SATB Chorus (2:30)

SSA Chorus, String Quartet (optional), Piano (6:00)

Amplified piano and percussion (8:15)

Soprano or Mezzo and Piano (4:10)

Electronic playback, with optional video by Kim Yantis (3:04)

SATB Chorus (2:00)

Soprano or Mezzo, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano (13:10)

SATB Chorus + brief soprano solo (4:00)

SSA Chorus (1:12)

Soprano and organ (6:00)

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (17:00)

Three-part chorus, flute, cello, piano (3:00)

Oboe (8:00 +, variable)

Orchestra: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1, 3 perc, strings (18:35)

Piano (1:14)

Voice (1:00)

Wind Ensemble & Electronics (10:00)

SATB Chorus (4:25)

Orchestra: (1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,6,5,4,3,2 (min) and electronics. (15:35)

Piano/Mezzo-soprano (one or two players, 20:00)

Piano (21:00)

Amplified clarinet and multichannel or stereo electronics (7:52)

Electronic music for 1:11 film

Instrumentation: Wind Quintet (7:20)

Electronic playback (4 movements, 19:00)

Flute, Bb clarinet, tenor sax, violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion (9:45)

Chorus, Appalachian Ensemble, Synthesizer, Electronics (80:00, can be excerpted)

Symphonic Band (3:30)

Solo Flute (3:00)

Viola and piano (6:10)

Flute and guitar (13:45)

Organ

String Quartet and electronic playback (19:45)

Solo Voice (1:40)

2 Trpt, 2 trmb, tuba or 2 trpt, 2 trmb, horn (9:45)

Piano (16:40)

Solo Flute (8:00)

Violin and piano or Violin, viola, cello, contrabass and piano (19:00)

Soprano, Mezzo, Tenor, Baritone, Bass, Piano (orchestrated version, with fl, bssn, vln, vcl, hpschd) (55:00)

Amplified cello and electronic playback (14:00)

Versions for amp. clarinet, cello, flute, trumpet, soprano sax & stereo electronics (7:02)

Flute and piano (9:00)

Flute and cello (6:00)

Electronic playback (1:00)

Solo viola, string quartet, piano *(18:00)

Amp. piano trio & stereo electronics (10:15)

Any of the following, either individually or in combination, amplified: bassoon, clarinet, bass clarinet, mezzo, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, viola, cello, marimba, multi-percussion, piano + electronics and optional video) (5:11)

SATB chorus and piano (3:10)

Instrumentation : 2 Trumpets (Bb) and 2 snare drums (2:00)

Electronic playback (11:10)

Cello, piano, percussion (Theater Piece) (55:00)

Electronic playback (3:08)

SSA + electronic playback (3:00)

SATB Chorus (5:00)

Violin and piano (18:00)

String Orchestra + Electronics fashioned from field recordings of glaciers (12:00)

Piano Trio (15:00)

Narrator, 2 Fl (dbl picc), 2 ob (dbl Eng Hn), 2 cl, 2 bssn, 2 hrn, 2 trpts, 2 trmb, tba, tymp, 2 perc, strings (25:00)

Amplified flute, computer interface to run Max-MSP (version 5 or higher), foot pedal and stereo playback (16:00)

Percussion Quintet (battery percussion) (6:30)

Soprano, flute and piano (1:00)

La Frontera (The Border) is a setting of a poem by that name for SATB Chorus and piano. The poem was written by an undocumented immigrant youth imprisoned in an American maximum security detention center. The full program notes are available below. Given the extraordinary cruelty and tragedy of the treatment of immigrants, I was…

Piano Trio (4:45)

Trumpet, bassoon, piano (15:00)

Oboe and English Horn (3:45)

Viola (6:30)

Vocal quartet and piano 4-hands (19:00)

Clarinet (9:00)

Brass Quintet Fanfare (5:00)

Three-part chorus with optional piano accompaniment (3:00, variable repetition)

Wind quintet and piano (18:00)

Cello (8:00)

Amplified viola & electronics from weaving sounds (9:07)

Orchestra: 3 fl (3rd dbl picc), 3 oboes (3rd dbl eng hn), 3 cl, 3 bssn, 4 hns, 3 trpt, 2 trmb, tba, 3 perc, timpani, hrp, strings (8:30)

Piano and electronics (12:00)

Violin, viola, clarinet, bass clarinet (9:00)

Amplified String Quartet and electronic playback (14:55)

Instrumentation: String Orchestra and Electronics Duration: 14:30 Commission: San Jose Chamber Orchestra Premiere: 3/29/20 San José City Hall Rotunda San José , CA Program Notes:  The first amendment, with its protections of speech, religion, the press, and the right of people to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances, lies at…

Rising on the Wings of Dawn, for solo violin, embodies the rising shape in its melodic and structural design.

