Compositions

RECENT WORKS
2023

2020

Duck and Kangaroo -- sop, gtr, perc
Drumlin Sunset -- 2 violins, marimba, pf (reimagining of second movement of Two Scenes) -- premiered by Sonic Liberation Players

2019

Cella Duru (rev.) -- soprano, violin, flute, cello, vibraphone, piano (premiered 2019 by Sonic Liberation Players) pdf

2018

2016

Light, More Light! -- premiered May 2016 by Trevor Berens audio pdf
Cella Dura -- soprano, oboe, piano (premiered March 2016 by Jessica Tunick Berens, Kristin Olson, Trevor Berens) audio clip
Winter Light -- SATB chorus with divisi (premiered December 2016 by Halalisa Singers) pdf

2015

Poems Penyeach –- 14 songs for soprano and piano [text by James Joyce] (selections premiered May 21, 2016 by Jessica Tunick Berens, Trevor Berens) pdf

Works written before 2010

Four Songs from the Dhammapada (2008) – mezzo-soprano, piano (premiered 2008) (pdf in progress)
Les Chats (2006) – soprano, piano (premiered 2006) [text by Charles Baudelaire] pdf

ALL WORKS

small ensemble

Two Scenes (Lincoln, Mass,, 2018) - kora, piano (unperformed) pdf 1 pdf 2
Cella Dura (2016) - soprano, oboe, piano (premiered March 2016 by Jessica Tunick Berens, Kristin Olson, Trevor Berens) audio clip
Labyrinth 2: Kesaptutta (2009) - soprano, piano, percussion (premiered by Trevor Berens, Jessica Berens, Danny Holt, 2009)
20 Years (2008) – soprano, piano, marimba (unperformed)
Mirfak at Midnight (2004) – clarinet, violin, piano, percussion (premiered by the California EAR Unit, 2004) pdf
Le Moment Jaune (2003) – woodwind quartet (premiered by Sarah Wass, Bill Powell, Lara Wickes, Jonathan Stehney, 2003) pdf audio
Wind Chases the Sun (2003) – speaking flutist, clarinetist, violinist, cellist, pianist, and percussionist (premiered 2003) based on “Prison Writings” by Leonard Peltier (permission granted) pdf audio
Whirlwind (2003) – clarinet, viola, marimba pdf
Sirens (2003) - two sopranos
String Quartet (2003) (premiered by Johnny Chang, Michelina Wright, Natalie Brejcha, Jessica Catron, 2002) audio
Still Thinking (2000) - four drums (premiered by Mark Saya, Paul Humphreys, Mike Reiner, Eric Gillingham, 2000) audio

choral

Song of Myself, Chapter 1 (2018) for SATB chorus with divisi pdf
Winter Light (2016) for SATB chorus with divisi (December 2016 by Halalisa Singers) pdf
Be Not Afeer'd (2015) – for SATB chorus with divisi pdf

voice/piano

Song of Myself, Chapter 32 (in progress) - soprano, piano
Poems Penyeach (2013-2015) – 14 songs for soprano and piano [text by James Joyce] (selections premiered May 21, 2016 by Jessica Tunick Berens, Trevor Berens)
Four Songs from the Dhammapada (2008) – mezzo-soprano, piano (premiered 2008)
Les Chats (2006) – soprano, piano (premiered 2006) [text by Charles Baudelaire] pdf
Puma at the Chapultepec Zoo (2003) – mezzo-soprano, piano (premiered 2002 by Adriana Manfredi and Trevor Berens) [text by Gregory Corso] audio
Another Night in the Ruins (2002) –song cycle for soprano, piano (premiered 2002 by Anne-Marie Dicce Valenzuela and Trevor Berens) [text by Galway Kinnell, permission granted]
Morning (2000) – soprano, piano (premiered 2000 by Anne-Marie Dicce Valenzuela and Trevor Berens) [text by Mary Oliver]

solo piano

The Mountain Spirit (in progress) – speaking pianist [based on the poem by Gary Snyder]
Pisces Rising-- (2018) premiered July 2018 by Trevor Berens audio pdf
Light, More Light! (2016) - premiered May 2016 by Trevor Berens audio pdf
The Garden (2007) – premiered 2007
Sui:Yu (2003) – premiered 2003, recorded 2005 audio pdf
Nothing, Not Wanting (for prepared piano, 2002) – performed 2002 pdf

other solo

If I Told Him (2005) – unaccompanied soprano (premiered 2005 by Jessica Tunick Berens) [text by Gertrude Stein, permission granted] audio
Elegy for Laika (2003) – solo violin with white noise (premiered 2003) audio
Flower of the Mountain (2003) – harp solo pdf
Musings, Wishes, Prayers (2002) – contrabassoon solo pdf

text based pieces