lost time
Is It Not It Is
Here I Am
for: 3 treble voices (soprano and two mezzo-sopranos)
year: 2019
duration: ca 9 minutes
poems: Norman Finkelstein
premiere: Cincinnati Soundbox with performers Jackie Stevens, soprano;
Lauren McAllister and Ellen Graham, mezzo-sopranos
21c Museum Hotel, Cincinnati, OH,
April 2019
commissioned: by Cincinnati Soundbox
lost time
Is It Not It Is
Here I Am
for: 3 treble voices (soprano and two mezzo-sopranos)
year: 2019
duration: ca 9 minutes
poems: Norman Finkelstein
premiere: Cincinnati Soundbox with performers Jackie Stevens, soprano;
Lauren McAllister and Ellen Graham, mezzo-sopranos
21c Museum Hotel, Cincinnati, OH,
April 2019
commissioned: by Cincinnati Soundbox
choral / vocal
o virga ac diadema
for: 3 treble voices (two sopranos and one mezzo-soprano)
year: 2021
duration: ca 6 minutes
texts: excerpts from Hildegard von Bingen's chant, O Virga ac Diadema
premiere: Heri et Hodie/Yesterday and Today on a concert titled Spiritual Songs from the Gift of Isolation
Jackie Stevens and Erin Keesey, sopranos; Lauren McAllister, mezzo-soprano; and Krista Cornish Scott, artistic director
Christ Church Cathedral, Cincinnati, OH
May 2021
commissioned: by Heri et Hodie/Yesterday and Today
fold your wings
for: SATB chorus
year: 2019
duration: ca 5 minutes
poems: by Norman Finkelstein
"The Psyche Adrift" from Scribe, published by Dos Madres Press, 2009
additional texts from Track, published by Shearsman Books, 2012
commissioned: by the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Harmony Fund
dedicated: to the CCM Harmony Fund
her cowboy boots
for: mezzo-soprano and piano
year: 2019
duration: ca 3.5 minutes
text: from "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Cowboy Boots" (Hat tipped to Wallace Stevens)
by Ellen Austin-Li
from Firefly, published by Finishing Line press, 2019
premiere: 2020 Cincinnati SongSLAM, a collaboration between Cincinnati Song Initiative and Sparks and Wiry Cries
Ellen Graham, mezzo-soprano, and Matthew Umphreys, piano
Liberty Exhibition Halll, Cincinnati, OH,
January 2020
winner: first prize in 2020 Cincinnati SongSLAM
lost time
Is It Not It Is
Here I Am
for: 3 treble voices (soprano and two mezzo-sopranos)
year: 2019
duration: ca 9 minutes
texts: from Track by Norman Finkelstein
published by Shearsman Books, 2012
premiere: Cincinnati Soundbox with performers Jackie Stevens, soprano;
Lauren McAllister and Ellen Graham, mezzo-sopranos
21c Museum Hotel, Cincinnati, OH,
April 2019
commissioned: by Cincinnati Soundbox
between magic and possibility
for: soprano and flute
year: 2018
duration: ca 13 minutes
texts: from Track by Norman Finkelstein
published by Shearsman Books, 2012
premiere: faculty recital at Xavier University
Jackie Stevens, soprano and Nave Graham, flute
Bellarmine Chapel, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
April 2018
dedicated: to Jackie Stevens
winner: second-place winner of 2020NATS Art Song Composition Award
music is
for: SATB chorus
year: 2017
duration: ca 3 minutes
text: Joshua McGuire
premiere:
Poco a Poco Summer Music Fest faculty chorus
Park Presbyterian Church, Streator, IL
June 2017
dedicated: to Kate Tombaugh and the Poco a poco Summer Fest Choir
commissioned: by Kate Tombaugh for the inaugural year of the Poco a Poco Summer Music Fest
all one can imagine
Sefiros
Bone-frame
Shade threaded thru shade
So I beat this song
All the threads of my roads
Stones blossom
for: soprano and violin
for: mezzo-soprano and violin
year: 2014
duration: ca 13 minutes
poems: Jakob Stein
premiere: Jilian McGreen, soprano, and Gerry Itzkoff, violin, Patricia Corbett Theater, Cincinnati, OH,
March 2015
dedicated: to the memory of Catherine Long
commissioned: by the Ohio Arts Council
they say that I am deaf
for: SSA chorus
year: 2014
duration: ca 4 minutes
text: Yolande Cosby
premiere: The Carefree Chorus Winter Concert, Fort Meyers, FL, December 2014
dedicated: to The Carefree Chorus
commissioned: by The Carefree Chorus