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Repertoire is separated below into the following categories: 

CONCERTI, SOLO PIANO, DUOS, TRIOS & QUARTETS, and ENSEMBLE & ORCHESTRAL

 denotes a work written for and premiered by Shi-An

 denotes Shi-An worked personally with composer on the work

SOLO PIANO

Louis Andriessen: Workers Union, arr. Costello

Georges Aperghis: Conversation No. 17

Johann Sebastian Bach

Inventions, BWV 772-786

Sinfonia, BWV 787-801

Well Tempered Clavier Bk. 1, Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 21

Well Tempered Clavier Bk. 2, Nos. 1, 5, 7, 9, 12, 24

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Bela Bartok: Mikrokosmos, Bk 6: "Diary of a Fly", "Minor Seconds, Major Sevenths"

Ludwig van Beethoven

Sonatas: Op. 2 No. 1; Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight"; Op. 28 "Pastoral"; Op. 31 No. 1; Op. 110

Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral", Op. 68, arr. Liszt

Xavier Beteta: Sur Elise (2019)◇

Luciano Berio

Sequenza IV (1965)

Wasserklavier (1965) from Six Encores

Kristin Bolstad: Zenlight

Johannes Brahms

Balladen, Op. 10

Capriccio, Op. 76, No. 1

Klavierstucke, Op. 117, Op. 118, Nos. 1, 2, 5

Earle Brown: Folio (1952/3) and Four Systems

Eliza Brown: Barely Cycle: III. Between Clouds

John Cage

Dream (1948)

In a Landscape (1948)

Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1948)

Music of Changes (1951), arr. Costello for piano/voice​

Waiting (1952)

Alican Çamcı: (...olgun bir meyvenin sesiyle-düşerken...) "with the sound of a ripe fruit-falling"(2012)

Elliott Carter: Retrouvailles (2000)

Dorothy Chan: Letter (2021), prepared piano, fixed media

Anthony Cheung: Eusebius and Florestan, Alone Together (2009)

Frederic Chopin

Mazurkas, Op. 6, Op. 7, Op. 24, Op. 33, Posth. "Emile Gaillard"

Etudes, Op. 10, complete

Etudes, Op. 25, Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 12

Preludes, Op. 28, Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 20

3 Etudes, KK II b/3

Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 1

Berceuse, Op. 57

Barcarolle, Op. 60

Fantaisie Impromptu, Op. Posth. 66

Nocturne in C# minor (1830)

Nocturne in C minor (1837)

Danny Clay: Moving Puzzles (2020), for prepared piano

Shi-An Costello: Reappearance (2022)

Aaron Copland

Piano Variations (1930)

Lincoln Portrait, arr. Costello for speaking pianist

John Corigliano: Fantasia on an Ostinato (1985)

Henry Cowell

The Tides of Manaunaun

The Banshee

Fabric

Aeolian Harp

Sinister Resonance

Viet Cuong

Again and Again (2021), for prepared piano or piano

Veil (2013)◇

Luigi Dallapiccola: Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera

Brett Dean: Equality (2004), for speaking pianist

Claude Debussy

Etudes (1915): "pour les cinq doigts", "pour les quatres", "pour les sixtes"

Preludes (1909-1913): "La Cathedrale engloutie", "Des pas sur la neige", "La fille aux cheveux de lin", "La danse de Puck", "Danseuses de Delphes", "Voiles"

Children's Corner (1908)

Julius Eastman: Stay On It, arr. Costello for keyboards, loops, and piano

Marti Epstein: Haven (2006)◇

Morton Feldman

For Bunita Marcus (1985)

Palais de Mari (1986)

Brian Ferneyhough: Opus Contra Naturam, A Shadow Play for Speaking Pianist (2000)

 

George Flynn: American Nocturne (2009)◇

Mike Flynn: One-off (2016)◇

Gerardo Gandini: Eusebius (1984)

George Gershwin: 3 Preludes (1926)

Philip Glass: Glassworks : I. Opening

Fredrik Gran: Time Tone Message (2012)◇

David Grant: for (2014)◇

Marielle Groven: My Heart is a Mountain (2015)

Jonathan Hannau: Stalactites (2020)

Chris Paul Harman: After Schumann (2008)◇

Franz Joseph Haydn

Sonatas, Nos. 1, 2, 4, 8, 14, 16, 21-23, 25-27, 29, 30, 32, 35-37, 39-43

Sonatas Nos. 12, 18, 22, with recomposed repeats

Sonatas Nos. 3, 13, 26, with rewritten rhythms and form

Haruomi Hosono

Watering a Flower (1984), arr. Costello

Dark Side of the Star (1984), arr. Costello

Sebastian Huydts

Divertimento 3, after Franz Joseph Haydn, Op. 56/3

Riflessioni, Op. 42/1◇

Six Aphorisms for Piano, Op. 3◇

Nicolas Hyatt: Pas que two (2012), for narrator, media files and live electronics

Clifton Ingram: Encolpius (2014), for speaking pianist

Kurt Isaacson: vanishing species (2015), for piano and voice

Charles Ives: "The Alcotts" from Sonata "Concord, Mass" , arr. by Costello with text from "Essays Before a Sonata"

Christopher Jones: (...Clockwork) (2013)◇

Mauricio Kagel: M.M. 51 (1976)

Olivia Kieffer: Double Run (2019)◇

Jerome Kitzke: Sunflower Sutra (1999), for piano/narrator, poetry by Allen Ginsberg◇

morgan krauss: traipse (2015), for piano and voice

Keith Kusterer: Trivia Surreal (2013), for speaking pianist

Helmut Lachenmann: Guero (1970)

John LaMontaine: Twelve Relationships, Op. 10

Marina Kifferstein: Then was now (2021), for prepared piano

Daniel Larrain Vial: Por Aquì, Por Allà (2006)◇

Jimmie Leblanc

...au seuil de l'instant... (2014)

Allumeur de réverbères (2006, rev. 2011)◇

Philippe Leroux

Dense...Englouti (2012)◇

Impressions d'enfance (2016)

Jeffrey Levin: Poems without Words (2008)◇

Gyorgy Ligeti

Etudes for piano, Book III complete

Musica Ricercata (1951-53)

Franz Liszt

Liebestraume, S. 541

Consolations, S. 172

Elliott Lupp

Piano Sonatina Nos. 1 and 2 (2015-2016)◇

Array of Hand and Number (2015)◇

windows 1-5 (2022)

Keeril Makan

Afterglow (2007)◇

Buttons (2008)◇

Michal Massoud: Morty's Jam (2021), for prepared piano

Marc Mellits: Bagatelle on a Theme of Beethoven (2012)◇

Andrew Mohebbi: Bloom Circle (2014)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sonatas, K. 279, K. 282, K. 284, K. 331, K. 332, K. 545, K. 547

Kota Nakamura

Solin

Sa-mon (2009)◇

James O'Callaghan: Reasons, for amplified books and electronics◇

Ofer Pelz: 1...2....3....., for piano and voice◇

Arvo Part: Fur Alina (1976)

Paul Pinto: Every Note on the Piano (2010)◇

Sergei Prokofiev

Sonatas: No. 5, Op. 38/135, No. 6, Op. 82

Suggestion Diabolique, Op. 4 No. 4

Visions Fugitives, Op. 22, 1-3, 6-8, 15-17

Serge Provost: Le Tombeau de Mishima (1981)◇

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Preludes: Op. 3, No. 2; Op. 23, No. 5; Op. 32, Nos. 5, 10

Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14, arr. Takuya Shigeta

Maurice Ravel

Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899)

Sonatine (1905)

John Rea: Las Meninas (1991)◇

David Reminick

22 to 9 (2000)◇

Reprimand for Andy Costello (2010)

Crowded Branches (2013), for singing pianist

Terry Riley: In C, arr. Costello for keyboards, loops and piano

Damian Rodriguez Kees: ... tres, va! (1996), para un interprete de piano, voz y silbato◇

Frederic Rzewski

Snippets #2 (1994-2006), for speaking pianist◇

De Profundis (1991), for speaking pianist◇

Rubinstein in Berlin, for speaking pianist

Ryuichi Sakamoto

MUJI2020 (2021)

Andata (2017), arr. Costello

Mischa Salkind-Pearl: Integrity (2021), rev. for prepared piano

Paola Santillan Alcocer: Darkness Falls (2009)◇

AJ Santillan

distance. (2021), for prepared piano and fixed media

weathering. (2022)

Igor Santos: Scene I (2022)

Erik Satie

Gymnopédies (1888)

Trois Gnossiennes (1890)

Vexations (1893)

Sports et divertissements (1914)​, arr. for speaking pianist

Domenico Scarlatti: ​Sonatas: K. 54, K. 141, K. 308

Julius Schloss: Prelude, Theme, Variations, and Fuga on Scale #1314

Alfred Schnittke: Piano Sonata No. 3 (1966)

Arnold Schoenberg: Klavierstucke, Op. 11

Duncan Schouten: Dissolution (2007-2008)

Franz Schubert

Impromptus, Op. 90 No. 3; Op. 142, No. 2

Sonata, D. 960

Lukas Schulze: Papillon (2014)

Robert Schumann

Papilllons, Op. 2

Intermezzi, Op. 4

Kinderszenen, Op. 15

Arabeske, Op. 18

Waldszenen, Op. 82

Gesange der Fruhe, Op. 133

Alexander Scriabin: Eight Etudes, Op. 42

Dmitri Shostakovitch: Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 24

Yukihiro Takahashi: Drip Dry Eyes, arr. Costello

Sergei Taneyev: Prelude and Fugue, Op. 29

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37

Alex Temple: When I was twenty I briefly dabbled in ceremonial magic (2021), for prepared piano

Andy Vores: ...Raindownriver

Anton Webern: Variations for Piano, Op. 27

Amy Wurtz: Confessions (2015)

Ben Zucker: Ipnaop (2017)◇​​

DUOS

Thomas Adès: Three Berceuses for the Exterminating Angel (2018), for viola and piano

Tomaso Albinoni: Concerto, Op. 7 No. 12, arr. for oboe and piano

Johann Sebastian Bach

Sonata, BWV 1021, for violin and continuo

Sonata, BWV 1034, arr. for flute and piano

Concerto, BWV 1042, arr. for violin and piano

Sonatas: BWV 1027, 1028 and 1029, for viola da gamba and piano (complete)

Bela Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56, arr. for violin and piano

Ludwig van Beethoven

Sonata, Op. 5, No. 2, for cello and piano

Sonatas 1-10, Opp. 12, 23, 24, 30, 47 and 96, for violin and piano (complete)

Romance, Op. 50, for violin and piano

Leonard Bernstein

Sonata, clarinet and piano

Songfest: III. "A Julia de Burgos", arr. Stephen Burns, for trumpet and piano​

Ernest Bloch

Baal Schem, for violin and piano

Suite Hebraique, for viola/violin and piano

Luigi Boccherini: Concerto in G, G480, arr. for cello and piano

Hannah Boissonneault: Through Moving Colors, for viola and piano◇

William Bolcom: Minicabs, voice and piano

Johannes Brahms

Sonata, Op. 38, for cello and piano

Sonatas, Op. 120, Nos. 1 and 2, for clarinet or viola, and piano (complete)

 

Max Bruch: Concerto, Op. 26 arr. for violin and piano

Antonino Bueneventura: Concerto, Op. 87, arr. for bassoon and piano

Gerald Busby: Twins, for two pianos

John Cage

Dance Music for Elfrid Ide (1940), for percussion and piano

Six Melodies (1950), for violin and piano

Two5 (1991), for trombone and piano

Louis Caubergh: Halasana, drum kit and piano

Frederic Chopin

Introduction and Polonaise Brillante, Op. 3, for cello and piano

Piano Concerto, Op. 21, for two pianos

Danny Clay: Children's Songs, for voice and piano◇

Aaron Copland: El Salon Mexico, for two pianos

Paul Creston: Concertino, arr. for marimba and piano

Claude Debussy: Petite Suite, piano four hands

Balys Dvarionas: Pezzo Elegiaco, for violin and piano

Edward Elgar

Salut d'Amour, for violin and piano

Romance, Op. 62, for bassoon and piano

George Enescu

Concertstuck, for viola and piano

Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, Op. 11, for two pianos

Marti Epstein: Lazy Susan, for cello and piano◇

Manuel de Falla: Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas, for voice and piano

Gabriel Faure: Elegie, Op. 24, for cello and piano

Morton Feldman

Patterns in a Chromatic Field (1981), for cello and piano

For John Cage (1982), for violin and piano

Piano Four Hands, for piano four hands

Gerald Finzi: Five Bagatelles, clarinet and piano

Mike Flynn: 5432345, for saxophone and piano◇

Alexandra Fol: Dieziana, for two pianos◇

Cesar Franck: Sonata, for violin and piano

Sixto Franco

Blanca y Negra, for viola and piano◇

Duende, for viola and piano

Stacy Garrop: The Solitude of Stars (2020), for viola and piano

Alberto Ginastera: Rhapsody, for cello and piano

Alexander Glazunov: Concerto, Op. 109, arr. for saxophone and piano

Mikhail Glinka: Sonata, for viola and piano

Georg Goltermann: Concerto, Op. 65, arr. for cello and piano

Edvard Grieg: Concerto, Op. 16

R. Lamote de Grignon: Scherzino, for viola and piano

George Frideric Handel: Sonata, HWV 370, arr. for violin and piano

Handel / Casadesus: Concerto in B minor, for viola and piano

Franz Joseph Haydn: Concerto, Hob. XVIII/I, arr. for two pianos

Paul Hindemith

Sonata (1939), for french horn and piano

Sonata (1939), for trumpet and piano

Sonata (1949), for double bass and piano

Sonata, Op. 11 No. 4, for viola and piano

Katherine Hoover: Journey, bassoon and piano

Philippe Hurel: Tombeau, in memoriam Gerard Grisey (1999), for percussion and piano

