Richard St. Clair is an American

United States

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, pedagogue, and pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

.

Life History and Musical Career

Richard St. Clair, a noted American musician, is descended from both Franco-Scottish roots (see Clan Sinclair

Clan Sinclair

Clan Sinclair is a Highland Scottish clan of Norman origin who held lands in the north of Scotland, the Orkney Islands, and the Lothians which they received from the Kings of Scots...

) on his father's side, and Norwegian-Swedish roots on his mother's side. It is believed his paternal ancestors emigrated from the British Isles to New England in the 17th century as part of the colonization of the New World. His maternal ancestors emigrated from Norway and Sweden to the American Upper Midwest (in particular, Minnesota) in the latter part of the 19th century along with many other Scandinavians who settled there at that time.

St. Clair was born in Jamestown, North Dakota

Jamestown, North Dakota

As of the census of 2000, there were 15,527 people, 6,505 households, and 3,798 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,246.7 per square mile . There were 6,970 housing units at an average density of 559.6 per square mile...

 in 1946. The following year his family moved to Grand Forks, North Dakota

Grand Forks, North Dakota

Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Grand Forks County. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 52,838, while that of the city and surrounding metropolitan area was 98,461...

, a larger city with much greater musical and cultural opportunities than his birthplace. The musical environs of Grand Forks served as the foundation for his life in music. The city boasted its own symphony orchestra, a major university with an active music department, a concert series featuring prominent soloists, and a school system that emphasized music education. For years he sang in both the Centralian concert chorus of his high school (Grand Forks Central High School) and the sanctuary choir of the church (First Presbyterian) which he attended as a child and adolescent. He also sang in the Choral Union, a collaboration between the University of North Dakota

University of North Dakota

The University of North Dakota is a public university in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. Established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state of North Dakota, UND is the oldest and largest university in the state and enrolls over 14,000 students. ...

 and the Grand Forks community.

Music ran through his family. His maternal grandfather was a band conductor who played and taught many different instruments, and his maternal grandmother was a piano teacher. His paternal grandmother was a gifted pianist. His father, Foster York St. Clair (1905–1994) - a Harvard-educated English literature scholar, university professor and poet - and his mother, Elna Ruth Bogen St. Clair (1912–1975) - a business college teacher - were both amateur musicians and classical music-lovers. St. Clair from a very early age fell in love with the music of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky, which were played in his home on fragile 78-rpm records. At age 4 he began taking piano lessons. By age 16 he was already writing music, mainly for chorus and organ.

A turning point in his musical life came in 1963 when he attended on scholarship the International Music Camp

International Music Camp

The International Music Camp is a summer youth camp held annually at the International Peace Garden on the North Dakota-Manitoba border. The camp offers week-long and month-long intensive programs in the fine arts.-External links:*...

 in the International Peace Garden

International Peace Garden

The International Peace Garden is a 3.65 sq. mi. park located on the international border between Canada and the United States, in the state of North Dakota and the province of Manitoba. Established on July 14, 1932, the park plants over 150,000 flowers each year...

 on the North Dakota-Canada border. Amidst the intense musical environment, his performances at the piano were noticed by Professor Earnest Harris, head of the piano department at Moorhead State College (later renamed Minnesota State University Moorhead

Minnesota State University Moorhead

Minnesota State University Moorhead is a four-year, public university located in Moorhead, Minnesota. The school has an enrollment of nearly 7,500 students and 337 full-time faculty members. MSUM is a part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system...

). Harris, steeped in the pedagogic tradition of Theodor Leschetizky and Carl Czerny

Carl Czerny

Carl Czerny was an Austrian pianist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for his books of études for the piano. Czerny's music was profoundly influenced by his teachers, Muzio Clementi, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Antonio Salieri and Ludwig van Beethoven.-Early life:Carl Czerny was born...

, gave him a full scholarship to study piano, culminating in his brilliant senior solo recital in Grand Forks the following spring, playing the music of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.

St. Clair, following in his father's footsteps, began his studies at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) where in 1969 he earned his Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) with honors in music composition. In graduate school at Harvard he went on to earn his Master of Arts (A.M.) in 1973 and his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1978, both degrees in music composition. During his student years he was awarded several prizes for his compositions. At Harvard he studied composition with Roger Sessions

Roger Sessions

Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...

, Leon Kirchner

Leon Kirchner

Leon Kirchner was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 3.Kirchner was born in Brooklyn, New York...

