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I. WORKS WITH ENSEMBLE

"Pierrot" +/- percussion

Stephen Albert : To Wake the Dead . . . +perc
Luciano Berio : O King . . . -perc
Donald Harris : Three Pierrot Lieder . . . -perc
Jean Milew : Sudden Light . . . +perc
Arnold Schoenberg : Pierrot Lunaire . . . -perc

Smaller "Pierrot" Configuration

Fred Chance : Bloom . . . vn-vc-pf
Mario Davidovsky : Romancero . . . fl-cl-vn-vc
Lukas Foss : Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird . . . fl-perc-pf
Lukas Foss : Time Cycle . . . cl-perc-vc-pf
Robert Lombardo : Songs to Kandinsky . . . va-cl
Pauline Oliveros : Elemental Gallop . . . fl-vc-pf
Maurice Ravel : Chansons Madécasses . . . fl-vc-pf

String Quartet

Yuri Falik : Zveniden
Lita Grier : Three Song Portraits
Arnold Schoenberg : String Quartet No. 2

String Ensemble

Hans Werner Henze : Being Beauteous . . . 4vc
Paul Hindemith : Des Todes Tod . . . 2va-2vc
Earl Kim : Where Grief Slumbers . . . 2vn-2va-2vc
Robert Kritz : Songs of Young Love . . . 2vn-2va-vc
Heitor Villa Lobos : Bacchianis Brasilieras No. 5 . . . 8vc

Strings + Piano

Dmitri Shostakovich : Seven Romances of Alexander Blok . . . trio
Joaquin Turina : Las Musas de Andalucía . . . quintet

Flute + Harp + Guitar

Rami Levin : Four Songs
Igor Stravinsky : Four Russian Songs

Solo Instrument (other than piano)

Grant Covell : Cities of Earth . . . vn
György Kurtág : Kafka Fragments . . . vn
György Kurtág : S.K. Rememberance Noise . . . vn
Heitor Villa Lobos : Suite for Voice and Violin . . . vn
Haari Vuori : Unen ja kuoleman laulut . . . vc

Percussion

Edward Miller : A Lullaby for Ben
Edward Miller : Basho Songs
Amnon Wolman : The Day the Bank Came Through

Various Instrumentation

Thomas Adès : Life Story . . . 2bcl-cb
John Cage : Songbooks . . . flexible
Luciano Berio : A-Ronne . . . 8 voices
Luciano Berio: Circles . . . 2perc - hp
Luciano Berio: Folk Songs . . . large ensemble
George Crumb : Ancient Voices of Children . . . ob-3perc-hp-pf
George Crumb : Madrigals . . . cb-fl-perc-hp
Luigi Dallapiccola : Parole di San Paolo . . . large ensemble
Lita Grier : Sneezles . . . ob-pf
John Harbison : Mirabai Songs . . . fl-cl-pc-vn-va-vc-cb
Jonathan Harvey : Song Offerings . . . fl-cl-hn-pf-vn-va-vc-cb
William Karlins : Four Inventions and a Fugue . . . fg-pf
Bernard Rands : Canti Lunatici . . . fl-cl-tr-2perc-vn-va-vc
Claudio Spies : Seven Sonnets . . . vn-va-vc-cl-bcl
Anton Webern : Five Canons, Op. 16 . . . cl-bcl
Don Womack : Dyings . . . va-vc-ob-cl-perc

II. ORCHESTRAL • ORATORIO • CONCERT

Louis Andriessen : Hadewijch
William Averitt : Nocturne
J.S. Bach : St. John Passion
Alban Berg : Lulu Suite • Seven Early Songs
Luciano Berio : Sinfonia • Folksongs
Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations
Yuri Falik : Zveniden
Lukas Foss : Time Cycle
Earl Kim : Where Grief Slumbers
Oliver Knussen : Whitman Settings
György Ligeti : Mysteries of the Macabre
Witold Lutoslawski : Chantefleurs et Chantefables
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 4
Olivier Messiaen : Poèmes pour Mi
Bernard Rands : Canti Lunatici

III. SONGS WITH PIANO

Cycles or Sets

Thomas Adès : Five Eliot Landscapes • Life Story
George Belden : Alaskan Beasts
Elliott Carter : Of Challenge and Of Love
J ohn Cage : Sonnekus2 with Satie
Alban Berg : Seven Early Songs • Four Songs, op. 2
Hector Berlioz : Les Nuits d'Été
Yuri Falik : Zveniden
Elena Firsova : Three Songs of Osip Mandelstam
Lita Grier : Three Song Portraits • Four Rilke Songs
John Harbison : Mirabai Songs • Simple Daylight
Robert Heppener : Four Songs of Ezra Pound
Arthur Honegger : Six Poèmes d'Apollinaire
Oliver Knussen : Whitman Settings
Robert Kritz : Songs of Young Love
György Kurtág : Requiem for the Beloved
Libby Larsen : Cowboy Songs
György Ligeti : Der Sommer • Three Weöres Songs
Witold Lutoslawski : Chantefleurs et Chantefables
Olivier Messiaen : Poèmes Pour Mi
Marta Ptaszynska : Songs of Loneliness and Despair
Arnold Schoenberg : Book of the Hanging Gardens
Bruce Taub : Jewish Cemetery at Newport
Alexander Wagendristel : Winterwind
Anton Webern : Four Songs, op. 12

Selected Songs

Representative Composers include:

Johannes Brahms
Claude Debussy
Antonin Dvorak
Gabriel Fauré
Charles Ives
Alma Mahler
Erik Satie
Franz Schubert
Robert Schumann
Jean Sibelius
Hugo Wolf

IV. UNACCOMPANIED VOICE

Georges Aperghis : Recitations
Luciano Berio : Sequenza III
John Cage : Aria • Sonnekus
Fredrick Gifford: Splinter
Zoltán Jeney : Songs of Innocence and Experience (premiere)
György Kurtág : Sketchbook of G.C. Lichtenberg
Bernard Rands : Memo 7
Klas Torstensson : Urban Solo

V. OPERA

Complete Roles

John Eaton : …inasmuch : Tense Marker
Tom Johnson : Four Note Opera : The Soprano

VI. PERFORMANCE LANGUAGES

English

German • Swedish • Dutch

Italian • French • Spanish • Portuguese

Russian • Czech • Polish

Finnish • Hungarian

Armenian