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SOLO PIANO MUSIC
Piano Sonata No. 3 “Palimpsest” (2021)
Sonata Notturna: Piano Sonata No. 2 (2016) View Score Excerpt
Etude in Homage (2015) View Score Excerpt
Music of the House: Partita for Piano (2014) View Score Excerpt
Una Carta de Buenos Aires: Tango Sonatina for Piano (2012) View Score Excerpt
Pages from the Photo Album: Eleven Bagatelles for Piano (2011) View Score Excerpt
Ad te magister: Birthday Variations for Piano (2007)
Sonata Classica: Piano Sonata No. 1 (2004) View Score Excerpt
Pieces of Childhood (1989)
INSTRUMENTAL CHAMBER MUSIC (six or fewer instruments)
Idyll, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion (2020)
String Quartet No. 2 (2019)
Seranade, for two harps (2017)
Partita alla variazioni, for flute, clarinet, and bassoon (2015) View Score Excerpt
Reflections and Exhortations: Quintet for Brass Instruments (2014) View Score Excerpt
Concertino for Six Instruments (2014) (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion) View Score Excerpt
Travels With Diabelli:Variations and Passacaglia on the Waltz Immortalized by Beethoven (2013), for flute, violin, cello, and piano) View Score Excerpt
Sonata for Cello and Piano (2012)
Tango, for flute, alto saxophone, violin, cello, accordion, and dancers. Choreography by Joellen Meglin. (2007)
String Quartet No. 1 (2006) View Score Excerpt
Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano: Es ist genug (2000/2004) View Score Excerpt
Ex Uno Plures, for oboe and piano (1998)
In Remembrance, for 3 horns (1995)
Diverse Canons, for 2-6 instruments, open instrumentation (1993) (Four Canons, a part of this work, can be played as a separate piece.)
Portraits in Miniature, for violin and viola (1992, rev. 2020)
WORKS FOR UNACCOMPANIED INSTRUMENT (other than solo piano)
Three Pieces for Solo Violin (2021)
Sonata in Nine Variations, for solo cello (2018)
Cantus Memoriae, for alto flute (2015) View Score Excerpt
A Birthday Suite, for marimba (2014) View Score Excerpt
Fantasy Sonata, for viola (2013)
Evensong, for guitar (2005) View Score Excerpt
Verse in Memoriam, for solo flute (2001)
Fragments of Verse, for solo flute (1998)
Siblings: Six Pieces for Solo Theorbo (1996)
Fantasia and Ayre, for alto flute (1994) (A recasting of movements 1 & 2 of Diversions from a Modal Theme.)
Lament, for solo cello (1993)
Diversions from a Modal Theme, for solo recorders (1991)
Rhapsody for Unaccompanied Cello (1973)
WORKS WITH SOLO VOICE
Passage at Twilight, for Tenor and Two Harps (2016); Text: Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Prisoner Forsaken, Chamber Cantata for Soprano and Four Instruments (2009); (Soprano, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Percussion) Text: John McIlvain
A Birthday Tribute, for countertenor and lute (2000); Text by the composer
Je me souviens... : Songs and Interludes for Soprano and Ensemble (1999); Text: Paul Verlaine (Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Harp, Percussion)
Small Hours, for mezzo soprano and piano (1997); Text: Sylvia Plath
Six Songs to Words of T.S. Eliot, for mezzo soprano and piano (1976)
CHORAL MUSIC
Laudes et Honores, for SATB chorus, 4 horns, and bells (2020)
Alleluia Festa, for SATB chorus, brass quintet and bells (1999)
Death be not proud, for SATB chorus (1999) View Score Excerpt
Stabat Mater, for SATB Chorus and bells (1995)
WORKS FOR SEVEN TO ELEVEN PLAYERS
Concerto in Light and Shadow: Echoes of Four American Artists (2008) (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Percussion, Harp, Piano, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Double Bass)
Je me souviens... : Songs and Interludes for Soprano and Ensemble (1999); Text: Paul Verlaine (Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Harp, Percussion)
ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
Symphony No. 2, for String Orchestra (2021)
Aquae Sulis, for string orchestra (2018)
Sinfonia Crystallina: Symphony No. 1 (2015) View Score Excerpt
Crystallina: A Modern Dance Ballet in Five Scenes (2010). Scenario: Joellen Meglin; Choreography: Joellen Meglin and Kun Yang Lin View Score Excerpt
With Sonorous Voice: Concert Overture for Symphony Orchestra (2003)
In Celebration: Toccata for Orchestra (2000)
Episodes, for symphony orchestra (1977)
DANCE WORKS
Crystallina: A Modern Dance Ballet in Five Scenes (2010). Scenario: Joellen Meglin; Choreography: Joellen Meglin and Kun Yang Lin View Score Excerpt
Tango, for six instruments and dancers (2007). Choreography by Joellen Meglin.(Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Harp, Percussion)