complete WORKSLIST
Of Gravity and Light (2022)
choir, soprano soloist, alto soloist, baritone soloist, piano, clarinet, horn, string trio | 60 minutes
A contemporary ballet that interprets the science of our solar system
Concept and Music: Beau Kenyon; Choreography: Tom Mattingly; Video Projection: Yu-Wen Wu.
$200,000 budget | Presented by Ballet Des Moines
Reach You (2021)
viola and bass clarinet with spoken word | 15 minutes
Augmented Reality App-Based, Multi-Media Public Artwork
Creative Technology: Jonah Goldsaito; Performance: Katrina Goldsaito; Music: Beau Kenyon; Musicians: Amy Advocate and Dan Doña.
$100,000 budget | funded in part by the generous support from the City of Boston and The Boston Foundation
Tell me (2020)
found and fabricated sounds with spoken word, solo cello, and prepared piano | 18 minutes
Video and Sound Installation
Video: Yu-Wen Wu; Music: Beau Kenyon
$50,000 budget | First exhibited at SITE Santa Fe
River Constellation (2019)
collected sounds from nature with solo soprano, solo baritone, solo alto, clarinet, bassoon trombone, horn, violin, and cello | 2 hours on a continuous loop
Permanent Outdoor Sound, Sculpture, and Light Installation
Sculpture: Natalia Zubko; Music: Beau Kenyon. Musicians: Bridget Cappel, Meridian Prall, Evan Hammond, Julie Fox Henson, Mary Pshonik, Kariann Voigts, Kevin Judge, Bret Seebeck, Matt Halbert, Beau Kenyon.
$250,000 Budget | Presented by the Krause Foundation and installed at Waterworks Park, Des Moines, IA,
O, Land (2019)
found and fabricated sounds with spoken word | 30 minutes
Sound installation exploring climate change, featuring excerpts from Moby Dick (read by Mary Oliver) and excerpts from Stravinsky’s Orpheus | Music and Video: Beau Kenyon.
$12,000 budget | Presented with the generous support by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
The House of Accumulated Beauties (2018)
mezzo, alto, viola, piano, typewriter, found sounds | 45 minutes
Commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in collaboration with the museum’s Choreographer-in- Residence, Peter DiMuro. Concept and Music: Beau Kenyon; Concept and Choreography: Peter DiMuro; Musicians: Christina English and Emily Marvosh
$75,000 Budget | funded with the generous support from the Boston Foundation, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and installed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
the SOUND (2018)
voice recordings from 75 immigrant teenagers speaking about success and family, cello, soprano | 4.5 hours
Voice recordings were transformed into a series of multimedia and performance installations throughout Boston over 6 months.
Concept and Music: Beau Kenyon; Choreography: Peter DiMuro; Sculpture: Natalia Zubko; Costumes: aricoco; Musicians: Anna Ward and Sarah Brailey
Community Partners: 826 Boston, Pao Arts Center, Boston International Newcomers Academy, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Installed at the Emerald Necklace, the 4 branches of the Boston Public Library (including the Central Branch at Copley Square), the Pao Arts Center, and The Museum of Fine Arts Boston
$60,000 budget | funded by the generous support from the New England Foundation for the Arts, Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Boston Public Library, Northeastern Center for the Arts, and the City of Boston
Eav’ning Light (2018)
found and fabricated sounds with bowed vibraphone | 11 minutes on a continuous loop
Temporary Sound and Immersive Sculpture Installation| Sculpture: Natalia Zubko; Music: Beau Kenyon.
$15,000 budget | Installed on Governors Island, New York City, NY as part of the exhibit
Wonder*sense @ KAM (2018)
found and fabricated sounds with bowed vibraphone | 3 sound installations of different lengths to play on a continuous loop from 3 large-scale immersive sculptures in a single gallery
Site-responsive Sound, Sculpture, and Light Installation
Sculpture: Natalia Zubko; Music: Beau Kenyon.
$20,000 budget | Exhibited at the Kingsborough Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Every kind of One (2017)
found and fabricated sounds with solo cello | 20 minutes
A sound installation, inspired by and featuring excerpts of Gertrude Stein reading The Making of Americans. Music and Concept: Beau Kenyon; Choreographer and Concept: Margaret Wiss.
Presented by North Atlantic Dance Theater and Boston University
And all the men and women merely players (2017)
soprano, mezzo-soprano, violin, double-bass, English horn, marimba, percussionist | 40 minutes
A site specific performance installation deconstructs Shakespeare’s As You Like It for an immersive weeklong public performance of six live musicians and five dancers and tackled gender roles, love, and the unequal distribution of time and wealth.
Music and Concept: Beau Kenyon; Choreographer: Michelle Chassé. Musicians: Anna Ward, Christina English, Heather Braun, Kate Foss, Elizabeth England, Maria Finkelmeier.
$45,000 budget | Presented by Boston Public Library
family portraits (2017)
string quartet | 15 minutes
Musicians: Arneis Quartet. Presented by The Boston Public Library
and we will breathe deeply and begin (2016)
bassoon, bass clarinet, and piano | 11 minutes | Musicians: Chris Watford, Amy Advocate and Aaron Likeness
as the rain meets the sea (2016)
mezzo soprano, flute, viola, harp | 12 minutes | Musicians
chamber work responding to the writing of Katrina Goldsaito and Emily Dickinson. Musicians: Christina English, Vanessa Holroyd, Dan Doña, Franziska Huhn.
and when considering the stars (2016)
percussion quartet | 16 minutes
Response to selected poetry by Pablo Neruda. Musicians: Boston Percussion Group
WeDokiDoki (2016)
Online, digital, interdisciplinary collaboration exploring a children’s literature through serialized, multimedia storytelling.
Music Composition and Performance: Beau Kenyon; Scipt and Voice Acting: Katrina Goldsaito, Illustration: Julia Kuo; Creative Technology: Jonah Goldsaito
Book of Questions (2015 and 2017)
a cappella choir, string trio, and spoken word | 60 minutes
Site-specific sound and dance performances based on Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions based on the themes of Neruda’s poetry while producing both linear and non-linear audience experience.
Musicians: Sound Off, Marjorie Gere, Elizabeth Sailer, Dan Doña. Presented by Urbanity Dance
$50,000 budget | Funded in part by The Boston Foundation
to soothe the awoken monster (2015)
9 amplified percussionists to be played on Fenway Stadium | 13 minutes
Commissioned and Premiered by Maria Finkelmeier. Presented by Illuminus Boston
grace (2015)
piano quintet | 20 minutes
Musicians: Arneis Quartet and Beau Kenyon
to look at you dance and smile to listen to you sing and then laugh (2014)
bass clarinet and marimba | 8 minutes
A deconstruction of Jacque Brel’s Ne Me Quitte Pas. Musicians: Transient Canvas
alchemy (2013) | viola and prepared piano | 13 minutes
of yellow butterflies (2012) | soprano, viola, and piano | 7 minutes
The Tree of Aureliano (2007) | recorder quartet with English horn, trombone, violin, cello, and piano | 18 minutes
jacket (2006) | alto saxophone and piano | 8 minutes
eggshells (2006) | violin, oboe, and tuba | 3 minutes
jinny peeling oranges (2006) | unaccompanied flute and 2 tape recorders | 8.5 minutes
light magnets (2005) | harp and piano | 8.5 minutes
something in the blood (2005) | B-flat clarinet, violin, and accordion | 7 minutes
Golden Fish-Hat King (2004) | 4-hand piano sonata in three movements | 16 minutes