Title
Year
Instrumentation
Length
Comissioned by
Premiere


For Love:
Three Poems of Robert Creeley
2003
soprano and piano
12:00
-
Philadelphia - October, 2003
Of Eros and Dust
2002-3
soprano and orchestra
20:00
-
Berkeley, CA - May, 2003
Serpentina - Opera in eight scenes (two acts) after a tale by E.T.A. Hoffmann ("Der Goldne Topf")
1998-99
eight solo singers, chorus & chamber orchestra
90:00
Berkeley Opera
July, 1999
Cantico
1997-98
mixed chorus, soloists & chamber orchestra (texts by St. Francis of Assisi & from Australian & American sources)
25:00
-
Berkeley, CA - University Chamber Chorus, Marika Kuzma, director - May, 1998
Songs for the Earth
1994
mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion
25:00
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players & Stephanie Friedman
San Francisco, CA - February, 1995
The Rural Muse
1992
soprano voice, clarinet, horn and piano (texts by John Clare)
12:00
commissioned & premiered by the Beaumont Ensemble
Sara Ganz, soprano & Joan Nagano, piano - San Francisco, CA - March, 1992
A Water Cycle
1991
baritone & chamber ensemble
20:00
-
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players - Patrick Summers, conductor, Leroy Villanueva, baritone - March, 1991
When You Were Born
1987
soprano, flute, cello & harp
22:00
-
Sara Ganz, soprano & the Earplay Ensemble, Jonathan Khuner, conductor - San Francisco, December 1989
Seven Charms for a New Day
1982
soprano voice & piano (poem by Lawrence Raab)
20:00
-
Nancy Wait, soprano & Leroy Kromm, piano - University of California at Davis, 1983
Winged Words
1977
voice & chamber orchestra
40:00
-
Karen Lykes, soprano, John Thow, conductor - Boston University Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, 1980
Chinese Poems
1976
soprano voice & flute
12:00
-
Karen Komar, soprano & Sadako Yokoyama, flute - Cambridge, MA - 1976
Night
1975
women's chorus & strings (text by Robinson Jeffers)
-
-
Radcliffe Choral Society - Cambridge, MA - 1975
A Noiseless Patient Spider
1974
voice & chamber ensemble (text by Walt Whitman)
20:00
-
Joan Logue, soprano & members of the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia, Rome, John Thow, conductor; Fulbright Exchange Program 25th anniversary concert - Rome, 1974.
Hymn to Dawn
1974
mixed chorus & insturments (text from the Rig Veda)
10:00
-
Awarded the George A. Knight prize for choral composition - Harvard University, 1974
Two Songs
1972
soprano & piano (poems by Robert Bly)
10:00
-
Joan Heller, soprano & Max Lifchitz, piano - Harvard University, 1973
Four Songs to Poems by Antonio Machado
1969
mezzo soprano & four instruments
15:00
-
Joan Heller, soprano & Max Lifchitz, piano - Harvard University, 1973