All solo, chamber, and large ensemble works have score, parts, and relevant media available for purchase. Please contact me at nikodschroeder@gmail.com with inquiries. I’m happy to get my music in your hands!
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Chamber
24 Faces | for acting brass trio with additional plastic bells | 18′ | 2024
written for the Time of Music Festival, Viitasaari FL | premiered by members of the International Ensemble Modern Academy
echo piece | treble vocal trio, opt electronics and video | 10′ | 2024
commissioned by EchoLab | premiered at Sounding Here, WORM, Rotterdam
Hinkson Creek Park Lane Bridge | fl, trb, vln, vcl, e gtr, vib | 8′ | 2024
written for and premiered by The Hague/Brno Exchange Ensemble
a few thoughts on Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Opus 13, aka Pathetique, mvt 3, measures 79-106 | piano, vibraphone, cello | 5′ | 2024
premiered by Libby Roberts, Angela Weaver, and Cameron Tubbs at my wedding
To Beginnings Two | percussion quartet | 3′ | 2021
commissioned by Christian Kuhlman and the Truman State University Percussion Society | premiered by students of the University of Missouri, Columbia
moves | pierrot, 2 perc, video triptych | 13′ | 2020
commissioned and premiered digitally by Khemia Ensemble
Table Top Indie Schlock | percussion quartet | 5′ | 2019
commissioned by the Sō Percussion Summer Institute | premiered by Sō Percussion
To Beginnings | percussion trio | 3′ | 2019
commissioned by the Sō Percussion Summer Institute | premiered at Small World Coffee, Princeton NJ, by Kyle Brenn, Daulton Mattingly, and John Zazo
Construction | pierrot + 2 percussion | 5′ | 2019
commissioned by the the Mizzou New Music Initiative for the opening of the Sinquefield Music Center | premiered by the Mizzou New Music Ensemble
The Ballad of the Young King Gambrinus | singing string quartet dbl mandolin, banjo | 9′ | 2019
commissioned by Invoke and the Beerthoven Concert Series, Austin TX
grown, ungrown | Roomful of Teeth | 3′ | 2018
commissioned by the Mizzou New Music Initiative | text by Walt Whitman
genealogy I | piano trio | 8′ | 2018
commissioned by the Fresh Inc. Festival | premiered at Constellation, Chicago, by Katherine Petersen (Fifth House Ensemble), Meghan Faw, and Danny Hoppe
Canvas the Bear (extended version) | pierrot + percussion | 4′ | 2016
commissioned by the Grand Valley State New Music Ensemble | premiered at Badlands National Park | released on innova 044, Dawn Chorus: Music Inspired by Our National Parks
Waiting for Niko | cln, vla, vcl, gtr, pno, 2 voices | 21′ | 2016
premiered by Ryan Schmidt, Elizabeth Boyce, Nicole Herman, Niko Schroeder, and Gabriel Ellis | released on Wretched Toad Music 001, Waiting for Niko
In Search of a Beer Mug | SATB saxophone quartet | 5′ | 2015
runner-up in the 2015 Sinta Quartet student composition competition | premiered at the Kerrytown Concert House, Ann Arbor MI by the Sinta Quartet
Large Ensemble
ascending piece | mixed winds, perc, pno, e gtrs, stereo playback, custom slide whistle octet | 12′ | 2024
commissioned by the Frank van der Wal Fonds and premiered by Orkest de Ereprijs
erin | 8+ pitch-flexible instruments, optional perc | 8′ | 2023written for the Ensemble Academy of the Royal Conseratory of the Hague and premiered at Musica Sacra, Maastricht
Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385, “Haffner” [edited for brevity and clarity] | orchestra | 1′ | 2023
premiered at the One Minute Symphony series of Het Residentie Orkest, The Hague
Descending piece | mixed winds, perc, pno, e gtrs, 3 treble vocalists | 3′ | 2022
written for the Orkest de Ereprijs and premiered at their 2023 Young Composers Meeting
