Opera and Art Songs
Here are a few of my recent opera projects. I am one of the founding composers of the NYC-based new opera ensemble Rhymes With Opera, for whom I have written (and co-written) two pieces: Heartbreak Express and Rumpelstiltskin, a collaboration with composer Ruby Fulton. Also included below are three short pieces I wrote as the 2018 composer-in-residence at the Chautauqua Opera Company, and a commissioned work for the Black House Collective in Kansas City.
poem by Rajiv Mohabir
for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
commissioned by American Opera Projects for the Chautauqua Opera Company
poem by Allison Joseph
for bass and piano
commissioned by American Opera Projects for the Chautauqua Opera Company
poem by Tyehimba Jess
for soprano and piano
commissioned by American Opera Projects for the Chautauqua Opera Company
chamber opera in one act
after Ross McElwee’s film “Sherman’s March”
libretto by Benjamin Rogers
for two sopranos, baritone, two violas, and piano