Résumé: 2010-2023
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2010 Edward II a two and a half hour opera for 5 singers and medium-sized orchestra after Christopher Marlowe; professionally recorded with 11 instruments by Acting Singers Project on a generous grant from Daniel B. Kelly. Score samples will be coming soon. Please click on Christopher Marlowe to hear our almost complete Edward II. |
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2010 Blessings on Your Home First place in the Boston Metro Opera International Composition Competition; choral music category; poem by Andrew Swan; premiered by BMO (recording coming soon). Part of "2 Myths" a 75 minute set of 2 operas for voices, chorus and chamber ensemble. Recording coming soon.
2010 Alone Gd. Sufficeth Director’s Prize Longfellow Chorus Competition
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2010 Antigon after Sophocles, Main-Stage Award in Boston Metro Opera International Composer Competition: Opera Division; one hour and 15 minutes; for 4 voices and medium-sized orchestra. Antigon is the first of three short works included in the 2 hour collection: "Three Character Studies." The BMO performed "Antigon" with piano. Please click on
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Please click on Antigon, as played by Sarah May, soprano to hear "Antigon's Farewell" and use the PDF to see the score of the final sounds of ANTIGON:
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2011 Birthday On The Moon Second Place Long Leaf Opera Competition
2012 Hamlet after William Shakespeare, 2 and a half hours; for 8 singers and medium-sized orchestra; Commissioned by, and selections premiered with piano by Boston Metro Opera. Only the following recording survives. Please click below to hear "Laertes' Lament" as sung by mezzo-soprano, Susan Craft Larson and piano, Yelana Birayeva:
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2015 The Swallow and The Prince after Oscar Wilde, A 45 minute opera for 4-6 singers, medium-sized orchestra; performed with flute and piano by Acting Singers Project under an arts council grant from the Town of Dedham. You can hear this performance by clicking on The Swallow or The Prince to the right: Please click on one of the lovers to see & hear the video of The Acting Singers Project's first performance of The Swallow and The Prince: Please use the PDF to the right to see the orchestral score of the first scene of The Swallow and The Prince; 
Please click the button below to hear the first scene ofThe Swallow and The Prince:
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2016 King Lear after William Shakespeare; 90 minutes; 7 singers, medium-sized orchestra.
2017 Songs of Summer, a set to poems by William Blake had it's European premier in Cologne, Germany by baritone, Hartmut Schultz.
2019 The Balcony after Jean Genet; medium-sized orchestra; 2 hours and 13 minutes; 4-12 singers. (A 19 minute scene has been videoed and may be available soon.)
2020 Covid-19: a Cantata Ballet for low voice, speaker, male or female chorus, and either chamber ensemble or medium-sized orchestra with at least 3 dancers.
2022: Rain has Fallen, a 14 minute song set to poems by James Joyce was premiered by baritone, Hartmut Schulz on 3/10/22 at the Academia Arte, Alser Str. 28, 1019, Vienna.
2021-23: I wrote concerti for oboe & trumpet; for harp; and for three double reed instruments; as well as some orchestral song sets & other pieces for orchestra, including a second symphony for large orchestra. I also worked on choral music, chamber music & vocal music, including an unaccompanied song cycle. 2022 -2023 I Most I mostly worked on music theater pieces.