vocal - chamber - orchestra/band - film/theatre - choral - opera
vocal:
My Beloved (text: the Bible)for unaccompanied solo voice; 3' (2007)
The Saddest Noise (text: Emily Dickinson)
for soprano and piano; 4' (2007)
Since I Left You (text: William Shakespeare)
for tenor, violin, guitar, and harp; 4' (2006)
The Space Between (text: Wendell Berry)
song cycle for high voice and piano; 20' (2006)
(commissioned by the Lotte Lehmann Foundation)
Return and Return Again (text: James Laughlin)
for voice and piano; 6' (2006)
Annabel Lee (text: Edgar Allen Poe)
for baritone and piano; 7' (2005)
Shadow Songs (text: William Blake)
song cycle for soprano and violin; 10' (2005)
Forgotten Light (text: Emily Dickinson)
song cycle for voice and piano; 17' (2005)
(commissioned by Julia Faulkner)
GIC to HAR (text: Kenneth Rexroth)
for high voice and string quartet; 7' (2004)
(commissioned by Mills Music Library, UW-Madison)
For Miriam (text: Kenneth Patchen)
5 love songs for voice and piano; 10' (2004)
Songs for Marie's Lutebook (text: Kenneth Rexroth)
for voice and guitar; 8' (2004)
Violi Songs (text: Paul Violi)
for voice and piano; 7' (2003)
Patterns (text: Amy Lowell)
for soprano, flute, and piano; 9' (2003)
(recorded by Mimmi Fulmer and Leone Buyse)
My Symphony (text: William Henry Channing)
for voice and piano; 3' (2003)
(commissioned by Tamara Norden Brognano)
Player Piano (text: Randall Jarrell)
for singing actor and piano 4-hands; 5' (2002)
(commissioned by William Farlow)
Evensong (text: William Blake)
song cycle for soprano, alto flute, 2 violins, harpsichord, and cello; 11' (2002)
Italian Art Songs and Arias, Revamped (text: various)
songs for high voice and piano; 14' (2002)
Spring (text: Kenneth Rexroth)
duet for two sopranos and piano; 4.5' (2001)
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves (text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
song for soprano (or mezzo-soprano), violin, and harp; 7' (2001)
Keats Songs (text: John Keats)
song cycle for mezzo-soprano (or tenor) and piano; 14' (2000)
Meditation at Oyster River (text: Theodore Roethke)
song for soprano and piano; 9' (1999)
To Wander in the Dark (text: various)
song cycle for tenor (or soprano) and piano; 18' (1998)
DiPrima Songs (text: Diane DiPrima)
song cycle for soprano and clarinet; 12' (1996)
chamber:
4th Avenue
for solo piano; 5' (2005)
A Gleam in Her Eye
for 3 percussionists; 8' (2005)
Wisp
for solo flute; 7.5' (2004)
Just Thinking Of You
suite for piano solo; 15' (2003)
Breath
for English horn, viola, and piano; 6' (2002)
Fantasy Pieces
for clarinet and piano; 12' (2002)
(commissioned by Linda Bartley and Martha Fischer)
A Tango for Closed Eyes
for violin, alto sax, tenor sax, guitar, piano, and double bass; 5' (2001)
Time and Time Again
for string quartet; 15' (2000)
Effusion
for tuba and piano; 10' (2000)
(commissioned by James Mitchell, published by the Tuba/Euphonium Press)
Lily
for oboe, violin, viola, and horn; 6' (2000)
Four Etudes
for wind quintet; 11' (1999)
Piano Suite
3 short movements for solo piano; 7' (1997)
orchestra/band:
Dynamo
for concert band; 6' (2006)
(commissioned by the West Allis Central High School Band)
Nova
for symphony orchestra; 11.5' (2005)
For Miriam (text: Kenneth Patchen)
5 love songs for voice and orchestra; 10' (2005)
Aulis
for small chamber orchestra; 7' (2004)
Nimbus
for wind ensemble; 8' (2003)
Behind Glass
for chamber orchestra; 9' (2002)
(commissioned by the Edgewood Community Orchestra)
Crackle and Snap
for small chamber orchestra; 5' (2001)
Clinging Fire
for symphony orchestra; 11' (2000)
I Dreamed (text: e e cummings)
song for baritone and small chamber orchestra; 5' (2000)
Outside the Leaves were Falling (text: Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, and chamber orchestra; 10' (1998)
film/theatre:
songs and incidental music for Heleen Verburg's "Hibernation"
for live amateur musicians and electronics; 15' (2007)
incidental music for Richard Gough's "The Last Supper"
for piano; 10' (2003)
incidental music for Jean Anouilh's "Antigone"
for flute, violin, cello, piano, and percussion; 35' (2002)
soundtrack to short film "Carpool"
for piano solo; 8' (2002)
soundtracks to silent films "Project: New Earth" and "Pompeii!"
