Compositions
Choral and vocal works
On Dark Earth (2018)
Written for SATB choir
Text by: Sappho
Winner of the Uncommon Music Festival 2020 Composer Competition and Top Finalist for for Voices 21C 2019 Call for Scores
Commissioned by the William Ferris Chorale
Forthcoming publication by Dulcamara Press (2026)
Approximate duration: 4:00
Moon Water Sun (2021)
Written for medium-low voice and piano
Text by: Emily Dickinson
Approximate duration: 7:45
Cycle of three songs:
“Moon”
“Water”
“Sun”
Premiered February 25, 2023
Society of Composers, Inc. Region VIII conference (Tacoma, WA)
Dawn Padula, mezzo-soprano; Jessica Hall, piano
Women Who Kill (2018)
Written for soprano, violin, and double bass
Published by Dulcamara Press (2024)
Texts by: letters to and from Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward; Bonnie Parker, “The Street Girl”; “The Ballad of Maria Barberi”; Mary August Lee Demarest, “My Ain Countrie”; Allan Cunningham, “Home, Home, Home”; court testimony from Sarah Harvey
Commissioned by Bethany Battafarano
Cycle of five songs:
“The Masculine”
“The Muse/Mastermind”
“The Damaged”
“The Respectable”
“The Witch”
Approximate duration: 22:00
Chansons Innocentes (2015)
Written for soprano, clarinet, and piano
Text by E. E. Cummings
2017 winner of the International Alliance of Women in Music New Music Competition Patsy Lu Prize
Commissioned by Emma Rose Lynn
Approximate duration: 16:20
Cycle of five songs:
“In Just-Spring”
“Hist Whist”
“Little Tree”
“Why Did You Go”
“Tumbling-Hair”
Premiered November 9, 2016
Punk-Ass Classical VIII (Minneapolis, MN)
Emma Rose Lynn, soprano; David Soro, clarinet; Johanna Kvam, piano
Stronger (2021)
Written for variable instrumentation (lead sheet for voice and guitar)
Text by Victoria Malawey
Commissioned by MPLS (imPulse)
Approximate duration: 4:30
Every Land (2019)
Written for mezzo-soprano, guitar, and bass clarinet
Text by Ursula K. Le Guin
Commissioned by Bob Milnikel
Approximate duration: 3:30
Premiered February 29, 2020
Leap Day Concert (Gambier, OH)
Elizabeth Milnikel, soprano; John Kregor, guitar; Bob Milnikel, bass clarinet
The Patient Beating of the Animal Heart (2018)
Written for soprano, cello, and piano
Text by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Commissioned by the ARK Trio
Approximate duration: 5:00
Premiered December 3, 2018
PREformances with Allison Charney (New York, NY)
Allison Charney, soprano; Kajsa William-Olsson, cello; Craig Ketter, piano
Nightbreak (2009)
Written for SATB chamber choir
Text by Adrienne Rich
Approximate duration: 5:35
Premiered March 2, 2010
Concert of New Music, Kenyon College (Gambier, OH)
Victoria Malawey, conductor
January (2009)
Written for soprano, mezzo-soprano, clarinet, and piano
Text by Helen Hunt Jackson
Approximate duration: 3:45
The Morning is Full (1999)
Written for bass-baritone and piano
Text by Pablo Neruda
Approximate duration: 5:00
Premiered February 25, 1999
Senior Composition Recital, Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL)
Richard Tennes, bass-baritone; Anatoliy Torchinskiy, piano
Suddenly You Light (1997)
Written for mezzo-soprano, flute, and violoncello
Text: five Japanese Haiku
Approximate duration: 3:00
Premiered March 3, 1997
Student Composition Recital, Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL)
Sarah Dickey, mezzo-soprano; Laura Koepele-Tenges, flute; Daliwonga Tshangela, cello
The Hollow Men (1995)
Written for SATB choir
Text by T. S. Eliot
Approximate duration: 6:00
Premiered December 1995
Roosevelt University Chorus Winter Concert, Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL)
Anne Heider, conductor
Two Songs (2025)
Written for soprano, mezzo-soprano, and piano
Text by Joel Allegretti
Two songs
“Ghost Fox and Spirit Seal”
“The Batfowler”
Approximate duration: 6:50
Rain into River (2022)
Written for SATB choir
Text by Michael Dylan Welch and Tanya McDonald
Approximate duration: 6:00
Invitation to Love (2020)
Written for SATB choir; arrangement also for countertenor, countertenor, tenor, baritone, baritone, bass
Text by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Approximate duration: 3:35
Finalist for the 2022 Silver Melted into Sound Composition Competition
The Gift to Sing (2020)
Written for SATB choir
Text by James Weldon Johnson
Approximate duration: 3:45
El Beso (2018)
Written for SATB choir
Text by Angelina Weld Grimké
Approximate duration: 3:30
The Heart Asks Pleasure (2015)
Written for SATB choir
Text by Emily Dickinson
Approximate duration: 4:30
Five Madrigals (2000)
Written for SSATB chamber choir
Text by E. E. Cummings
In five movements
“41 (Beautiful)”
“9 (now is a ship)”
“42 (nOthIng)”
“3 (seeker of truth)”
“XXVI (when god)”
Approximate duration: 12:00