Music/sound resume

film and theatre
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Stories of Frog and Toad
Little Red Chunari
Brides of the Moon
Pippi Longstocking
The Elementals: EARTH
The Flame
The Elementals: AIR
Dream Sequence
Prepare for Arrival and Cross Check
Betty's Summer Vacation
Far Away
One Flea Spare
Sycorax
Sycorax
**Puppet Government
Verge
The Continuing Story of Rocky and Rita
Fear of a Fuhrer
*Lucy Dies in Fives
The Watcher

Sound design
Sound design
Sound design
Sound design
*****Original anthems
Original score
****Original score / ***music director
Sound design
Original score / sound design
Sound design
Original score / sound design
Original score / sound design
Original score / sound design
Original score / sound design
Original score / arrangements
Original (short) film score
Arrangements / sound design
Original score / sound design
Original score
Original (short) film score

Scottish Rite Theatre / Susan Gayle Todd, Dir
Scottish Rite Theatre / Susan Gayle Todd, Dir
Weird Sisters Theater Collective / Susan Gayle Todd, Dir
Scottish Rite Theatre / Susan Gayle Todd, Dir
Vortex Repertory Company / Bonnie Collum, Dir
Sky Candy / Andy Agne, Dir
Vortex Repertory Company / Bonnie Collum, Dir
Cohen New Works Festival / Fadi Skeiker, Dir
Fronter Fest Long Fringe / Steve Barney, Dir
Austin Community College / Jason Hays, Dir
Austin Community College / Laura Somers, Dir
Gobotrick Theatre Co / Jessica McMichael, Dir
Cohen New Works Festival / Fadi Skeiker, Dir 
Weird Sisters Theater Collective / Susan Gayle Todd, Dir
Small Appliance Puppet Theater / Chris Humphrey, Dir
UTexas MFA film / Mike Werckle, Dir
Frontera Fest / Paula Gilbert, Dir
Wet Ink / Abi Basch, DirFrontera Fest / Mike Werckle, Dir
UTexas MFA film / Mike Werckle, Dir 

awards

*****   2011 B Iden Payne nomination for Best Original Score, The Elementals: EARTH
****    2011 B Iden Payne nomination for Best Original Score, The Elementals: AIR
***     2011 B Iden Payne award for Best Music Director, The Elementals: AIR
**      2006 Frontera Fest Best of Fest, Puppet Government
*       2004 Frontera Fest Best of Fest, Lucy Dies in Fives

the choral collection
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Lament for a bear 

The Praise of Christmas


Chanticleer


Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands


Sweet was the Song

Make We Now Joy

Paradox


The Wind of the Spirit

A Christmas Legend


Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day


The Mistletoe Carol

By Those Sweet Eyes


Butterfly


Ah, The Air Smells Good


Sing the Air!


For as Many as are Led

SATB and piano

Unison voices, handbells, piano


SATB (a cappella)


SATB, organ


SA, harp

SATB, organ

SATB (a cappella)


SATB, piano, wind chimes

Unison voices, harp, clarinet


SATB, oboe, bassoon, guitar


SAA and cello

SATB (a cappella)


SA, piano, flute


SAT, piano, clarinet


SSAATTBB, piano, wind chilmes


SATB, organ

A secular environmental piece addressing the effects of global warming

While not a sacred text, the lyrics of this piece extol the virtues of love and forgiveness during the happy Christmas season

Chanticleer, the rooster made famous by Chaucer, announces the Sun of Righteousness in this a capella piece

A contemporary setting of the 16th century Easter hymn Christ Lag in Todesbaden, with the famous text by Martin Luther

A sweet Christmas lullaby, especially suitable for children's voices

A celebratory Christmas anthem, using a 15th century text

A contemplative setting of theologian Bernard Wuellner's equally contemplative text

Arrangement of Julia Mendina's American folk stye melody

The text of this legend of a stork who flies to Bethlehem was found in the flyleaf of a 15th century prayerbook

A traditional text in a lilting neo-renaissance musical
setting

An introit wlecoming Queen Holly and King Ivy to the winter feast

A haunting piece exploring the mystery of the nativity
and the sacrificial gifts it asks of us

A tender and vulnerable secular piece evoking a Southern Appalachian sensibility

The languid music seduces the listener into an intimately spiritual appreciation of a beautiful day, with text by Sufi poet Rumi

Celebrates the science, mystery and spiritual significance of that which we cannot see but without which we cannot live

A setting of Romans 8:14-17