Sean Pflueger
 Bass-Baritone & Composer

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Composition Resume and Works

Sean Pflueger is a Washington DC-area singer and composer with a focus on works for the voice. His music has been performed by College Light Opera Company, Riverbend Opera Company, Forgotten Opera Company, James Madison University, Opera on Tap Twin Cities, Opera on Tap DC Metro, and churches in the DC-metro area. 


He was commissioned by the College Light Opera Company (CLOC) to create a one act operetta, The Pier Point Lobster Race.  It premiered in June 2018 glowing reviews. Prior works for the stage include Children in the Mist, a horror opera for 14 soloists and chorus based on the Stephen King short story "The Mist," which premiered at the 2012 Capital Fringe Festival; Brides and Mothers, a chamber opera for 4 women (Premiered Nov 2019 by The Forgotten Opera Company); and Do Not Disturb, an original farce for 10 soloists, piano, and woodwind quartet,  premiered at the 2016 Capital Fringe Festival. Hailed for its "fine, contemporary musical score" (MD Theatre Guide) and "complicated and beautiful melodies," (DC Metro Theatre Arts),Children in the Mist was awarded Best of the Capital Fringe from DC Theatre Scene, and a Top Pick by Huffington Post and Brightest Young Things. Other major works for the voice include a 5-song cycle for female voice  What's for Dinner: A guide to managing expectations, 12-song cycle of William Blake poems entitled The Songs of Innocence, an oratorio, The Joyful Mysteries, and choral settings of the poetry of William Cullen Bryant, including “Thy Creation,” “All things on earth shall wholly pass away,” and “The Prairies”. He recently adapted a work with a contemporary poet, John Maloney, for the choral piece "The Only One I Want to Talk To".


Mr. Pflueger's numerous arrangements for voice, piano, and winds have been used in concert and church performances throughout the Washington D.C. Metro area. Mr. Pflueger studied composition with John Hilliard at James Madison University. He is currently studying orchestration with Broadway/Television Orchestrator Larry Blank. He is the recipient of the Strauss Fellowship from the Arts Council of Fairfax County for music composition.


He is active singer in the Washington DC area. He has sung in the opera chorus for Washington National Opera, Washington Concert Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, and Maryland Lyric Opera.


List of Works

Type
Work
 Text
 Instrumentation
Notes
Year
 Opera
 Michael Vegas Mussman
 6 Soloists and Small Ensemble
 
 
 Opera
 The Handoff
 SSTB Soloists and Piano
 2020
 Operetta
Laura W. Fuentes
 8 Soloists, Double Chorus, and Chamber Orchestra
 Operetta- 
 2018
Opera
Laura W. Fuentes
 4 Women and Piano (also Pierrot Ensemble)
 Chamber Opera. Run time 26 minutes
 2017
Opera
Laura W. Fuentes
10 Soloists, Winds & Piano (also Chamber Orchestra)
 Original Farce. Run time 90 minutes
 2016
  Opera
Sean Pflueger
14 Soloists and chorus, Winds, and Piano
Based on the Stephen King short story entitled "The Mist",  Run time 2 hours 15 minutes
 2012
 Art Song Cycle
Laura W. Fuentes
 5 Sons for female voice (High/Low)
5 songs including:  An ode to lifestyle magazines, The party line, Having it all, The bake sale, and Chicken dinner, impromptu - 
 2018
  Art Song
Cycle
Songs of Innocence
William Blake
Voice and Piano
12 songs including: The Ecchoing Green, Little Lamb, The Little Black Boy, The Chimney Sweep, A Cradle Song, A Little Boy Lost, A Little Boy Found, The School Boy, The Chimney Sweeper, Nurse's Song, Holy Thursday, Infant Joy
 2006
 Choral
 Rain Down
 Sean Pflueger
 SATB with Piano
 
 2022
 Choral
 The Only One I Want To Talk To
 John Maloney
 SATB
 
 2021
Choral
The Prairies
William Cullen Bryant
SSATB with Piano
 2015
Choral
William Cullent Bryant
SATB with Piano
 2013
Choral
All things on Earth shally wholly pass away
William Cullen Bryant
SSATB with piano
 2012
Choral
Jeremiah
SSATB with piano
 2014
Choral
O Sacrum Convivium
Traditional
SSATBB with Piano
 Soprano and Tenor Soloists
 2014
Sacred Solo
Jubilate Deo
Traditional
 Voice and Piano
 2016

Contact the Composer

Sean Pflueger's works are available for perusal and/or purchase. (Children in the Mist is unavailable due to rights reverting to the author.) 

Contact the composer to get sample copies of his operas Brides and Mothers, The Pier Point Lobster Race, Do Not Disturb, Art Songs, or Choral Pieces. 

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