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'

Chamber / Vocal

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

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"

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

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'

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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'

Opera / Music for Theater

Our Basic Nature: The Case of Lucy Temerlin (music-theater piece - work in progress)
baritone and chamber ensemble (bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and toy piano)
read more about 'Our Basic Nature' here

Music for War Music a work for theater
saxophone, trumpet, trombone, string quartet, percussion, piano
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

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'