Larger Works for Choir
Convivencia, a multi-movement work for choir and string quartet. Settings of ancient love lyrics
in Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic. Premiered by Voces Novae of Bloomington, Indiana, October,
2006. performances in Grinnell, September 2007; Brooklyn, NY, March 2008, and Albany, NY,
March 2008.
I. Surge amica mea
II. Adiuro vos
III. Vox dilecti mei
IV. Uri Tsafon (published by earthsongs in piano/violin arr.)
V. Amid the Scent of Absinthe and Moringa (premiered by the Princeton Singers 2002.
Winner 2004 Nuvovox Choral Award)
VI. Grief was Between Us
Utopia, a 20-minute work for Choir and Orchestra with text by Wislawa Szymborska. Premiered
by the Prague Radio Orchestra and the Grinnell Singers 2000.
Works for Mixed Choir
Amara (2014) for unaccompanied choir. Premiered by Roomful of Teeth, April, 2014
And Glory Shone Around for treble choir (2009); significantly revised for mixed choir (2013);
premiered by the Marsh Chapel Choir, December, 2013.
Body My House, poem by May Swenson, for unaccompanied Choir
Calm on the Listening Ear of Night for choir and guitar. Winner of the 2006 Welcome
Christmas carol contest sponsored by VocalEssence, premiered by VocalEssence, and recorded on
their Welcome Christmas CD.
Earth’s Remotest Bound for SATB choir (commissioned and premiered by the Rose Ensemble)
Garden Among the Flames (2009) for SATB choir and harp; commissioned and premiered by
the Rose Ensemble
I Look For You Early, for choir, saxophone, and organ; Oxford University Press, 2003.
Job’s Lament for vielle, hurdy-gurdy, and mixed choir (commissioned and premiered by the Rose
Ensemble) text from Job, in Hebrew
Psalm 22 For unaccompanied choir 1982.
Root of All Things for SSAATTBB choir (2008). text by Hildegard von Bingen
Set Me As a Seal for SATB choir with divisi. Roger Dean Publishing 2009. Commissioned by
the Iowa Choral Conductors Association, premiered by Magnum Chorum.
The Twenty-Third Psalm for Choir and Organ. Commissioned by the Lutheran Church of the
Good Shepherd, Brooklyn, New York, October, 2006. Text in Hebrew and English.
Three Things Meet in My Eyes, for choir and saxophone quartet; a setting of a text by the 13 th
century Jewish Andalusian poet, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, in a translation by Peter Cole. 2003.
(Performed Grinnell UCC church, November, 2004.)
Uri tsafon (Awake, O North Wind) for choir, violin, and piano. Earthsongs, 2003.
The Wind Blew in the Cold Furrow, for choir and piano. (Choral version of a portion of “Into
the Still Hollow”). Premiered by the Princeton Singers, June, 2004.
We Are Servants Of God, Oxford University Press, 2002.
Works for Women’s Choir
Poem of Light for SSAA choir, harp, and dumbek. earthsongs publishing, 2010. Premiered by
the Rose Ensemble.
Opera/Musical Theatre Works
Das Rheingold (2014) Fifty-minute original operatic work for 8 singers, piano, cello, and
electronic materials. Part of the government-sponsored “Revolutionizing The Ring” project in
Taipei. Premiered by Riverbed Theatre, Craig Quintero, director, June, 2014.
Solo Vocal Music
Into the Still Hollow for baritone and piano 12’. Text by W. S. Merwin. Completed July, 2004.
Performed by the composer with Patrice Ewoldt at W. S. Merwin’s Grinnell poetry reading, May
2005. Symphony Space NY performance by Thomas Meglioranza February 9, 2006.
For the Anniversary of My Death for baritone and piano. Text by W. S. Merwin. May, 2003.
Rings of Birchbark for baritone and piano. Text by A. R. Ammons.
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Music for Larger Ensembles
Zhivago’s Lullabye for string orchestra (arrangement of middle movement of string quartet)
premiered April 2008, by the Iowa City Community String Orchestra, Carey Bostian, conductor
Instrumental Music
A Field Guide to Summer (2013) five piano miniatures to poetry by Dean Bakopoulos and
artwork by Lee Running.
Jerusalem the Golden Variations for solo flute.
Meditation on “When in Our Music” for string trio. Commissioned by the Lutheran Church of
the Good Shepherd, Brooklyn, New York.
Three Chorale Preludes for solo organ. Commissioned by the Lutheran Church of the Good
Shepherd, Brooklyn, New York.
Stepping Out with Heraclitus for saxophone quartet. Completed January 2005 Premiered by the
River Cities Saxophone Quartet, March, 2007.
Upon the Blue Guitar, three movements for solo guitar. First two movements completed June
2005; third movement (as yet unperformed) completed August 2006. First movement premiered
by Oren Fader of the New York-based Fireworks Ensemble at the Oregon Bach Festival, Eugene,
Oregon, June 2005. Second movement premiered by Aaron Powell at Simpson College, October,
2005. Third performance by Petar Jankovic, February 23, 2007. Third Movement premiered by
Zane Merrit, at Butler University, in Indianapolis, Indiana, March 30, 2008.
Weather Conversations (2014) electronic components of a composition written collaboratively
with Claudia Anderson, recorded on the CD In This World, by Claudia Anderson.