COMPOSITIONS

​El Contrapunto de arena - a divertimento for wind quintet - (in progress)

• to be performed by UMD Faculty Wind Quintet​
• This activity is made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, thanks to appropriations from The McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota State Legislature’s general and arts and cultural heritage funds.

​Ultra Vires, op. 14  - concerto for violin
               I. Siege Engine
              II. Vertex
             III. Teunim Elgna - Angle Minuet
             IV. Bound by Acquiescence 

• premiered by Erin Aldridge at Sacred Heart Music Center, January 18, 2018     

Kelp Forest - full orchestra - 10'

Yeats Cycle - tenor, piano, op. 15
             I. The Wild Swans at Coole, No. 1
               II. The  Cap and Bells, No. 3
             III. The Lake Isle of Innisfree, No. 2
           IV.  Sailing to Byzantium, No. 4
            V.  Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, No. 9 
          VI.   The Cat and the Moon,  No. 10 (in progress)
         VII.  A Dream of Death, No. 6
          VIII. The Two Trees, No. 7
               IX. A Coat, No. 8
               X.  A Drinking Song, No. 5

• text by William Butler Yeats
• I-III premiered by Adam Sippola at Sacred Heart Music Center, January 18, 2018​
• IV-V premiered by Adam Sippola at Teatro Zuccone, Duluth Homegrown Music Festival 2018

Pierrot, op. 4   -TTBB a capella choir, or solo tenor with piano
              I. Here I Am
               II. The Waters Rise
              III. Great Cumulous Clouds
              IV. In the North   

• centos from poetry of Louis Jenkins
• I - III performed by William Bastian at Sacred Heart Music Center, Duluth, MN, January 18, 2018

Come to the Water, op. 13 - SATB choir/ piano

• text by Deborah Cooper​​​

​Water Roots, op. 17 - piano, horn, violin, bass flute, Bb clarinet 

• premiered at Greenlight New Music Festival at Bent Paddle Brewing in Duluth, MN

Colossal Dream, op. 12 - SATB or SA choir/ optional piano

• text compiled from Emma Lazarus and Martin Luther King Jr.
• premiered at Sara Thomson's Art of Ubuntu concert April 28, 2017

Evening, op. 6  - SATB choir/ piano

• text based on Phantasies by Emma Lazarus             

Sax-Zim Bog, op. 10 - bassoon and piano, or saxophone choir

Elegy for the Erased, op. 11 - violoncello and contrabass

• commissioned by Vince Osborn and Edward Willett

One Minute Pause - piano solo​, op. 16

One Minute Pause II - 2 violins, 2 flutes, viola, piano, op. 19

Three Preludes - piano solo, op. 18
      
Repartee, op. 12 - violoncello, contrabass, horn  ~ or  bass flute, bass clarinet, violin, horn 

Four Tone Poems: Meditations on Lake Superior, op. 3  -  piano solo
              I. Sails and Egress
               II. A Moveable Beach
              III. Navires dans la nuit
              IV. Exiles and Gyres
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A Christmas Cantata, op. 7 - SATB choir and chamber orchestra
              I. Comfort Ye, My People
              III. Magnificat
              IV. Joseph, Son of David
            VII. O Magnum Mysterium            

•    commissioned by Jim Pospisil and Peace Church UCC, Duluth, MN
•    co-composed with Brad Bombardier

Toccata, op. 1  -  piano solo

Waltz without Gravity, op. 8 - piano solo

​Seven Songs for Somewhere Else, op. 9 - piano solo
                
Metamorphosis of Maria Sibylla Merian, op. 2  -  piano solo

The Abbey, op. 5  -  piano solo

• commissioned by Saint Norbert of Xanten