(unless otherwise indicated, works published by Domilo Music)
Opera
The Life and Love of Joe Coogan, comic opera in one act, adapted by librettist Kate Light from the Dick Van Dyke Show TV episode written by Carl Reiner, 2010: two sopranos, one mezzo-soprano, one tenor, two baritones, one bass-baritone, one female speaking role. Alto saxophone, trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, string quartet, contrabass.
Duration: 60 minutes
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Tony Caruso’s Final Broadcast, one-act opera in ten scenes on a libretto by Dana Gioia, 2004: six sopranos, two mezzo-sopranos, boy soprano, tenor, two baritones.
Flute, Oboe/Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone/Bass Clarinet, 2 Trumpets, Tenor Trombone, Bass Trombone, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Trap Set, Strings
Note: Woodwind doubles can be separated, upper strings can be as few as two on a part with a single cello and a single contrabass doubling on bass guitar.
Duration: 50 minutes
Winner, National Opera Association Chamber Opera Competition, 2007
World premiere: Los Angeles, 2008
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Ballet Opera
Haunted, one-act ballet opera with libretto by Dana Gioia, adapted from his poem of the same name. 2019: baritone, male dancer, two female dancers, actor, string quartet, percussion.
Duration: 35 minutes
Ballet
FABLES, commissioned and premiered by RIOULT New York, 2012: chamber orchestra (clarinet, trumpet, horn, percussion, piano/harpsichord, strings)
Orchestra with Narration
The Big Sword and the Little Broom, Italian fable retold by Dana Gioia, 1997: narrator, solo violin and chamber orchestra (2222, 2210, 2, harp, strings)
Duration: 25 minutes
The Old Witch and the New Moon, Italian fable retold by Dana Gioia: soprano, narrator and string orchestra, 1999
Duration: 10 minutes
Full orchestra version premiered at the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, 2006
Symphonic and Chamber Orchestra
Hoops, for chamber orchestra, commissioned to celebrate Lehigh University’s Sesquicentennial, 2015.
Duration: 8 minutes
Preludio for symphonic orchestra, commissioned and premiered by the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, 2011.
Duration: 4 minutes
Hugging the Shore for string orchestra and harp, commissioned by and premiered by the Duxbury High School String Ensemble, 2009
Duration: 5 minutes
Publisher: Alfred Music
The Monocacy Tarantella for chamber orchestra (piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 horns, 1 trumpet, percussion, strings), 2007
Duration: 4 minutes
Three Bass Hit, concerto for a single soloist playing three instruments (tuba, string bass, electric bass) and symphonic orchestra (pic222bass1, alto/tenor/bari sax, 2221, 6 percussion, piano, strings), 2007
Duration: 13 minutes
“Evening Scene” from Milestones for chamber orchestra (2222, 2200, percussion, strings), commissioned and premiered by the San Diego Chamber Orchestra, 2006
Duration: 5 minutes
A Dance Across Life for chamber orchestra (2222, 2200, percussion, strings), commissioned and premiered by the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, 2005
Duration: 6 minutes
A Little Creek Music for chamber orchestra (2222, 4200, 2, strings), commissioned and premiered by the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, 2003
Duration: 7 minutes
A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance, two movements for symphonic orchestra
(21english horn, 22, 4221, 2, harp, strings), 2003
Duration: 12 minutes
Original version entitled “Millennium Dances” commissioned and premiered by the New Haven Symphony, 2001
The Big Sword and the Little Broom, suite for solo violin and chamber orchestra (2222, 2210, 2, harp, strings), commissioned and premiered by the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, 1997
Duration: 18 minutes
Upstream/About Two Miles for symphonic orchestra (2222, 4221, 4 percussionists, strings), commissioned and premiered by the Schuylkill Symphony Orchestra, 1993
