Works

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Theatre

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Violets and Carnations

a one-act queer musical fairytale

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Cellist Next Door (in progress)

a tale of gay time-travel and historical gender-non-conformity

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Chamber Music

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Sonata No. 1 (arrangements for piano trio, string quartet, or quintet available) (2018) (6’30”)

String Quartet arrangement premiered at the first Five College Contemporary Composition Collective concert

A winner of the Smith College 2018 Settie Lehman Fatman Prize for the best composition in music in small form

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Zig Zag (in progress) (violin, cello) 

Invention No. 1 (clarinet, piano) (2019) (3’)

River (violin, cello) (2017) (3’)

Solo Instrumental Works

Petite Fantasia (in progress) (piano) 

Choral

Darling (in progress) (TTBB) 

On the Hill-Side (2019) (SATB) (2')

Text by Radclyffe Hall

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Open-Mouthed Gemini (2019) (SATB or piano & voice) (3')

Text by Morgan Ureña

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Wild Nights (2019) (SATB) (3')

Text by Emily Dickinson

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Salve Regina (2019) (SSAAB) (3')

Senex Puerum Portabat (2018) (SATB) (3’)

Premiered by Circle City Chamber Choir for the 2019 Transgender Singing Voice Conference 

Winner of the 2019 Margaret Collins Stoop Adesso Prize for the best new choral work composed by a Smith student 

Woods in Winter (2018) (SATB) (3’)

Text by H. W. Longfellow

Summer Rain (2018) (SATB) (3’)

Text by Fannie Isabelle Sherrick

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Vocal (solo repertoire)

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Open-Mouthed Gemini (2019) (piano & voice) (3')

Text by Morgan Ureña

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Queer Poetry Song Cycle (2019, voice and piano)

1. At a Dinner Party ​​​​​​(text by Amy Levy)

2. At the Touch of You (text by Witter Bynner)

3. He Would Not Stay for Me (text by A.E. Housman)

4. El Beso (text by Angelina Weld Grimké)

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the sun just touched the morning (soprano or tenor, piano) (2017) (2’)

Text by Emily Dickinson  

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Miscellaneous

When Penrose isn't writing music or words, they sometimes doodle comics or create artistic interpretations of their favorite marginalia.