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Tanner Porter

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ORCHESTRA

The Colorado (2026 - UPCOMING)
Palimpsest (2025)
Sage-Grouse (2025)
True Lover's Knot (2024)
Back at It (2024)
Kin (2022)*
Six Sides from the Shape of Us (2021)*
On One Hand, On the Other (2021, rev. 2023)

Ease The Roads (2021)
A Flash of Teeth Before the Bite (2021)
The Sycamore and the Oak (2020)
Landlord (2019)   
knit / purl (2019) 
Canyons (2018)  
Here Comes the Rain (2018)  
Propellers in the Sun (2016, rev. 2020) 

Duration: 19’00”
Instrumentation: 3 (1dbl. Picc).3.3.3 / 4.3.3.1 / Timpani / 4 Percussion / Harp / Piano / Strings

*Timpani (plus Eb Crotale, bow)
**Percussion I: Bass Drum, Triangle, Sand Paper Blocks, Triangle // Percussion II : Suspended Cymbal, Toms (Floor tom, smaller/mounted tom), Sleigh Bells, Small Gong (suspended on string, plus bucket of water), Bucket of river rocks // Percussion III: Crotales, Glockenspiel, Snare Drum, Sand Paper Blocks, Tubular Bells // Percussion IV : Vibraphone, Woodblocks (low and high), Tubular Bells

Commissioned by the National Repertory Orchestra. To be premiered in August 2026.

Duration: 23’00”
Instrumentation: 2.2.2.2 / 2.2.2.2.0 / 1 Percussion / Keyboard / Electric Guitar / Soprano I (soloist) / Soprano II (soloist) / Alto (soloist) / Choir (SATB) / Strings

*Percussion: Ratchet, Glockenspiel, Kick Drum, Suspended Cymbal, Triangle (mounted), Sleigh Bells, Found Objects (Handbells, Large Cooking Pot, Metal Cooking Bowls, Wooden Spool/Bobbins wind chime, Metals wind chime, Metals Kit)

Commissioned by the Albany Symphony in commemoration of the Bicentennial of the Erie Canal’s completion in , and as one component of Water Music NY, focusing particularly on undermentioned women’s stories on the Cayuga-Seneca Canal. Premiered July 4, 2025 in Seneca Falls, NY with the Albany Symphony. Soloists: Tanner Porter (alto/electric guitar), Devony Smith (soprano), Britt Hewitt (soprano). Featuring the Mynderse Academy Choir.

Duration: 11’00”
Instrumentation: 2.2.2.2 / 2.2.0.0.0 / Timpani / Piano / Violin (solo) / Strings

"Sage-Grouse" was commissioned by the Reno Chamber Orchestra with the generous support of the Sound Investment Investors Initiative. It was premiered in Reno, NV in 2025.

Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps · Tanner Porter - True Lover's Knot, Mvt. 2: "Hard-Hearted" (excerpt)
Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps · Tanner Porter - True Lover's Knot, Mvt. 4: "True Lover's Knot" (excerpt)
Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps · Tanner Porter - Back At It

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