Travel Guide to Nicaragua (2022) 70'
for solo cello and 24 voice choir
solo cello, SATB
Carnegie Hall, Penn Live Arts
Works
Voice
Montaña (2020) 60'
A music-film collaboration with Bill Morrison (film)
SATB
Warren Miller Performing Arts Center, Big Sky, MT
A Western (2019) 25'
SSATTB
Casa Da Musica and Theatre of Voices
To Sing (2017) 6'
SATB
Young People's Chorus of New York City
Great Trees of New York City (2016) 6'
treble voices
The Young People's Chorus of New York City; Transient Glory commissioning project
Cloud River Mountain (2015, rev. 2017) 32'
music by Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Lau Luo
soprano, cl, perc, egtr, piano, vc, db
commissioned by Maria and Robert A. Skirnick and Arts Brookfield
Exalted (2010) 10'
SATB; string quartet + electronics [all instruments and voices amplified]
The Kronos Quartet, The Young People's Chorus of New York City
He Saw a Skull (2009) 6'
SATB, 12 voices
Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen and Ars Nova Copenhagen
Lightning at our feet (2008) 75'
four singer/performers playing violin, cello, piano, electric guitar, and electronics [all instruments and voices amplified]
BAM 2008 Next Wave Festival and Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston
Every Stop On The F Train (2007) 5'
Treble Voices
Young People’s Chorus of New York City
Shelter (2005) 65'
music by Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe; text by Deborah Artman
3 Sop, fl, ob, cl, bn, hn, tpt, tbn, tba, pno, egtr, eb, perc, 2 vln, vla, vc, cb [all instruments and voices amplified]
The Next Wave Festival of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, musikFabrik and Kunstiftung NRW
What to Wear (2005) 65'
Text by Richard Foreman
2S, A, T, small female chorus
2kbd, perc, egtr, 2vn, db, drums [all instruments and voices amplified]
The Center for New Performance at CalArts and the Ontological-Hysteric Theater with funds provided by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. What to Wear is also a Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/USA commission and was produced with the additional support of the Shubert Foundation.
Lost Objects (2001) 62'
music by Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe; Text by Deborah Artman
Sop, 2 countertenors, small chor, DJ, baroque orch, egtr, eb, perc, synth [all instruments and voices amplified]
Dresden Festival
The Carbon Copy Building (1999) 72'
music by Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe; Text by Ben Katchor
Cast: Ms, T, Bar, Bar/Ct; cl(bcl, cbcl, ssx)/perc/syn/egtr [all instruments and voices amplified]
Settembre Musica Festival and the city council of Turin, Italy, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Chaos (1998) 77'
Text by Matthew Maguire
S, A, T, 2Bar + audio playback [amplified vocals]
National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts