Alyssa Regent

Composer & Multimedia Artist

Biography

Alyssa Regent is a Guadeloupean composer and artist working within acoustic and electroacoustic mediums. Inspired by what she calls “the unseen,” her music explores the spiritual and emotional dimensions of human experience through deep introspection.

Her works have been performed throughout the US and Europe at festivals including the Composer’s Conference (Boston), the Lucerne Music Festival (Switzerland), and String Quartet Evolution at the Banff Centre (Canada). She was a composer in residence at Always, Already, There, an incubator for Afrodiasporic music curated by Haus der Kulturen der Welt and George E. Lewis in Berlin. She has composed for Yarn/Wire, New Chamber Ballet, and the InterContemporary Ensemble. She is currently pursuing a DMA at Columbia University.

Her practice extends into photography, printmaking, drawing, animation, and sculpture — visual forms through which the same unseen forces find material expression.

Photo: Amirah Albalawi

Work

Large Ensemble

Ophélia for orchestra (3 perc., harp, pno/cel.) Luzern, KKL, LFCO, Switzerland
2025
Motion Blur for large orchestra and clarinet Montgomery, Alabama
2025
Mors Osculi for large ensemble and electronics New York City, NY
2024
Where Even Shadows Are Light for large orchestra Woodruff Arts Center — Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
2021, rev. 2023

Chamber — Medium/Large Ensemble

Émergence bass flute, bass clarinet, trombone, prepared violin Lugano Arte e Cultura — ICE and JACK quartet
2024
I dream of Alluvium flute doubling bass flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, 2 perc. Luzern KKL — IEMA Akademy
2023
Sérénité string quartet Leicester, Vermont — JACK quartet
2023
Day is breaking in my Soul 2 pno., 2 perc. Tenri Cultural Center — Yarn/Wire
2023
Un Coin de ciel Brulait string quartet Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity — Calista Quartet
2022
Solitude Pierrot ensemble recording — Talea Ensemble
2020
Blue Bird Opera: The Pursuit of Happiness female choir (6 soprano, 2 tenor, 1 bass), string quartet Hunter College Opera
2019
Talitha Koum SATB choir Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College — Hunter Chamber Singers
2018

Chamber — Duos/Trios

Nymphes piano, electronics, soprano New Music On The Point, Vermont — Tony Arnold, Alyssa Regent, Conrad Tao
2025
Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle brass trio Montana State University — Bobcat trio
2022
Sur le Chemin des Constellations horn trio Brandeis University — Composer’s Conference ensemble
2021
Sacred Dance Piano Trio Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College — Kiku Ono, Jade Schoolcraft, Mariel Mayz
2019
Kan Petite En Mwen soprano and piano Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College — Paule Aboite and Vincent Tong
2019

Solo

Racines cello Clark Institute — Thea Mesirow
2024
The Power You Hold cello Mise-En — Gabriel Cabezas
2023
And it fades away to soft spots violin Jade Schoolcraft
2022
Impetus guitar Romulo Viana
2021/2022
Gwo Ka Suite guitar Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College — Nora Spielman
2021
Fortis Meam cello online performance — Jay Campbell
2021
6 Miniatures based on Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot piano online performance — Conor Hanick
2020
Solemn Prayer solo soprano sax. Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College — Erin Rogers
2019
The Dancing Manchineel solo violin Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College — Pala Garcia
2019
A Dance of Earth and Ashes piano Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College — Tristan Gonzalez
2019
Antilles Journey guitar Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College — Romulo Viana
2018

Electroacoustic & Interdisciplinary

Fortis Meam (dance vers. / + electronic version) fixed media Barnard Movement Lab
2023
The Island Before Open Waters flute, clarinet, bassoon, harp, viola, double bass, live electronics The Forum — Harlem Chamber Players
2023
Memorias harp film score for Memorias de Mi Familia, dir. Melissa Z. Montero
2021/2022
Chiral Reflection flute and live electronics Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College — Emi Fergusson
2022
Analogy of Nature violin and fixed media Contemporary Performance Institute, Composer’s Conference — Everson Museum, David Fulmer
2021, rev. 2022