Dr. Karen Griebling talks with Stephanie Smittle ’03 about teaching, composing, learning on the job, seeing students flourish, memories of dear colleagues, Waltz Night, and more.

Discography:

Wildfire! Vienna Modern Masters (c) 2008 VMM 2052 Songs from This Dancing Ground of Sky track 14 Evergreen

Poetry by Peggy Pond-Church, New Mexico

Music by Karen Griebling

Yvonne Love, soprano

Aura Ensemble, Houston Texas, Rob Smith, conductor

Music for the Cross Town Trio (c) 2009 Centaur CRC 3082 Petroglyph Dances, track 12 Rain in the Mountain (after a lithograph by Gustav Baumann)

Music by Karen Griebling

The Cross Town Trio:

Jackie Lamar, saxophone

Karen Griebling, viola

John Krebs, piano

Apparitions II (c) 2013 Emeritus 20132 moduli mundi, track 15 Boethius

Music by Karen Griebling, commissioned by Karen Fannin

Andy Wen, saxophone

John Krebs, piano

Richard III: A Crown of Roses, A Crown of Thorns  (c) 2015 Centaur CRC 3553, track 4 Beware the Fury of Women Scorned!

Music and libretto by Karen Griebling

Stephanie Smittle and Kara Claybrook, sopranos

the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Robson conductor

Fractal Heart (c) 2016 Centaur 3570 track 14 Vox animalae

Music and poetry by Karen Griebling

Stephanie Smittle, Soprano

Stephanie Dickinson, piano

"Songs from Eric's Book" poetry by Eric Crozier, Music by Karen Griebling, 1994/2004 from live premier at the 2022 SheScores Festival, July 23, 2022 Harkness Chapel, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio.

Gabrielle Haigh, soprano

Margi Griebling-Haigh, oboe

Karen Griebling, viola

Scott R Haigh, bass

Eric Charnofsky, piano