works
VOCAL
Triangle • opera vignette (2017)
for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, percussion, piano, 2 violins, viola, and cello
Tian Hui Ng, conductor; Brendon Shapiro, music director; Greg Smucker, stage director
Cast: Celeste Godin; Sirgourney Tanner; Fran Rogers
Watch Highlights on Vimeo
No More in Darkness • voice, violin/viola, and piano (2017)
Meditations on the life of Alexandra David-Neel
FP: Jul. 2017, Cortona Sessions for New Music, Tuscany, Italy
Love's Astronomy • voice and piano (2018)
Poetry by Jeffery Beam
Dedicated to Jarrett Ott & Adam Franklin on the occasion of their marriage.
FP: Jan 2020, Lafayette CA
Ann Moss, sop.; Steven Bailey, pno.
Recorded by Michelle Murray Fiertek, sop.; Michael Korman, pno.
Album available through Albany Records
Duration: 3.5 minutes
She's Fabulous • opera vignette (2016)
Commissioned by Boston Opera Collaborative
Longy School of Music of Bard College
More Beautiful Than Night • tenor and piano (2016)
Duration: 20 minutes
Audio on SoundCloud
Les Bouteilles de la Table Ronde • solo mezzo-soprano (2015)
an epic surrealist drinking song for women
Installation and Poetry by Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson
FP: Apr–May 2015, Philadelphia, PA
Duration: 15 minutes
Another Weeping Woman • soprano and piano (2012)
Time in Eternity • soprano and guitar (2011)
Duration: 13 minutes
War Wedding • tenor/baritone and piano (2011)
FP: Philly Fringe Festival, Sept. 2011, Philadelphia, PA
Duration: 25 minutes
The Curious Habit of Madre Usimbalda • opera vignette (2010)
FP: International Opera Theater, Nov. 2010, Philadelphia, PA
Duration: 25 minutes
Theocritus: A Villanelle • soprano and Max/MSP live electronics (2009)
FP: May 2009, Cambridge, MA
Dream Sequences I and II from Maya Awake (2008)
for coloratura soprano and mezzo-soprano, with flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, piano, violins, viola, cello, and double bass
FP: Dec. 2007, Cambridge, MA
Duration: 11 minutes
for two sopranos and mezzo-soprano, with flute, clarinet, horn, harp, piano, percussion, violin, viola and cello
FP: Aug. 2008, Brevard, NC
Duration: 10 minutes
The Lamb • soprano and cello | The Tyger • mezzo-soprano and piano (2008)
Duration: 9 minutes
Ballad of Birmingham • soprano and piano (2007)
Unclasped • soprano and orchestra (2013)
Automata • baritone, soprano, violin, cello, and fixed media (2012)
Commissioned by Network for New Music & Annenberg Center for Performing Arts
Brian M. Chu, bar.; Sarah J. Davis, sop.; Hirono Oka, vln.; Michal Schmidt, vcl.; Tony Solitro, cond.
A Case of Anxiety • opera vignette (2018)
Same-Heart Knot • tenor and guitar/piano (2018)
Commissioned by Justin Vickers, ten.
Burial • opera vignette (2019)
Libretto by Paisley Rekdal
FP: May 20–22, 2019
A Stone Falling • soprano and piano (2020)
Poetry by Jeffery Beam [5’]
Video Release: November 20, 2020
First Glimpse 2020 – The American Opera Project
Justine Aronson, sop.; Kelly Horsted, pno.
Program Note: On his quest for the inexpressible, invisible ground of Being, poet Jeffery Beam often follows the guidance of animate things. But what if he were to ask something inanimate—a stone, for example—about the mysteries of existence? What could a stone know of intimacy, imagination, dreams, bravery, contradictions, self-realization, and celebration of Being? What wisdom might a stone reveal about our purpose on earth?
Apostrophe • baritone and piano (2019)
Poetry by Jeffery Beam [4.5’]
First Performance: Dec. 2019, Brooklyn NY
Mario Diaz-Moresco, bar.; Matthew Stephens, pno.
The Flaming Light • bass-baritone and piano (2020)
Libretto by Jonathan Douglass [5’]
Video Release: November 20, 2020
First Glimpse 2020 – The American Opera Project
Brandon Coleman, bass-bar.; Lisa Edwards, pno.
Program Note: The African sorcerer Zolomon was once sweet, but that was many centuries ago. People on the isle of Meleneia hated sweet things, so they banished him to the cliffside beyond the forest. Now he lives in exile, whispering and watching. His eyes shine like ice as his mouth sends rivers of hexes down on the villagers who rejected him. Renouncing sweet things, his fury twists into an unbreakable web that chokes life from the land.
In this aria, Zolomon recalls the day he was burned by a mysterious star that fell from the sky and destroyed his forest. He was drawn, afraid and mesmerized, toward the flaming light. When Zolomon laid eyes on it, he experienced love for the first time in his life.
X-mas • tenor and piano (2020)
Libretto by Amanda Hollander [5’]
First Performance: Feb. 2020, Brooklyn NY
Timothy Stoddard, ten.; Mila Henry, pno.
