Penrose Marcos Allphin


About Poe
Penrose Marcos Allphin is a composer and musicologist. Poe's master's thesis can be found here. In his spare time, he enjoys cross-stitching, baking, and playing with his cat, Percy.
Works
Theatre
Violets and Carnations (2019)
a one-act queer musical fairytale
Cellist Next Door (2020)
a tale of gay time-travel and historical gender-non-conformity
Chamber Music
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
Wisteria (viola, piano) (2021) (5')
Invention No. 1 (clarinet, piano) (2019) (3’)
River (violin, cello) (2017) (3’)
Choral
Darling (in progress) (TTBB)
On the Hill-Side (2019) (SATB) (2')
Text by Radclyffe Hall
Open-Mouthed Gemini (2019) (SATB or piano & voice) (3')
Text by Morgan Ureña
Wild Nights (2019) (SATB) (3')
Text by Emily Dickinson
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
Vocal (solo repertoire)
strawberries mean nothing (2021, song cycle for voice and piano)
I. Fruit
II. Jam Jar
III. October
IV. Taxonomy
as if you were an archer (2019, song cycle for voice and piano)
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At a Dinner Party (text by Amy Levy)
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At the Touch of You (text by Witter Bynner)
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He Would Not Stay for Me (text by A.E. Housman)
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El Beso (text by Angelina Weld Grimké)
Open-Mouthed Gemini (2019) (piano & voice) (3')
Text by Morgan Ureña
the sun just touched the morning (soprano or tenor, piano) (2017) (2’)
Text by Emily Dickinson

