Compositions
Songs of Innocence for soprano and piano (2001)
(Settings of Seven Poems by William Blake)
- Infant Joy
- The School Boy
- Laughing Song
- The Little Boy Lost
- The Little Boy Found
- Spring
- The Lamb
First performance: October 14, 2001, the Church of the Lighted Windows, Los Angeles, CA, Renee Sousa, soprano and David Rubinstein, piano.
Subsequent performances:
April 26, 2003*, Strathmore Hall, Rockville, MD, Susan Wheeler, soprano and Naoko Takao, piano.
September 13, 2003, the Banner Arts Studio, Kensington, MD, Susan Wheeler, soprano and Carl Banner, piano.
*A recording of this performance was played on Hawaiian Public Radio's program "Great Songs" in June 2004. The show is available in MP3 format and is titled "Songs of the 21st Century."
Elegy (for Milton) for clarinet and piano (2001)
First performance: July 15, 2003, Banner Arts Studio, Kensington, MD, Pamela Helton, cl. and Carl Banner, piano.
subsequent performances:
April 23, 2005 by Tsuna Sakamoto, viola and Sumiko Kohno, piano at
Strathmore Hall, Rockville, MD (viola version)
May, 15, 2005 by Ben Redwine, clarinet and Carl Banner, piano in Washington,
DC.
March 26, 2006 at Rock Spring Congregational Church, Arlington, VA by Ben Redwine, cl. and Carl Banner, piano
Concertino for violin and orchestra (Washington) (2002)
Trio version (2005) for violin, marimba, and piano premiered on Feb. 3, 2006 at Montgomery College, MD by Sally McLain, violin, Lee Henkle, marimba, and Audrey Andrist, piano
Prologue and Dances for two pianos (2003)
Two Poems of Toru Nagasaki for soprano and piano (2003)
- When It Snows Lightly
- Amaryllis
Songs of Experience for soprano and piano (2003)
(Settings of seven Poems by William Blake)
- Infant Sorrows
- The Little Vagabond
- The Fly
- The Angel
- The Sick Rose
- The Voice of the Ancient Bard
- The Tiger
First performance: October 23, 2004 at Strathmore Hall with Susan Wheeler, soprano and Audrey Andrist, piano
Concerto for cello and string orchestra (2004)
First performance; June 10th, 2007 by the Olympia Youth Orchestra, Fung Ho, conductor with Amy Leung, cello at San Gabriel Civic Auditorium, San Gabriel, CA
Songs of Innocence II for soprano, flute, clarinet and cello (2004)
(chamber version made of the same title above)
First performance: June 17, 2004, the Flash Point Theater, Washington DC, Susan Wheeler, soprano with Lyra Ensemble.
Subsequent performances:
November 28, 2004, Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Washington DC, Susan Wheeler, soprano with Lyra Ensemble.
Songs of Experience II for high voice, flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola and cello (2004)
(chamber version of the same title above)
Two Japanese Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano (2004)
- Amaryllis II (version for mezzo-soprano and piano)
- Mother (text by Yukie Horiuchi)
First performance: November 13 2004, BannerArts Studio, Kensington, MD, Karyn Friedman, mezzo-soprano, Carl Banner, piano.
Subsequent performances:
May 22, 2005 by Kimiko Shimada, soprano and Yoshinori Hosaka, piano at
Montgomery College, Rockville MD
Divertimento for flute, viola and piano (2005)
(Commissioned and premiered
by Washington Musica Viva)
First performance: June 21, 2005 by Keith Wright, flute, Tsuna Sakamoto, viola and Carl Banner, piano at Ratner Museum, Bethesda MD
subsequent performances:
Nov. 6, 2005 at Lyceum Museum, Alexandria, VA
by Keith Wright, flute, Tsuna Sakamoto, viola, and Machiko Shishido, piano
"Fantasy on Leo Arnaud's Olympic Fanfare" for eight wind instruments (2006)
"Sonatina" for clarinet and piano (2006)
First performance; February 11th, 2007 by Ben Redwine, clarinet and Carl Banner, piano at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
Subsequent performance; March 24th 2007 by Ben Redwine, clarinet and Audrey Andrist, piano at the Strathmore Hall, Rockville, MD
"Rêverie" for harp (2006)
Songs of Innocence III (Quartet Version)
First performance; May 6th 2007 by Susan Wheeler, soprano and the Third Millennium Ensemble at the Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD