CATALOG
Orchestral
Compositions are arranged alphabetically by title within each category. Click on each title for audio previews, texts, score samples, reviews, past performances, commissioning ensembles and more.
"The Magic Whip" is an ancient Chinese Folk Tale that tells the story of a farmer's daughter who confronts an evil emperor and tricks him into giving back to her a magic whip (made of hair from a mysterious old woman.)
Created in collaboration with veena artist and composer Nirmala Rajasekar.
In this charming folktale from the Hmong people of Laos, a mother tiger wants to learn how large her family will be.
The animals of Northern India (the koel bird, flamingoes, elephants, camels, sea turtles, deer and peacocks) search for the light of the moon.
Out of the Alaskan coastal wilderness, Raven creates the earth.
Manuel and his father carve jugetes (small wooden animals) his family sells at the fiestas in Oaxaca.
A setting of the Mariachi song "the disturbed bull."
Something terrible happened in Africa; no rain fell...
Igal’s unreasonable fears caused him much trouble, but with cleverness
and faith he always managed to find his way.