Duration: 10 minutes
On Seeing Pictures by Friends for chamber orchestra (1111, 1110, 1, electric guitar, strings)
Duration: 12 minutes
Birthing Suite for large orchestra without upper strings, percussion, and synthesizers, commissioned to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Packer Chapel, Lehigh University, 1988
Duration: 25 minutes
Chaconne (Post-Jeter Street Rise) for chamber orchestra (222 bcl 2, 2210,2, piano, harp, strings), commissioned and premiered by the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra 1983
Duration: 15 minutes
String Orchestra and String Quartet arrangements
Prelude and Jig, string quartet and string orchestra, commissioned and premiered by the Dalí Quartet Festival Orchestra, 2019
Duration: 12 minutes
Songs without Words (Mendelssohn), four movements for string quartet, 2014 Duration: 12 minutes Publisher: Theodore Presser
Le Grand Tango (Piazzolla), solo cello and string orchestra arrangement (minimum: 4,4,3,3,2) of the original cello and piano piece by Astor Piazzolla , commissioned and premiered by Sejong, 2003
Duration: 13 minutes
Publisher: BERBEN (Italy)
Perpetuum Mobile, solo violin and string orchestra, 2004
Duration: 4 minutes
Wind ensemble
Hoops, variations on basketball plays for wind ensemble, 2018
Duration: 8 minutes
Driving Home the Cows, song on a poem by Kate Putnam Osgood for wind ensemble and baritone, commissioned and premiered by the Lehigh University Wind Ensemble to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, 2011.
Duration: 8 minutes
Upstream/About Two Miles, wind ensemble, 1996.
Duration: 10 minutes
Chamber Music with Narration
The Big Sword and the Little Broom, Italian fable retold by Dana Gioia: narrator, violin, cello, clarinet, trumpet, horn, percussion, and piano, 1998.
Duration: 25 minutes
The Old Witch and the New Moon, Italian fable retold by Dana Gioia: narrator, soprano, violin, viola, and piano, 1999
Duration: 10 minutes
The Old Witch and the New Moon, Italian fable retold by Dana Gioia: narrator, soprano, violin, viola, violoncello, and piano, 2000
Duration: 10 minutes
Chamber Music
Disruption and Hope (clarinet quintet), commissioned and premiered by Concerts on the Slope, 2023
Duration: 9 minutes
L’acquabelle di fontanelle (Variations on an Abruzzese folksong), clarinet, violin, and percussion, 2023
Duration: 5 minutes
Three Places in Pennsylvania for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, and pianoforte, commissioned and premiered by SATORI, 2021.
Duration: 16 minutes.
Vola, Vola, Vola (Variations on an Abruzzese folksong) for clarinet and violin, 2020
Duration: 7 minutes
Daliance for string quartet and percussion, premiered by the Dalì Quartet and Ian Rosenbaum, 2017
Duration: 5 minutes
Sinfonietta Italiana for woodwind quintet, premiered by East Winds. 2017
Duration 15 minutes
2×242 for trombone and harp, commissioned by the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council. Premiered by the Branderson Duo. 2016.
Duration: 24 minutes
U-Turn, for woodwind quintet, commissioned and premiered by East Winds to celebrate Lehigh University’ Sesquicentennial. 2016.
Duration: 15 minutes
Partita for trombone and harp. Premiered by the Branderson Duo. 2014.
Duration: 14 minutes
Quartet 1.5, commissioned and premiered by the Vega Quartet, 2014.
Duration: 33 minutes.
Many Happy Returns, for brass quintet, commissioned and premiered by Philadelphia Brass, 2012.
Duration: 14 minutes.
The Animal Struck with the Plague (from the ballet FABLES), for string quartet and bass clarinet, 2012.
Duration: 8 minutes
Also arranged for viola and marimba, 2020.
The Oak and the Reed (from the ballet FABLES), for violin and timpani (piano optional), 2012.
Duration: 8 minutes
The Oak and the Reed (from the ballet Fables), four percussionists. 2014
Duration: 8 minutes
Black and Tan, for piano quartet, premiered and commissioned by the Gabriel Chamber Ensemble, 2011.
