WORKS

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CHAMBER AND SOLO

Harlem Dance Hall: The Savoy (2024) for PIERROT

Redline[ing] (2024) for PIERROT and percussion

Rise (2023) for wind quintet

Black Music (2023) for saxophone quintet and trumpet

The Spiral (2022) for flute, oboe, and piano

Crooked Shanks (2022) for piano

Mi Sueño: Afro-Flamenco (2021) for piano

There is Always Light (2021) for clarinet, bassoon, and marimba

Take It Easy, But Take It (2021) for violin and piano

lullaby | ballad | spiritual (2021) for flute, oboe, and bassoon

On a Painting By Henry Ossawa Tanner: The Thankful Poor (2020) for unaccompanied flute

Wunlit (2020) for unaccompanied horn

Fractured Water (2019) for flute, cello, and piano (all doubling on water percussion) (amplified)

Three Psalmic Meditations (2019) for soprano, alto trombone [or viola or clarinet], and piano

Human Moments: A Song Cycle on the Poems of Brett Foster (2016) for soprano, male speaker, electric guitar, pianos (2), chamber strings, and mixed media

Distance (2016) for cello and marimba

The Preacher Man (2015) for pipe organ

X (2014) for percussion ensemble

CryptOlogiE (2014) for flute, clarinet, violin, and piano

On a Poem by Miho Nonaka: Harvard Square (2013) for solo flute

ψαλμοὶ καὶ ὕμνοι καὶ ᾠδαὶ πνευματικαί (2012) for piano

Excursions (2010) for trombone and piano

Eden Park (2009) for two pianos (reorch.)

Claptrap (2009) for flute and bassoon (rev.)

Two Inventions for Flute and Bassoon (2006)

Circleplay (2006) for clarinet & digital delay

Amazing Grace (2006) for piano

The Red Wheelbarrow (2006) for piano quartet (rev.)

Eden Park (2006) for small chamber ensemble

Yellow Einstein (the Remix) (2006) for amplified large chamber ensemble (rev.)

Yellow Einstein (2005) for amplified large chamber ensemble (rev.)

Siembamba (2005) for two pianos and toy piano

String Quartet (2005)

Chamber Music in Four Movements (2004) for small chamber ensemble

 

 

ART soNG, CHORAL, AND OPERA

Queen Ufua’s Letter (2023) for soprano and piano

THE COOK-OFF (2023), a comedic chamber opera in one act for soprano, mezzo-soprano (2), tenor, baritone, flute (+picc), alto saxophone (+sop sax, +bari sax), piano, percussion, violin, viola cello, bass

Romance (2022), for tenor and piano baritone

Songs in Flight (2022), a song cycle in 12 movements for soprano, countertenor, baritone and piano

UNKNOWN (2021), a song set in 5 movements for mezzo-soprano, baritone (2), piano, alto saxophone, violin (2), cello, bass, and percussion

Words Like Freedom (2021), a song cycle in 9 movements for soprano and piano

mishpat | chesed | hatznea (2020) for unaccompanied tenor

My Country (2020) for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and piano

Two Black Churches (2020), a song set in two movements for baritone and piano

Left Foot, Peg Foot (Follow the Drinking Gourd) (2019) for SATB choir

Voices Rising (2019) for SATB choir

Confessions (2019) for SATB choir

NEGRO SPIRITUALS AND HYMNS RE-IMAGINATIONS

  • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (2018) for baritone and piano*

  • He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands (2017) for baritone and piano

  • I’ve Never Felt Such Love in my Soul Befo’/What Wondrous Love is This? (2018) for baritone and piano

  • Shall We Gather at the River (2018) for baritone and piano

  • Lord, How Come Me Here? (2018) for mezzo-soprano and cello

  • God is a God (2018) for baritone and piano

  • Oh, Glory (2018) for mezzo-soprano and piano

  • Ride On, King Jesus (2017) for mezzo-soprano and piano

  • Balm in Gilead (2013) for baritone, flute and piano

  • Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray/Standin’ in the Need of Prayer (2013) for mezzo-soprano, baritone and piano

  • Deep River (2013) for baritone and piano

  • Ev’rytime I Feel the Spirit (2013) for baritone, viola and piano

  • Great Day (2013) for baritone and piano

  • I Want to Die Easy When I Die/Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (2013) for mezzo-soprano, baritone and piano

  • Lord, I Want to be a Christian/Give Me Jesus (2013) for baritone, flute and piano

  • Oh, Freedom (2013) for baritone band piano

  • Steal Away (2013) for baritone and piano

  • Wade in the Water (2013) for baritone and piano

  • Were You There? (2013) for baritone and piano

[Some re-imaginations have been transcribed for different voice type. Please inquire.]

Sing Dumb (2016) for SATB choir and percussion

Ev’rytime I Feel The Spirit (2015) for men’s choir

Deep River (2014) for SSAA choir

On Love (2013) song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano

Three Negro Slave Songs (2013) for baritone, piano, and viola

Be Still, My Soul (2013) for soprano and piano

My God, I Love Thee (2011) for SSAA choir (rescored)

My God, I Love Thee (2010) for SATB choir

Hear My Voice (2008) for orchestra and SATB choir

On Music (2005) for soprano, clarinet and piano

Mass (2002) for SATB choir and soloists

Song of Songs (2002) for orchestra, soloist, and SATB choir

Vocalise (2002) for soprano and chamber ensemble

En Priere (2002) for two sopranos and piano

A Musician’s Prayer (2002) for SATB choir

 

ORCHESTRA AND CONCERTO

Stellar (2024) for orchestra orchestra

Two Black Churches (2024) for baritone soloist and orchestra orchestra

Zoom! (2020) for strings and percussion

Kutimbua Kivumbi (Stomp the Dust!) (2016) for orchestra

Dialogue for Tuba and Band (2014)

Nocturne (2012) for orchestra

Serenade (2009) for string orchestra

Concerto for Euphonium and Orchestra (2007)

Symphony on Spirituals (2007)

Yellow Einstein (2006) for chamber orchestra

Oboe Concerto in D Major (2005) by Richard Strauss reorchestrated for oboe soloist and chamber ensemble

 

 

WIND AND BRASS BAND

Gale and Zephyr (2023) for winds and percussion

Heritage (2022) [This is Africa (2011), rev.}

Nobody Knows (2019)

Honey Rock (2016)

In The Midst... (2014)

Dialogue for Tuba and Band (2014)

Contrapunctus I: Repton (2013) for brass band

Balm in Gilead (2007)

…tomorrow’s past (2006)

SICUT (2006)

Ye Banks and Braes (2004)

Ritual Dances (2003)

 

 

OTHER: FILM, JAZZ, AND COMMERCIAL

Untitled (2006) for computer

Five Reasons…why I groove (2006) for jazz septet

Loraine Ave. (2005) for big band

Screenplay (2002) a film score for soprano, piano, strings, and winds

Chase (2002) a film score for chamber orchestra