Sebastian Huydts

Fifth Sonata (for two pianos), Op. 39◇

Sonata No. 3, for viola and piano, Op. 45/3

Nicolas Hyatt: Les voisins (2011), two pianos

morgan krauss: traipse (2015), voice and piano

Keith Kusterer: for measure (2018), for two players

Dominique Lafortune: General Scattering, for two pianos◇

Edouard Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21, arr. for violin and piano

Alexei Lebedev: Concerto Allegro, for tuba and piano

Daniel Larrain Vial: Semilla Astral (2011), for two pianos

Tom Lehrer: Three Songs, for voice and piano

Jeffrey Levin: Step, Kick, and Key, for drum kit and piano

Gyorgy Ligeti: Five Pieces, for piano four hands

Elliott Lupp: basszus klarinetra es zongorara, for bass clarinet and piano◇

Amanda Maier: Sonata (1878), violin and piano

Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thais, for violin and piano

Michal Massoud: Fugue, for two pianos (2006)◇

Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata, Op. 58, for cello and piano

Francisco Mignone: Três valsas brasileiras (1968), for viola and piano

Hans Millies: Concertino in the style of Mozart, for violin and piano

Eduard Mollenhauer: "The Infant Paganini", for violin and piano

Vittorio Monti: Czardas, for violin and piano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sonata, K 305, for violin and piano

Concerto in G, K 313, arr. for flute and piano

Sonata, K 521, for piano four hands

Concerto in A, K 622, arr. for clarinet and piano

Oscar Navarro: "Legacy" Concerto, arr. for oboe and piano

Flor Peeters: Sonata, Op. 51, trumpet and piano

Astor Piazzolla

Libertango, for any instrument and piano

Le Grand Tango, for viola or cello and piano

Francis Poulenc: Sonata, for clarinet and piano

Florence B. Price: Adoration, arr. by Elaine Fine, for violin or viola and piano

Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata, Op. 80, for violin and piano

John Psathas: Drum Dances (1993), for drum kit and piano◇

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sonata, Op. 19, for cello and piano

Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14, arr. for clarinet and piano

Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose Suite, for piano four hands

Steve Reich: Piano Phase (1967), for two pianos

Richard Rodgers / Hart: Little Girl Blue, ded. to Nina Simone, arr. Costello for viola and piano

Brandon Scott Rumsey: Silhouettes (2008), for bassoon and piano

Frederic Rzewski: A Machine, for two pianos

Camille Saint-Saenz

Concerto, Op. 33, arr. for cello and piano

Morceau de concert, Op. 94, arr. for horn and piano

Carnival of the Animals, for two pianos

Pablo Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, for violin and piano

Sômei Satoh: Hikari (1986), trumpet and piano

Alfred Schnittke: Musica Nostalgica (1992), for cello and piano

Franz Schubert

Winterreise, D. 911, for voice and piano

Fantasy, D. 940, for piano four hands

Serenade, D. 957 , arr. for violin and piano

Robert Schumann

Dichterliebe, Op. 48, for voice and piano

Three Romances, Op. 94, for oboe/sax and piano

Marchenbilder, Op. 113, for viola and piano

Dmitri Shostakovitch: Sonata, Op. 40, for cello and piano

Nicolas Slonimsky: Five Advertising Songs, for voice and piano

Shinichi Suzuki: 

Violin Method Vols. 1-10 (complete)
Viola and Cello Method Vols. (selections)​

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Concerto in D, Op. 35, arr. for violin and piano

Chanson Triste, Op. 40, No. 2, for cello and piano

Georg Philipp Telemann

Concerto in G, TWV 51:G9, arr. for viola and piano

Concerto in D, TWV 51:D7, arr. for trumpet and piano

Augusta Read Thomas: Cantos for Slava (2007), for viola or cello, and piano

Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Aria" from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, arr. William Primrose, for viola and piano

