Music: Vocal Works
A song cycle in five movements about waiting. A woman bides her time, thinking of her partner who is away at war. Text in English by Melisa Tien. Length (total): 18′ Finalist for the 2021 NATS Art Song Composition Competition
For baritone and piano; commissioned by the Cheah-Chan Duo. Text by Melisa Tien. The song explores the idea of beauty, and how it changes over the course of a lifetime. Length: 5′
For tenor and baroque ensemble. Three movements setting texts relating to the New York Slave Conspiracy of 1741.
For dramatic soprano and piano. Length: 3′
A song cycle in two movements for bass-baritone and piano. Texts by Jason Kim and Walt Whitman. Length: 7′
A dramatic scene soprano and piano. Text by Jason Kim, inspired by Racine’s “Phedre.” Length: 6′
For tenor and piano. A song cycle in eight movements based on poetry by Stephen Crane. Length: 15′
View score (tenor version). Also arranged for countertenor and baritone.
Complete audio above. “The livid lightnings flashed in the clouds” (song five) in performance (2021) by countertenor Jordan Rutter here.
For soprano and piano. Texts in English by Jean Joubert, Margaret Atwood, and Billy Collins. Length: 11′