Works

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On the Death of Our Young

Cello and piano | 15 minutes | 2013

Shifting Spirits

Violin and cello | 10 minutes | 2010

Gently Flowing

Violin and piano | 16 minutes | 2010

Dirge

Brass ensemble (4.2.3.1) | 7 minutes | 2010

Lament Amid Silence

Solo viola, consort of six violas, piano | 54 minutes | 2009

Lament With Ghosts

Solo viola with consort of six violas | 17 minutes | 2009

Ghosts

Six violas | 12 minutes | 2009

Lament

Solo viola or solo cello | 10 minutes | 2009

Montecito Variation

Solo violin | 4 minutes | 2009

Tapestry

Horn, violin, piano | 17 minutes | 1998

Mosaic in Two Panels

String quartet | 20 minutes | 1997

Veranderungen

Violin and piano | 15 minutes | 1995

Transience

Oboe and percussion | 10 minutes | 1994

Echoes From The Holocaust

Oboe, viola, and piano | 18 minutes | 1993

Nexus

Flute and piano | 10 minutes | 1993

Mountains And Rivers Trio

Violin, cello, and piano | 16 minutes | 1990

Four Fantasy Pieces

Flute and piano | 9 minutes | 1987

Orchestra

Two Songs from Twelfth Night

Baritone, chamber orchestra
2-2-2-2; 2-0-0-0; harp; perc; strings
7 minutes
2013

Surging Seas

String orchestra (5.4.3.2.1)
19 minutes
2012

Aviv: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

2-2-0-2; 0-2-0-0; strings
20 minutes
2009

Janfare

3-2-2-2; 2-2-0-0; timp, perc; strings
4 minutes
2007

Elegy for Orchestra – In Memoriam Otto Leuning

2-0-2-2; 4-2-3-1; timp, perc; strings
7 minutes
1997

Mosaic in Two Panels

String orchestra
20 minutes
1992/97

Festive Overture

3-3-3-3; 4-3-3-1; timp, perc(1-2); strings
9 minutes
1996

Triptych for Orchestra

3-2-3-3; 4-2-3-1; timp, perc(3), hp(2); strings
18 minutes
1980 Vocal

Two Songs From Twelfth Night

Baritone and piano
Orchestral version available
7 minutes
2013

An Empty Boat, Floating Adrift: Five Poems of Tu Fu

Contralto, piano, percussion
15 minutes
2007

Song of Loving Kindness

Solo voice with or without audience
Suitable for children’s voices
8 minutes
2000

Aria From Mountains and Rivers

Soprano and piano
5 minutes
1993

Five Ecstatic Poems of Kabir

Contralto or soprano and chamber ensemble:
Flute, clarinet, percussion(1-2), piano
18 minutes
1988

Il Paradiso Terrestre

Soprano and piano
5 minutes
1988

Four poems of Linda Pastan

Soprano and chamber ensemble:
Flute, viola, bass, percussion(1-2), piano
14 minutes
1987

Demeter’s Scena from Mysteries of Eleusis

Soprano and piano
11 minutes
1986

Eight Japanese Poems

Soprano or tenor and harp
7 minutes
1984

Four Poems of Wallace Stevens

Soprano and chamber ensemble:
Flute, cello, percussion(1-2), piano
12 minutes
1984

Ten Fragments of Pindar

Soprano and piano
20 minutes
1983

Six Poems of William Carlos Williams

Tenor and chamber ensemble:
Fl, cl, bcl; mand, gtr; perc(2); vln, vla, vlc, cb
19 minutes
1983

First Tragedy

Soprano, clarinet, piano
10 minutes
1982 Opera

Outcast at the Gate

1 lead bass, 7 secondary roles, chorus
119 minutes
In development

Twelfth Night

6 principal roles, 5 secondary roles, small chorus
2-1-2-2; 2-0-0-0; timp, perc; pf, hrp; strings
120 minutes
2003

Mysteries of Eleusis

2 males, 5 females, chorus
1-1-1-1; 2-1-1-1; timp, 3 perc; pf; strings
75 minutes
1986 Keyboard

Solo piano unless otherwise noted.

Ti Sarani

Organ | 8 minutes | 2015

88 For Nick

3 minutes | 2013

Prelude to a Sonata

4 minutes | 2013

Variations On Empty Space

12 minutes | 2008

Variations on a Theme by Arnold Schoenberg

16 minutes | 1995

Fourteen Canonic Variations on J.S. Bach BWV 1087

Two pianos | 6 minutes | 1995

Four Meditations from Dogen

17 minutes | 1994

Four Elegies

15 minutes | 1980

Soundtrack

Old Plum Mountain: The Berkeley Zen Center: Life Inside The Gates

Directed by Ed Herzog
2011

Mountains and Rivers

In collaboration with Daniel Palkowski
Commissioned by Zen Mountain Monastery
1996

Variations on Mel’s Song

Flute and Alto Flute | 8 minutes |2015