Music

STAGE
OPERA
BALLET

OPERA

2010 Dracula 75 min.?
ballet for chamber orchestra (0-1*-1*-0, 1-0-0-0, 1 perc, harp, cimbalon, strings)
Commissioned and premiered by Carolina Ballet, October 2010

2010 Masque of the Red Death 30 min.?
ballet for chamber orchestra (0-1*-1*-0, 1-0-0-0, 1 perc, harp, 2 male voices (bass, bar), strings)
Commissioned and premiered by Carolina Ballet, October 2010

1999 Kitty Hawk 60 min. ?
chamber opera for SSMTTBarBarBB and chamber orchestra
(1*-1*-1*-1, 1-1-1-0, perc, pn, hp, strings) [Original libretto by Will Graham]
Commissioned and premiered by the National Opera Company, April 2000.

1997 A Tree—a Rock—a Cloud 30 min. ?
chamber opera for soprano, tenor, baritone, alto sax, trombone, and cello
[Libretto by composer adapted from the short story by Carson McCullers]
Premiered by Capital Opera, January 2007.

BALLET

2009 Song of the Dead 30 min. ?
ballet for clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, and piano
Commissioned and premiered by Carolina Ballet, October 2009.
(30 min. six-movement suite available as Illuminations)

2009 Guernica 12 min. ?
ballet for solo piano
Commissioned and premiered by Carolina Ballet, October 2009.

2008 Memoria a 3 9 min. ?
dance for cello and piano
Commissioned and premiered by NCSU Dance, April 2009.
(9 min. three-movement suite available)

2003 Ouroboros 25 min. ?
ballet for chamber orchestra (1*-1*-Bs Cl-1-Alt Sx, 0-1-0-0, 1 perc, strings)
Commissioned and premiered by Nashville Ballet, October 2003.
(25 min. three-movement suite available)

1999 The Kreutzer Sonata 75 min. ?
(25’ suite also available) ballet for string quartet and piano
interweaving the first mvt of the Beethoven sonata,
the Janacek string quartet and thirty-five minutes of original music
Commissioned and premiered by Carolina Ballet, February 2000.