Special Works

COMMISSIONED BY: Washington National Opera
PREMIERED: Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, November

This 45 minute multi-media work, is also a performance piece for BARITONE, ALTO and ACCOMPANIST, portraying Three Denizens of a neighbourhood, who are Witness to change, and lead our journey through thematic lenses of neighbourhood, community, music, and culture.

4 Episode Screenplay/FD -  in 1996, an African American ‘detective, musicologist and adventurer’, uncovers a mysterious scrap of music from 1835, leading to a journey in time that uncovers, genius, deceit, and ultimately, an unsolved murder.. 

COMMISSIONED BY: Kennedy Honors & Washington National Opera
PREMIERED: The Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage

This 55 minute multi-media work, is also a performance piece for SOPRANO, ALTO and ACCOMPANIST that celebrates the lives, friendship, and artistic legacy of two women of color, Marian Anderson and Leontyne Price.

COMMISSIONED BY: Stanford in Washington (SIW)
PREMIERED: Duke Ellington School for Arts, February 2014

Written as a work in two Acts, Blues imagines a journey of synchronicity upon divergent routes to platform for talented black music artists in the 1930’s, into 1960’s, through a segregated America, and further nuanced by caste, class, and gender.