works

Chamber Music With Voice • Chamber Music Without Voice • Choral • Opera/Theater • Large Ensemble

Chamber Music With Voice

America Can Be Better (2015)
Bass-baritone Voice and String Quartet - Text from President Jimmy Carter’s Inaugural Address
Approx. 18 minutes

cry trojans cry (2015)
Soprano, fl, cl, perc, pf, vl, vcl - Fragmented texts from William Shakespeare’s Troilus & Cressida
Approx. 9 minutes

Diddling: Considered as One of the Exact Sciences (2010)
Baritone Voice, Piano - Text from the essay by Edgar Allan Poe
Approx. 14 minutes

Five Oh Won See 3 (2014)
Baritone and Two Boomwhackerists - Text taken from Synchromy’s IRS 501c3 Designation Letter
Approx. 6 minutes

Lettere da Triggiano (2015)
Actor, 2 Sopranos, 2 Mezzo-Sopranos, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Percussion, Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass - Text - Barabba 1940’s and 50s family letters from Italy to Los Angeles
Approx. 30 minutes

Optimism Within (2019)
Soprano and piano - Text by Helen Keller
Approx. 7 minutes

Phonetical Lullaby (2018)
Solo, unaccompanied singer - Vocal production in International Phonetic Alphabet
Approx. 8 minutes

say i am not far enough (2003)
Baritone voice, harp (or guitar), string quartet - Poems by Ursula K. Le Guin
Approx. 19 minutes

Standing Outside (2015)
Soprano and piano - Text, a Facebook post by Heather Herbert
Approx. 2 minutes

The Business Cycle (2015)
Soprano and Piano - Texts by Vincent P. Barabba, Russell Ackoff and Abraham Maslow
Approx. 12 minutes

This Friday Afternoon (2009)
High Baritone voice, Flute (doubling Piccolo), English Horn, Clarinet in B-flat, Bassoon, Harp, String Quartet - Poem by Alan Felsenthal
Approx. 19 minutes

Two Haiku (2017)
Soprano, violin, viola - Poems by David Bartone
Approx. 3 minutes

Tyrant (2017)
Soprano, Baritone, Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello - Adapted from Aesop’s The Wolf and the Lamb
Approx. 9 minutes

w: the bush administration in song (2019)
Mezzo-Soprano and Piano - Text by Calvin Trillin
Approx. 12 minutes

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Chamber Music Without Voice

…alle Contesse… (2011)
Flute Quartet (3 Flutes (one doubling picc), Alto Flute)
Approx. 6 minutes

…shouting advice from the international dateline, being mistaken for god… (duo) (2011)
Oboe and Piano
Approx. 7 minutes

…so anyway, I sez to Mabel, I sez… (2012)
Woodwind Quintet (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon)
Approx. 4 1/2 minutes

a declarative sentence whose message is that we must try harder (2011)
Viola, Cello, Contrabass
Approx. 9 minutes

A Sign in Space (2010)
Unaccompanied flute
Approx. 8 minutes

A Walk at Dusk (2011)
Tuba Quartet (2 Euphoniums and 2 Tubas)
Approx. 11 minutes

Broncho Quartet (2014)
Horn Quartet (Four horns in F)
Approx. 7 minutes

Catawampus (2011)
Two clarinets in B-Flat
Approx. 6 minutes

Distance of Time (2006)
Four grand pianos
Approx. 10 mintues

Five Encores (2012)
Clarinet & Viola, or Flute & Viola, or Clarinet and Cello
Approx. 12 minutes

Fl… (2012)
Flute and Piano
Approx. 12 minutes

Flute Octet (2006)
Piccolo, 3 Flutes, 2 Alto Flutes, 2 Bass Flutes
Approx. 9 minutes

Four Erie Canal Songs (2010)
String Quartet
Approx. 12 minutes

Non mi porti a Funkytown? (Disco & Pavane) (2012)
Quartet (Violin, Cello, Piano with Flute, Oboe or Clarinet)
Approx. 5 minutes

Organism (2010)
Flute and Clarinet, or Flute and Soprano Saxophone, or Clarinet and String Quartet
Approx. 7 minutes

