Discography

Five Borough Songbook
8:46AM, Five Years Later
available for purchase on GPR Records on January 12, 2012

Genghis Barbie Home for the Holidays
arrangement of 'All I Want for Christmas is You'
available for purchase on Sublyme Records

Genghis Barbie
arrangement of 'Anchor Song'
available for purchase from iTunes

Orchestral / Large Ensemble

Solaristics
orchestra: 3(picc),3,3,3/4,3,3,1/timp.3 perc.harp/strings - 11'
listen to full work

My Love is Building a Building (text by e.e. cummings)
soprano, orchestra: 2,2,2,2/4,2,2,1/timp.perc.harp/strings - 5'

Alma Mater for the International Academy
chorus, wind ensemble, string orchestra - 10'

Opera / Music for Theater

New Arrivals (one act chamber opera)
soprano, mezzo, tenor, baritone, Cambodian Smot chanter, string quartet and marimba - 25'
libretto, Catherine Filloux
commissioned by Houston Grand Opera for HGOco's Song of Houston

Our Basic Nature: The Case of Lucy Temerlin (one act opera - work in progress)
baritone and chamber ensemble (bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and toy piano) - 60'
libretto, Kelley Rourke; director and projection design, Erik Pearson
written for Andrew Wilskowske, Jocelyn Dueck, and REDSHIFT Ensemble
in develpment with American Opera Projects
read more about 'Our Basic Nature' here

excerpts from the 2010 December performance at WNYC's Greene Space in NYC
"We have seen Lucy use the following tools"

"Lucy's vocabulary at age 9.5"

"Completely at home "

Music for War Music a work for theater
saxophone, trumpet, trombone, string quartet, percussion, piano, and singing actors
commissioned by American Conservatory Theater
view images from the production
watch a short film documenting the creation of 'War Music' at ACT in San Francisco

Huck Finn (one-act operetta for young audiences)
soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, piano - 25'
listen to excerpt from act I

Thursday's Child (incidental music for the play)
french horn, string quartet

Chamber / Vocal

8:46AM, 5 Years Later (text by Matthew Hittenger)
baritone, piano - 3'30"
commissioned by Five Boroughs Music Festival for the Five Borough Songbook

"All I Want for Christmas is You" (arrangement for Genghis Barbie)
French Horn Quartet - 3'
released on Genghis Barbie's album 'Home for the Holidays'
the Barbies perform john's arrangement at The Big Gay Ice Cream Store

Parvus Meus Malleus: My Little Hammer (text by Luisa Villani)
soprano, string quartet, piano - 15'
created for Rochelle Martin

I am Other: Songs for Baritone, Violin, and Piano (text by Luisa Villani)
baritone, violin, piano - 8'30"
listen to mvt. I Boy, age 7

listen to mvt. III Man, age 58

Two fragments (text by Luisa Villani)
soprano, piano - 3'

Clock Works (a fanfare for brass players)
2 C trumpets, 2 french horns - 25"
commissioned by Glimmerglass Opera Festival

Glimmerglass Opera Fanfare
2 B-flat trumpets, 2 french horns - 20"
commissioned by Glimmerglass Opera Festival

Octet
flute, B-flat clarinet, french horn, B-flat trumpet, percussion, violin, viola, cello - 9'
listen to excerpt from mvt. II

Quartet
B-flat clarinet, harp, violin, cello - 11'

Dance (arrangement of Duo)
flute, B-flat clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 B-flat trumpets, 2 trombones - 7'

Like Us (text by Frank O'Hara)
soprano, piano - 5'

Insomnia
two flutes - 5'

Songs on Leaving (text by Emily Dickinson)
soprano, flute - 8'30"

Duo
french horn, trombone - 7'

n
flute, violin, cello - 9'

My Love is Building a Building (text by e.e. cummings)
soprano and piano - 5'

Doubt that the Stars are Fire
alto saxophone, cello - 8'

Solo

Music for Marimba for Bonnie Whitting
solo marimba (5 octave) - 9'
listen to excerpt


Salome
solo cello - 20'
listen to excerpt

Salome
solo viola - 20'

Fuenf-Eins Tannenbaum
solo flute - 2'