compositions
theatre with music
Freedom Papers piece of verbatim theatre with music for 15 actors, 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 double bass, 1 clarinet (2019)
works for chamber orchestra
Don Juan at Forty poem by Ron Butlin for baritone, 1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet in B flat, 1 contrabassoon and strings (orchestrated 2013)
works for large orchestra
Tour et Retour for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, snare drum, triangles, tubular bells, and strings (2013)
Sola Caritate (Glaube - Liebe - Hoffnung) for mezzosoprano, baritone & orchestra to a text by Christoph Weber-Berg, Ernst Weber and Samuel Jakob (2017)
works for solo piano
Variations, Additions and Distractions for piano solo (1997)
Color, Form and Dissolution for piano solo (1998)
Compression of the Elements for piano solo (1999)
15 Vignetten für Klavier (2000) available at Certosa Verlag
Sieben Trifft Fünf (2008)
Three Bagatelles (2012-13)
works for 4-hand piano
Spirals Unwinding (2002)
other chamber music works
Drei mechanische Inventionen for oboe and violoncello (1996)
Sonate for violin and piano (1996)
Pentamotivo for violin solo (1999) available at Certosa Verlag
Impasse for violin and piano (2000)
Khanti trio for flute, violin and piano (2002)
Aus den Schatten for clarinet, violoncello and piano (2005)
Precarious Paradise for trumpet and piano (2005) available at Certosa Verlag
Aurora Empor for panflute, viola, Cello and harp (2006)
Shifting Accents for marimba, accordion and double bass (2014)
Wind Up & Unravel for string quartet (2015)
Five Duets for two violins (2015-16)
vocal ensembles
Animalische Geschichten with piano accompaniment to poems by Christian Morgenstern (1998):
Igel und Agel (solo)
Der Walfafisch (solo)
Die Drei Spatzen (men’s trio)
Der Heroische Pudel (SATB quartet)
Der Einsiedler by Joseph von Eichendorff for 4-part women’s choir, flute, violin and 4-hand piano (2000)
Taub Raum Stumm to a poem by Johanna Lier for 3-part women’s choir a cappella (2001)
Die Zunge to a poem by Johanna Lier for 3-part women’s choir a cappella (2002)
verlassen hassen münzen to a poem by Johanna Lier for 3-part women’s choir a cappella (2002)
Nachtbesuche to texts by Friedrich Rückert for soprano, mezzo-soprano, violin and piano (2004)
Die Knigge-Kantate to texts by Ernst Meister, Rudolf Hans Fürrer and Julia Schwartz for vocal quartet and piano (2012)
songs with piano accompaniment – poems in german
Drei Lieder to poems by Hermann Hesse (1992)
Die Nacht four songs to poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (1994 - 95)
Drei Weihnachtslieder (1996) available at Certosa Verlag
Zwischen Leben und Tod to a poem by Friedrich Rückert (1999)
Ich bin nicht tot 5 songs to poems by Franz Werfel, Georg Trakl and Else Lasker-Schüler with piano accompaniment (2014)
songs with piano accompaniment - poems in english and french
Whispers of Heavenly Death settings of five poems by Walt Whitman (1993-94)
8 Haikus words and music (1997-98)
Songs of Love & Reflection poems by Sara Teasdale (2001)
Don Juan at Forty to a poem by Ron Butlin (2010)
A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife Elegy XV of John Donne for baritone and piano (2016)
Délice et Tendresse 4 mélodies to poems by Paul Valéry for voice and piano (2016)
sacred works
Zwei Psalmen (Nr. 9 & Nr. 33) for choir a cappella (1994)
Psalm 13 for soprano, mezzo-soprano, violin and organ (1994)
Psalm 142 for choir a cappella (1997)
Psalm 103 for choir, violin and piano or organ (2007)
In Kraft des Herrn vertilge ich sie (Psalm 118) for choir, accordion and piano (2013)
other works for choir
Tre ombre in croce to Dante's Inferno Canto XVI, 1-90 for choir a cappella (2007)
The Wind and the Weather texts by Christian Morgenstern, Sara Teasdale and Paul Verlaine for chorus a cappella (2015)
Der Wind als Liebender & Wind und Geige
Wild Asters (Kenyon Chamber Singers, conductor Benjamin Locke)
Épilogue I
The Wind (Kenyon Chamber Singers, conductor Benjamin Locke)
Nachtwind
Let me not to the marriage (Shakespeare Sonnet 116) for chorus SATB and strings (2015)
The Voyage of the Soul 10 poems by Walt Whitman for chorus a cappella (2017)
vocal chamber music works
Zwei Reflexionen to poems by Rilke for soprano and violoncello (1995)
The Ruins of the Heart five poems and four quatrains of Rumi for mezzo-soprano, oboe and percussion (1996)
Lamento for female voice, tenorsaxophone, congas and piano (this film is the 1998 version, music was revised 2020)
Zwei Elementarphantasien to poems by Christian Morgenstern for flute and voice (1999)
Breaking Silence poems from „Histories of Desire“ by Ron Butlin for mezzo-soprano, clarinet in A and piano (2003)
One Life
The Painting Lesson
Today
A Ballad: In My House
Denkmal einer Stunde to poems by Friedrich Rückert for soprano and piano trio (2011)
Herso poems from Susana Gardner's book of the same name for voice and violin (2012)
Five Fjords to texts by Zachary Schomburg for voice, violoncello and piano (2014)