Duration: 5 minutes
Shinichi Rag, for two pianos and two percussionists, 2014
Duration: 3 minutes
Shinichi Rag, for tenor sax and marimba, 2011
Duration: 3 minutes
Shinichi Rag, for clarinet and piano, 2010
Duration: 3 minutes
Witches and Rappings for clarinet, flute, violin & piano, commissioned and premiered by SATORI, 2010
Duration: 10 minutes
Four Sketches for Two Brothers for marimba and violin, 2008
Duration: 7 minutes
Two Partita for flute and guitar, commissioned and premiered by Two-Part Invention, 2008
Duration: 10 minutes
Turns, flute, guitar, and string quartet, commissioned and premiered by SATORI, 2006
Duration: 13 minutes
Up and Dancing, alto saxophone, string quartet, contrabass, 1988
Duration: 5 minutes
Toddler Riffs, flute, violin, cello, commissioned and premiered by Animè, 1990
Duration: 20 minutes
Lapse, bassoon and horn, 1980
Duration: 3 minutes
String Quartet, 1979
Duration: 20 minutes
Trio, clarinet/bass clarinet, viola/violin, piano, 1975
Duration: 10 minutes
Vocal music (with piano, guitar, or chamber ensemble)
I Sing to use the Waiting, on a poem by Emily Dickinson for soprano, marimba, and piano. For Steven Sametz on his retirement from teaching. 2024
Duration: 3 minutes
Film Noir, on a poem by Dana Gioia for mezzo-soprano, electric guitar, violin, and tambourine. 2023.
Duration: 6 minutes
Three Prayers, song cycle on poems by Dana Gioia for baritone and marimba. Also for mezzo and guitar. 2020
Duration: 10 minutes
Korean Meal Table, cycle of songs in Korean on poems by Pastor Hyunloo Lee, DoHyun Ahn, and Haein Lee for soprano and pianoforte. 2019.
Duration: 11 minutes
Repentance, song on a poem by Natasha Trethewey for mezzo and guitar. Slide show options. 2019
Duration: 5 minutes
The Ballad of Jésus Ortiz on a poem by Dana Gioia for baritone and string quartet. 2019
Duration: 11 minutes
Four City Scenes, song cycles on poems and translations by Richard Wilbur and a poem by Kevin Young for mezzo and guitar, 2018
Duration: 15 minutes
A Wedding Toast, a song for a son’s wedding for mezzo, guitar, violin, and accordion. 2018
Duration: 4 minutes
Something Permanent, song cycle on poems by Cynthia Rylant for mezzo and guitar. Slide show optional. 2016.
Duration: 14 minutes
Ekphrastic Songs, song cycle on poems by David Ferry for mezzo and guitar. Slide show optional. 2016
Duration: 8 minutes
Finding One Self, song cycle on poems by David Ferry for mezzo and guitar. 2016
Duration: 8 minutes
Family Letters, song cycle on a poem by Dana Gioia for mezzo, flute, clarinet in A, violin, and violoncello commissioned by the family of Eileen Wavrek Wescoe, 2015
Duration: 10 minutes
Arrivals, song cycle on poems by Seamus Heaney for soprano, violin, and piano. 2014
Duration: 13 minutes
A Kite for Aibhin, song on a poem by Seams Heaney for soprano and string quartet, 2014
Duration: 5 minutes
For Love or Money, song cycle on poems by Dana Gioia for soprano/tenor, violin, pianoforte, contrabass, and percussion, 2014
Duration: 14 minutes
Generations, song cycle on poems by Annie Reiner for soprano and string quartet, 2012
Duration: 13 minutes
Bad Pets, song cycle on poems by Doty, Frost, and Gioia for baritone, alto flute, and guitar, commissioned and premiered by Two-Part Invention, 2007
Duration: 10 minutes
Version for soprano, alto flute and guitar also commissioned and premiered by Two-Part Invention, 2009; alternative arrangement for soprano and piano or baritone and piano also available
