VOCAL
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT (2007)
4 minutes
for baritone and piano
Text by Dylan Thomas
3 SHAKESPEARE SONGS (2007)
7.5 minutes
Song cycle for tenor and piano
Texts by William Shakespeare
WE OUTGROW LOVE (2007)
(Withdrawn)
15 minutes
Song cycle for mezzo- soprano and piano
Texts by Emily Dickinson
See also: version for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
2 HERBERT SONGS (2007)
(Withdrawn)
7.5 minutes
2 songs for mezzo-soprano and string quartet
Texts by George Herbert
SCARBOROUGH FAIR (2009)
3 minutes
Arrangement for soprano, viola, and harp
IRIS (2009)
11 minutes
Song cycle for soprano and piano
Texts by Muriel Rukeyser
AYRES AND MADRIGALS, BOOK ONE (2009)
11.5 minutes
Song cycle for tenor and piano
Texts by Dowland and Morley
EL GRITO (2010)
3.5 minutes
for soprano and piano
Text by Federico Garcia Lorca
THREE BY SILVERSTEIN (2010)
6 minutes
Song cycle for soprano and piano
Texts by Shel Silverstein
RODEO SONGS (2012)
5 minutes
Two songs for voice and country band
Texts culled from interviews conducted by HGOco
Commissioned by Houston Grand Opera/HGOco for the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo
THE PICTURE I SAW (2012)
3 minutes
For mezzo-soprano and piano
Text by Edna McRae
Commissioned by Houston Grand Opera/HGOco for the Home + Place Initiative
MY VOICE IS THE COLOR (2013)
10 minutes
Song cycle for soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone, and piano
Texts by children from Kashmere Elementary
Commissioned by Houston Grand Opera/HGOco, in collaboration with Writers In the Schools
OF SHRAPNEL AND BLOOD (2014)
50 minutes
Oratorio on the theme of war
Texts by Brian Turner, Rudyard Kipling, Siegfried Sassoon, and Walt Whitman
2 versions: Orchestral (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, chorus, orchestra), 'Greenbriar' chamber version (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, chamber orchestra)
VETERANS SONGBOOK (2014-15)
25 minutes
Song cycle for soprano, baritone and piano
Texts by Mark Buller, Lex Loya, Oskar J. Gonzalez-Yetzirah, and by an anonymous author
Commissioned by Houston Grand Opera/HGOco for the Veterans Songbook Project
TOMBSTONE SONGS (2015)
7 minutes
Song cycle for soprano and piano
Alternate version for baritone and chamber orchestra
Text from tombstone epitaphs
ONE-STAR SONGBOOK (2015)
10 minutes
Song cycle for tenor and piano
Texts from one-star Amazon reviews
ERASURE (2016)
10 minutes
Song cycle for baritone, clarinet and piano
On the theme of gun violence
FIRST WORDS (2016)
13 minutes
Song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano
Commissioned by Da Camera of Houston
THE BUDDHA AND THE WAVE (2016)
2.5 minutes
For soprano and piano
For Anna Diemer and Prima Volta
NURSERY RHYMES (2016)
11 minutes
Song cycle for voice and piano
Available in versions for: soprano and piano;
baritone and piano; baritone and chamber orchestra
For James Rodriguez
AT FIRST BLOOM: THREE SONGS OF SPRING (2017)
5 minutes
Song cycle for voice and piano
(Available in high, medium and low versions)
Texts by A.E. Housman, Charlotte Mew, and Emily Dickinson
TO THE SOUL: FIVE SACRED SONGS (2017)
9 minutes
Song cycle for voice and piano
(Available in high, medium and low versions)
Texts from the Koran, the Vedas, the Upanishads, and by
Rumi and Sarum Missal
SCHLECHTESÜBERSETZUNGLIEDER (2017)
12 minutes
Song cycle for voice and piano
(Available in high, medium and low versions)
Texts by Rückert and Goethe ('Du Bist die Ruh,'
'Erlkönig,' and 'Gretchen am Spinnrade'), run
through Google Translate multiple times --
with comical results
MENAGERIE (2017)
3 minutes
Song cycle for voice and piano
(Available in high, medium and low versions)
Texts by Christina Rossetti: three poems about animals
NOCTURNES (2017)
5 minutes
Song cycle for voice and piano
(Available in high, medium and low versions)
Texts about night by Emily Brontë, Christina Rossetti,
and Emily Dickinson
IF YOU COULD GO BACK (2017)
7 minutes
For high voice and piano
Text by Danny Bryck
THERE IS NO ROSE OF SYCH VERTU (2017)
3 minutes
For voice and piano
Text by Danny Bryck
ELEGY (2016-17)
3 minutes
For baritone, clarinet and string quartet
Text by Michael Burch
Arrangement of the final movement of Erasure
Dedicated to victims of Hurricane Harvey
TOMBSTONE SONGS, VOL. II (2017)
3 minutes
Song cycle for voice and piano
(Available in high, medium and low versions)
Texts by Matthew Prior, John Wilmot, and Robert Louis Stevenson
FOUR PROVERBS (2017)
2.5 minutes
Song cycle for voice and piano
Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, and Egyptian proverbs
LOOK BACK ON TIME WITH KINDLY EYES (2017)
2.5 minutes
for unaccompanied voice
Text by Emily Dickinson
3 RÜCKERT-LIEDER (2017-18)
5 minutes
Song cycle for voice and piano
Texts by Friedrich Rückert
PEACE (2017)
2 minutes
for unaccompanied voice
Text by Emily Dickinson
A WHITMAN LULLABY (2018)
3 minutes
for voice and piano
Text by Walt Whitman, "On the beach at night alone"
SONG OF THE CAGED CHILDREN (2018)
1.5 minutes
for high voice and piano
Text by an anonymous undocumented child held in a Virginia detention facility
Poetry-writing workshop led by Seth Michelson
THE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO CONSPIRACY THEORIES (2020)
13 minutes (in progress)
for mezzo and piano
EURYDICE IN HADES (2020-21)
12 minutes (in progress)
For mezzo-soprano and piano
Commissioned by Grace Song, Inc., for Abi Jeanne Levis and Keith Weber
Texts by Robert Kelly and H.D.
NEW COMMISSION (2020-21) (in progress)
c.10 minutes (in progress)
for baritone and piano
commissioned by James Rodriguez