COMPOSITIONS

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CHORAL

SSAA/Treble Choir

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Spring Hymns

SA (7-9 year olds) with piano accompaniment (2025) 6m30s

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Dies Irae

SSAA with chamber ensemble (2025) 18m

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Winter Hymns

Treble Choir, harp (or piano), and viola (2023) 15m

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Every Name

SSAA, violin, viola, cello, double bass, acoustic guitar, percussion (2021) 4m8s

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Infinite Movement

Treble Choir, SATB choir, Brass Quintet, Trombone Quintet, Percussion, Countertenor, Baritone, Mezzo & Coloratura Soprano soloists with Electronics (2021) 70m

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Ocean Body

A four-screen film installation for 2 soloists, SSAA choir, harp, drums, and electronics (2021)

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Say Her Name

SSAA a capella (2019) 3m30s to infinity

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If I Say That You’re My Sister

SSAA, percussion, and vibraphone (2018) 3m33s

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I Have Never Loved Someone

SSAATTBB; SSAA Choir; voice with piano (or harp); voice and guitar; or piano, string quintet, percussion, and voice (2018) 3m10s

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Santa Ageda

Three soloists, SSAA choir, and percussion (2018) 3m50s

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Blind to the Illness

SSAA Choir with chamber orchestra or piano (2017) 4m10s

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Let Freedom Ring

SSAA choir, bass drum, and triangles (2017) 4m11s

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Michelberger Carols

SSAA (2015) 11m19s

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Lost/Found

Six songs for SSAA and percussion (2014) 21m55s

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Muted

Soprano, countertenor, SSAA choir (2013) 3m31s

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SATB

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Unfathomable Odds

SATB with piano accompaniment (2024) 4m

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The House of Belonging

SATB (2023) 6m

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Titration

17 songs for SATB wtih glockenspiel (2022) 51m37s

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Communion With You and Yours

SATB choir (2022) 1m10s

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Stay with Me

SATB with string quartet (2022)

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Carols After a Plague

SATB choir (2021) 11m

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Infinite Movement

Treble Choir, SATB choir, Brass Quintet, Trombone Quintet, Percussion, Countertenor, Baritone, Mezzo & Coloratura Soprano soloists with Electronics (2021) 70m

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Tratar de Transformar

SATB + percussion (opt. soloist) (2020) 4m59s

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She, Him, Her, They

SATB choir with divisi and body percussion (2019) 3m30s

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I Have Never Loved Someone

SSAATTBB; SSAA Choir; voice with piano (or harp); voice and guitar; or piano, string quintet, percussion, and voice (2018) 3m10s

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Two Lovers

SSATBB choir (includes overtone singing) with percussion (2017) 11m

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The Colorado

8 voices, cello, and drum kit (2016) 11m3s

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The Pleiades

SATB choir (2013) 15m5s

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TTBB

SOLOS & DUETS

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My Brightest Diamond

12 songs re-arranged for string quintet, drums, and piano (2022)

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Did You See That Butterfly

Voice and guitar (2020) 3m41s

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Let a Change Come

Soprano and harp (2020) 3m57s

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TAPP

For voice, horns, keyboard, and synth (2020)

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Mother of the Air

Voice and drones (2020) 12m

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All Mine

Voice, viola, clarinet, synthesizer, piano, and vibraphone (2018) 4m18s

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A Million And One

Voice, Guitar, Bass, Synthesizers, Drums & Drum Programming (2018) 36m

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I Have Never Loved Someone

SSAATTBB; SSAA Choir; voice with piano (or harp); voice and guitar; or piano, string quintet, percussion, and voice (2018) 3m10s

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Requiem for a Tuesday

Mezzo soprano, bass baritone, and string quartet (2017) 5m44s

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Narcissister Organ Player

A capella voice (2017) 2m5s

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Roses

Alto voice, autoharp, kick drum, and electronics (2017) 3m28s

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The Blue Hour

Soprano and string orchestra (2017) 1h13m

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Timeline

Ten songs for voice, guitar, keyboards, and percussion (2016) 42m

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River of Fundament

Voice and string quartet (2014) 3m

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This Is My Hand

Voice, Flute/Piccolo, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Alto Sax, Trumpet/ French Horn, Trombone, Bass, Drums, Keyboards (2014) 46m

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Muted

Soprano, countertenor, SSAA choir (2013) 3m31s

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All Things Will Unwind

Voice, String Trio, Flute/Piccolo, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Trumpet/French Horn, Drums, Keyboards, Guitar, Bass (2011) 42m

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Birds Undress

Tenor voice and piano (2010) 3m

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Letters from Charles

Thirteen songs for chamber ensemble: soprano, flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, viola, cello (2010) 43m

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A Thousand Shark's Teeth

Voice, String Quartet, Bassoon, Bass Clarinet, French Horn, Marimba, Harp, Drums, Bass, Guitars, Keyboards (2008) 46m

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Bring Me The Workhorse

Voice, String Quartet, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Wurlitzer, Vibraphone, Celesta, Music box, Piano, Pump Organ, Electronic Keyboard, Trumpet (2006) 46m

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OPERA

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The Subnivean Zone: Underneath the Snow

6 soloists, a small instrumental chamber ensemble, and a chorus of puppeteers (2023) 1h

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You Us We All

Soprano, Mezzo, Countertenor, Baritone, Harpsichord, Organ, Harp, 2 Cornetti, Sackbutt, Viola da Gamba, Treble viol/viola da Gamba, Violone, Vibraphone, Drum Kit (2015) 1h12m

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Kings of Macedonia

6 soloists, SATB choir, brass quartet, and drums (2012) 29m

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CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

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Sketch the Rocket

String quartet (2023) 4m30s

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A Rhododendron’s Bloom

Flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, piano, and vibraphone (2021) 7m

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I Have Never Loved Someone

SSAATTBB; SSAA Choir; voice with piano (or harp); voice and guitar; or piano, string quintet, percussion, and voice (2018) 3m10s

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This Is My Detroit

Violin, cello, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, piano, vibraphone, and drums (2016) 4m33s

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Music for Marching Band

Marching band (2013) 9m22s

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From the Invisible to the Visible

Viola with organ or synthesizer (2013) 4m11s

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Beautiful Mechanical

Flute, clarinet, trumpet, cello, viola, and violin (2011) 5m12s

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Chalk & Soot

String quartet (2012) 3m

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INSTALLATIONS

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The Invisible College: Color Confinement

A multi-part transmedia artwork by Matthew Ritchie (2021)

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Infinite Movement

Treble Choir, SATB choir, Brass Quintet, Trombone Quintet, Percussion, Countertenor, Baritone, Mezzo & Coloratura Soprano soloists with Electronics (2021) 70m

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Ocean Body

A four-screen film installation for 2 soloists, SSAA choir, harp, drums, and electronics (2021)

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Look Around

Orchestra with 20 local ensembles including nine choirs (SSAA, SATB, TTBB), bell choir, marching band, and stationary percussion in multiple locations (2020) 3h20m

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