Category

          

Title                             

      

Year                             

Instrumentation/notes                                                      

           

Orchestra with Chorus and Soloist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Orchestra with Solo Voice


Three Fires (Part VII of The River of Light)

 

 

 

Naka (Part III of The River of Light)



 

The Seven Heavenly Halls (Part I of the The River of Light)

 

 

 

Heaven's Eye (Part II of The River of Light)

 

 

 

Light upon Light (Part VI of The River of Light)

 

 

 

 

 

2019

 

 

 

 

2017

 

 

 

2016

 

 

 

 

 

2018

 

 

 

2019

2222 2220 3perc, pn, hp, strings, soprano, tenor, chorus

(15 minutes)

Commission: Vancouver Opera and Vancouver Bach Choir with support from The Canada Council for the Arts

 

2222 2220 3perc, pn, hp, strings, narrator, chorus

(10 minutes)

Commission: Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, 21C Festival and Koerner Hall, sponsored by Kris Vikmanis and Denny Creighton

 

2222 2220 3perc, pn, hp, strings, tenor solo, chorus

(27 minutes for stand-alone version - 15 minutes for version when included with The River of Light)

Commission: Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Chorus as winner of Azrieli Commissioning Prize

 

2222 2220 3perc, pn, hp, strings, Soprano solo

(10 minutes)

Commission: Vancouver Opera and Vancouver Bach Choir with support from the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University

 

2222 2220 3perc, pn, hp, strings, Tenor solo

(7 minutes)

Commission: Vancouver Opera and Vancouver Bach Choir with support from the Ontario Arts Council and The Toronto Arts Council

 

 

 



Orchestra


Earth So Much Like Heaven, Heaven So Much Like Earth

Without Grace The Universe Is Just An Explosion

Motion Is The Default State


 

2013

4433 4431 4perc, pn, hp, strings

(18 minutes)

Commission: Toronto Symphony Orchestra




 

SOMA

 

2011

4444 6431 5perc, pn, 2hp, strings

(7 minutes)

Commission: National Youth Orchestra of Canada

 

 



 

 
 

 

Whirling Dervish

 

2010

2222 4221 5 perc, pn, hp strings, Sufi Whirling

(22 minutes)

Commission: Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Barlow Foundation

 

 

 

 

Symphonies in Slanted Time

 

2005

2222 4221 timp 2 perc pn hp strings

 (14 minutes)

Commission: Indianapolis Symphony and American Composers Orchestra

 

 

 

 

Kazabazua (Disappearing Waters)

 

 

2002 (rev.2006)

2232  2221 2perc hp. pn. strings (66442)   (15 minutes)

Commission: Esprit Orchestra

 

 

 

 

 

For the Time Being

 

2000

1121 1110 perc pn. Strings

(12 minutes)

Commission: Nouvel Ensemble Moderne

 

 

 

 

This Isn't Silence

 

1998 (rev.2001)

3343 4330 3 percussion, piano, strings (11 minutes)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 


Concerto

 

Concerto for Accordion and
Orchestra

 

 

2008

Solo Accordion and Orchestra

2222 2221 2perc hp pn  Strings

(15 minutes)

Commission: Symphony Nova Scotia
(Koussevitzky Foundation)

 

 

 

 

 

Concertino

 

2003

Solo flute, strings, and 3 flutes at the back of the hall  (7minutes)

Commission: Robert Aitken, New Music Concerts, previous version by Timmins Symphony

 

 

 

 


 



   

Chamber Orchestra


Sungods 2012 (for chamber orchestra)


2012

1011 1000 2perc, pn, org, 11111

(8 mins)

Commission: The Banff Centre, Gruppo Montebello

 




Strata II


2012

1121 1110 perc pn. 11111

(15 minutes)

Commission: Nouvel Ensemble Moderne


 


 

For the Time Being

 

2000

1121 1110 perc pn. 11111

(12 minutes)

Commission: Nouvel Ensemble Moderne

 

 

Chamber Opera

 

Missing

 

 

 

Airline Icarus

 

2017

 

 

 

2001-2005, 2010

fl, cl, 2 perc, electic piano, 7 solo voices, vln, vlc, electronics

(90 minutes)

Commission: City Opera Vancouver and Pacific Opera Victoria

 

fl, cl, 2 perc. Pno, 5 solo voices (Sop, Mez, Ten, Bar. Bass-Bar), 2 vlns, vla, vlc, electronics

