Magda Kress - Bassist/Composer
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Concert Work

Diffuse Reflection of Glass (2012)
Solo cello
Craig Hultgren/Vox Novus 15 Minutes of Fame: Occupy Cello: Digital Livestream – 2020
Em Pratt, BGSU Composers’ Forum: Bowling Green, OH – 2014

Craig Hultgren/Moonlight on the Mountain: Birmingham, AL – 2013
Craig Hultgren/Vox Novus 15 Minutes of Fame: Occupy Cello: New York, NY – 2013
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​The Wash 
(2013)
Soprano, piano, double bass
Text by RJ Ingram
Folk Wandering Family Concert/A.R.T./New York Theatres: New York, NY – 2018

BGSU Composers’ Forum: Bowling Green, OH – 2014
mkress · The Wash

​Vasovagal Syncope (2013-2014)
Full orchestra
Toledo Symphony Orchestra Reading Session/BGSU: Bowling Green, OH – 2013
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[Score]
mkress · Vasovagal Syncope

​Tse Biyaa Anii’ahi (2012)
Flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trombone, 2 percussion
BGSU Dance Alliance: Bowling Green, OH – 2014
BGSU Composers’ Forum: Bowling Green, OH – 2013
mkress · Tse Biyaa Anii'ahi
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​If Walls Could (Bar)tok 
(2010)
2 violins
Mike Dandron & Sonya Mandeville/BGSU Composers’ Forum: Bowling Green, OH – 2012
Revamped Duo/BGSU Reading Session: Bowling Green, OH – 2010
mkress · If Walls Could (Bar)Tok

​We Never See Now, string quartet (2014)
String quartet

Counting (2012)
Spoken word + double bass

Text by Courtney Hutton
BGSU ArtsX/Women in Art: Bowling Green, OH – 2012
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Pot of Gold (2012)
Spoken word + double bass
Text by Courtney Hutton
BGSU ArtsX/Women in Art: Bowling Green, OH – 2012

​Electroacoustic

​King of Broken Strings (2013)
2-channel, fixed
Electronic Music Midwest/Lewis University: Romeoville, IL – 2014
Vox Novus/Circuit Bridges, From New York to the World/Gallery MC: New York, NY – 2014
BGSU Music Tech Recital: Bowling Green, OH – 2013
mkress · King Of Broken Strings

I Must Have Misunderstood You (2015)
2-channel, fixed
mkress · I Must Have Misunderstood You
           
Resistance v2.0 (2014)
Bassoon + live electronics (Max/MSP)
Aaron Gilbert’s Junior Recital: Bowling Green, OH – 2014
Break the Mold: Celebrating Queer Art & Artists: Bowling Green, OH – 2014

Resistance v1.0 (2013)
Double bass + live electronics (Max/MSP)
BGSU Music Tech Recital: Bowling Green, OH – 2013

That’s a Good F*cking Question (2013)
2-channel, fixed
BGSU Music Tech Recital: Bowling Green, OH – 2013

First Glass Travel (2012)
2-channel, fixed
BGSU Music Tech Recital: Bowling Green, OH – 2012

Jazz, etc.

​A Brief Gravitational Collapse
Recorded by The Gazebo (Hiding Places) Audiomatrix Studios: Toledo, OH – 2015
mkress · A Brief Gravitational Collapse

​Symbiosis
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​Recorded live by the BGSU Jazz Combo + String Quartet: Bowling Green, OH – 2012
mkress · Symbiosis

​At the Last Minute
Recorded live by the BGSU Jazz Combo: Bowling Green, OH – 2012
mkress · At the Last Minute

​Film Scoring

The Case of the Missing Shoes (2016)
Writer/director: Nicole Rodriguez
Ohio University: Athens, OH – 2016

Orchestrations & Arrangements

​Freefall Frostbite (2017/2018)
Additional orchestrations
Music: David Oberst; Lyrics/book: Michael Fixel
Freefall Frostbite Original Cast Recording (Flux Studios) – 2018
Feinstein's/54 Below: New York, NY – 2018

Theatre 80 St. Marks: New York, NY – 2017

​​Along Came Betty (2012)
17-piece jazz orchestra
Benny Golson
Recorded live by the BGSU Jazz Lab Band: Bowling Green, OH – 2012

Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise (2012)
9-piece jazz orchestra
Romberg/Hammerstein

Recorded live by the BGSU Jazz Combo: Bowling Green, OH – 2012
mkress · Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise

Four Songs for Central Trail (2013)
SATB choir + string quartet
Various composers
Central Trail Elementary: Sylvania, OH – 2013

Sonatina, first movement (2012)
Full orchestra
Gyorgi Ligeti
BGSU Philharmonia – 2012
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