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(Withdrawn)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(Withdrawn)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

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

FANTASIA ON THREE CHRISTMAS CAROLS (2018)

for soprano and piano

Commissioned by Amy Danielle Sheffer

FANTASIA ON "VENI EMMANUEL" (2020)

4 minutes

for soprano and oboe

Commissioned by Tamra Jones

From THE ILIAD (2021)

4 minutes

for soprano and vibraphone

commissioned by Krista Pape and Bensen Kwan

Text by Homer, from translation by George Chapman

THE BLESSED VIRGIN'S OUTCRY (2022)

14 minutes

For soprano and organ

Commissioned by Julia Fox

Text by Euan Tait

SUNG ON THE WATER (2023)

30 minutes

For mezzo-soprano, viola and cello

Commissioned by DACAMERA

Texts by Dickson, Emerson, García Lorca, Machado, Mistral, Rilke, Stolberg, and Whitman

ON SOLITUDE (2024)

6 minutes

for soprano and cello

Text by Henry David Thoreau, from Walden

for Krista Renée Pape

THE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO CONSPIRACY THEORIES (2024)

13 minutes (in progress)

for mezzo and piano

Found texts from various online social fora

(new Advent song cycle) (2022)

10 minutes

For baritone and piano

for Troy Castle

Texts by Euan Tait