, Earl Kim

Earl Kim

Earl Kim was a Korean-American composer.Kim was born in Dinuba, California, to immigrant Korean parents. He began piano studies at age ten and soon developed an interest in composition, studying in Los Angeles and Berkeley with, among others, Arnold Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch, and Roger Sessions...

, and David Del Tredici

David Del Tredici

David Del Tredici, born March 16, 1937 in Cloverdale, California, is an American composer. According to Del Tredici's website, Aaron Copland said David Del Tredici "is that rare find among composers — a creator with a truly original gift...

. He studied piano privately with Paul Lundquist, Earnest Harris, and Leonard Shure

Leonard Shure

Leonard Shure was an American concert pianist, and heir to the tradition of the great Artur Schnabel, began his career as a performer at the age of 5 and as a teenager studied privately with Schnabel in Germany.-Life:Shure graduated from the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin in 1927, at which time he...

. He made his debut as a composer with the performance of his Piano Piece no. 1 at the Marlboro Music Festival in 1967 where he was encouraged by Director Rudolf Serkin

Rudolf Serkin

Rudolf Serkin , was a Bohemian-born pianist.-Life and early career:Serkin was born in Eger, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire to a Russian-Jewish family....

 to continue to pursue a career in composition.

Difficult to describe but generally in the broad category of Neoromanticism (music)

Neoromanticism (music)

Neoromanticism in music is a return to the emotional expression associated with nineteenth-century Romanticism. Since the mid-1970s the term has come to be identified with neoconservative postmodernism, especially in Germany, Austria, and the United States, with composers such as Wolfgang Rihm and...

, St. Clair's music runs the gamut of pure tonality to avant-garde atonality. His early Piano Pieces no. 1 and no.2 are intensely atonal and show the influence of Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

. Since then, however, he has turned to a more approachable style following the tradition of twentieth-century masters including Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

, Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....

, Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...

 and Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...

, the latter who taught his teachers Earl Kim and Leon Kirchner. His Love-Canzonettes and other works for chorus and his many ragtime

Ragtime

Ragtime is an original musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1897 and 1918. Its main characteristic trait is its syncopated, or "ragged," rhythm. It began as dance music in the red-light districts of American cities such as St. Louis and New Orleans years before being published...

 works for piano are completely tonal and classically conceived. His string quartets and much of his other music are tonally more challenging and structurally freer.

Of St. Clair's The Lamentations of Shinran for Soprano, Tenor and String Quartet, Boston Phoenix music reviewer Lloyd Schwartz

Lloyd Schwartz

Lloyd Schwartz is an American poet who is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston...

 wrote in February 2000:

St. Clair has created a fascinating sound world, both charged and atmospheric. Every cliché of Eastern music has been either avoided or utterly transformed. His is a stirring and original voice.

In 1969 and 1970 he taught piano at the New England Conservatory in Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

 (Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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), and from 1973 to 1977 he taught music history and composition at his alma mater, Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

. He also served on the music faculty of Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy is a private secondary school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the United States.Exeter is noted for its application of Harkness education, a system based on a conference format of teacher and student interaction, similar to the Socratic method of learning through asking...

 and Phillips Academy

Phillips Academy

Phillips Academy is a selective, co-educational independent boarding high school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, along with a post-graduate year...

 (Andover). Since the late 1970s he has lived a mainly reclusive life, occasionally emerging to present his compositions in concert. In the 1990s after a personal crisis, he abandoned his Christian beliefs and subsequently converted to Buddhism. He considers himself a follower of the Jodo Shinshu faith.

Works for Orchestra

• 1969-1970 Concerto a Capriccio, for Piano and Orchestra, opus 16
• 1990 Elegy - In memory of Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...
  
  , for Orchestra, opus 58
• 1990-1997 Jeux d'Esprit (Concerto), for Clarinet and Orchestra, opus 95
• 1995 Ricercare, for Orchestra, opus 87
• Symphony (work in progress)

Works for Concert Band

• 1971-1972 Double Concerto "Amen Concerto", for Two Pianos and Wind Orchestra, opus 31
• 1990 Overture to "Beowulf", for Concert Band, opus 63

Masses and Sacred Music

• 1963-1964 Prophecy of Micah, for Chorus SATB and organ (or piano), opus 1
• 1963-1964 Lamb of God, for Chorus SATB a capella, opus 1A
• 1989-1990 The Twenty-Third Psalm, for Chorus (SAATBB), opus 46
• 1989-1990 The Twenty-Third Psalm, for Chorus (SATB), horn and trombone, opus 46a
• 1990-1991 Missa Syllabica, for Chorus SATB a capella, opus 51 - text: Latin Mass Ordinary
• 1990 Lord, Make Me An Instrument, for Chorus SATB a capella, opus 52 - text: Francis of Assisi
  Francis of Assisi
  Saint Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men's Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the lay Third Order of Saint Francis. St...
  
