Liam Wade composer 
liamjwade@gmail.com
Selected Works
Opera
  • Chivalry - one hour chamber opera. co-written with composer Weslie Brown. Libretto by Weslie Brown. 
  • Part of the act - 20 minute opera in one act. Libretto by John Grimmett. Commissioned by Washington National Opera for the American Opera Initiative.
  • Funny Napkins - mini cabaret operetta for Ann and Heidi moss and Steve Bailey (M2B Ensemble). Co-written with Heidi's two kids, Ava and Hana. 

Song cycles

  • Drei Traume (3 songs for soprano, viola and piano text by Lisa DeSiro. 
  • Silver Apples (4 songs for coloratura soprano on texts by Poe, Yeats, Stevenson and DeSiro.
  1. The Moon
  2. Eldorado 3
  3. The Cat and the Moon
  4. Carpe Luna
  • 7 Hallucinations on a Theme by Wallace Stevens for voice and piano 2000

String quartet

  • String quartet No.5 "burrito warrior" for the Hausmann Quartet 2012

String quartet and voice

  • String Quartet No.1 2003
  • 4 Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay  for Coloratura and String Quartet for Ann Moss, soprano 2008


Arrangements

  • Janis Joplin's Piece of My Heart string quartet 2007
  • Rachmaninoff's Vocalise for string quartet 2005
  • Weird Al Yankovic's Genius in France (for a very extended Pierrot Ensemble)