Computer music video/film (HD or DVD available for presentation) (15:00)

One day, in late spring 2005, I was sitting in my office, upstairs in Old Cabell Hall, looking at the flow of life on the Lawn. I had often been delighted by the feeling of life on the Lawn, and by the shifting weather patterns above it. But this time, I suddenly saw the scene ...

Trombone (variable duration)

Chamber Orchestra: 1111/111/str (23:00)

Piano Quartet (8:25)

Piano (3:05)

Amplified clarinet, with pvc tube extensions, mics, and effects procesor (such as digitech tsr-24); Max-MSP version in process (13:45)

Flute, clarinet, violin, cello (14:00)

Female vocal quartet or women’s chorus + harp (15:00)

SSA Chorus (3:00)

Percussionist (2 Singing Bowls of different sizes, 5 temple blocks, med. sus. cymbal, 2 timbales, snare, 2 bongos, fingercymbal) and CADI (Configurable Automated Drumming Machine), (finger cymbal, high and low woodblock, high and low cowbell, tambourine) (9:00)

Flute (5:00)

Mezzo, Baritone, Orchestra (2,2, 2,2,2,2,2,1,2, strings) electronics (CD) made from indigenous wild animal calls (14:00)

Soprano and viola, also available for soprano and clarinet (2:00)

SATB Chorus + piano (also check out version for SATB + chamber orchestra) (16:30)

Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Violin, Viola Cello (6:00)

Amp. fl, cl, vln, vcl, pno, interactive electronics (Max-MSP5 or higher)(11:00)

Amp. tenor sax and electronics (6:50)

String Orchestra (15:00)

Flute and Percussion (4:00)

Cello (8:43)

Soprano and Piano (1:30)

Stereo electronics (7:14)

Small cardboard box, blunt pencil or similar object, packing tape on a dispenser with teeth, and stereo electronics (5:00)

Shofar (Yemenite style, Eb pitch), 3 hrns, 2 trpts, 2 trmbs, timpani (9:00)

Instrumentation: Unison Chorus or soloist & piano Duration: 3:00 Date of Composition: 2020 Program Note: I composed The Best Angel in Heaven in the cruel month of April, 2020, in memory of Sandra Santos-Vizcaino, the wonderful third-grade teacher at PS 9 in Brooklyn, NY who passed away from Covid-19.  I did so because I was so touched by the memory page…

SATB Chorus (4:45)

TTBB (5:45)

String Quartet (12:00)

SSA + piano (5:51)

Solo piano, 2 fl (2nd dbl picc), 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bssn, 2 tpts in C, 2 Hn, 2 trmb, 1 tba, 3 perc, strings (21:00)

SSA (14:00)

Mezzo or soprano and electronic playback (19:00)

Oboe and 2 percussion (2 bongos, 3 rototoms, tambourine, 2 timables, large and small brake drum, medium tamtam and bow)(2 bongos, claves, flexatone and bow, 1 maraca, slapstick, 5 temple blocks 2 tomtoms, vibraslap) (9:30)

Piano (11:00)

SSA Chorus and Piano (7:20)

Violin and Piano (16:00)

2 Pianos & 2 Percussion (10:00)

Interactive Electronics, Wireless Camera (variable duration)

Instrumentation: Mezzo and piano Duration: 4:00 Commission: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Premiere Performance: 6/30/2020 Evolution Program, Facebook & Youtube Presented by YIVO, Center for Jewish History, NYC Program Note: When Alex Weisser, Program Director of YIVO (Institute for Jewish Research) in New York, approached me about commissioning a song that would take one of…

Bass (or Bass-baritone), clarinet, cello, piano (15:45)

Piano Trio (14:30)

Electronic playback (1:00)

Instrumentation: Sop. Sax.. Trpt., Trmb, Vln, Vla, Vc, Perc, electronics Duration: 15:00 Commission: Michigan Technological University in collaboration with the Great Lakes Research Center Premiere: 10/2021 Note: Image credit: NASA/JSC Program Note: The Great Lakes, formed from receding glaciers, and holding 20+% of the volume of the world’s surface fresh water, provide habitat for all manner of flora…

SATB (2:00)

Chorus, brass quintet and timpani (15:00)

Soprano and english horn (or alto flute, or clarinet, or viola) (5:00)

Flute (dbl picc), clarinet, violin, cello, piano (8:20)

Flute and cello (3:30)

SATB Chorus + Piano (4:45)

Piano (8:30)

Wind Quintet (12:00)

2 amplified zipper players with headphones for click track, Electronics performer for MIDI controlle with computer running MaxMSP, also mixer, stereo playback system