for pre-recorded sound; 3' total (2001)
soundtrack to short film "Ever-Fixed Mark"
for piano and flute; 23' (2000)
choral:
"Invocation To The Muse" and "Persephone's Spring" (text: Charles Camp Tarelli)
for 9 independent youth choirs, violin, cello, piano, and percussion; 13' (2008)
(commissioned by the Madison Youth Choirs for their 5th anniversary)
The Night Knight (text: Timothy Knapman)
a Madrigal Comedy for all ages, for 5-part mixed choir or 5 solo voices; 40' (2007)
(commissioned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison choral department
with support from the Evjue Foundation)
Ten Thousand Miles (text: Appalachian folk song)
arrangement for quadruple SATB choirs; 5' (2007)
(commissioned by Dr. Bruce Gladstone)
The Road of Excess (text: William Blake)
for SSATTB mixed choir; 5.5' (2007)
Ave Verum Corpus, after Byrd (text: Pope Innocent VI)
for double choir (SSAATTBB); 10' (2006)
The Vine (text: Robert Herrick)
for 3-part men's choir; 3' (2006)
The Last Invocation (text: Walt Whitman)
for 6-part mixed choir; 5' (2005)
Eternal Summer (text: William Shakespeare)
for mixed choir; 4.5' (2005)
Love's Truth (text: Marion Withey Engelke)
liturgical pieces for SATB choir and piano; 11' (2005)
(commissioned by University United Methodist Church, Madison, WI)
All Weeping Things (text: Kenneth Patchen)
3 songs for SATB choir; 11' (2004)
(commissioned by Hobart and William Smith Colleges Cantori;
Dr. Robert Cowles, director)
A Dream Within A Dream (text: Edgar Allen Poe)
for SATB choir; 5' (2003)
Two Spring Songs (text: e e cummings)
for SATB choir; 4.5' (2003)
(commissioned by the Bel Canto Singers)
Instructions for Angels (text: Kenneth Patchen)
for 6-part mixed choir; 6' (2001)
Love Song (text: Dorothy Parker)
for SSAA choir; 6' (2001)
(commissioned by the Madison Children's Choir)
Requiem Humana (text: Kurt Vonnegut)
for SATB soloists, SATB choir, string quartet, and mallet percussion; 45' (2001)
The Premonition (text: Theodore Roethke)
for SSATTB choir; 5' (2000)
Now Blue October (text: Robert Nathan)
for SSATTB choir; 4' (2000)
We Must Be Slow (text: Kenneth Patchen)
for SSA choir; 6' (1997)
opera:
Iphigenia At Aulis (libretto adapted from the play by Kenneth Rexroth)
5 roles, 4 chorus parts, 10-piece accompaniment; ca. 68' (2003-2004)
(Madison production supported by the UW-Madison Opera Department,
and by grants from the UW Anonymous Fund and the Kemper K. Knapp Bequest)
A Song that's True (libretto by the composer)
a chamber opera for children; 45' (1998-1999)
