Most of my music is either on my SoundCloud page or YouTube channel. You may also find some of it on Spotify (and other streaming platforms), or just check out some of the selections below.


Spaces Real or Imagined (2025) for clarinet and piano.
Commissioned by the Michigan Music Teachers Association.


Origin Stories (2024) for clarinet and string quartet.
Commissioned by the Atlanta Chamber Players. Premiered February 18, 2024, in Atlanta.


The Lily and the Bird (2022) for SATB choir, oboe, and string quartet.
Commissioned by Lutheran Summer Music for its 40th anniversary. Premiered July 2022. Nany Menk, conductor.


 

Notes from Inside (2021) for clarinet, violin, viola, and cello
Commissioned by the Atlanta Chamber Players. Premiered November 14, 2021.

1. Clockwork
Ben Krause
2. Indoor Games
Ben Krause
3. Time Capsule (Palindrome)
Ben Krause
4. Intermezzo
Ben Krause
5. Diversions
Ben Krause
6. What Happens Up Here
Ben Krause

Defined by Words (2020) for medium voice and piano
Five songs commissioned by Lynx Project for its Autism Advocacy Series (2020).

Selected movements:

Defined by Words - 1. Silence Defined Me
Nick Ward, baritone. Christina Giuca Krause, piano.
Defined by Words - 2. My Best Friend
Emma Smart, mezzo-soprano. Christina Giuca Krause, piano.
Defined by Words - 5. Lake Eerie
Nick Ward, baritone. Christina Giuca Krause, piano.

Six Lowell Songs, soprano and piano Angela DeVenuto, soprano; Benjamin Krause/Christina Giuca Krause, piano


Pathways (2015) for chamber orchestra (2[pic].2.2.2/2.2.0.0/2 perc/hp/pno/str)
Winner of the 2016 Houston Symphony Emerging Composers Competition and the Paul and Christiane Cooper Prize (Rice University).

Pathways - for chamber orchestra
Shepherd School Chamber Orchestra; Jerry Hou, cond.

String Quartet No. 1 "Cascades" (2017)
Commissioned by the Delgani String Quartet with support from the Oregon Community Foundation.
I. Lava Fields
II. Crater and Crevice
III. The Trees Are Castaways
IV. Those Distant Monuments

String Quartet No. 1 "Cascades" I. Lava Fields (excerpt)
Delgani String Quartet
String Quartet No. 1 "Cascades" II. Crater and Crevice (excerpt)
Delgani String Quartet
String Quartet No. 1 "Cascades" III. The Trees are Castaways (excerpt)
Delgani String Quartet
String Quartet No. 1 "Cascades" IV. Those Distant Monuments (excerpt)
Delgani String Quartet

Work info, liner notes, purchase CD here


Footnotes (2013) for violin and cello
Commissioned by Sonja Harasim.
Honorable Mention, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards

Footnotes
Sonja Harasim, violin; Lachezar Kostov, cello

Quartet for Saxophones (2012)
(SATB sax quartet)

Quartet for Saxophones
PRISM (reading session)

from quiet scripts (2016) for piano quartet.
Commissioned by the Network for New Music.