Classical Works

After graduating with her master’s degree from Juilliard in NYC, Heffter toured France as violist with the award winning Manfred String Quartet. With her travels came an appetite to write, and Heffter composed Eschapé, an impressionist flute quartet, premiered at Carnegie Recital Hall, reviewed by the New York Times as “astonishingly beautiful … an homage to Ravel.” This success paved the way for Heffter’s ambitions as a composer, positioning her for an eternal conflict between desires to both perform and create.

_{Mischief of the Blue Whales : The Viola Concerto}

Violist Ramon Carerro and Pianist Amir Farid
EXCERPTS

Link to full 3 movement concerto https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iXlalo1l5D6EKnVoQUlvn15IWXVGCGkC/view?usp=drive_link

for Mischief of the Blue Whales sheet music and score contact :redplanetlisa@gmail.com

SOLO VIOLA

Jordan Bak, winner of Concert Artists Guild 2019 Victor Elmaleh Competition, plays 1st and 4th movements from Heffter’s unaccompanied Viola Suite in C

VIOLA SUITES

Heffter’s Suites for Unaccompanied Viola

Click here to see Video of Jordan Bak playing Viola suite in G

Video performances by the extraordinary Jordan Bak, branded by CAG as
“A Star in the Making”

STRING QUARTETS

excerpt from 1st movement of “Carbon Fiber String Quartet” performed by Continuum Chamber Collective in Spring of 2023 for NYC Premiere

EXCERPT from Heffter’s Carbon Fiber String Quartet (performed here with traditional wooden instruments) in Tribeca’s James Cohan Gallery

“A Beautiful Life“ by Lisa Heffter, performed for a somber day of Remembrance. Despite the pandemic in 2020, Rudin Management sponsored a carefully socially distanced public concert in NYC on Park Avenue, as a tribute to 9/11

Recorded live amidst an atmospheric wind and overcast skies

VIOLIN & PIANO

RAGE
^{_{Heffter’s fury for violin & piano}}

_{Laura Goldberg and Jeremy Reger}

!st movement: RAGE

2nd Movement : LIBERTY

3rd Movement: BRUTAL

_{Jeremy and Laura in rehearsal for RAGE}

OPERA

Illuminations
^excerpt

“ILLUMINAZIONE”

^{sung by Lea Friedman w/Esoterica String Quartet}

_{An Italian woman, once a scientist in her own country, has fled to America, and finds work as a house cleaner. One day she is hired by a five star high rise hotel; in a moment of despair, she steps out onto the balcony for some fresh air, and ….is illuminated.}

_{opposite: Soprano Lea Friedman}

STRING QUARTET

Carbon Fiber
String Quartet

recording by Laura Goldberg, Kristi Heidleberg, Annabel Hoffman, Lisa Heffter

1st Movement “Astrocrete”

2nd Movement “Warmth”

3rd Movement “Dark Matter”

_{Opposite: composer Lisa Heffter acknowledging standing ovation at Aldrich Museum with brilliant quartet first violinist Jorge Avila}

Cello & Piano

FLIGHT INTO THE STARS of INFINITY

“Flight into the Stars of Infinity”

recorded live performance
^{played by Misha Veselov , cello & Eri Nakamura , piano}

_{Commission from Porto Alegre, Brazil in honor of Eva Sopher; premiered by cellist Marjana Rutkowski “..even the most taciturn man in the audience came to us very moved after listening to Lisa’s creation.”}