Rhetorical Devices (2009)
Violin and Piano
Approx. 15 minutes

Sheryl’s Studio (2011)
Solo piano
Approx. 7 minutes

String Trio (2006)
String Trio: Violin, Viola, Cello
Approx. 14 minutes

The Distance of the Moon (2016)
Piano, Four-hands
Approx. 14 minutes

Three Meditations for Clarinet and Piano (2007)
Clarinet and Piano
Approx. 12 minutes

Three Movements for Brass Quintet (2011)
Brass Quintet: 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone, Tuba
Approx. 9 minutes

Torschlußpanik (2013)
Flute, clarinet (or soprano sax), and piano
Approx. 5 minutes

Trouble on the Road to the Red City (2019)
Trumpet Quartet (one Piccolo Trumpet in B-flat, two C trumpets, and 1 B-flat trumpet)
Approx. 7 minutes

Un segno nello spazio (2010)
Unaccompanied cello; or Unaccompanied viola
Approx. 8 minutes

Visiting with Cecil Forsyth (2015)
Flute and Horn; Optional narrator
Approx. 11 minutes

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Choral

“The scarcity of rhinos” on the television (2004)
SATB Chorus - Poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
Approx. 5 minutes

Food (2012)
SATB Chorus - Text by Gertrude Stein from Tender Buttons
Approx. 14 minutes

O Vos Omnes & Viderunt Omnes (2005)
SATB Chorus
Approx. 5 minutes

Persecuted (2025)
SATB Chorus - Text taken from The Beatitudes
Approx. 5 minutes

We the People (2016)
SATB Chorus - Text is the preamble to the United States Constitution
Approx. 8 minutes

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Opera/Theatre

America Can Be Better (2015)
Bass-baritone Voice and String Quartet - Monodrama with text from President Jimmy Carter’s Inaugural address.
Approx. 18 minutes

Bartleby the Scrivener (2018)
2 Tenors, 2 Baritones, Bass Voice, String Quartet, Percussion
90-110 Minutes

Jemima (2021)
Chamber opera - 2 mezzos, tenor, baritone and bass voice; ensemble of clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano.
Libretto by June Carryl about Nancy Green, the first woman hired to play Aunt Jemima for the American pancake flour company.
Approximately 25 minutes

My Wings Burned Off (2023)
Operatic Monodrama - for Soprano and 12 String (3-3-3-3)
Based on the play The Life and Death Of by June Carryl
Approximately 1 hour

Tyrant (2017)
Soprano, Baritone, Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello
Based on Aesop’s The Wolf and the Lamb
Approx. 9 minutes

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Large Ensemble

…shouting advice from the international dateline, being mistaken for god… (2011)
Solo Oboe and Orchestra (oboe/ 2.2.2.2/ 3.0.2.1/ 2perc/ str)
Approx. 7 minutes

Conjecture (2008)
Solo Clarinet and Orchestra (clarinet/ 2(picc.).2.2.2/ 3.2.2.1/ str)
Approx. 9 minutes

Dreams of the Recovery Period (2014)
For Two solo Clarinets and Orchestra
2clarinets/ 2(1picc).2.2.2/ 2.3.3.1/ 2perc/ strings
Approx. 16 minutes

Dreams of the Recovery Period (2014)
Two solo clarinets and Wind Ensemble
2clarinets/ 2(1picc).2.2.2.0.2/ 2.2.2.2euph.1/ 2perc
Approx. 16 minutes

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Dolby (2022)
String Orchestra
Approx. 14 minutes

Lettere da Triggiano (2015)
Actor, 2 Sopranos, 2 Mezzo-Sopranos, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Percussion, Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass
Approx. 30 minutes

A Suffusion of Yellow Suite (2012)
String Orchestra
Appox. 9 minutes

Sinfonia (2010)
For wind ensemble
Picc.3(III=picc).2.3.3/ 2asax.tensax.barisax/ 4.3.3.2euph.2/ cb(optional)/ perc.timp
Approx. 10 minutes

Study in Orange (2006)
For string orchestra
Approx. 9 minutes

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