MUSIC

My new single Forbidden Love is out now!

ORCHESTRAL

for scores & parts, please email me directly cheryl@cherylolveramusic.com

Solos:

free spirit, 2020 (2’) basset horn

Duets:

Unearthed, 2021 (6’) pipe organ, trombone (performance at 44:00 in YouTube video Sonic Boom 2021, featuring artists Jeremy Berkman, trombone and Angelique Po, organ)

Trios:

The Ghost, 2017 (8’) clarinet, cello, percussion

Shadow People, 2019 (7’) flute, erhu (w delay pedal), percussion

Ensemble (4 players):

into the mist, 2018 (11’) flute, oboe, bass clarinet, percussion

Ensemble (5 players):

Orchestra:

The Shape of Sadness, Concerto No.1 for cello & orchestra, (currently in progress)

MUSICALS

Study Abroad—the musical! Destination: U.K., 2019, comedy/drama (50’) solo voice, piano, produced tracks, projected visuals (performed at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts 2019, Astral Harvest Music Festival 2019, Vancouver Fringe Festival 2020, Edmonton Fringe Festival 2024)

Blue Monday—a mini musical, 2022, drama (9’) co-written with pianist/composer Erica Regehr (performed at Leduc County’s Blue Monday Variety Show 2022)

SONGS

Change, 2018, pop, from Study Abroad—the musical! Destination: U.K. (3’) voice and piano

Don’t Hold Your Breath, 2018, pop ballad, from Study Abroad—the musical! Destination: U.K. (4’) voice and piano

Do You Know, 2019, pop, from Study Abroad—the musical! Destination: U.K. (3’) voice, piano, track (track production by Mattheus Brown)

Fall Hard, 2018, jazz/blues, from Study Abroad—the musical! Destination: U.K. (6’) voice and piano

Forbidden Love, 2021, released 2023, R&B/pop (4’)

Homestay Hell, 2018, spoken word/rap, from Study Abroad—the musical! Destination: U.K. (3’) voice, piano, rainstick

It’s Not You, It’s Me!, 2019, R&B/pop, from Study Abroad—the musical! Destination: U.K. (3’) voice and piano

The Journey, 2017, opera, from Study Abroad—the musical! Destination: U.K. (3’) voice and piano (words by Harrison Bryans, music by Cheryl Olvera)

Magic, 2019, pop/choral (5’) (co-written with Mattheus Brown)

Silver Lining, 2019, pop (4’) (co-written with Mattheus Brown)

Sunrise, 2019, pop, from Study Abroad—the musical! Destination: U.K. (4’) voice, piano, track (track production by Mattheus Brown)

Tómame de la mano, 2020, Latin/pop, from La Caja short film by Lauren Hart (3’)

Whatchu Want From Me, 2021, R&B (3’)

FILM & TV

Forgive, Hugo Li, 2019, short film (15’)

Jerkwater, Miles Benson, 2021, short film (19’)

La Caja, Lauren Hart, 2020, short film (13’)

PODCAST JINGLES

Parenting Human Beings, Eugena Maguire, 2021

SFU Beedie School of Business, grad podcast, 2020

into the mist—flute, oboe, bass clarinet, & percussion

{performed at the Pyatt Hall on March 24, 2019 as part of Vancouver Pro Musica’s Sonic Boom Festival}

into the mist is part of The Supernatural Series, a series of small instrumental ensemble works intent on evoking the mysterious. Each piece is accompanied by a poem, also written by me.

It comes,
in waves
rolling, churning, floating,

hoping.
Nature moves,
scrambling over certainty’s vast expanse

Pause.

Go!

it’s coming—
that which beats under the earth’s core pulsing, undulating,
hisssssing.....
No stepping aside

just inside

nothing’s left behind

the clouds of fog

smog
even the sounds of a bird and a bullfrog are pulled

into
the mist.

the ghost—clarinet, cello, & percussion

{performed at the Pyatt Hall on March 23, 2018 as part of Vancouver Pro Musica’s Sonic Boom Festival}

The Ghost is part of The Supernatural Series, a series of small instrumental ensemble works intent on evoking the mysterious. Each piece is accompanied by a poem, also written by me.

Life,

past lives

souls encased, journeys erased, expelled.

Wanderers

pulled through the endless darkness,

like floating corridors, 

the stringy heartbreak wafts,

to never leave

and never arrive.

Faint whispers,

one left behind

a host,

the ghost.