Hello Princeton Faculty! Below you will find my portfolio.
For your convenience, I have provided excerpts of each piece in the form of score-follower videos so that your total listening time will be around 15 minutes.
If you would like to listen to each excerpt uninterrupted, I have included all of them in order in a YouTube Playlist you can access by clicking below:
Isaac Creager Princeton Portfolio: EXCERPTS
Here is a different YouTube playlist with each piece in full, in case you would like to skip around unguided:
Isaac Creager Princeton Portfolio: FULL PIECES
Thanks so much for your time, and I hope you enjoy!
Excerpts from before and after the cadenza
Written for and performed by Romain Olivier Gray and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, led by Jeffrey Milarsky
Finished Oct 2024 | 7 minutes in duration | for solo trumpet, percussionist, and string quintet
Performed by The Chicago Civic Fellows at Symphony Center
FIREBRAND | EXCERPTS
My favorite Excerpt! (2:50)
This virtuosic cadenza is a variation on My Country tis’ of Thee from the fixed media part in the prior section.
bar 99-121; pages 19 - 21;
Commissioned and performed by The Curtis Institute of Music’ Brass studio, led by Blair Bollinger
Excerpt post-cadenza (1:00)
50 - 11:45;
bar 175 - end; pages 29-end
INDUSTRIAL NIGHT VIGNETTES | EXCERPTS
Movement I Excerpt (30 seconds)
bar 1 - 14; pages 1 & 2
Movement IV Excerpt (1 minute)
bar 168 - 188; pages 26 - 32
Movement V Excerpt (1:30)
bar 197 - end; pages 33 & 34
Movement II Excerpt (30 seconds)
bar 63-82; pages 15 - 17
One excerpt from each of the other movements:
My favorite movement! (1:40)
Movement III: RAIN FROM A BREAKROOM WINDOW
bar 121-144; pages 21 - 24
ROT TOWN | EXCERPT
My favorite moment! (1:00)
bar 79 - 100; pages 10 - 13
Thanks for your time!
Here is a fourth piece I wanted to include as further listening, but I didn’t include it as part of the main three.
The recording quality isn’t as good as the other works, and I did some different things aesthetically here.
Peruse if interested in a fourth piece!
Excerpt pre-cadenza (6:00)
03:15 - 09:15
bar 49 - 121; pages 10 - 22
FIREBRAND: Concerto for Amplified Cello, Fixed Media, and Orchestra
Finished Jan 2025 | 12 minutes in duration | [3.3.3.3 | 4.3.3.1 | timp + 3 | pno, hp, strings, amp s. cello, tape]
FUME (2025)
For Brass Choir and Timpani
INDUSTRIAL NIGHT VIGNETTES: 5 Images from the graveyard shift
Finished Dec 2025 | 10 minutes in duration | for Pierrot + percussionist
conducted by Mariana Corichi Gomez
performed by Anastasia Samsel, Eric Just, Zachary Thomas, Adrian Zaragoza, Bade Dastan, and Romain Olivier Gray
Please listen to as much of this piece as you have time for.
If you’re only going to listen to one piece all the way through, make it this one.
ROT TOWN (2024)