Multi-Ensemble Collections
Opera/Oratorio
Orchestra/Large Ensemble
Chamber Music
Solo Performer
Vocal Works
Fixed Media

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Multi-ensemble Collections

The Wasteland (In-Progress)

Fragments from the Wasteland (2024)
A multi-movement, multi-ensemble work

I. The Fire Sermon for vocal sextet and electronics
II. Death by Water for piano trio
III. Burial of the Dead for baritone voice, bass clarinet, trumpet, and trombone
IV. What the Thunder Said for alto saxophone and percussion

Why Women Went West (2023-24)
A two-act multimedia opera

I Mary, Mary by Herself (2023) for soprano, cello, and piano
A Prayer for my Daughter (2022) for soprano, violin, cello, and piano
Lost Borders (2024) for voice, bass clarinet, piano, and percussion
Owl’s Breath (2020) for bass clarinet
The Birds Here (2021) for piano and spoken voice
Water Trails of the Ceriso & 57 Buzzards (2018) for divided string quartet

Oratorio for the Earth (2021-2022) - 62 minutes
For chorus, orchestra, ensemble and soloists

Now the Hour Bows Down - Tenebrae (2019) for bass-baritone and electronics
The Consecrating Mother (2019) for cello and piano
Why Women Weep: It is the Quickest Way to Rejoin the Ocean (2018) for cello and electroncis
Big Basin: Song of the Redwood Trees (2020) for orchestra

There Will Come Soft Rains (2017-2019)
Multi-movement, multimedia work for percussion, strings, voices, electronics, and video

I. Prologue - Wupatki: Houses of the Enemies (2018) for chamber ensemble
II. There Will Come Soft Rains for percussion and spoken voice
III. Water Trails of the Ceriso (2018) for violin and cello
IV. 57 Buzzards (2018) for violin and viola
V. 2026 (2018) for percussion quartet and recorded spoken-voice
VI. Postlude - Lost Horse Mine Lament (2018) for percussion quartet, string quartet, and piano (and optional voice)

Luminous Etudes: Visions of the Black Madonna of Montserrat (2015-2016)
Oratorio for voices, piano, ensembles, electronics, and projected images

I. No. 1: Riverly is the Moon (2015) for solo clarinet (or piano or vibraphone) and video
II. No. 2 Mariam Matrem - Ah mm for vocalizing pianist
III. No. 3: Joy Unexpected Convalescence for piano duo
IV. I Find You Lord In All for loadbang and piano duo
V. No. 5: There Were Birds for piano duo
VI. I Am O Anxious One for loadbang and piano duo
VII. There Is Total Silence for loadbang and piano duo
VIII. How Surely Gravity’s Law for loadbang and piano duo
IX. Like the river with no end (2015) for flute and piano

Luminosity: The Passions of Marie Curie (2013-2016)
Multimedia and multi-ensemble opera

Pierre’s Dissertation on Crystals (2016) for bass-baritone and electronics
Polonium (2013) for soprano and piano
Luminous Energy (2013) for soprano, flute, percussion, and piano
Each Life Converges (2015) for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble
Are you there? (2013) for soprano, flute, percussion, and piano

The Sexton Cycle (1999-2006) - 90 minutes
Multimedia drama for ensembles, voice, and electronics

I. Hutch (The moss of his skin) (1997) for flute, clarinet, viola, percussion, and soprano
II. Red Shoes (1996) for percussion and spoken voice
III. Redcuts (1998) for electronics
IV. Demon (2000) for clarinet and electronics
V. Consorting with Angels (2000) for SONOR Ensemble and electronics

Opera / Oratorio

In America: Modjeska (in-progress)

Opera: Ghosts of Laguna (in-progress)

I. Part I: Ye Arch Beach Tavern

Sacred Mountain (2023)
A one-act oratorio for vocal sextet, soprano soloist, mixed ensemble, and electronics

Sedna: The Women at the Bottom of the Sea (2008)
Multimedia opera for voice, ensemble and electronics

We are All Sibyls (2003-2004)
Concert-length interactive electroacoustic opera/installation for four voices, spatialized choir, flute, violin, cello, piano, two percussion and electronics

Orchestra / Large Ensemble

Oratorio for the Earth (2021-2022) - 62 minutes
For chorus, orchestra, ensemble and soloists

A California Song! (2020) - 5 minutes
for Deep Listening ensemble, two pianos, and spoken voice

Big Basin: Song of the Redwood Trees (2012/20)
For voice, piano, and large spatialized ensemble (2012)
OR for Orchestra (2020)

There Will Be Stars (for Pauline Oliveros) (2016) - 8 minutes
For large-spatialized improvising Deep Listening ensemble

