Composition
Opera
Pomegranate: An Opera (2023)
Performance with the Canadian Opera Company
Pomegranate: A Chamber Opera (2019) Performance at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Orchestra
Fusions: For String Orchestra (2017) Première by "I Solisti Veneti",Veneto, Italy
Why Not Blues (2016). Première by Scarborogh Philharmonic. Toronto,
Two Movements for String Orchestra (2016) Première with EurOrchestra, Bari, Italy.
Bossa Antiqua: Three Movements for String Orchestra, (2010)
Commissioned by the Norman Burgess Fund. Premiered at the Royal Conservatory of Music.
Three Movements for String Orchestra (2002);Commissioned by Hemispheres Orchestra through the Toronto Arts Council. Professional Reading by Symphony London through the CMC
Variations on a Canadian Theme (1986) (Junior String Orchestra).
Premiered in Austria. Commissioned by Alliance for Canadian New Music through the Ontario Arts Council.
Concerto for Bass Trombone and String Orchestra (1982)Premiered at the Glenn Gould Studios. Commissioned by John Capon
Chamber Works
Hoedown (2021)
String Quartet. Premiered April 2022
Covid Lullabye (2021)
Premiere with Odin String Quartet (February 2022)
Home on the Range (2018)
Premiere with the Heliconian String Quartet and Mezzo Soprano Maria Soulis, November (2020)
Louise: (Piano Trio)
Premiere: Heliconian Club, Oct. 2021
The Return: For Velma (Piano Trio)
Premiere: Heliconian Club, Oct. 2020
Parched: for Solo Scordatura Cello
Premiere: Oakland Ca June 2016, Commissioned by Hannah Addarioberry.
Heliconian Rag (2016)
Premiere: Heliconian Club
Two Movements for String Orchestra
Premiere: EurOrchestra, March, Italy 2016
String Quartet #3: Endangered Species (2016)
Premiere: Toronto, April 2016
Halcyon String Quartet.
Endangered Species Harp Duo (2015)
Commissioned by Duo Novus. Premiered 2015.
Heliconian Tango (2015) String Quartet. Premiered March 2015
Riffs on God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Adaption) (2014)
For Cello, Clarinet and Percussion. Commissioned by Fondazione Donne in Musica.
Premiered Italy 2014.
Hanging Figure, Shop Girl, Souvenir’s D’Enfance, Mountain Landscape, Orioles/Owl, Grief, Seated Woman, Fire in St. Jean Quarter, Trees in the Sky, Marchese Casati, Chevreuse II, Morning Cloud (2012)
Art Gallery of Ontario: Multi Sensory Ipad Tours. For Cello &/or Synthesizer.
Geometrics: Trapeziums, Tangents, Transversals (2011)
For 15 percussion players. Premiered at The Markham Theatre for the Arts.
Elegy (2008) For Cello and Piano. Premiered 2008. Montreal Bistro
Gossip Island for String Quartet (2010) Premiered by the Epic String Quartet.
A Room of One’s Own: for Solo Cello (2001)
A group of compositions including Medea, She Is, Sarajevo Cellist. Premiered at University of Toronto
Reflections: Four Movements for Brass Quintet (2000)
Commissioned by the Trillium Brass Quintet. Premiered at the Music Gallery
Interact: Four Movements for String Quartet (1999)
Premiered at St. Edwards School. Commissioned by The Toronto Symphony E. P.
Canonac: Three Movements for Piano, Violin and Cello. (1999)
Premiered at the Sheraton Hotel Auditorium, Toronto.
We Make the Air: Elegy for Lina Chartrand (1997)
For contralto and string quartet, Commissioned by the Company of Sirens. Premiered at Bloor St United Church, Toronto
Themantics.(1996)
A full length composition for clarinet, piano and violin trio. Commissioned by the Bob Misky Trio. Premiered at the North York Centre For The Performing Arts.
Little Miss Easter Seals (1992)
For Solo cello, commissioned by CBC Radio Morningside Drama
Moon Saga (1990)
For flute, cello and piano. Commissioned by Ardeleana Trio. Premiered at St. Andrews Church, Toronto
Fantasy For Solo Cello (1989)
Commissioned by Steven Green. Premiered at the Music Gallery, Toronto
Six Movements for Marimba with Violin, Cello, Flute and Oboe (1988)
Written for Beverly Johnson. Recorded in Toronto with Factor Grant.
String Quartet #1 (1979)
Premiered at the Pauline McGibbon Centre and CBC Radio.
Vocal
Pomegranate Song Cycle (2014)
For Harp, Soprano and Contralto. Libretto Amanda Hale. Premiered Heliconian Club March 2014.
Upon Rising (2012) Soprano, Clarinet, Piano.
Commissioned by the Lyric Arts Trio. Premiere in May 2012, Kansas City, USA
We Make the Air: Elegy for Lina Chartrand (1997)
For contralto and string quartet, Commissioned by the Company of Sirens. Premiered at Bloor St United Church, Toronto
Wild Nights: Poems of Emily Dickinson (1999)
Set for choir. Commisioned by the Uxbridge Chamber Choir. Premiered at the Uxbridge United Church. Professional Reading by the Vancouver Chamber Choir through a SOCAN grant.
