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SELECTED COMPOSITIONS
Opera:
BURNING DREAMS (1994)
full-length opera based on Calderon de la Barca's La Vida Es Un Sueno, libretto by Octavio Solis & Julie Hebert, dir. Sam Woodhouse. Commissioned through Meet The Composer/Rockefeller/AT&T Jazz Program
premiered at San Diego Repertory Theater, February 1994.
ACTAEON (1997)
Part One of Paul Zimet's Black Milk Quartet,
premiered at La Mama E.T.C., NYC, January 1998
Orchestra:
CHORALES FOR AMERICA (1988)
a suite, commissioned by the Bay Area Jazz Composers Orchestra
premiered spring 1988.
EGG OF THE MOON (1989/90)
score for the Bay Area Women's Philharmonic Orchestra.
Chamber works:
BURNING DREAMS
Song Cycle (1998)
ISABELLE EBERHARDT
Song Cycle (1996)
MENORCA QUARTET
string quartet, for Quartetto Aguinaga (1994)
LOST IN LIFE
solo piano (1985)
THE LEISHMAN SONGBOOK
Large body of miscellaneous songs for solo voice and piano, glass armonica, accordion etc. (see BED TIME and IN MY SKIN)
Works/Recordings with KAMIKAZE GROUND CREW:
PORTRAITS
commissioned by Chamber Music America's NewWorks: Creation and Presentation Program, funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, in celebration of 20 years' play
Premiered at the San Francisco Jazz Festival, Nov. 1st 2006
POSTCARDS FROM THE HIGHWIRE (Busmeat Records, 2007)
including:
Love-Go-Round (commissioned by Sudwest Rundfunk for Donaueschingen Musiktage 2000)
Habaneras 1 2 & 3
THE COVER PROJECT (Koch Jazz, 2000)
including arrangements of:
Tierkreis #7 & #12 (Stockhausen)
Morning in Bhutan (traditional Tibetan)
Easter Sunday (Brecht/Eisler)
Epilogue (David Hidalgo)
(also an arrangement of the Hungarian March from Damnation of Faust for Berlioz bi-centenary)
MADAM MARIE'S TEMPLE OF KNOWLEDGE (New World Records, 1993)
including:
Cowboys
Blue Lake Dances
Tears and Tango
Baby Doll Lounge
Homage au soleil
THE SCENIC ROUTE (New World Records, 1991)
including:
Chorales for America
Diamonds are just glass
March of the Floties
Fred & Rick have tea
KAMIKAZE GROUND CREW (Busmeat Records, 1985, re-issued Koch Jazz, 1997)
including:
Blue Wheels
Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic
What?
Theater:
MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN
by Bertolt Brecht
transl. by David Hare, dir. Lisa Peterson
La Jolla Playhouse June 2006 & Berkeley Rep Sept. 2006 (both Critic Circle Awards)
AS YOU LIKE IT
by William Shakespeare, dir. Jonathan Moscone
Cal Shakes Sept. 2006
OEDIPUS THE KING
A new version of the Sophocles play by Ellen McLaughlin. dir. Lisa Peterson
Guthrie Theater, Jan. 2005
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
by William Shakespeare, dir. Lisa Peterson
Cal Shakes Sept. 2004
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
by William Shakespeare, dir. Peter Dubois.
Cal Shakes Sept. 2003
A FEAST OF FOOLS
w/ Geoff Hoyle, dir Richard Seyd. Musical score and co-performer.
premiered at La Jolla Playhouse, July 2002 (Critics Circle Award)
THE FOURTH SISTER
by Janucz Glowacki, dir. Lisa Peterson. Original music.
Vineyard Theater, NYC, Nov. 2002
A WINTER'S TALE
by William Shakespeare, dir. Lisa Peterson.
Cal Shakes Sept 2002
TWELFTH NIGHT
by William Shakespeare, dir. Jonathan Moscone. .
Cal Shakes Sept. 2001
CYMBELINE
by William Shakespeare, dir. Daniel Fish.
Cal Shakes June 2001
SOME-KIND-OF-WIND-IN-THE -WILLOWS
adapted from Kenneth Grahame by David Gordon. Musical score commissioned by A.C.T. San Francisco.
Workshop fall 2000
LOVE'S LABOURS LOST
by William Shakespeare, dir. Lisa Peterson.
Cal Shakes Sept. 2000 (Critics Circle Award)
TONGUE OF A BIRD
by Ellen McLaughlin, dir. Lisa Peterson. Soundscore.
