Selected Works
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Opera
Carry My Own Suitcase (95’), 2023
dwb, driving while black (45’), 2018
The News from Poems (120’), 2015
The Giver (85’), 2012
One False Move (35’), 2002
Somebody’s Children (70’), 2001
Joshua’s Boots (libretto) (60’), 1999
She Never Lost a Passenger: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, (35'), 2015; piano only 1996
Orchestra
The Red Dress - chamber orchestra (11’), 2017
Miranda’s Waltz - narrator, orchestra (28’), 2009
Eight and Five, Mostly - capriccio for violin and chamber orchestra (13’), 2006
Chamber Music
First Person, Second Person, Third Person Singular - Song Collection in Two Volumes for voice and piano, 2021
And the Lamp Tilted Near Them - oboe, violin, cello, piano (17'), 2019
Six Bagatelles - solo piano (12’), 2018
Eavesdropping: Poems of Michelle Boisseau, – soprano, violin and percussion (15’), 2018
Once. Upon. A Time. – percussion sextet (9’), 2017
Duo in Memory of the Littlest Refugees Who Never Reach a Place of Safety - violin, cello (9’), 2017
Etude for Two People and One Thing - clarinet, Tibetan prayer stones, computer (7’), 2017
And Then Not - clarinet, percussion (11’), 2016
My Lucky - solo piano (8’), 2016
Hermestänze - violin, piano (30’), 2014
A Garden’s Time Piece - soprano, violin (13’), 2011
The Lunch Counter - solo bassoon (25’), 2009
Postcards from America - oboe, piano (18’), 2009
Pas de Deux for Clarinet, Cello and Chimes (12’), 2008
The Donkey, the Goat and the Little Dog - string quartet, narrator (25’), 2007
Five Movements for my Father - baritone, violin, clarinet, cello, piano (30’), 2005
Fever Time (text) - percussion, children's chorus (8’), 2000
Museum Pieces - bassoon, string quartet (19’), 2001
Moody Duos - two violins (4’), 2003
Partite Américaine - soprano, mezzo/counter tenor, violin, cello, harpsichord (22’), 2004
Solo Sonata - violin, viola (19’), 2002
A Cycle of Songs - soprano, single reeds/trumpets, piano (30’), 2001
A City Suite - cello and piano (12’), 2000, 2001
Two Tricky Tales - clarinet/bass clarinet, trumpet(s), violin, cello, percussion, narrator (20’+20’), 1999
Choral Works
And Love Waits SATB chorus (divisi) a capella (13’), 2019.
The News from Poems (choral cycle), texts by William Carlos Williams (12’), 2004.
And You and I (6’), 1999
Youth Operas
The Giver (85’), 2012
One False Move (35’), 2002
Somebody’s Children (70’), 2001
Joshua’s Boots (libretto) (60’), 1999
She Never Lost a Passenger: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, (35'), 2015; piano only 1996
Young Audiences
Miranda’s Waltz - narrator, orchestra (28’), 2009
The Donkey, the Goat and the Little Dog - string quartet, narrator (25’), 2007
Two Tricky Tales - clarinet/bass clarinet, trumpet(s), violin, cello, percussion, narrator (20’+20’), 1999
Fever Time (text) - percussion, children's chorus (8’), 2000