Keyboard
Variations on Land of the Silver Birch: For One Piano – Four Hands (2020)
Bossy Two (2016) For One Piano – Four Hands Published by CNCM
River Valley (2015) For One Piano – Four Hands
Together (2015) For One Piano – Four Hands
Bach Blues (2014) For One Piano – Four Hands
Serenade (2014) For One Pian0 – Four Hands
Jamp (2014) Published by CNCM
Bossa Antiqua V (2011)
Metronomics (2011)
Toccata In Blue (2011)
On Second Thought (2011)
Mountain Mist Over Gros Morin (2011)
Reverber~ariations (2011) Published by CNCM
Bossa Antiqua III (2010) Published by CNCM
You Say Major, I Say Minor (2010) Published by CNCM
Wayward Waltz (2010)
Tumble Weed Dance (2010) Winner of CFMTA competition
A Blues in A (2010)
Summer’s End (2010)
Flower Pot Island (2010)
Bossa Antiqua IV (2009) Published by CNCM
Mask (2009) Published by CNCM
Black and White Blues (2009)
Blue North (2009) Winner of CFMTA competition
Frost Bite (2009)
Prairie Nights (2009)
Bossa Antiqua I and II (2008)
Intervallic Wanderings (2007)
Snowbound In Orville (2007)
Two Pieces for Piano: Song & Dance (1981)
Electroacoustic
Process Piece #1 - Tap (2021)
Kye Marshall, The Toronto Heliconian Club. November, 2021
Process Piece #2 - Hildegard (2021)
Kye Marshall, The Toronto Heliconian Club. November, 2021
Process Piece #3 - Post Devastation (2021)
Kye Marshall, The Toronto Heliconian Club. November, 2021
Autumn Fog, Push, Zebra Harem (2015)
For Solo Electric Cello. Premiered at the Heliconian Club.
Silky Waters, The Resolution, Liminal Animism-the Shell (2014)
For Solo Electric Cello . Premiered at the Heliconian Club.
Hildegard, Mad Mary, Heli Blues. (2013)
For Solo Electric Cello. Premiered at the Heliconian Club.
Trees in the Sky and Chevreuse II
For Solo cello. Premiered at the AGO 2010.
Nine Poets and a Cello (2007).
For Solo Electric Cello. Premiered at The Canadian Music Centre, Toronto, August 2007.
Astral Shells (1998)
Synthesizer dance score. Commissioned by the Parahumans Dance Theatre
Performed at Ohio StateUniversity
Voice in the Dark (1997)
Synthesizer dance score. Commissioned by the Parahumans Dance Theatre. Premiered at Damn Straight Dance Studios.
Little Miss Easter Seals (1993)
Theatre score for synthesizer. Commissioned by the Company of Sirens. Premiered at Tarragon Theatre, Toronto
Film and Radio Scores
Wisdom Speakers (video) (2010)
The bliss in all of this. (1999)
Premiered in Toronto
Keeper. (1998)
For synthesizer. Premiered at the Uptown Theatre, Toronto.
Windy (1995)
Film score for synthesizer Premiered in Toronto
Little Miss Easter Seals (1992)
Premiered CBC Radio
Tales of Tomorrow: Our Elders (1982)
For piano and oboe. CBC documentary
Jazz Compositions
Forty jazz compositions including: Bach to Bop, River Reverie, Celloing, Interrupted Conversations, Evensong, I Remember Johann Sebastian, Radar Reef, Summer Sizzle, Say When.……..
Theatre/Dance/Multimedia
Escapist: Solo amplified cello with Choreographer Kaitlyn Siebold. (2022)
Meeting at R9: Solo amplified cello with Choreographer Kaitlyn Siebold. (2021)
Honey: Solo amplified cello with Choreographer Kaitlyn Siebold. (2021)
Desert X (2019) Cello score for Sculpture Installation by Nancy Worthington
No Boundaries (1998) Dance score on electric cello for the Parahumans Dance Theatre, premiered in Toronto,
The Necklace Legacy (1995)
Peterborough New Dance, premiered at the Peterborough TownHall,
Curling Maman's Hair (1995)
With Lorraine Pelletier reading text by Lina Chartrand, Mayworks, Clinton Tavern, Toronto.
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND COMMISSIONS
2019 TD, OAC, TAC, CC
2017 OAC Grant
2016 Commission by Hannah Addario-berry for Scordatura Cello
2015 Commission by the Halcyon Quartet
2010 Commission by Dr. Norman Bethune H.S.
2009 CMC Music in New Places for Nine Poets and a Cello
2009 SOCAN Professional Reading Grant(Vancouver Chamber Choir)
2007 Norman Burgess Memorial Fund Commission
2006 CMC Professional Reading Grant for Brass Quintet#1 with the Toronto Winds
2004 CMC Professional Reading Grant for Three Movements for String Orchestra with Symphony London
2001 Ontario Arts Council Community Music grant
2000 Toronto Arts Council Composition Grant
2000 Canada Council Promotion Grant
1999 Toronto Symphony Education Programs Composition grant
1996 Factor Recording Grant
1996 Toronto Arts Council Composition Grant
1993 Canada Council Travel Grant to Vittoria, Spain
1992 Ontario Arts Council (Education Department) Arrangement Grant for The Epic String Trio
1991 Scholarship to the Jazz Program, Banff School of Fine Arts
1988 CAPAC Grant to record "Six Movements for Marimba with Violin, Cello, Flute & Oboe". Commissioned by Beverly Johnson.
1986 Toronto Symphony Education Programmes Arrangement Grant
1983 Ontario Arts Council Grant Composition Grant
198l CAPAC Recording Grant.
1980 Ron Collier Composition Award