Vocal Works
Collections and Cycles
- Visionary (2000)
baritone and piano; original texts - Three Shakespeare Songs (2001)
soprano and piano; texts from Sonnet 29, Hamlet, and The Tempest - Fragments (2002)
Three-song set for soprano and viola da gamba consort (ttB); text from fragments of Sappho - Quixote Meditations (2002) | listen to a sample
three-song set for baritone and piano; original text; premiered May 2003 - Context Songs (2005) | listen to a sample
cycle of songs excerpted from Context of Love Lives; texts by Elizabeth Bishop and Oscar Wilde; premiered October 2006
Individual Songs
- “Flow On, River!” (2003)
unaccompanied vocal quartet (SATB); text: Walt Whitman, from “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”, commissioned by the Walt Whitman Project; premiered June 2003 - “Oh You Whom I Often and Silently Come” (2002)
baritone and piano; text: Walt Whitman; premiered May 2004 - “The Little Black Boy” (2002)
mezzo-soprano and piano; text: William Blake - “Quai d’Orleans” (2003)
soprano and piano; text: Elizabeth Bishop; premiered March 2004 - “O Living Flame of Love” (2003)
bass-baritone and piano; text: St. John of the Cross; premiered March 2004 - “The Ideal” (2003)
baritone and piano; text: Charles Baudelaire - “Trickle Drops” (2003)
tenor and piano; text: Walt Whitman; premiered May 2004 - “Sought Him” (2007)
vocal quartet (S,CT,T,B) and piano; text from the Song of Songs; premiered March 2007
Sketch of Rachel Carter and Jill Waycie by Joan Chiverton, Ocbtober 2006