NYSF/Public Theater (April 1999) and Mark Taper Forum (January 1999)
ALICE: TALES OF A CURIOUS GIRL
adapted from Lewis Carroll by Karen Hartman, dir. Jonathan Moscone.
Dallas Theater Center, premiered February 1999
A TALE WE TOLD THE QUEEN ON THE FOURTH DAY OF OUR JOURNEY FROM THE EAST (1999)
written and directed by Rinde Eckert.
premiered University of Iowa, November 1999.
THE IMAGINARY INVALID (1999)
by Moliere, dir. Mark Rucker.
Yale Repertory Theatre, premiered September 1999.
SALT by Migdalia Cruz, dir. Loretta Greco.
Actors Studio Free Theater, NYC, premiered February 1998
THE WEAVE by Joan Schirle. (funded by Lila Wallace Foundation),
premiered Dell'Arte June 1998
THERESE RAQUIN, adapted by Neal Bell, dir. David Esbjornson. (w/ Rinde Eckert).
CSC Repertory Theater, NYC, premiered November 199 (nominated for Drama Desk Award)
TONGUE OF A BIRD
by Ellen McLaughlin, dir. Lisa Peterson.
World premiere, Intiman Theatre, Seattle, September 1997
GLASS MENAGERIE
by Tennessee Williams, dir. Jonathan Moscone. Soundscore.
Portland Stage Co., premiered March 1997
FIRMAMENT
writer & dir. Joseph Chaikin. in collaboration with Dick Peaslee & J.A.Deane.
Work-in-progress, La M 'ama Annexe, Nov. 1995
THE YELLOW KID (1995)
by Brian Faker & Bliss Kolb, collaborative score w/ Doug Wieselman
for Annex Theater, Seattle, premiered September 1995.
IPHIGENIA & OTHER DAUGHTERS
by Ellen McLaughlin, dir. David Esbjornson.
CSC Repertory Theater, NYC, premiered February 1995. Also Chautauqua, NY 1997
ACT WITHOUT WORDS
by Samuel Beckett, dir. Tony Taccone. (w/ Keith Terry)
Berkeley Repertory Theater, premiered fall 1994
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
(w/ Doug Wieselman) for the Flying Karamazov Brothers, dir. Dan Sullivan.
premiered Seattle Rep, February 1993, & Arena Stage, spring 1993
FEAR OF FALLING
writers & dir. Dell'Arte Co. Musical score, funded by Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Fund,
premiered September 1991 (Critics Circle Award)
LEARNED LADIES
by Moliere, dir. Richard Seyd.
premiered CSC Repertory Theater, NYC, February 1991. Also A.C.T., San Francisco, April 1993 (Critics Circle Award)
DON QUIXOTE DE LA JOLLA
by Eric Overmeyer, w/ Geoff Hoyle, dir. Stan Wojawodski.
La Jolla Playhouse, premiered August 1990
OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD
by Timberlake Wertenbaker dir.Tony Taccone
Berkely Rep. early '90s
SLAPSTICK,
writer & dir. Dell'Arte.
premiered at Arhus International Theater Festival, Denmark, September 1989
UTTERANCE IN THE FIRMAMENT
writer & dir. Joseph Chaikin.
premiered San Francisco State University, June 1989
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
by William Shakespeare, dir. Richard E.T.White.
Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, premiered July 1989
ANIMAL NATION
from George Orwell, adapted by Steve Friedman, w/ Dell Arte.
San Diego Rep, 1989
UBU
from Alfred Jarry , w/ Geoff Hoyle, dir. Tony Taccone.
premiered Eureka Theater, 1988
CHRISTMAS CAROL
by Charles Dickens, dir.?
San Diego Rep, 1988
ALMOST ASLEEP
writer & dir. Julie Hebert. (&actor).
Premiere Intersection Theater for the Arts, S.F., winter 1988
RED NOSES
by Peter Barnes, dir. Sam Woodhouse. ,
premiered San Diego Repertory Theater, July 1988 (Critics Circle Award)
Dance/Performance:
VELVETEEN RABBIT
songs for ODC/SF evening-length ballet,
premiered at Kennedy Center, November 1996
DIED SUDDENLY
score for the 1989 Cocteau Centenary, with Deborah Slater & Julie Hebert
commissioned by the Los Angeles City Arts Council & Severin Wunderin Museum, premiered spring 1989.
SLEEP TIGHT
musical score (w/ Doug Wieselman)
Laughing Moon Theater, premiered July 1989.
ALLIGATOR TALES
by Anne Galjour
premiered May 1990.
Radio:
ALMOST ASLEEP
soundscore for the radio play by Julie Hebert
commissioned by L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art, June 1989 .
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