Revolution Begins in the Bedroom • mezzo and piano (2020)
“Revolution Begins in the Bedroom” [4.5’]
Victoria’s opening aria of Mrs. Satan and the Nasty Woman, an opera-in-progress by librettist Alice Eve Cohen and composer Tony Solitro, adapted from Cohen's play.
Produced and recorded by The American Opera Project as part of their video tour, Working Women: Songs of Suffering and Suffrage, commemorating the women's suffrage centennial in the U.S. The video by filmmaker Lesley Steele features mezzo-soprano Eve Gigliotti with music director and pianist Mila Henry.
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Program Note:
Almost erased from the history books, Woodhull was a suffrage fighter, radical activist, stockbroker, clairvoyant, and free love advocate. Once hailed by Susan B. Anthony as “the new leader of our fight for Suffrage,” Woodhull fell out of favor with suffrage leaders when she had the audacity to run for president. She was jailed right before the 1872 election.
Opera Premise:
November 7, 2016. It’s the eve of another historic election. Hillary Clinton is having a hard time sleeping. Her mind is racing. Insomnia rules. She wakes up in Ludlow Street Jail circa 1872, sharing a cell with Victoria Woodhull.
Will Hillary be radicalized by Victoria’s foresight and revolutionary politics? Based on Alice Eve Cohen’s play Mrs. Satan and the Nasty Woman, the opera examines two women's roles in the long path to a woman President.

The Purple Frog • soprano and piano (2020)
Libretto by John de los Santos [7’]
Video: First Glimpse 2020 – The American Opera Project
Jasmine Muhammad, sop.; Mila Henry, pno.
Note: Miss Alden leads her first-graders through a lesson on identifying types of nouns. When the class-clown expresses his frustration, she realizes why he's been so disruptive. She ditches her lesson plan and takes an impromptu detour that enchants and inspires her students.
LARGE ENSEMBLE
Heroes and Beasts • cello and chamber orchestra (2014)
Branson Yeast, vcl.; David Leibowitz, cond.; Litha Symphony Orchestra
Duration: 13 minutes
Excerpt on SoundCloud
Unclasped • soprano and orchestra (2013)
Hybris • orchestra (2009)
Araby • tenor and orchestra (2007)
SOLO / CHAMBER
Breaking Point • mixed octet (2017)
living—despite | living—against • mixed quintet (2018)
Shadow Confrontations • string quintet (2015)
Duration: 15 minutes
Automata • baritone, soprano, violin, cello, and fixed media (2012)
Commissioned by Network for New Music & Annenberg Center for Performing Arts
Brian M. Chu, bar.; Sarah J. Davis, sop.; Hirono Oka, vln.; Michal Schmidt, vcl.; Tony Solitro, cond.
Spectra of Morning • solo magnetic resonating piano (2011)
Atropine • percussion and electronic sound (2011)
Passages • alto flute, violin, and cello (2010)
Duration: 6 minutes
Neda • three double basses (2010)
Michael Rittling, Adam Cobb, & Allison Cook
Duration: 8 minutes
Video on Vimeo
Hindsight • flute, clarinet, cello, and piano (2009)
Masha Popova, fl.; Kelly Coyle, cl.; Natalie Helm, vcl.; Lio Kuokman, pno.
Duration: 9 minutes
Interplay • baritone saxophone, bassoon, and trombone (2009)
Duration: 9 minutes
There Is a Realm • string quartet (2008)
Duration: 11 minutes
Excerpt on SoundCloud
Lament for Lebanon • flute, clarinet, two violins, viola, and cello (2007)
Ashley Addington, fl.; Yhasmin Valenzuela, cl.; Olga Kradenova & Sarah Jacques, vlns.; Kirsten Swanson, vla.; Anna Cho Walker, vcl.
Hymns & Carols of Christmas • for cello and piano (2018)
sharp horizons—gentle plains • clarinet, violin, and piano (2019)
Duration: 7 minutes
Canción Exaltada | to Julia de Burgos • pierrot + (2019)
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, & percussion
FP: Holyoke MA, Jun. 2019
Ng Tian Hui & the
Victory Players
Love's Astronomy II • clarinet and harp (2019)
Premiere: NMF Kamermuziekfestival bij Natuurmonumenten
No More in Darkness • voice, violin/viola, and piano (2017)
Meditations on the life of Alexandra David-Neel
FP: Jul. 2017, Cortona Sessions for New Music, Tuscany, Italy
Rhaea D’Aliesio and Melanie Bacaling
She’s Fabulous with Boston Opera Collaborative
(Dan Busler, photo credit)
Lauren Eberwein, Les Bouteilles de la Table Ronde
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
(Constance Mensh, photo credit)
Justin Vickers, War Wedding
Kathryn Krasovec (Usimbalda) and Yasko Fujii (Isabetta)
The Curious Habit of Madre Usimbalda
International Opera Theater in Città di Saluzzo, Italy