vocal - chamber - orchestra/band - film/theatre - choral - opera

vocal:

Love Songs (text: Kenneth Rexroth)
    for mezzo-soprano and piano; 20' (2009) in progress

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:

For Lotte, Asleep
    for piano quintet; 17' (2009)

Elder Tree
    for viola and piano; 13' (2008)

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:

No Room at the Inn (text: traditional)
    for SATB choir and piano; 6' (2009)

Shaking the Blues Away (text: Irving Berlin)
    arrangement for SATB choir and piano; 5' (2009)

Hower-Glass (text: Philip Pain)
    for 6-part choir and piano; 6' (2009)

Midwinter (I Sorrow Not) (text: Scott Cunningham)
    for 5 choirs, a cappella; 6-9' (2008)

"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)

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