Consolation, a song cycle by Samn Johnson, 2021. Based on Latin poetry from Boethius' 6th-century Consolation of Philosophy. Samn’s setting is intended for a trans nonbinary voice, with ungendered writing that lets Tis inhabit all vocal spaces and sing all the parts in all registers.
Zamler-Carhart Rauh Greenberg is a New York-based improv trio featuring Tis Kaoru Zamler-Carhart on vocals, Charlie Rauh on guitar, and Jesse Greenberg on glockenspiel. Their album Mots Ricos was released in 2020 by Naxos Composers Concordance, with improvisations on troubadour poetry in Occitan and on 19th-century French poems by Stéphane Mallarmé.
Empty, Blank, Perfect, a song cycle by Andrew Noseworthy, 2016. With Georgia Mills, piano.
I Screwed Up The Future, an opera by Jason Cady, 2016.
Rusty (Tis Kaoru Zamler-Carhart) travels back to the 90s to prevent Y2K with Cassandra (Katie Eastburn).
The Captives, an opera by Jason Cady, 2015. John (Tis Kaoru Zamler-Carhart) is in a breeding program run by aliens, pleading with Sarah (Katie Eastburn) to save humanity.
Stockholm Syndrome, improv sessions, 2017.
Tis Kaoru Zamler-Carhart, voice. Jeremiah Runnels, synthesizer, on texts by Andrew Kuznetsov.
Forsaken Tunes, a song cycle by Kyle Tieman-Strauss, 2019.
The Ascoli Ensemble was a vocal ensemble specialized in rare medieval music, founded in 2009 by Tis Kaoru Zamler-Carhart, director of the medieval music program at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague at the time. The ensemble gained international fame for its reconstruction of the 14th-century Ascoli Piceno fragments, and its performances of ars subtilior and late medieval repertoires. The Ascoli Ensemble was ensemble-in-residence at MIT in 2011, the University of Heidelberg in 2016, and the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2017.
Its first CD, I Frammenti Ascolani, was released in 2010 by ISSMCA in Italy. Listen to the motet Inter densas/Imbribuis irriguis from the Codex Chantilly, with Maria Valdmaa (soprano), Oscar Verhaar (countertenor), Ben Eastley and Niels Berentsen (tenor I), Alejandra Wayar Soux (tenor II), Tis Kaoru Zamler-Carhart (direction, recorder).
Its second CD, Veneto 1440, was released in 2014 by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, with pieces from a newly-discovered 15th-century manuscript, including a votive motet against plague (O Antoni expulsor demonium), and a satirical court case about child marriage (Iuvenis qui puellam). Listen to O incomparabilis virgo by Guillaume Dufay, with Marine Fribourg and Alejandra Wayar Soux (mezzo-soprano), Oscar Verhaar (countertenor), Ben Eastley and Niels Berentsen (tenor), Tis Kaoru Zamler-Carhart (direction).