Antonio Vivaldi

The Seasons, arr. for violin and piano

Sonata, Op. 15, RV 40, for cello and continuo

Concerto, RV 495, arr. for bassoon and piano

Claude Vivier: Pièce pour violoncelle et piano (1975), for cello and piano

Carl Maria von Weber: Romance, for trombone and piano

Anton Webern: Three Little Pieces, Op. 11, for cello and piano

Henryk Wieniawski

Legende, Op. 17 for violin and piano

Polonaise Brillante, Op. 4, No. 1, for violin and piano

Frank Zappa: The Black Page, for drum kit and piano

CONCERTI

Johann Sebastian Bach

Concerti 1-6, complete

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Concerto No. 1, Op. 15

Concerto No. 2, Op. 19

Frederic Chopin

Concerto No. 2, Op. 21

George Gershwin

Rhapsody in Blue

Franz Joseph Haydn

Concerto, Hob. XVIII/I

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Concerto, K. 414

Concerto K. 415

Maurice Ravel

Concerto in G (1931)

Camille Saint-Saens

Carnival of the Animals

ENSEMBLE / ORCHESTRAL

Pierre Boulez: Derive I

John Cage: HPSCHD

Unsuk Chin

Fantaisie Mecanique (1994)

Morton Feldman

Words and Music, play by Samuel Beckett

Piano and String Quartet (1985)

George Frideric Handel

The Messiah, HWV 56

Ben Hjertmann

Fifty Buttons, for five players, one piano◇

Gustav Holst

The Planets

Tom Johnson

Narayana's Cows

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Pagliacci

Jeffrey Levin

Left for Connection (2010), voice, flute, violin, cello and piano◆

Jose Manuel Lopez Lopez

Agua y cuadrante (1992)

Gustav Mahler

Das Lied Von Der Erde

Brian Penkrot

Cascando (2017), for 2 speakers, flute, vibraphone, violin and cello◆

Giacomo Puccini

La Boheme (selections)

Steve Reich

Music for 18 Musicians (1978)

Sextet (1984)

Stephen Allan Rogers

Lamentu (2011)◆

Frederic Rzewski

Coming Together

Alfred Schnittke

Quintet (1972-1976), for 2 violins, viola, cello and piano

Arnold Schoenberg

Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21

Lukas Schulze

Songbook for Orion (2014)◇

Laura Schwendinger: Nonet

Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite

TRIOS AND QUARTETS

Shawn Allison

Currents (2011), for 2 alto sax, marimba and piano◇

Ludwig van Beethoven

Trios: Op. 1, Op. 11, Op. 70/1, for violin, cello and piano

Johannes Brahms

Trio, Op. 114, for clarinet or viola, cello and piano

Frank Bridge

Phantasy, for violin, viola, cello and piano

 

Earle Brown (arr. Shi-An Costello)

Four Systems, for violin, cello and piano

John Cage

Four Dances (1943), for voice, percussion, and piano

Thomas Carr

Close Spaces, for violin, clarinet and piano◇

Claude Debussy

Trio in G major, L.5 (1880), for violin, cello, and piano

Anthony Donofrio

Voice, Cello, Piano (2015), for voice, cello and piano

Tim Edwards

The Conjecture (2006), for violin, cello and piano◇

Morton Feldman

Trio (1980), for violin, cello and piano

Why Patterns?, for flute, percussion and piano

Carl Fruhling

Trio, Op. 40, for clarinet, cello and piano

Jacob Gotlib

Ornamental Alphabets (2015), for piano, trombone and tuba

Jack Hamill

Manifest the Terrestrial Shifting Boundlessness (2024), for three keyboards

Franz Joseph Haydn
Trio, Hob. 15, No. 19, for violin, cello and piano

Myra Hinrichs
Unseen Wildfire (2022), arr. for violin, cello and piano

Ethan Jankowski

Tensegrity (2021), for violin, cello and piano◇

Jeffrey Levin

vii., for flute, cello and piano◇

Ilya Levinson
The Polyphony of Trees (2021), for violin, cello and piano

Felix Mendelssohn

Trios, Op. 49, Op. 66 for violin, cello and piano

Olivier Messiaen

Quartet for the End of Time (1941), for violin, clarinet, cello and piano

Alfred Schnittke

Piano Quartet (1991), for violin, viola, cello and piano

Paul Schoenfield

Cafe Music (1986), for violin, cello and piano

Franz Schubert
Trio, D. 929, Op. 100, for violin, cello and piano

Dmitri Shostakovitch
Trio No. 2, Op. 67, for violin, cello and piano

Ralph Shapey

Piano Trio (1955), for violin, cello and piano

Dmitri Shostakovitch

Five Pieces, for two violins and piano

Leo Svirsky

Trauergondel, for violin, clarinet and piano

Joaquin Turina

Quartet in A minor, for violin, viola, cello and piano

Kirsten Volness

Rabbit in the Moon (2015), for violin, viola, cello and piano

​LAST UPDATE: 11/21/2024

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