Danse Africaine (2016) 5'
SSAA choir
commissioned by Young People's Chorus of New York, Transient Glory Series
Works
Choral and vocal
Five Freedom Songs (2021) 20'
voice, percussion (1 player), and string orchestra voice - perc (1): crash cym/ride cym/hi-hat/brake dr/SD/kick dr/glock - strings
Co-commissioned by: Sun Valley Music Festival, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons, Music Director, Grand Teton Music Festival, Kansas City Symphony, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Arts Festival
I Have Something to Say (2020) 8'
SATB chorus, children’s choir, and orchestra 2(II=picc).2.2.2 - 4.0.3.1 - timp - perc(1): BD/bongos/chimes/glock/SD/susp. cym - celesta - strings - SATB chorus - children's choir
on text of Robbie McCauley
Commissioned by the Cathedral Choral Society and the Cincinnati May Festival
I Want To Go Home (2015, rev. 2021) 4'
traditional Black spiritual
soprano and string quartet, quintet, or string orchestra
Loisaida, My Love (2016) 5'
mezzo-soprano and cello
based on the poem "Loisaida" by Bimbo Rivas (1974)
Lunar Songs (2019) 7'
voice and string quintet
text by J. Mae Barizo
commissioned by ASCAP for the Leonard Bernstein Centennial
