The In-Between – Nine Poems of Jane Barnes (2010) 22 min.
mezzo-soprano and piano
Commissioned by the Keighton Fund at Curry College.
Premiere November 7, 2010, Milton, Mass.; Sarah Pelletier, mezzo, and Lois Shapiro, piano

Music for an Imaginary Band (2009-)
new pieces for a 7-piece band of trumpet, 3 saxophones, piano, bass and drums.
CIRCUS * FAR INTERLUDE * LADY SHADE * NO MEAT * VICIOUS CYCLE
SOUTHERN SPHERES * POP-POP-POP-POP * DEEP SIX

The Rat Land (2003-08) 2 hr, 20 min.
A chamber opera for 8 singers and an orchestra of 13, in four scenes plus a prologue, interlude and epilogue. Duration: 2 hr, 20 min.

Rites of Summer (2007) 25 min.
flute/piccolo, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion
Commissioned by 20th Century Unlimited for the California E.A.R. Unit.
Premiere: May 14, 2007, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA.

For Once, Then, Something (2007) 20 min. watch an excerpt
live piano and recorded electronics
written for Anita Cheng Dance; premiere May 31, June 1-2, 2007, Mulberry Street Theater, New York, NY.

Brass Quintet (2007) 15 min.
Commissioned by the American Brass Quintet with funds from the Jerome Foundation.

Passages (2006) 14 min.
recorder quartet
Commissioned by Concert Artists Guild
Written for Quartet New Generation; premiere February 8, 2007
recording available here

String Quartet (2006) 18 min. [listen to the 1st movement]
premiere: August 6, 2006 at the Deer Valley Chamber Music Festival, Park City, Utah with the California Quartet

Transparent Paths (2005) [listen to the 3rd part]
in 4 parts (2, 7, 7 and 5 min.)
flute/picc/alto, elec. guitar, cello and percussion
written for choreographer Estelle Woodward
premiere: October 21-22, 2005 at the Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, NY

Reliquary (2005) 23 min.
flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/viola, cello, percussion, and piano
Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for Music, written for eighth blackbird

West of Winter (2004) 15 min.
four sopranos
Written for Anita Cheng Dance
Premiere: January 13-14-15-16, 2005, at the Joyce SoHo, New York, with soprano Lisa Bielawa (cd recording by Seth Misterka)

City Shore (2003) 11 min.
solo piano
Written for Anita Cheng Dance
Premiere January 9-10-11, 2003, at the Merce Cunningham Studio, New York with GB, piano. Additional performances March 4-5-6-7, 2004 at Danspace, NYC.

Morbidity and Mortality Report (2002) 10 min.
full orchestra
Commissioned by the BMI Foundation / Carlos Surinach Fund for David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony Orchestra
Premiere: March 14, 2003 at the Troy Savings Bank Hall, Troy, NY. Second performance by the New England Philharmonic, Richard Pittman, music director, Tsai Performance Center, Boston, Mass., May 1, 2004.

Phenomena (2000-2002) 37 min.
solo piano
Commissioned by Linda and Jack Hoeschler for Concert Artists’ Guild with additional support from Premiere Commission, Inc.
Premiered by WInston Choi, October 6, 2005, at Symphony Space, New York City

Safe, This Dangerous Night (2000) 9 min.
solo guitar
Commissioned by guitarist David Leisner
Premiered by Leisner November 29, 2000 at Jordan Hall, Boston. Further performances by Leisner: March 10, 2001 at the Greenwich House Music School, New York; May 18, 2001 at the 19th International Guitar Festival, Milan, Italy; May 21, 2001 at Fondazione Arts Academy, Rome, Italy

San Francisco Songs (1998-2000) 25 min.
words by Jane Barnes
tenor and full orchestra. also version for piano
Premiered by Tony Boutté, tenor, and Gordon Beeferman, piano, at Greenwich House Music School, March 10, 2001. Excerpts performed at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, August 10, 2001.

Piano Quartet (1998) 8 min.
piano, violin, viola, and cello
Commissioned by the New York Youth Symphony
Premiered at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, April 7, 1999 by members of the NY Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program. Second performance at the Greenwich House Music School, March 10, 2001

The Greek Gaze (1998) 4 min.
"mini-opera" for 3 women, 2 men, electric guitar, electric bass, and drums
Premiered by "Caterwaul" at the University of Michigan, March 27, 1998.

Sesame Street Variations (1998) 14 min.
for piano solo, based on themes from the television
series "Sesame Street”
Premiered by Gordon Beeferman at the University of Michigan, April 26, 1998

Symphony #1 (1996-97) 23 min.
full orchestra
Third movement, "La Aurora (The Dawn In New York)" premiered by the Civic Orchestra of Chicago at Orchestra Hall, Chicago, April 11, 1999; second performance by the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra, Wilshire Ebell Theater, Los Angeles, May 16, 1999. First and second movements premiered by the Minnesota Orchestra at their reading sessions, March 13, 2002, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN.

Sonata Bombastica (1996) 9 min.
violin and piano
Premiered February 10, 1997 at the University of Michigan by violinist Gabriel Bolkosky and Gordon Beeferman at the piano. Second performance at Berkshire New Music Festival, Williamstown, Mass. Third performance at Weill Recital Hall, New York City, January 19, 1999 by Doris Stevenson and Maria Bachman. Further performances: May 24, 2001 at New York University's Loeb Theater by Composers Concordance.

Three Night Moods (1995-96) 18 min.
two harps and two percussion
Premiered April 14, 1997 at the University of Michigan. Version for two pianos and percussion premiered July 17, 1996 at the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music.

Now No One Will Listen To Songs (1995) 18 min.
bass-baritone, B-flat clarinet, violin, cello, and piano; settings of Russian texts by Akhmatova, Bobyshev, Lermontov, and Mandelstam.
Winner of BMI Student Composer Award.
First complete performance by Collage New Music with bass-baritone David Ripley, at the C. Walsh Theater in Boston, Mass., March 31, 1996.

Anonymous Lyrics (1994) 5 min.
for soprano and piano, settings of anonymous ancient Greek texts translated by Richmond Lattimore
Premiered September 15, 1996 at the Society for New Music, Syracuse, NY, by soprano Jane Rodgers and pianist Kevin Bylsma.