WORKS

Large Ensemble
Vocal
Chamber Music
Solo Instrumental
Arrangements
Improvised and Popular Music


LARGE ENSEMBLE

Songs Without Verbs [2009]
for chamber orchestra - 11'

Mandala of the Two Realms [2007]
for large orchestra with onstage martial artists executing Tai Chi forms - 19'

Confused Blues [2007]
for large jazz ensemble - 8'

Concertino for Clarinet [2005]
for clarinet and mixed chamber ensemble - 17’

El Hombre [2003]
for mixed chorus and orchestra - 5’
Texts by William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens


VOCAL

Mr. and Mrs. Nelson [2010]
For soprano, baritone, piano and pre-recorded cello
Collaboration with artist Peter Nelson - 16’

The Arrow and the Song [2010]
for voice, clarinet and piano - 3'
Text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Walking Across the Atlantic [2008]
for voice, trumpet, horn and cello - 2'
Text by Billy Collins

Baby Song of the Four Winds [2008]
for voice and cello
Text by Carl Sandburg

Re:Porter [2007]
for baritone voice, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano - 16'
Text by Aaron Grad

Eyes of a Blue Dog [in progress]
for soprano, baritone and chamber ensemble - 30’
A Chamber Opera, from a story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Libretto by Aaron Grad

Portria [2004]
for tenor, oboe and string quintet - 9’
Texts by Rainer Maria Rilke and Aaron Grad

Clear White [2003]
for low voice, high voice and piano - 10’
Texts by Charles Wright

Como Llover [2003]
for three sopranos and piano - 11’
Text by Octavio Paz, trans. Eliot Weinberger

inthe,exquisite; [2002]
for mezzo-soprano, countertenor, violin, guitar, bass, & percussion - 11’
Text by E. E. Cummings

Other Days [2002]
for mezzo-soprano, violin and guitar - 4’
Text by Pablo Neruda, trans. Stephen Tapscott

Silk Dresses [2001]
for soprano and guitar - 20’
Texts by Wallace Stevens


CHAMBER MUSIC

When I wake up at midnight [2009]
for violin and piano - 8'

Be Aware of Wonder [2008]
for flute, clarinet and piano - 5'

I Dream of Tartini [2008]
for violin, guitar and percussion - 4'

Songs Without Verbs [2008]
for bass/ukulele/horn and piano - 12'

Usual Gaps, Faced Again [2008]
for string quartet - 12'

The Aeolian Harp [2006]
for flute, guitar, violin, viola and cello - 16’

Creatures of Kings County [2006]
for flute, clarinet, cello, piano and percussion - 10'

Whiskey & Fred [2005]
for violin and piano - 4’

Sonata for Violin and Piano [2004]
26'

Variations for Four Winds [2004]
for flute, clarinet, bassoon and horn - 5’

Kodak Moments [2004]
for two violins, English horn, bassoon and cello - 11’

Lepidopterology [2003]
for flute, clarinet and piano - 10’

MMF [2003]
for flute, clarinet and bassoon - 8’

Three Pieces [2003]
for cello and piano - 11’

Baggage [2002]
for string quartet - 18’

Herman’s Head [2002]
for flute, violin, viola and cello - 5’

The Mango Dance [2002]
for violin and cello - 5’

Wedding Music [2000, 2001]
for trumpet and guitar - 8’


SOLO INSTRUMENTAL

The Father Book [2011]
for guitar with electronics - 37'

Blue Pedal [2010]
for violin with electronics - 5’

Piano Variations [2003]
for piano - 16’

Coo/Rant [2003]
for double bass - 6’

Slash Fantasy [2003]
for bass guitar - 4’

Waiting Waltz [1998]
for guitar - 3’


ARRANGEMENTS

Call Me [2008] Based on the song by Tony Hatch
for voice, flute, trumpet, horn and guitar

Cole Porter Songs [2007]
-Night and Day
-Miss Otis Regrets
-Anything Goes
for baritone voice, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, guitar and piano

Dumont / Vaucaire (as sung by Edith Piaf): Non, je ne regrette rien
for soprano and orchestra [2006]

Piaf / Louiguy: La Vie en Rose
for soprano and orchestra [2005]

Bartok, Stravinsky, Ligeti, Ives, Ravel and others for Baschenis, a new ensemble playing pop arrangements of twentieth-century classical music [2005]

Mendelssohn: “Nocturne” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
for guitar and cello [2003]

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5
for soprano, violin and guitar [2002]


POPULAR AND IMPROVISED MUSIC

This is a partial list of songs written and performed by the composer from 1993 to 2008.

Songs for PETRICHOR (voice, trumpet, guitar, cello, bass and drums):
Descending a Staircase (2008), Prospero Retires (2008), Sacred Harp (2008), April Me (2008), Letter of Resignation (2008), Key West (2008), Fables and Parables (2008)

Vocal Pop Songs (words and music):
Key West (2008), Meant for You (2007), Integrity (2006), Spring Again (2006), Unemployment Blues (2006), Cold Shower (2001), Postcard (2001), Into the Faraway (2001), Monastery (2001), Tall Girls (1998), Look at Me (1993), I Don’t Know (1993).

Through-Composed Songs for YOGA (tenor sax, guitar, bass and drums):
Bubby Camp 86 (2001), Your Needs (2001), The Last Word (2002), Fumbles and Imperceptions (2001), Downward Dog (2002), Glory (2001), Documentary About a Bridge (2001), Q Diamond (2001), Confused Blues (2004)

Songs with Improvisation – Performed by YOGA and other bands:
Quaalude, Randy Zen, Captain Vegan Malange, Violated Squirrel, Vertical Spoon, Yoga for Big Bodies, Maintenance Issues, Dennis Permilov, Lebensraum, Spanky Greywacke, Mourning Sects, No Grass is Green, But World Enough, English Muffins, Danse Macabre, Luigi and the Princess, Fare, True Love (+ Hems Recede), Mayday, Pfister Never Called, Totally Improvised, You Look Nice, Slide Left, Waitresses, Self-Mutilation by Fire. Perhaps in the Spring, Bezoar, Antigua, MD-80.


Last updated June 2010.


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