Opera
Harmony (2018-19) (2 hours 15 minutes)
(libretto by Russell Banks)
Vocal Solo
Solo Song (2002)
for solo voice [text by composer] [from Four Occasions]
Our Heart and Home Is With Infinitude (1998)
for soprano and piano (15')
[texts by Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Friedrich, Whitman, and Leopardi]
Vocal Duo
Di Pensier a Pensier (2000)
for soprano, mezzo soprano, and harpsichord (15’)
[text by Petrarch]
(see also Warm Waxing Wail, solo piano)
Vocal With Chamber Ensemble
Haiku from a Horrible Year (2020) for soprano and five instrumentalists (21')
The Geography of Loss (2011) for soprano, baritone, chamber choir, and instrumental septet [text by composer]
The Sting of Command (2002)Seeing Forms, Hearing Voices (1999)
for soprano, male chorus, brass, strings, percussion, keyboard sampler, and electroacoustic part (20’)
Pensées Nocturnes (1994)
for soprano and piano trio (13')
[texts by Blaise Pascal]
El Canto de los Asesinados (1993)
for tenor, clappers, percussion, soprano saxophone and bass guitar (5')
[texts by Federico Garcia Lorca and Robert Carl]
Two Visions (1987)
for soprano and thirteen players (texts by W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens) (20')
American Space (1983)
for soprano and six players (text by Louis Sullivan) (14')
[see also Distant Shore II under "chamber orchestra"]
Music Theater (monodrama)
Trancendance (1991)
for soprano, piano, and bass (on Shaker texts) (15')
Choral
A-... (2015) for a cappella chorus
Fear No (2010) (6') for a cappella chorus
Simic Songs (2003)
fifteen madrigals for four solo voices
Sanctus for Zepernick (2002)
for a cappella chorus (7’)
Autumn Song (1993)
for children's choir (2')
[text by Emily Dickinson]
Sullivan Songs (1983)
for 12-voice a cappella choir (9')
[texts by Louis Sullivan]