Contrapunctus // Song | amplified sinfonietta | 9′ | 2020, rev. 2022
commissioned by Alarm Will Sound | premiered at the 2022 Mizzou International Composers Festival
is the art the thing or the space where the thing is not | mixed winds, perc | 1′ | 2022
commissioned by Grand Valley State University | premiered at the 10th annual Microworks Competition
yr Mallet, yr Hammer | orchestra | 9′ | 2019
commissioned by Dr. Jeanne Sinquefield for the University of Missouri Chancellor’s Arts Showcase | premiered by the Mizzou University Philharmonic
Warm Up No. 1: Tuning Exercise | 4 to 1,000 musicians, sine wave, generative video | 8′ | 2019
commissioned and premiered by the Mizzou New Music Ensemble
Do Not Weep | TTBB choir with TTBB solo quartet | 4′ | 2016
premiered by the Grand Valley State Varsity Mens Glee Club | text by Mary Elizabeth Frye
Solo // Duo
Etude 1 | euphonium | 5′ | 2024
premiered by the composer at the Midzomeravondsconcert, Rhijnhof Cemetery, Leiden NL
bridge sings | tuba with stereo playback | 9′ | 2021
commissioned by Dr. Paul Carlson | premiered at Free Play 46, Allendale MI
Catalogue | Bb clarinet with piano | 10′ | 2020
commissioned by the Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis MO, with support from the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation | premiered by Scott Andrews and Nina Ferrigno
good cloud days | tenor saxophone with piano | ~12′ | 2019
commissioned by a consortium of saxophonists: AJ Pratt, Ben Harting, Andrew Hosler, Daniel Vega, Jake Hewitt, Lisa Keeney, Darwin J. McMurray, Samantha Meyers, and Chelsey Parker | premiered at the 2019 NASA Region 2 Conference by AJ Pratt and Hannah Creviston
wicked problems | alto sax, tenor sax, stereo playback | 8′ | 2017
commissioned by a consortium of saxophonists: Karsten Wimbush, Darwin J. McMurray, Lindsay Myers, and Anna Petrenko | premiered at the 2017 NASA Region 5 Conference by Anna Petrenko and Lindsay Myers
Mandoline | soprano with piano | 4′ | 2017
commissioned by Hannah Tripp | text by Paul Verlaine
Three Pictures for Tuba and Marimba | 10′ | 2016
premiered by Makenzie Mattis and Lukas Schroeder
Video // Electronic
To make a Joyful Noise | MIDI-controlled dance organ | 5′ | 2023
commissioned by Het Orgelpark, Amsterdam, and premiered on the Busy Drone barrel organ
Bach Acceleration Studies | fixed video | ??? | 2022+
concert version commissioned by Nadar Ensemble
the color you thought you thought | mono playback, video or projections | 5′ | 2018
premiered at LOEB Hall, Columbia MO | installed at Let, an exhibit at the GVSU Calder Art Gallery
Theatric
You toubz 2 poops: No. 1, emcee | live video sampling | ? | 2024
premiered by the composer at Slagroom Den Haag
bicycle race | large audience in bicycle garage | ?’ | 2022
premiered at CASS #22/23.1, Amare Fietsenstalling
duck your modernism! | 2 performers, referee | ?’ | 2018
workshopped and premiered at the Brat Haus, Grand Rapids MI
Gabriel has a conversation with art | performer in art gallery, live electronics | ? | 2016
Arrangements // Soundtracks
…and us! youtube arrangements | mixed winds, pno, perc | 2021+
arrangements of works by The Punch Brothers, Jacob Collier, Pomplamoose, and Marc Rebillet for the Grand Valley State New Music Ensemble playalong series
RETURN live arrangements | pierrot, a sax, perc, stereo playback | 21′ | 2017
arrangements of background refresh, dearest rewinder these, and glacier from innova 983, RETURN | original material by Adam Cuthbért, Daniel Rhode, and Matthew Finch
Devastate short film score | brass, perc, e guitar | 5′ | 2016
original soundtrack to Cat Tremblay’s short film of the same name
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