Solo Song (2002)
for solo voice [text by composer] [from Four Occasions]
Our Heart and Home Is With Infinitude (1998)
for soprano and piano (15')
[texts by Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Friedrich, Whitman, and Leopardi]
Vocal Duo
Di Pensier a Pensier (2000)
for soprano, mezzo soprano, and harpsichord (15’)
[text by Petrarch]
(see also Warm Waxing Wail, solo piano)
Vocal With Chamber Ensemble
The Sting of Command (2002)
for baritone, violin, clarinet, piano and contrabass (4’)
[text from Elias Canetti]
Seeing Forms, Hearing Voices (1999)
for soprano, male chorus, brass, strings, percussion, keyboard sampler, and electroacoustic part (20’)
Pensées Nocturnes (1994)
for soprano and piano trio (13')
[texts by Blaise Pascal]
El Canto de los Asesinados (1993)
for tenor, clappers, percussion, soprano saxophone and bass guitar (5')
[texts by Federico Garcia Lorca and Robert Carl]
Two Visions (1987)
for soprano and thirteen players (texts by W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens) (20')
American Space (1983)
for soprano and six players (text by Louis Sullivan) (14')
[see also Distant Shore II under "chamber orchestra"]
Music Theater (monodrama)
Trancendance (1991)
for soprano, piano, and bass (on Shaker texts) (15')
Choral
Simic Songs (2003)
fifteen madrigals for four solo voices
Sanctus for Zepernick (2002)
for a cappella chorus (7’)
Autumn Song (1993)
for children's choir (2')
[text by Emily Dickinson]
Sullivan Songs (1983)
for 12-voice a capella choir (9')
[texts by Louis Sullivan]