A Route of Evanescence, So Set its Sun in Thee, As I ebb’d (2015)
Three works for voices, cellos, accordion, winds, piano and spatialized percussion

Into the Heart of the Earth (2013-2014)
For spatialized concert band

Melting Away: Gravity (2011) - 8 minutes
For string orchestra, piano, percussion, voice, spatialized electronics and projection

Brokenheart (2009)
For improvisers and live electronics (Max/MSP)

Autumn Day, from Fallen (2009)
Cycle of works for SATB Chorus and piano

Chamber Music

What the Thunder Said (2024) - 9 minutes
for alto saxophone and percussion

Burial of the Dead (2024) - 11 minutes
for baritone voice, bass clarinet, trumpet, and trombone

Death by Water (2024) - 10 minutes
for piano trio

Lost Borders (2024)
for voice, bass clarinet, piano, and percussion

I Mary, Mary by Herself (2023)
for soprano, cello, and piano

The Land of Little Rain Suite (2023)
For flute and cello

A Prayer for my Daughter (2022)
for soprano, violin, cello, and piano

Laguna Suite: From the Canyons to the Sea (2022) - 36 minutes
For jazz trio and voice

Journey to the Land of the Moon (2009/2020)
For flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion
OR for two percussion and piano

The Consecrating Mother (2019) - 12 minutes
For cello and piano

O Mary: A Prayer for the Year of the Insane (2002-2018) - 12 minutes
For string quartet

Water Trails of the Ceriso & 57 Buzzards (2018) - 6.5 minutes
For divided string quartet

2026 (2018) - 15 minutes
for percussion quartet and recorded spoken-voice

Lost Horse Mine Lament (2018) - 13 minutes
for percussion quartet, string quartet, and piano (and optional voice)

Like the river with no end (2015) - 9 minutes
For flute and piano

Each Life Converges (2015)
for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble

Polonium (2013) - 2.5 minutes
For soprano and piano

Luminous Energy (2013) - 10.5 minutes
For soprano, flute, percussion, and piano

Are you there? (2013) - 6 minutes
For soprano, flute, percussion, and piano

Wupatki: Houses of the Enemies (2012/2018) - 15 minutes
For ensemble, video and electronics
Or for string quartet, piano and percussion

Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson Song Cycle (2012)
For voice, flute, trumpet, piano, and guitar

. . . and the wild, wild wind (2012)
For clarinet, cello, and piano (alternate version for Solo Piano)

Here the frailest leaves of me… (2011) - 8 minutes
For violin and piano

The Living Sea (2010) - 13 minutes
For flute & electronics and piano (and IMAX film)

The Land of the Moon (2010)
Duo for prepared pianos

Sea Change (2009/2012) - 7 minutes
For violin, clarinet, and piano (and spoken voice)

The Singing of the Waves…from the edges of the earth (2009/2023)
For flutes (variable size), piano and spoken voice
OR for new music ensemble

Rope (2003)
For chamber ensemble

Red Vertical (2001-2002)
For clarinet or saxophone and percussion

Consorting with Angels (2000) - 15 minutes
For chamber ensemble and electronics

Hutch: The moss of his skin (1997)
For soprano, flute, clarinet, viola, and percussion

Pneuma-Phrenesis-Abyss (1996)
For piano trio

Vessel (1994)
For two pianos

Solo Performer

Proof and Disproof (2021)
Opera for performer alone

The Birds Here (2020) - 2 minutes
For piano and spoken voice

Owl’s Breath (2020) - 7.5 minutes
For bass clarinet

Now the Hour Bows Down-Tenebrae (2019) - 8.5 minutes
For bass baritone and electronics

Why Women Weep: It is the Quickest Way to Rejoin the Ocean (2018) - 11 minutes
For solo cello and electronics

Pierre’s Dissertation on Crystals (2016) - 11 minutes
For bass-baritone and electronics

Riverly is the Moon (2015) - 7 minutes
For solo clarinet and video

Polonium (2013) - 2.5 minutes
For voice, piano, and video

. . . and the wild, wild wind (2012)
For solo piano (alternate version for clarinet, cello, and piano)

The Singing of the Waves: Nereid’s Lyre (2011) - 1 minute
For solo voice

Demon (2000)
For clarinet and electronics

Red Shoes (1996) - 12 minutes
For percussion and spoken voice

Vocal Works

The Fire Sermon (2024)
For vocal sextet and electronics

Sacred Mountain (2023) - 45 minutes
A one-act oratorio for vocal sextet, soprano soloist, mixed ensemble, and electronics