CONCERT BAND(Grade 3/4) Duration: ca. 7 minutesComposed: 2016 Programme Note: Inspired by the life and work of Dr. Roberta Bondar, I Will Dream Beyond the Stars is a short fantasy for beginning concert band. As a point of departure, the students were told about some… Read More »I Will Dream Beyond the Stars
BRASS BAND Duration: ca. 12 minutesComposed: 2016 Programme Note: Sometimes medical science and the spectacle of the theatre intersect. The Reanimation of Forster’s Corpse tells one such story. George Forster was a murderer and was sentenced to be hanged at the Newgate prison on January… Read More »The Reanimation of Forrester’s Corpse
BRASS BAND Duration: ca. 11 minutesComposed: 2004 Programme Note: The poet Wallace Stevens was a lawyer at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company. Even after winning a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry, he remained behind his desk at the office and continued to write his… Read More »Hartford Accident and Indemnity
BRASS BAND Duration: ca. 11 minutesComposed: 1992 Premiere: First performance by the Hannaford Street Silver Band, Toronto, Ontario, 2015. Recording(s): Recorded by the Hannaford Street Silver Band.
CHORALTreble Voices and Piano Trio (violin, cello, piano) Duration: ca. 20 minutesComposed: 2019 Programme Note: Written for the Listen Up! project, 2019, a piece in 6 short movements on the theme of Change. Premiere: First performance by The Gryphon Trio, Rob Kapilow, and the Castor… Read More »Changes In Me; Changes In the World
CHORALSATB and Piano Duration: ca. 5 minutesComposed: 2018 Premiere: First performance by the Nepean Choir, May 2018.
CHORALTreble Voices and Piano Trio (violin, cello, piano) Duration: ca. 20 minutesComposed: 2018 Programme Note: Written for the Listen Up! project, 2018, a piece in 7 short movements which describe the Four Elements of nature. Premiere: First performance by The Gryphon Trio, Rob Kapilow, and… Read More »Les Chansons des Éléments
CHORALSSA with Harp OR SSA with PianoPublished by Cypress Choral Music Duration: ca. 3:30Composed: 2017 Programme Note: This exuberant Christmas proclamation is a stunner: great fun for the singer and stirring for the listener. Premiere: First performances by Ensemble Vocale de la Salle + Caroline… Read More »Hodie Christus Natus Est
CHORALSSAA a cappellaPublished by Cypress Choral Music Duration: ca. 4 minutesComposed: 2017 Premiere: First performance by Ensemble Vocale de la Salle, December 2017
CHORALSSA a cappellaPublished by Cypress Choral Music Duration: ca. 2:30Composed: 2016 Programme Note: The compositional goal for this piece was to write something as joyful as possible. The starting point was in choosing to set one word of exclamation and rejoice: Alléluia! The piece is… Read More »Alléluia