PROJECT : ENCORE™: Latin

This setting of the Seven Last Words incorporates the theme of Dies Irae throughout the work. Each movement has a different style. A good choir and soloists are needed. The orchestra is relatively small: single winds, FH, Timpany and strings.

This piece was composed for a wedding. It celebrates the complexity and beauty of love, understood as both the sacred emotion of bride and groom and also, in a broader sense, as charitable love, as taught by Christ and expressed in this case in the second letter from St. Paul to the Corinthians.
 

For "Zodiakos," the final concert of their 2002 season, The Esoterics commissioned twelve Washington State composers to create a suite of a cappella horoscopes from the ancient poem, "Astronomica," by First Century B.C.E. poet Marcus Manilius. Each composer set verses for his or her own star sign.
"Leo" was named as a Finalist in 2007 Cincinnati Camerata Composition Competition.
 

 based on the Gregorian chant melody