  
• 1990 Heaven, Dialogue for Chorus SATB and Echo Chorus SATB, opus 52a - text: George Herbert
  George Herbert
  George Herbert was a Welsh born English poet, orator and Anglican priest.Being born into an artistic and wealthy family, he received a good education that led to his holding prominent positions at Cambridge University and Parliament. As a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, Herbert excelled in...
  
  
• 1990 Three Prayers, for Chorus SATB a capella, opus 53
  1. Serenity Prayer
  2. The Lord's Prayer
  3. Benediction
• 1990 Magnificat, for Female Chorus SSAA, opus 56
• 1997 Today's Lord's Prayer, for Chorus SATB a capella, opus 96
• 2009 There Is A Spirit, for Chorus SATB a capella - text: James Nayler
  James Nayler
  James Nayler was an English Quaker leader. He is among the members of the Valiant Sixty, a group of early Quaker preachers and missionaries. At the peak of his career, he preached against enclosure and the slave trade....
  
   (1660)

Other Works for Chorus

• 1969-1995 Alas, Good Friend, for Chorus SATB a capella, opus 83 - text: Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
  
  
• 1971 Peace Is Life for Chorus SATB a capella, opus 29 - text: Anonymous
• 1971-1972 Yonder, for Chorus SATB a capella, opus 30 - text: Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous 20th-century fame established him among the leading Victorian poets...
  
  , "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo"
• 1975-1995 A Higher Glory, for Chorus SATB a capella, opus 82
• 1989 Help Me, O Power Above, for Chorus SATB a capella, opus 41 - text: by the Composer
• 1990 The Windhover, for 4-Part Women's Chorus, opus 50 - text: Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous 20th-century fame established him among the leading Victorian poets...
  
  
• 1990 Madrigals for Spring, for Chorus SATB a capella, opus 61 - text: Poetic Fragments by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
  
  
• 1990 Love-Canzonettes, for Chorus SATB a capella, opus 62 - text: John Dryden
  John Dryden
  John Dryden was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.Walter Scott called him "Glorious John." He was made Poet...
  
  
• 1990 The Clear Vision, for Men's Chorus (TTBB), opus 64 - text: John Greenleaf Whittier
  John Greenleaf Whittier
  John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets...
  
  
• 1994-1995 Evening Anthem, for Chorus SATB a capella, opus 85 - text: by the Composer
• 1995-1996 In Praise of Our Loves, for Chorus SATB and Chamber Orchestra, opus 90 - text: Sappho
  Sappho
  Sappho was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life...
  
  , Walt Whitman
  Walt Whitman
  Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...
  
  , William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
  
   and others
• 1996 Three Short Sandburg Choruses, for Unison Choir (SA) and (TB), opus 91 - text: from Carl Sandburg
  Carl Sandburg
  Carl Sandburg was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."-Biography:Sandburg was born in Galesburg,...
  
  's "Chicago Poems"
  1. Fog
  2. Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard
  3. Grass
• 1997 Flower of the Dharma, for Chorus SATB, Piano, and Percussion (or Chorus SATB and Orchestra), opus 93 - text: Lotus Sutra
  Lotus Sutra
  The Lotus Sūtra is one of the most popular and influential Mahāyāna sūtras, and the basis on which the Tiantai and Nichiren sects of Buddhism were established.-Title:...
  
   excerpts
• 1997 Two Songs of Innocence, for Chorus SATB a capella, opus 99 - text: William Blake
  William Blake
  William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
  
  's "Songs of Innocence." No. 1: On the Ecchoing Green; no. 2: Night
• 1993-1997 Ascent, for Small Chorus of High Voices (or for two sopranos and one alto), opus 100 - text: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an American author, aviator, and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh.She was an acclaimed author whose books and articles spanned the genres of poetry to non-fiction, touching upon topics as diverse as youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and...
  
  
• 2010 Kisamboge: A Dharma Celebration for Chorus SATB a capella (Piano Accompaniment optional) - text: Shan-tao
  Shan-tao
  Shan-tao was an influential writer for the Pure Land school of Buddhism, prominent in China, Korea, Vietnam and Japan. His writings had a strong influence on later Pure Land masters including Hōnen and Shinran in Japan....
  
