All solo, chamber, and large ensemble works have score, parts, & 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
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
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, & 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 bowed & fretted string quartet | 9′ | 2019
commissioned by invoke & the Beerthoven Concert Series, Austin TX | premiered by & at the same
grown, ungrown | Roomful of Teeth | 3′ | 2018
commissioned by the Mizzou New Music Initiative | text by Walt Whitman
genealogy I | piano, cello, & violin | 8′ | 2018
commissioned by the Fresh Inc. Festival | premiered at Constellation, Chicago, by Katherine Petersen (Fifth House Ensemble), Meghan Faw, & 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 | Bb clarinet, viola, cello, guitar, piano, & 2 voices | 21′ | 2016
premiered by Ryan Schmidt, Elizabeth Boyce, Nicole Herman, Niko Schroeder, & 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
Solo // Duo
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 & 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, & Chelsey Parker | premiered at the 2019 NASA Region 2 Conference by AJ Pratt & 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, & 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
commissioned & premiered by Makenzie Mattis & Lukas Schroeder
Large Ensemble
descending piece | mixed winds, percussion, and strings, & 3 sopranos | 3′ | 2022
commissioned by the Orkest de Ereprijs | to be 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 wind and percussion ensemble | 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
Do Not Weep | TTBB choir with TTBB solo quartet | 4′ | 2016
commissioned & premiered by the Grand Valley State Varsity Mens Glee Club | text by Mary Elizabeth Frye
Electroacoustic // Intermedia // Theatric
Bach Acceleration Studies | prerecorded and plundered videos | 3′, ongoing | 2022+
bicycle race | large audience in bicycle garage | ?’ | 2022
premiered at CASS #22/23.1, Amare Fietsenstalling by a large audience
moves | pierrot, 2 perc, & video | 13′ | 2020
commissioned & premiered digitally by Khemia Ensemble
Warm Up No. 1: Tuning Exercise | 4 to 1,000 musicians, sine wave, & video | 8′ | 2019
commissioned & premiered by the Mizzou New Music Ensemble
the color you thought you thought | stereo playback & video or projections | 5′ | 2018
premiered at LOEB Hall, Columbia MO | installed at Let, an exhibit at the GVSU Calder Art Gallery
duck your modernism! | 2 performers and referee | ?’ | 2018
workshopped and premiered at the Brat Haus, Grand Rapids MI
RETURN (album) live arrangements | pierrot, alto 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) | mixed brass, percussion, & electric guitar | 5′ | 2016
original soundtrack to Cat Tremblay’s short film of the same name
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