Elaine Fine

Elaine Fine (born April 30, 1959 in Cleveland / Ohio ) is an American composer and flautist.

Fine first played the violin before studying flute at the Juilliard School of Music with Julius Baker . After graduating with a bachelor's degree, she taught at the Schladming Town Music School in Austria. She then taught recorder at the Musikhochschule in Vienna with Hans Maria Kneihs , baroque flute with Christopher Kruger in Boston and composition with Peter Hesterman at Eastern Illinois University .

She has taught classical music at Eastern Illinois University and Lake Land College, and has performed as a violinist, violist, and recorder player. She was violist with the LeVeck String Quartet and first violist with the Eastern Symphony Orchestra for ten years . In addition to numerous chamber music works, she composed an opera based on Hans Christian Andersen's “Snow Queen” and some orchestral pieces.

Works

• When I See Winter Return for flute piccolo, bass clarinet, horn, percussion and viola, 2009
• Lamento di Tristano for flute, bass clarinet, horn, percussion and viola, 2008
• Cloud 999 for violin and piano, 2008
• Two Pieces for Viola and Piano , 2008
• Four Postcards for Piano Trio , 2008
• Venetian Variations for String Orchestra , 2007
• The Teapot (after Hans Christian Andersen) for soprano, tuba and piano, 2007
• Prairie Snow for piano, 2007
• Sonata for Euphonium and Piano , 2007
• Serenade for Oboe and Strings , 2007
• More Greek Myths for contrabassoon and piano, 2007
• Little Suite for Solo Euphonium , 2007
• Piccolo Sonata for piccolo and piano, 2007
• Music for Recorder and Four Drums , 2007
• Duet for Oboe and Bassoon , 2007
• Harlequin Sonata for double bassoon and piano, 2006
• There are things I just don't understand for cor anglais and strings, 2006
• Fearful Symmetry for violin and piano, 2006
• Liliburlero for violin and harp, 2005
• Lilacs for flute, clarinet, cello and piano, 2005
• Partly Sunny for violin and viola, 2005
• Like and Inness Sky for bassoon, horn and cello, 2005
• Sweet Suite for tenor saxophone and piano, 2005
• Luxury Suite for Viola or Cello and Piano, 2005
• The Happy Family (after Hans Christian Andersen) for narrator, viola, bass clarinet and piano, 2005
• Song of the Limberlost for harp, 2005
• Elnora's violin for violin solo, 2005
• Emma , opera based on Howard Zinn's play about Emma Goldman , 2004-05
• Sister Beatrice , opera based on Maurice Maeterlinck , 2004
• The Snail and the Rosebush (after Hans Christian Andersen) for narrator, clarinet and piano, 2004
• Five Movements for violin and piano, 2004
• Kubla Khan for soprano, bassoon, bongos and piano, 2004
• Music for 1601 ... Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors ... (after Mark Twain ) for two soprano recorders and double bassoon, 2004
• Five Pieces for Flute, Oboe, Violin and Cello , 2004
• Four Greek Myths for contrabassoon and piano, 2004
• Oh to be an angel for clarinet and piano, 2004
• Inventions and Creations: Five Very Short Pieces for Piano , 2004
• Prelude, Aria, and Burlesque for bass and harpsichord, 2004
• Three Longfellow Songs for medium or high voice and piano, 2004
• Four Songs from Cynthia's Revels (based on Ben Jonson ) for tenor and piano, 2004
• The Pen and the Inkwell , Intermezzo for soprano, tenor, baritone, violin and piano, 2003
• The Bird Phoenix for soprano, flute, harp, violin and viola, 2003
• Song of Songs for medium voice and instruments, 2003
• The Gloves (text by Laurence Sterne ) for baritone, flute, cello and harpsichord, 2003
• Avez-vous of candy? for two violins and cello, 2003
• Two Pieces for Brass Quintet , 2003
• Three Pieces for Bassoon and Strings , 2003
• Flute Quartet , 2003
• For Poulenc for flute and piano, 2003
• Sephardic Suite for Solo Cello , 2003
• Sonata for Viola and Piano , 2003
• Three Pieces for Trombone and Piano from Poems by William Butler Yeats , 2003
• Cante Jondo: Five Pieces after Poems by Federico García Lorca for Flute and Piano , 2003
• Sonnet XVIII (by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ) for female choir and piano 2003
• Sonnet XXXIII (by EB Browning) for female choir and piano 2003
• Come into the Garden, Maud , (text by Alfred Lord Tennyson ) for baritone and piano, 2003
• Sweet Dancer for medium voice and piano, 2003
• Three Pieces for Bassoon and Piano , 2002
• The Snow Queen , opera based on Hans Christian Andersen, 2002
• Prologue and Lachrimae for orchestra, 2002
• The Dachstein for orchestra, 2002
• Janus for flute, bassoon and piano, 2002
• Evening Music for two violins and viola, 2002
• Introit a 4 for three trombones and bass trombone, 2002
• Three Enigmas for Five Winds , 2002
• Woodwind Quintet , 2002
• Tango Mariposa for viola and piano, 2002
• Ave Maris Stella, a parody after Josquin for six flutes, alto flute and bass flute, 2001
• On Such a Winter's Day for solo flute, 2002
• Sonata Ostinato for piano, 2002
• Sonata for Trumpet and Piano , 2002
• Sonata for Horn and Piano , 2002
• Cante Jondo, Six Poems by Federico García Lorca for medium voice and piano, 2002
• Introit a 4 recorders , 2002
• Essay for Chamber Orchestra , 2001
• Sonata for Violin and Piano , 2001
• Study for Woodwind Quartet , 2001
• Germaine for oboe, viola and harp, 2001
• The Solitary Cello for cello and piano, 2001
• In light we see, in light we are seen for flute and piano, 2001
• Six Preludes for piano, 2001
• Piano Piece for Hasie , 2001
• Sonata for Oboe, Viola, Percussion, and Mallet Instruments , 2000-2003
• Duo for Clarinet and Piano , 2000
• Three Frank O'Hara Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano, 2000
• Two Agee Songs for tenor and piano, 2000
• “The Tiger” for mixed choir a cappella, 1998
• "The Whole Magilla" , three Purim songs for children, 1996
• Made in Hungary for recorder, flute, violin, viola and mandolin, 1996
• Five Pieces for String Quartet , 1995
• Good-bye to Vienna for string quartet, 1982
• Elegy for string quartet, 1979

Web links

• Elaine Fines homepage
• Sheet music and audio files by Elaine Fine on the International Music Score Library Project

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• Vox Novus - Elaine Fine