowa City Community String Orchestra

Quest
Donghee Han, viola
with Iowa City Community String Orchestra (premiere, 2023)

My Cute Kitten
Donghee Han, viola
with Iowa City Community String Orchestra (U.S. premiere, 2023)

Solace
Hannah Holman, cello
with Iowa City Community String Orchestra (premiere)
Comments begin at 35:12
Music begins at 37:37

Iowa Moods
Red Cedar Chamber Music (premiere)

Four Chorinhos
Red Cedar Chamber Music (premiere)
Comments begin at 56:11
Music begins at 1:00:20

Sonatina for Violin and Cello
Red Cedar Chamber Music
Miera Kim, violin & Carey Bostian, cello (premiere)
Comments begin at 4:08
Music begins at 7:14

Imagining
Red Cedar Chamber Music
with guest harpist Katherine Siochi (premiere)
Comments begin at 45:45
Music begins at 48:10

There's Another Picture in My Mama's Frame
Red Cedar Chamber Music
Comments begin at 33:57
Music begins at 35:00

Venetian Tragedy
Red Cedar Chamber Music
Comments begin at 1:33:00
Music begins at 1:34:25

Duet in G Major
Red Cedar Chamber Music
Miera Kim & Oliver Bostian, violins
(premiere of music composed when Kimber was 19;
see photo below)

Kvartettino
(composed by mythical ancestor Ludwig Wolfgang von Kimber)
Red Cedar Chamber Music (premiere)
Comments begin at 2:35
Music begins at 5:05

Violas on Fire!
transcribed for 2 violins & cello (no viola!!!)
Red Cedar Chamber Music (premiere)
Comments begin at 1:08:38
Music begins at 1:10:56

Violas on Fire!
the ORIGINAL version
composed for and performed by the Firewood Quartet

Concerto Grosso DSCH
Red Cedar & guest performers (premiere)
Comments begin at 44:11
Music begins at 46:45

Concerto Grosso DSCH
Iowa City's Preucil School String Orchestra
at the historic and glorious Lobkowicz Palace in Prague!

Reflection (in memory of violist Francis Bundra)
Dasha Auer, Ruby Shirres, and Henry Justo,
viola students at the Australian National Academy of Music in Sydney

Elegy (in memory of victims of gun violence)
viola transcription performed by massed violas
at the AVS Festival/IVS Congress in June 2022
Music begins at 1:15:25

In Memoriam (9/11)
commissioned and premiered in 2002 by Promenade,
a faculty ensemble at the University of Southern Mississippi

Dialog i Krakowiak
Dialog (excerpts)
Krakowiak (excerpts)
The Irrelevants
Tim Deighton, viola & Carrie Koffman, saxophone

Three Canons
Canon 1 (12-tone)
Canon 2 (homage to Hindemith)
Canon 3 (12-tone)
performed in NYC by violists Daniel Avshalomov & Tim Deighton

Vanishing Woods
commissioned by the Waldland Ensemble
Jeremy Reynolds, clarinet & Hillary Herndon, viola
and premiered by them at Carnegie Hall

Violapalooza!
enthusiastically performed by the Utah Viola Society

Viola Fight Song
Marcin Murawski, Edyta Hedzielska,
Justyna Kowalczyk, and Aleksandra Bazan

Murovisation
Marcin Murawski, viola

Emerald Isle
Patricia McCarty, viola

Emerald Isle
Gwendolyn Matias-Ryan, viola

Caprice in G from "Twelve Caprices"
Pamela Ryan, viola

Caprice in G from "Twelve Caprices"
Marcin Murawski, viola

Caprice in G from "Twelve Caprices"
Michael Kimber, viola

Caprice in D from "Twelve Caprices"
Michael Kimber, viola

Caprice in A flat from "Twelve Caprices"
Michael Kimber, viola

Caprice in C from "Twelve Caprices"
Michael Kimber, viola

Dreamily from "Evocations"
Marcin Murawski, viola
with Orkiestra Kameralna Concertino

Fantasía Hispana
Marcin Murawski, viola
with Orkiestra Kameralna Concertino

Fantasía Hispana
Sean Dostal, viola (former Kimber student)
with West High School Orchestra (Iowa City) in 2008

Fantasía Hispana
Joseph Kim, viola (former Kimber student)
with West High School Orchestra (Iowa City) in 2016
Music begins at 31:33

Fantasía Hispana
Lucina Horner, viola
with Jackson Hole Symphony

Fantasía Hispana
Yuna Tsuji, viola (with piano accompaniment)

Fantasía Hispana
Michael Kimber, viola (with piano accompaniment)

La Folia Variations
Suzuki Music Institute of Dallas violists performing in Lyon, France
(The music for La Folia Variations can be purchased from Luck’s Music Library.)

Three Quirky Little Pieces
Rambling Rag
Wandering Waltz
Misbehaving March
UMass Viola Ensemble, Kathryn Lockwood, director

Traveling Music
Viola Studio of Jacob Tews

Three Armenian Impressions
Jacob Tews, viola

I'm Lost Without My Beautiful Viola
Arrangement by Katarzyna Stroinska-Sierant;
Jona Ardyn, vocal; lyrics by Marcin Murawski

Rustic Dances
Sinfonietta Fredericia (Denmark)
Marianne Eising, director

Odyssey
Oneota Valley Community Orchestra, Matthew Cody, director
at Iowa Composers Forum 2019 Summer Festival of New Music

March to the Future
Oneota Valley Community Orchestra, Matthew Cody, director
at Iowa Composers Forum 2019 Summer Festival of New Music

ADDENDUM

Here are computer simulations of a number of works
for which I don't (yet) have live recordings. Hopefully
many, if not all of them, will someday be recorded.

Meditation
for string orchestra or cello ensemble & two soloists

Rustic Variations
on the principal theme of Danse Rustique, op. 20, no. 5,
by William Henry Squire, for 4-part cello ensemble

Perseverance
for string orchestra (2020)

Determination
for string orchestra (2020)

Adventure Overture
for string orchestra

Hymn to a New Era
for string orchestra
New Era spoken text

winter awakening
for 2 violas playing double stops, or viola quartet

Dancing Viola
Dancing Dawn
Dancing Day
Dancing Dreams
for viola quartet

Concerto in Classical Style
1st movement
2nd movement
3rd movement
for viola (in 1st position) & piano

BEACH Fugue
for violin & 2 violas
composed as a tribute to Joe M. Beach, director emeritus
of the Henry Clay H.S. Orchestra (Lexington, Kentucky)

Myriad
for brass quintet and percussion
Prelude
Incantation
Canon
Fugue
Chorale
Finale

And for "dessert," a couple of little trifles:

Lullaby
for vibraphone solo

Two Early Piano Pieces (1964)
that I composed at age 19 (see photo below)

Updated June 19, 2023