   (China 613-683 CE)

Vocal Music

• 1968 She Weeps over Rahoon, for Contralto and Piano, opus 5 - text: James Joyce
  James Joyce
  James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
  
  
• 1969 Two Songs, for Baritone and Piano, opus 11 - text: William Mullen
• 1968-1969 Images of Tintern Abbey
  Tintern Abbey
  Tintern Abbey was founded by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, on 9 May 1131. It is situated in the village of Tintern, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye in Monmouthshire, which forms the border between Monmouthshire in Wales and Gloucestershire in England. It was only the second Cistercian...
  
  , for Tenor, Clarinet, and String Quartet, opus 12 - text: William Wordsworth
  William Wordsworth
  William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
  
  
• 1970 Songs of a Wayside Inn, for Mezzo-soprano and Piano, opus 22 - text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...
  
  
• 1970-1971 Six Songs, for Soprano and Piano, opus 28 - text: Kenneth Patchen
  Kenneth Patchen
  Kenneth Patchen was an American poet and novelist. Though he denied any direct connection, Patchen's work and ideas regarding the role of artists paralleled those of the Dadaists, the Beats, and Surrealists...
  
  
• 1975/1989 A Round for Machaut, for solo SATB voices or small SATB a capella Chorus, opus 40
• 1990 Moabit Liederbuch, for Soprano and Piano, opus 66 - text: Sonnets by Albrecht Haushofer
  Albrecht Haushofer
  Albrecht Georg Haushofer was a German geographer, diplomat and author.Albrecht Haushofer's father was the retired General and geographer Karl Haushofer . His mother Martha . Albrecht had one brother, Heinz.Albrecht studied geography and history at Munich University...
  
  
• 1994-1995 Desert Hallucinations, for Baritone and Cello, opus 78 - text: Donald Rubinstein
  Donald Rubinstein
  Donald Rubinstein is a film composer, singer/songwriter and multi-media artist who is best known for his scoring collaborations with George A...
  
  
• 1990-1995 High Flight - In memory of the crew of the space shuttle, USS Challenger, which was destroyed in 1986 after launch, for Solo Soprano and Chorus SATB a capella, opus 81 - text: John G. Magee, Jr.
• 1996 Equinox, for Tenor and Piano, opus 88 - text: William Mullen
• 1997 Songs of the Pure Land, for Mezzo-soprano and Piano, opus 101 - text: Japanese poems by Honen Shonin
  Honen Shonin
  is the religious reformer and founder of the first independent branch of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism called . In the related Jōdo Shinshū sect, he is considered the Seventh Patriarch. Hōnen became a monk of the Tendai sect at an early age, but grew disaffected, and sought an approach to Buddhism...
  
   (Japan, 1133–1212)
• 1998 The Lamentations of Shinran, for Soprano, Tenor, and String Quartet, opus 104 - text: from Shozomatsu Wasan, by Shinran Shonin (Japan, 1173–1262)
• 1999 Songlets, for Mezzo-soprano, Clarinet and Piano, opus 106 - text: Haiku by Issa Kobayashi
• 2000 Owl Night, for Soprano and Piano, opus 112 - text: Susan Spilecki, "Owl Night"
• 2005 Songs from the Chinese, 10 Songs for Soprano, Flute, Double Bass, and Piano - text: Chinese San Chu poems of the Yuan Dynasty
  Yuan Dynasty
  The Yuan Dynasty , or Great Yuan Empire was a ruling dynasty founded by the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, who ruled most of present-day China, all of modern Mongolia and its surrounding areas, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368. It is considered both as a division of the Mongol Empire and as an...
  
  

Chamber Music

• 1967-1968 Dreamscapes, for Violin and Piano, opus 6
• 1968 Three Movements, for Violin and Piano, opus 7
• 1970 Duo-Sonata, for Two Violins, opus 20
• 1970 Trio, for Flute, Cello and Piano, opus 25
• 1972 Color Studies "Transfiguration", for Violin, Viola and Cello, opus 33
• 1975 Canzona, for String Quartet, opus 36
• 1990 String Quartet no. 1, opus 59
• 1990-1996 Eucaphonies, for Brass Quintet, opus 89
• 1991-1993 String Quartet no. 2, opus 71
• 1994 rev.1996 Acadia Rhapsody, for Trumpet, Violin and Piano, opus 76
• 1996 Inventings, for Flute and Oboe, opus 92
• 1999 Seven Dhamma Lessons, for Speaker, Flute, Oboe, Piano and Percussion, opus 107
• 2000 Sonata, for Clarinet and Piano, opus 108
• 2000 From "Children of the Sparrow", Musical Reactions to Haiku by Robert Gibson for Speaker, Flute and Piano, opus 113
• 2001 Song of Sorrow, In Memory of Sept. 11, 2001, for Violin and Piano, opus 114
• 2005 String Quartet no. 3
• 2005 Outburst for Double Bass and Piano
• 2006 Explorations for Clarinet and Piano
• 2009 The Hermit for Solo Double Bass
• 2009 An Idyll for Solo Flute
• 2010 Energies for 4 Players for Flute, Violin, Double Bass, and Piano

