Kevin Puts

About the artist

Puts studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University, earning the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Eastman. Among his teachers were Samuel Adler, Jacob Druckman, David Lang, Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner, Martin Bresnick, and, in piano, Nelita True. He also studied at the Tanglewood Music Festival with William Bolcom and Bernard Rands. He is composer-in-residence at the Fort Worth Symphony and has received a commission from the Aspen Music Festival.

Top songs

  1. If I Were a Swan
  2. Contact: I. The Call
  3. Contact: II. Codes. Scherzo
  4. Marimba Concerto: III. With Energy
  5. Evening
  6. Contact: III. Contact
  7. Contact: IV. Convivium
  8. Marimba Concerto: I. Flowing
  9. Marimba Concerto: II. Broad and Deliberate
  10. Puts: The Hours, Act 2: "All Along?" (Clarissa, Laura, Virginia) [Live]
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  1. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 7, Because I could not stop for Death
  2. Aria
  3. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 23, There is another sky
  4. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 1, They shut me up
  5. Puts: The Hours, Act 1: Prologue. "Flowers... Flowers" (Chorus) [Live]
  6. Home: Home
  7. Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "Here on This Corner" (Clarissa) [Live]
  8. Home: Warm, with rubato
  9. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 3, The Soul selects her own Society
  10. Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "Platters! - What’s That, Babe?" (Clarissa, Sally, Chorus) [Live]
  11. Charm
  12. Concerto for Orchestra: IV. Toccata
  13. The City
  14. Symphony No. 2
  15. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 19, Her Face
  16. Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "She Pauses at Its Threshold…" (Chorus, Clarissa, Man Under the Arch, Walter, Virginia) [Live]
  17. Home: Faster, refreshed
  18. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 2, I was the slightest in the House —
  19. Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "Go Slowly. Ignore Your Novel" (Virginia, Clarissa, Chorus, Leonard) [Live]
  20. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 26, No Prisoner Be
  21. Elegy for Brass
  22. Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "There's the Scowl" (Virginia, Leonard, Chorus) [Live]
  23. Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "Clarissa! - Barbara!" (Barbara, Clarissa, Chorus, Virginia, Leonard) [Live]
  24. To Touch the Sky: To Touch the Sky: I. Annunciation (Magnificat)
  25. Home: Dangerously fast
  26. Symphony No. 4, From Mission San Juan: I. Prelude: Mission San Juan Bautista, ca.1800
  27. Flute Concerto: I. With great sincerity and affection; flexible, with motion
  28. Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "Richmond… She Opens the Curtains" (Virginia, Chorus, Man Under the Arch) [Live]
  29. Canyon: I. Toccata
  30. To Touch the Sky: III. The Fruit of Silence
  31. To Touch the Sky: To Touch the Sky: III. The Fruit of Silence
  32. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 5, Interlude No. 1
  33. Oboe Concerto No. 2 "Moonlight": I. Moonlight
  34. To Touch the Sky: I. Annunciation (Magnificat)
  35. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 8, A Bee I personally knew (Scherzo No. 1)
  36. To Touch the Sky: To Touch the Sky: IV. Falling Snow
  37. To Touch the Sky: II. Unbreakable
  38. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 6, I dwell in Possibility
  39. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 4, Again — his voice is at the door
  40. To Touch the Sky: IV. Falling Snow
  41. Evergreen: Evergreen
  42. Puts: The Hours, Act 2: "Heaven? Somebody Else’s Heaven?" (Chorus, Laura, Hotel Clerk) [Live]
  43. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 10, I reason, Earth is short
  44. To Touch the Sky: To Touch the Sky: II. Unbreakable
  45. Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "Missus Dalloway Said She Would Buy the Flowers Herself" (Laura, Virginia, Chorus, Dan, Richie) [Live]
  46. Puts: The Hours, Act 2: "Did It Matter Then, She Asked Herself" (Laura, Virginia) [Live]
  47. To Touch the Sky: V. At Castle Wood
  48. Oboe Concerto No. 2 "Moonlight": III. Air (The Eye Begins to See)
  49. Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "Oh Dan. Roses? On Your Birthday?" (Laura, Dan, Richie, Chorus) [Live]
  50. Silent Night, Act I Prologue: Ogni notte (Live)
  51. To Touch the Sky: To Touch the Sky: V. At Castle Wood
  52. Oboe Concerto No. 2 "Moonlight": II. Folly
  53. Dark Vigil: Dark Vigil
  54. Symphony No. 4, From Mission San Juan: IV. Healing Song
  55. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 9, I Felt a Funeral
  56. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 25, If I can stop one Heart from breaking (on Praetorius "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming")
  57. To Touch the Sky: VII. Who has seen the wind?
  58. To Touch the Sky: IX. Most noble evergreen
  59. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 13, "Hope" is the thing
  60. Puts: The Hours, Act 1: "You Know What We’re Going to Do?" (Laura, Virginia, Richie, Clarissa) [Live]
  61. Millennium Canons (arr. M. Spede)
  62. To Touch the Sky: VI. Epitaph
  63. To Touch the Sky: VIII. With my two arms
  64. Symphony No. 4, From Mission San Juan: III. Interlude
  65. I. Flowing
  66. Symphony No. 4, From Mission San Juan: II. Arriquetpon (the diary of Francisco Arroyo de la Cuesta, 1818)
  67. Symphony No. 4, From Mission San Juan: Symphony No. 4, From Mission San Juan: II. Arriquetpon (the diary of Francisco Arroyo de la Cuesta, 1818)
  68. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 11, A little Snow
  69. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 18, So set its Sun in Thee
  70. To Touch the Sky: To Touch the Sky: IX. Most noble evergreen
  71. To Touch the Sky: To Touch the Sky: VI. Epitaph
  72. To Touch the Sky: To Touch the Sky: VII. Who has seen the wind?
  73. River's Rush
  74. Symphony No. 4, From Mission San Juan: Symphony No. 4, From Mission San Juan: I. Prelude: Mission San Juan Bautista, ca.1800
  75. Silent Night, Act I Scene 2: Sleep (Live)
  76. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 12, I tie my Hat - I crease my Shawl
  77. Flute Concerto: III. Very fast, with tremendous energy
  78. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 21, His Feet are shod with Gauze (Bee Scherzo No. 3)
  79. Concerto for Orchestra: I. Hymn for the Hurting
  80. Concerto for Orchestra: V. Sicilienne
  81. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 22, Wild Nights!
  82. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 14, Interlude No. 2
  83. Concerto for Orchestra: VI. Ecco la Marcia? (Caccia No. 2)
  84. Concerto for Orchestra: III. Music Box with Arietta
  85. Canyon: II. Cadence
  86. Flute Concerto: II. Andante
  87. To Touch the Sky: To Touch the Sky: VIII. With my two arms
  88. Emily — No Prisoner Be: No. 16, There is a solitude of space
  89. Symphony No. 4, From Mission San Juan: Symphony No. 4, From Mission San Juan: IV. Healing Song
  90. Silent Night, Act I Prologue: Jonathan! (Live)

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