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Vocal/Orchestral
Dreams: for mezzo-soprano orchestra  (2001)
	Text by Olive Schreiner, turn-of-the-century South African women's suffragist.

Vocal/Chamber Ensemble
The School Among the Ruins (2006-7)texts by Adrienne Rich
 for medium voice and chamber ensemble
	flute, oboe, clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, French horn, percussion, piano, medium voice, 
	2 violins, viola, cello
	Made possible by a Fellowship at the Virginia 
	Center for the Creative Arts

Défense de savoir (Knowing Prohibited) (2008) (Pierrot ensemble)
text by Paul Eluard
	1.  Ma présence n'est pas ici
	2.  L'aventure est pendue
	3.  Accrochés aux désirs
	4.  Il fait toujours nuit
	5.  Les hommes errants
	6.  La nuit les yeux
	7.  Quel beau spectacle
	8.  Hésite et perdu

Le Glas (The Death Knell) (2007) text by Claude Rahir 
	for soprano and string quartet (see choral list)
	premiered November 18, 2007, Beauvechain, Belgium
	performed April 26, 2008, Denver, Colorado

Song Cycle on Texts by Mark Doty (2000) 
	for baritone, piano, violin, percussion
	1.  The Wings
	2.  Brilliance
	3.  Broadway (performed May 2007, Colorado Composers Concert)
	4.  No
	Released on Capstone Records (2006)

In Flanders Fields (2002-2004)
 song cycle for Soprano (coloratura), Oboe, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano
	1.  In Flanders Fields (John McCrae, Canada)
		performed November 2004, Armistice Day Remembered Concert, 
		New York City, Downtown Music Productions
	2.  Dulce et Decorum est (Wilfred Owen, United Kingdom)
		performed November 2004, Armistice Day Remembered Concert, 
		New York City
	3.  Les Gaz (Maurice Gauchez, Belgium)
		performed November 2004, Armistice Day Remembered Concert, 
		New York City
		recorded by Composers Ensemble of Northern New York
		released on Beauport Classical, February 2008
	4.  Does it Matter (Siegfried Sassoon, United Kingdom)
		recorded February 2005, Composers Ensemble of Northern New York
		released on Beauport Classical, February 2008
	5.  Peace (Robert Donaldson, United States of America)
		performed November 2004, Armistice Day Remembered Concert, New York City
	6.  Veglia (Guisseppi Ungaretti, Italy)
		recorded February 2005, Composers Ensemble of Northern New York
		performed April 2006, Rocky Mountain Chapter, College Music Society
		released on Beauport Classical, February 2008
	7.  Leichen im Priesterwald (Ernst Toller, Germany)
		performed March 2004, College Music Society meeting, University of Denver
		performed April 2004, University of Northern Colorado, 
		Academic Honors Convocation
	8.  Nos Rêves (Romain Darchy, France)
	9.  De IJzer (Johan DeMaegt, Belgium)


Solo Voice
Returning
	6 texts by World War I Soldiers
	for bass-baritone and piano (2008) 
		(for Shawn Roy and Chan Kiat Lim) 
	1.  When I Come Home (Leslie Coulson)
	2.  The Cripple (Leon Gellert)
	3.  The Survivors (Geoffrey F. Fyson)
	4,  Return (E. Hilton Young)
	5.  In Flanders, Poppies Red (unknown)
	6.  Waste  (G.A. Studdert Kennedy)

Mr. Crow 
	(text by Tom Hickey) 
	for voice and piano (2008) 
		(for Jane Günter-McCoy)

Loveliest of Trees (2006) 
	(A.E. Housman)
	for voice and piano 
	(for Dr. Mary Kime)

A Patient, noiseless spider (2006) 
	(Walt Whitman) for voice and piano 
		(for Dr. Mary Kime)

Dreams Kept, Dreams Deferred (2006) 
	texts by Langston Hughes
	for high voice and piano
		(for Dr. Liana Valente)
	1.  Harlem (2) (What happens to a dream deferred?)
	2.  Dream Boogie
	3.  Tell Me
	4.  Island
	5.  I Dream a World
	6.  Dream Keeper
	performed February 2008, Regional College Music Society, Louisiana State University
	excerpt performed September 2008, National College Music Society, Atlanta

Luces y Sombras, Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano (2004-2005) 
	(Pablo Neruda)
	Oda a la Luz Encantada
	El Mes de Marzo
	De Noche, Amada
	Débil del Alba
	La Luz que de tus Pies
	Fue Luz el Fuego
	Pensando, Enredando Sombras
	No Hay Pura Luz
	Significa Sombras
	Plenes Poderes
	released May 2006 on Capstone Records

Vocal Duets
La Cuirasse d'amour (Breastplate of Love) (2008)  
	text by Claude Rahir
	for soprano, bass, and piano


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