Large Ensemble Works
• Kingsburg Festival Overture -concert band (1992) 6’
• Synapse Lapse -17-piece big band with strings (1990) 10
• C-String Blues -string ensemble (1990) 3’
• The Felix Suite-string chamber orchestra and percussion (1993) 25’
• Concerto for Improvising Viola and Orchestra (1995) 25’
• Cephalopodology for Strings and Percussion (1996) (commissioned by City of San Jose, CA and San Jose Chamber Orchestra) 11’
• What Goes On In The Ether (1998) commissioned by San Jose Chamber Orch, 21'
• Yet Another Tango (1998) for string orchestra or string quartet 4’
• Tuba Beguine (1998) for solo tuba and string orch. 5’
• Christmas Chant (1999) SATB choir 4’
• Rabbit Stew (2009) SATB choir 4’
• Escapade for Orchestra and Candywrappers (2000), orchestra and audience with candywrappers 4'
• Living Wind Chime #1 (2000) for 8 giant brass pipes 10’
· Convocation (2001) for orchestra (2222-22-timp-strings) 17'
· Three Berkeley Vignettes (2001) for orchestra (2222-2hrn-timp-strings) 16’
CHAMBER MUSIC
• Mr. Twitty’s Chair -srting quartet (1989) 6-8’
Skylife, Windham Hill Jazz WD-D126
• Vincent’s Waltz- jazz waltz for viola and piano (1991) 5’
dist. Latham Music
• Bop Caprice I -solo viola (1991) 8’
• Bop Caprice II -solo viola (1992) 9’
• Lil’ Phrygian Rondo for Karen -viola duo (1992) 9’
• Duo for Sunday-viola duo (1993) 15’
• Felix’ Night Out -string quartet (1993) 6’
• 2 Waltzes (1994) for viola and piano 7’
pub. Latham Music, #VA-8
• Conversation for Viola and Marimba, (1994) 12'
• Episode for Carillon (1995) 4’
• In Praise of August Sundogs-2 violas, prepared viola and goat toenails (1994) 9’
• Romp for solo viola (1996) 4’
• Flute Trio #1 (1996), flute, viola, cello 11’
• The Acoustics Lecture (1997) librettist, Anne Prescott 7' for Soprano, C Trumpet and Piano
• The Palace of Fame (1997) for Soprano, Trumpet and Piano librettist, Anne Prescott 5’
• Invocation #3 (1998) for solo cello (trans. for solo viola) 8’
• "Kitty Round" (1998) for Children's Chorus, English Horn, Viola and Vibes 4’
• Pleasant Melody (1998) for viola and piano 3'
• Pleasant Melody #2 (1999) for string quartet 4’
• Breakfast Boogie (1999) for string quartet 3’
• Sailor's Fantasy (1999) for flt, clar and string trio (comissioned by Amer. Comp. Forum) 6’
• SyMmMetry (2000) for string trio, clarinet and marimba 5’
• Lullaby (2000) for viola, hand drum and women's voices 4’
· Pegasus Quartet (2004) for string quartet 15'
· Ambivalent Gecko (2004) for string trio 5'
• Scenes (2008) for harp and viola 14’
• Flute Trio #2 (2008) for 2 flutes and cello 4’
• Sierra Waltz (2008) for viola and jazz rhythm section 5’
• Complementary Supplement (2009) for flute, Clar, cello, pno 6’
MUSIC WITH DANCE/FILM/SPOKEN WORD/ELECTRONICS
· “Pretty” (2007) sound collage with girls’ voices 59”
Vox Novus 60x60 Project, CD on Vox Novus label
· Groovla (2005) for viola and electronics 1’
CD on Vox Novus label
· 56” of Creep (2004) for viola and electronics 56”
Vox Novus 60x60 Project CD on Vox Novus label
· Suite for Air Mail Dances (2003) for viola and dancers 15’
commissioned by Axis Dance Company, choreography by Remi Charlip
• Soundtrack for "Rust: animation/poetry/music video (1995) 3’
• Eagle's Dance-for viola, clar., bass, spoken word and dancers (1995) 5’
• Where My Home Used To Be-viola (opt. bass) and storyteller (1994) 20'
• How a Mosquito Operates (1997) commissioned by New Music Works 7’ for violin, clar, vibes, pno. scored to film by Winsor McCay (1912)
• The Cameraman's Revenge (1997) commissioned by New Music Works 12' for violin, mandolin, cello, bass, clar, alto sax, pno, perc. scored to film by Ladislav Starevich (1912).
• Open Secrets (1999) for cello and viola, dancers 13’
· Incidental Music “Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend” (2001) commissioned by American Composers Forum, for clar, violin, bass, vibes, piano, scored to a film by Edwin Porter, 1906 6’
• Pecos Bill (2008) for string quartet and narrator 24’ (comissioned by Peter Gelfand and the San Jose String Quartet)
• Two Fables by Aesop (The Dove and the Ant/The Silkworm and the Spider) 14’ for narrator, oboe, perc., piano, violin, viola, bass, commissioned by the Colorado Chamber Players
• Two More Fables by Aesop (The Ants and the Pigs/The Beetle and the Eagle) 13’ for narrator, oboe, perc., piano, violin, viola, bass, commissioned by the Colorado Chamber Players
SONG CYCLES
· Gift of the Magi (2003) for Sop, Ten, vc and pno 16:30’
Lyrics by Anne Worthington Prescott, based on story by O. Henry
· The Children’s Garden (2005) for soprano, viola and piano 13’ Text: Childrens Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson
BOOKS/COMPILATIONS
· Activities, Games, Suggestions and Insights, A Handbook for Teaching Composition to Youth Musicians (2004), commissioned by the American Composers Forum San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
• Violaerobics-A Technical Workout for Violists (etude book) (1993) (trans. for violin 1997)
• 24 Diverse Duets for Beginning Violinists Ages 8 to 88, for students and their teachers (1999), duets covering first 2 years of study
• 8 Fantasies on Christmas Carols for viola (trans, for violin and cello) and piano (2000)
pub. Latham Music Enterprises
Katrina Wreede, composer and violist, has been a professional symphony musician, a jazz violist, a member of the ground-breaking Turtle Island String Quartet, a concert soloist, a belly dancer, a police finger-printer, a strolling, rhinestone-studded “continental” violinist for royalty, a non-denominational wedding officiant, a player of Italian, Tango Nuevo, Persian, and Roma music and a composer for soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestras, film, and dance. She also created and performs the “Living Wind Chimes”, an audience-interactive set of brass pipes that she sets up in unusual venues: Botanical Gardens, Oakland Federal Building, Mendocino Headlands, even a columbarium. Her compositions are performed internationally. Her most recent recorded works include debut solo album, "Add Viola and Stir", several Vox Novus’ “60 x 60” CDs and the Pegasus Quartet’s “Healing Heart” CD. She is a founding faculty member of the John Adams Young Composer Program and has taught advanced composition to exceptional youth for the American Composers Forum since 1998. She also conducts clinics and on improvisation, "My Goldfish Died", and composition, "Composing Together", around the country, including at Boston Conservatory, University of Colorado at Boulder, Berklee College of Music as well as many elementary, middle and high schools and professional conferences.