Song Cycles

Love Songs for Medium Voice and Piano – 1990

Songs of Ashes for High Voice and Piano – 1991.  A setting of fifteen poems by Jerzy Fitcowski concerned with the Holocaust.

Songs from Shakespeare for High Voice and Piano – 1998

I never saw another butterfly (A setting of poems written by children in Terezin) for Childrens Voices and Piano – 2001

Songs from Hanagid for Tenor and Piano – 1999.  A setting of eight evocative poems by the Jewish poet Samuel Hanagid (993-1056CE)

Songs from the Chinese (Hsiao Yen) for Soprano and Guitar. – 2005.  This is a setting of six short poems by the Chinese poet Hsiao Yen who was born A.D. 464 and died A.D. 549. He was a founder of the Liang Dynasty, reigning as Emperor Wu from A.D. 502 until A.D. 549, the longest reign in the southern dynasties era. A devout Bhuddist, he became a monk twice, retiring to a monastry three time in his life. He was a man of great learning and considerable poetic ability.

Jewish Songs for Voice and Piano – 2005

Love, Life and Lyric (Poems by Marketa J. Zvelebil) for Voice and Piano – 2005

Songs From Shir Hashirim Set 1 (The Book Of Solomon, The Song Of Songs) for Mezzo Soprano, Tenor and Piano – 2014.

Songs From Shir Hashirim Set 2 (The Book Of Solomon, The Song Of Songs) for Mezzo Soprano, Tenor and Piano – 2014.
1. Chapter 5 V.1-2; 2. Chapter 7 V.12-14; 3. Chapter 6 V.2, 3, 5-6; 4. Chapter 1 V.9-17. 

Songs from William Blake for Mezzo Soprano, Cello and Piano – 2016.  Composed for Martha Jones and Joseph Ramadan
Introduction And Earth’s Answer; On Another’s Sorrow; Infant Joy; Night;  The Tiger

Four Songs of Protest For High and Medium Voices, and Piano – 2020

Songs from Christiana Rossetti for Countertenor and Piano – 2023 

To thine own self be true seven songs setting Shakespeare texts for Voice Clarinet in Bb and Cello – 2024