Roger Reynolds

Updated 4 March 2026

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PERCUSSION

Except for some works which remain in manuscript form in the Reynolds Archive, all compositions are published by or are on rental from Wise Music Classical, Part of Wise Music Group.

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Articulate Circles (2025), cf. MULTIMEDIA as well as PERCUSSION
Percussion and projected video
Video by Kyle Johnson
First performance: pending
Aiyun Huang, percussionist
CIRMMT. McGill University

Wise Music Classical Purchase [score (in preparation)]
and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, sound files, projections]
Wise new entry

Autumn Island (Islands from Archipelago: II), cf. SOLO as well as PERCUSSION
Solo Marimba


Chatter/Clatter (SANCTUARY Part I) (2007) 20'
Solo Percussion and Computer Musician
This work can be played independently.
First performance: 7 June 2007
Steven Schick, Percussionist
Ian Saxton, Algorithmic computer sound
June in Buffalo Festival
University at Buffalo – SUNY


Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, sound files or real-time computer processing]


Here and There (2018) 36', cf. SOLO as well as PERCUSSION
Speaking Percussionist
First performance: 27 February 2019
Steven Schick, Percussion 
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
La Jolla, California 

Wise Music Classical Purchase [score]

Here and There is referenced in the film FOR A REASON by Kyle Johnson at 7:21 - 12:10, 34:57 - 37:40, 53:00 - 53:45


Less Than Two, cf. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
2 Pianos, 2 Percussion,
Quadraphonic computer generated sound


SANCTUARY I (20'), II (32'), III (20') (2003-2007) 75'
Percussion Quartet, Real time computer processed and spatialized sound, Lighting design
First performance of full work [including SANCTUARY Part III: Song]: 18 November 2007
I.M. Pei's East Wing Atrium, National Gallery of Art
Steven Schick and red fish blue fish ensemble,
Justin DeHart, Ross Karre, Fabio Oliveira, Greg Stuart, Percussionists
Josef Kucera, Peter Otto, Jacob David Sudol, Sound projection
Ian Saxton, Musical assistant,
Gordon Anson and Robert Johnson, Lighting design of the National Gallery of Art,
John Conway, Sound systems at the National Gallery of Art
Presented by Contemporary Music Forum, Steven Antosca, Artistic Director and
Concert Producer (logistical planning and consulting)
at the National Gallery of Art, East Wing Atrium, Washington, DC
     [A special concert associated with the exhibition "Let the World In:
     Prints by Robert Rauschenberg from the National Gallery of Art and Related Collections"
     at the National Gallery of Art, and made possible by Lockheed Martin Corporation.]
SANCTUARY is co-commissioned by red fish blue fish percussion ensemble,
the National Endowment for the Arts, the Contemporary Music Forum,
and the Randy Hostetler Living Room Fund.
Pre-premiere performance full work: 16 November 2007 National Gallery of Art]
[All 3 parts can be performed independently.]

Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance, sound files or real time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms]


SANCTUARY Part I: Chatter/Clatter(2007) 20'
First performance: 7 June 2007
Steven Schick, Percussionist
Ian Saxton, Algorithmic computer sound
June in Buffalo Festival
SUNY Buffalo
[Part I can be played independently.]

Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, sound files or real time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms]


SANCTUARY Part II: Oracle (2003-2004) 32'
First performance: 4 June 2004
red fish blue fish: Gustavo Aguilar, Rob Esler, Don Nichols, Mathias Reumert, Percussion,
Pei Xiang, David Camargo, Joseph Sarlo, Computer processing,
Chris Parry, Lighting design
Warren Lecture Halls, Studio A
UCSD, La Jolla
[Part II can be played independently.
]

Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance, sound files]


SANCTUARY Part III: Song 20' (2007)
Percussion Quartet and Computer processing
First performance: 18 November 2007
Steven Schick, percussion
National Gallery of Art

Part III can be played independently.

Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance, sound files]


SLEIGHT of HAND (2025) 20', cf. SOLO as well as PERCUSSION
Percussion
First performance: 14 April 2025
Kosuke Matsuda, percussionist
Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall
University of California San Diego


Wise Music Classical Purchase [score]
Wise new entry


Watershed I (i995) 27'30", cf. SOLO as well as PERCUSSION
Solo Percussion
First performance: 1 December 1995
Manhattan School of Music, New York, Steven Schick, Percussion


Wise Music Classical Purchase [score]


Watershed III, cf. SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE
Solo Percussion, Chamber Orchestra, Optional real-time computer sound spatialization


Watershed IV, cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC
Solo Percussion, Real-time computer sound spatialization


Watershed V, cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC
Solo Percussion, Stereophonic algorithmically generated "shimmer"