(50 minutes)

Commission: Opera Breve Vancouver

 

 

 


 

Inventory

 

2006

Amplified voice, fl, ob, cl, bsn, perc, vln, vln2, vla, vlc, db, Malletkat with audio files(can be staged or unstaged) (13 mins)

Commission: Soundstreams Canada

 

 

Music for
Young People

 

 

A Young Person‘s Guide to New Music for Symphony Orchestra

 

2006-2008

Symphony Orchestra

2222 4221 2perc, hp.pn. Strings

Narrator, electronic soundfiles

(versions for 45 minutes or 30 minutes)

Commission: Esprit Orchestra

 

 


 


 



 



 

Music By Way of You

 

2000

Flute, Harp and the participation of children from the audience  (variable)

Commission: Karen Gotleib

 



 

YOU ARE

 

1997

String quartet, lighting and the participation of children in the audience. (4 minutes)

 



 


 



 


Choral

 

Magnificat (Part V of The River of Light)

 

 

Inventions on Et in terra pax

 

 

 

2018

 

 

 

2007

SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB with optional bells (6 minutes)

Commission: The Ora Singers (UK) with support from The Michael and Sonja Koerner Foundation

 

Mixed choir (6 minutes)

Commission: St. Lawrence Choir, Montreal

 



 

Youth Choir

 

1997

Youth Choir (8 minutes)

Commission: Ottawa Regional Youth Choir

 



 

Psalm 150

 

1995

One hundred children's voices and piano (6 minutes)

Commission: PSBGM combined choirs

 


Voice

 

If Love is Woe (Part IV of The River of Light)

 

 

 

Inventory

 

2018

 

 

 

2006

Soprano, amplification, delay pedal or patch, optional children's or women's chorus (4 minutes)

Commission: Vancouver Opera and Vancouver Bach Choir with support from The Toronto Arts Council

 

Soprano, piano

(10 minutes)

Commission: Soundstreams, piano version for New York City Opera

 




Extreme Positions


2013

Soprano, piano (2 minutes)

Commission: Canadian Art Song Project and Jeunesses Musicales





Birefringence


2013

Soprano or Baritone, piano (4 minutes)

Commission: Canadian Art Song Project and Jeunesses Musicales



Chamber Music


Shout Sisyphus Flock

 

 

These Begin to Catch Fire


2016

 

 

2012

Fl, Clar, Perc, Piano, Vln, Vlc (13 minutes)

Commission: Transmission Ensemble and New Music Concerts

 

Violin, Cello, Piano (12 minutes)

Commission: Gryphon Trio



 


 

Strata

 

2010

fl, cl, vln, vlc, pn, perc (15 minutes)

Commission: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Continuum

 

 


 

Rounds, for String Quartet

 

2009

String Quartet (9 minutes)

Commission: St. Lawrence String Quartet

 

 


 

Piano Piece No. 3 “Leaps of Faith”

 

2009

Solo Piano (8 minutes)

Commission: Honens International Piano Competition

 

 


 

Sungods

 

2007

Solo Piano, (7 minutes)

Commission: Winston Choi and Prairie Debut

 

 


 

Piano Piece. No 2 ”banjo/continuum”

 

2007

Player Piano or solo piano (3 minutes)

 

 

 

Duet for Cellos

 

2007

2 cellos (12 minutes)

Commission: New Music Concerts,
Rohan de Saram and David Heatherington

 

 


 

Faster Still

 

2004

Violin, Piano and String Quartet

(15 minutes)

Commission: Duo Concertante and Blue Engine String Quartet

 

 


 

The Star-Spangled Banner in Slanted Time

 

2003

Violin, Cello, Piano (4 minutes)

Commission: Gryphon Trio

 



 

Piano Music for Two

 

1999

2 pianos, 4 hands (10 minutes)

 



 

For Puffer's Shore

 

1997

Trp. Pn. Perc. Db. (14 minutes)

 



 

Quintet, Op.5
"Circus Songs"

 

1996

Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano (11 minutes)

 

 


 

Tannu Tuva, Op.3

 

 

1995

Male Voice, Overtone Singing, Bassoon, Banjo and Piano (10 minutes)

 

 

 

Day #8036, Op.2

 

1994

Flute and Piano (20 minutes)

 

 


 


Trio, Op.1

 

1994

Flute, Cello and Piano (12 minutes)