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Music for Orchestra
Commedia Suite (2014)
Winter Music (2014)
>> Interlude for Strings (2010) **
Time Flying : movement for orchestra (2007/8) **
A Traveler’s Tales : suite for orchestra (2006, rev. 2021)
Flavors of Desire : ballet score (1996)
Circle Dance : suite for piano and orchestra (1990)
Solovolo (1990)
>> Laughter in Excelsis : concert overture (1987, rev. 2018) **
Music for
Chamber Ensembles
Tales After Midnight : quintet for violin, viola, cello, bass and piano (2017)
Los Bufones Mini-Suite : for violin, cello and piano (2017)
Circus : string quintet (2015)
Three : suite for violin and piano (2015)
>> Three Dances : septet for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, vln, vla, vc, piano (2013)
>> Five Pieces of the Puzzle : suite for oboe, clarinet, vln, vla, vc, bass, piano (2009)
Water Over Stones : suite for piano and cello (2008)
Bouquet : suite for piano and violin (2008)
Second Quintet : for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2005)
The Embrace of a Full Moon (Quintet for Strings) : 3 violins, viola, cello (2005)
Rivers at Sunset : suite for piano, vln, cello (2004)
Jeux d'Antan : quintet for flute, clarinet, pno, vln, cello (1990)
Piano Trio in E : piano, vln, cello (1989)
Wild Geese : suite for alto flute, guitar, vln, cello (1989)
>> Brocadillos : suite for harp and guitar (1987) **
>> Tangos de Santa Fe : suite for guitar, English horn and flute (1986)
Vocal Music
LANGUAGE KEY
EN English
FR French
GK Greek
HB Hebrew
L Latin
SK Sanskrit
SP Spanish
Terrea Gloria : movement from suite for orchestra, chorus and soloists (2019) L, SP
Text: from Bernard de Cluny (De Contemptu Mundi), Hildegard of Bingen, Santa Teresa de Jesus,
San Juan de la Cruz
El Adon : movement from suite for orchestra, chorus and soloists (2019) HB
Text: from Hebrew mystical texts (2nd C. BCE – 9th C.) and Psalm 92
Mosaïque : lyric suite for baritone and chamber octet (2018) FR
Text: selected poems of Benjamin Fondane (1898–1944)
Instruments: flute/piccolo, alto recorder, Bb clarinet, harp, accordion, viola, cello, double bass
A la luna : suite for soprano, oboe, violin, viola and cello (2016) ** SP
Text: poem 'A la luna' by Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885)
>> Los Bufones : cosita in two acts, based on the Velázquez portraits of dwarfs
and jesters at the court of Felipe IV (operatic song cycle for the theatre) (2016) SP
Original text by the composer; Spanish translation by María Cristina López
Six vocalists, piano, violin and cello
Milonga : aria for voice, cello and piano (2015) EN
Text by the composer, set to the first movement of the chamber suite Water Over Stones
>> Pan Resurrected : suite for soloists, chorus and orchestra (2006) GK, SK, HB
Text from several centuries of Greek poetry, a Hebrew hymn, and from the Bhagavad Gita
>> Matapolvos : suite for soprano, English horn, viola and cello (2005) SP
Text: selections from El Siglo del Viento (Century of the Wind) by Eduardo Galeano
Arabesco : suite for soprano, oboe and string quintet (1990, rev. 2005) FR
Text: Arabic and Persian poems of the 8th–14th centuries, in French translation
Osaka Farewell : opera, based on the Noh play Semimaru by Zeami (2004) EN
Text adapted by the composer; 4 vocalists, male chorus, chamber orchestra
>> Queen of the Night : opera, based on Baron von Leisenbohg's Destiny by Arthur Schnitzler
—premiere 2001, Paris; revision 2007, Santa Fe EN
Text adapted by the composer; 4 vocalists, violin, cello, clarinet and piano
Barbary Keep : opera comique, libretto by William Wesbrooks and Ron Strauss
—produced in 2001, New York University EN
Piano Music
solo
Interludes (2020)
Songs at End of Empire (2020)
Miscellany 2 (2020)
Miscellany 1 (2020)
The Light From Distant Stars (2017)
Invisible Bridges (2015)
Time Vault (2002)
anthology containing —
Private Collection
Solitaires
Souls in Search of Bodies
Feux d'Hiver (1988)
Sketches for Nils (1983)
Commedia (1978)
The Student Variations (1978)
four hands
Brocadillos (2005)
Commedia (2002)
Tales of the Magicians (1978)