Works for Organ

• 1990 Testimonium, opus 48
• 1990 Two Classic Chorales
• 2006 Streams of Consciousness {Commissioned by Carson Cooman}
• 1972-2009 Organ Mass

Works for Solo Piano

• 1966 Piano Piece no. 1, opus 3
• 1967 Piano Piece no. 2, opus 4
• 1968-1969 Sonata no. 1, opus 8
• 1969 Serenade, opus 9
• 1969 Fantasy, opus 10
• 1969 Medley, for Piano Four-Hands, opus 13
• 1969 Toccata-Rag, opus 14
• 1968-1970 Four Concert Dances, opus 15
• 1970 Two Piano Pieces, opus 17
• 1970 Sonata no. 2, opus 18
• 1970 Four Short Pieces - Musical impressions or take-offs of four songs by the Beatles
  The Beatles
  The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
  
  , opus 19
• 1970 Eight Piano Pieces for Children, opus 21
• 1970 Five Folk-Pieces, opus 23
• 1970 Four Preludes and Counterpoints, opus 24
• 1971 Sonata no. 3, opus 27
• 1972 Batik, opus 32
• 1973 Sonata no. 4, opus 34
• 1974 Sonata no. 5, opus 35
• 1973-1976 Seven Dedications - in honor of Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
  
  , Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
  , Carl Ruggles
  Carl Ruggles
  Charles "Carl" Sprague Ruggles was an American composer of the American Five group. He wrote finely crafted pieces using "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music...
  
  , Charles Ives
  Charles Ives
  Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...
  
  , Alan Hovhaness
  Alan Hovhaness
  Alan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...
  
  , Roger Sessions
  Roger Sessions
  Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...
  
   and Arnold Schoenberg
  Arnold Schoenberg
  Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...
  
  , opus 39
• 1989 Ragañera, opus 42
• 1989 Champion Rag, opus 43
• 1989 Ragtime Serenade, opus 44
• 1989 Blue Rag Espagnole, opus 45
• 1989 Sentimental Rag, opus 42
• 1989-1990 Starry-eyed Rag, opus 49
• 1989 Iron Filings, opus 60
• 1989 Short and Sweet Rag, opus 70
• 1989 Sparkling Rag, opus 72
• 1989 Persistence Rag, opus 75
• 1989-1990 Etiquette Rag, opus 80
• 1990 Jubilant Rag, opus 54
• 1990 Peloponnesian Rag, opus 55
• 1990 Fancy-Foot Rag, opus 57
• 1990 Amendments, opus 65
• 1990-1992 Variations on a Hallowe'en Costume, opus 68
• 1990-1997 Suite for the Piano Alone, opus 102
• 1993 Plaint for Somalia, opus 69
• 1993-1994 Ballade in D for Piano, opus 77
• 1994 ...suggestions..., opus 73
• 1994 Moon Flowers (50 Haiku-Moments for Solo Piano), opus 74
• 1994-1995 Sonata no. 6, opus 84
• 1997 Ragtime Sonata (Sonata no. 7), opus 97
• 1997 Beautiful Mountain Rag, opus 98
• 1998 Tango Request, opus 103
• 2000 Nocturne in G, opus 109
• 2000 Odysseus Rag, opus 110
• 2000 Five Thoughtful Pieces, opus 111
• 2008 Sonata no. 8
• 2008 Surprises
• 2009 Six Strange Waltzes
• 1995-2009 Ballade no. 2
• 2010 Animations
• 1998-2010 Bachiana Dodecafonica: 5 Preludes and Fugues
• 2010 Introduction to the Piano: 32 Piano Pieces for Beginning Pianists
• 2010 Fantasy Impromptu
• 2011 Twelve Miniatures for Solo Piano

Works for Harpsichord

• 1990/1998 Toccata Moderna, opus 105
• 2003-2005 Six Whimsical Miniatures, for Harpsichord or Piano

External links

• Buddhist Websites