Speaking of Love, song cycle on poems by Dana Gioia: soprano, viola, piano/mallet percussion, 1993
Duration: 10 minutes
Version for soprano, flute, and guitar commissioned and premiered by Two-Part Invention, 2009
Regimen Sanitatis Salerni, Italian song cycle for soprano and piano, 2000
Duration: 10 minutes
Regimen Sanitatis Salerni, Italian song cycle for soprano and string quartet, 2003
Duration: 10 minutes
Regimen Sanitatis Salerni, Italian song cycle for mezzo-soprano and guitar, 2019
Duration: 10 minutes
Flora, a song cycle on poems by John Updike for soprano and viola, 2003
Duration: 7 minutes
Money, on a poem by Dana Gioia for soprano, violin, and piano, 1995
Duration: 4 minutes
Sad Stories, song cycle on poems found in the New Yorker: mezzo-soprano, alto flute, mallet percussion, violin, cello, 1991
Duration: 13 minutes
Choral Music
I Sing to use the Waiting, on a poem by Emily Dickinson, a cappella (SATB), commissioned by the Amherst College Class of 1973 for its 50th reunion, 2023.
Duration: 3 minutes
Tu scendi dalle stelle, arrangement of an Italian Christmas Carol (SATB), 2022
Prayer at Winter Solstice, a cappella (SATB) on a poem by Dana Gioia. 2020
Duration: 4 minutes
A Christmas Hymn, a cappella (SATB) on a poem by Richard Wilbur, 2018. Duration: 4 minutes. Premiered by the Amherst College Choral Society
Alleluia, a cappella (SATB), 1999
Duration: 5 minutes
Version for young female choir commissioned and premiered by PERMONIK, 2013
A Bethlehem Carol, a cappella choir, commissioned and premiered by the Cathedral of the Nativity Choir, 2000
Duration: 3 minutes
Published by C. Fischer & Sons
Requia, a cappella choral cycle on three poems by Dana Gioia, 1997
Duration: 10 minutes
Cantate Domino, choir, tape, and synthesizers, 1986
Duration: 6 minutes
Violin music
Cinque Studi di Vicenza, solo violin, 2020
Duration: 15 minutes
Autumn in Parco Querini, solo violin, commissioned by the Cape Cod Symphony and premiered by Lindsay Deutsch, 2009
Duration: 6 minutes
Toddler Riffs, violin and piano, 1992
Duration: 4 minutes
A Dance Across Life, violin and piano, commissioned by the Baker family in honor of the 50th wedding anniversary of Dorothy and Dexter Baker, 2001
Duration: 6 minutes
Music for Young Players
Suzuki Jamboree, for a large number of Suzuki string players in all books and piano, 1994
Duration: 3 minutes
Shinichi Rag, for a large number of Suzuki string players in all books and piano, 1998
Duration: 3 minutes
Suzuki Jamboree, for two violins (student/teacher) and piano, 1995
Duration: 3 minutes
Shinichi Rag, for two violins (student/teacher) and piano, 1998
Duration: 3 minutes
Shinichi Rag, for violin and piano, 1998
Duration: 3 minutes
Incidental music for the theatre
The Mandrake (Machiavelli), prelude and four interludes for singers, drums, and piano, 2003.
The Marriage of Figaro (Beaumarchais), two songs, 1998
Comedy of Errors, accordion, violin, and synthesizer, 1997
Phaedra, sequenced digital synthesizers, 1992
The Moonstone, song, 1990
Waiting for Godot, two songs, 1990
The Suicide, two songs, 1988
Tartuffe, digital synthesizers on tape, 1986
Wedding on the Eiffel Tower, analog tape, 1981
The House of Bernarda Alba, aria and chorus, 1978
Arrangements for Wind Ensemble
Albrechstberger, Concertino for Trumpet, 1984
Schubert, Polonaise, 1982
