La Serenissima (2005) for soprano, soloists TTB & orchestra 19’
from Orphans of the Heavenly City, part 2
Text by the composer
The waters of speech are silent (2006) for wind ensemble 9’
Commissioned by a CBDNA Consortium of six wind ensembles
Doom-begotten Music (2003) for tenor and string orchestra 24’
Ten songs from Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Tristram
O Shining Light (2009) for voices SSSA 6’
Commissioned by Canty
Text by the composer
l’amor (2008) for voices ATTB 8’
Text by the composer
Le metamorfosi (2004) for solo voices ATTB 17’
Commissioned by the Hilliard Ensemble
Text by Fabio Marretti, Italian translation from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book X
Ego dilecto meo (2002) for solo voices STTTBB 3’
Commissioned by Singer Pur
Text from Canticum canticorum 7:10–12
Recorded by Singer Pur on Das Hohelied der Liebe (Oehms Classics)
Il nome del bel fior (1998) for solo voices SATTTTTBBB 23’
Funded by a Composer Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council
Text from Dante’s Paradiso, Canto XXIII
Recorded by Singer Pur and the Hilliard Ensemble on Vokalwerke (Oehms Classics)
Earlier Heaven (1996) for choir SSAATTBB 20’
Commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council and Cappella Nova
Text from the St. Andrews Music Book
Kyria christifera (1995) for solo voices STTTBB 6’
Commissioned by Singer Pur
Music for the Star of the Sea (1994) for solo voices ATTB 8’
Hilliard Composition Prize, co-winner, 1994
Text from the Latin hymn “Ave maris stella”
Recorded by the Hilliard Ensemble on A Hilliard Songbook (ECM New Series)
The Time Song (2003) for soprano & saxophone quartet 4’
Text by the composer
Tempus fugit (2003) for soprano and piano 4’
Commissioned by The Year of William Meredith Organizing Committee
Text by Richard Harteis
Doom-begotten Music (2001) for tenor and piano 24’
Commissioned by John Potter
Ten songs from Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Tristram
Ka (1990) for extended voice & tape 4’
Light (2006) for violin, soprano saxophone & piano 9’
Commissioned by the Ocian Trio (mvt. I) and Steven Jordheim (mvt. II)
Floating and Grooving (2003) for marimba 9’
Commissioned by Nancy Zeltsman
String Quartet No. 1 (2000) for string quartet 17’
Commissioned by the Ciompi Quartet
Proserpine (1997) for violin, two violas, accordion 11’
Commissioned for Ensemble Hex by the Netherland-America Foundation
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's . . . (1996) for five-octave fortepiano 11’
Commissioned by Marc Reichow
Deux-pièces (1994) for violin 7’
Commissioned by Monica Germino
Blind Watchmaker (1993) for two pianos 13’