Mixed choir. Settings of Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s poetry.
Read MoreMixed choir. 5 diverse settings of Shakespeare’s words on love.
Read MoreMixed choir. A sweet setting on Gerard Manley Hopkins’ famous poem.
Read MoreMixed choir. On the Spanish poem by Federico García Lorca.
Read MoreA comic opera exploring the true story of Cecilia Giménez and her botched restoration of the Ecce Homo in Spain.
Read MoreDouble choir. A wordless piece, exploring how we call to each other; and how the overtones of our vowels may be calling us to awakenment.
Read MoreMixed choir with SATB soloists. On the poetry of Philip Levine, commissioned by The Crossing.
Read MoreNative flutes and digeridoo, flute, cello, piano. Composed as a feature for Taos Pueblo musician, Robert Mirabal.
Read MoreMarimba. A highly theatrical piece that recounts the michiyuki from Chikamatsu’s “The Love Suicides at Sonezaki.”
Read MoreCello. During the Nazi occupation of France, young rebellious types, or “Zazou” met in cafes and jazz clubs.
Read MoreViola or cello and overtone vocalist. A duet that oscillates between meditative and rhythmic qualities.
Read More10 percussionists. Using the rhythm and expressiveness of walking amidst a backdrop of a street performers.
Read MoreHarp. A composition that is as much choreographic as musical, based on a haiku from Basho.
Read MoreMarimba. A simple chorale.
Read More8 percussionists and video playback. In the early 1900s, when a silent film was shown in Taiwan it was accompanied by a narrator, a benzi master.
Read MorePercussion quartet. A funny and peculiar theatrical piece that tells the story of Babel.
Read MoreViola d’amore. Embracing loss, rekindling memory.
Read MoreOrchestra. I spent some time in coastal Massachusetts on a farm we assumed was haunted.
Read MoreOrchestra and overtone vocalist (optional). Exploring the concept, “form is emptiness, emptiness is form,” from the Heart Sutra.
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