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Works Accomplished
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Composed 15-minute ballet
"Empress'New Clothes" in collaboration with
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choreographer Andrew Rist,
performed at Minnesota Dance Festival (spring
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96) by Classical Ballet
Academy (C.B.A.)
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Composed all music (45
minutes) for 5 dance-fusion routines in
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collaboration with Dr.
Gusztav Fogarassy, Southwest State University, MN.
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Music includes latin,
Brazilian, Carribean, jazz, oriental, and classical
styles.
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Composed 20-minute ballet
"Madeline II" with Andrew Rist, performed at
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Minnesota Dance Festival
by C.B.A.
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Composed "Eternal Spring"
for the Hamline University Women's Choir
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(H.U.W.C.)
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Composed "Wedding Cantata"
(4 works for choir, chamber ensemble and
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organ), performed in
December '95 at Capitol Lutheran Church in St.
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Paul, MN
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Composed "Pied Beauty"
(poem: Gerard Manley Hopkins) for H.U.W.C.
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Composed "Hiawatha I" with
Andrew Rist, performed by C.B.A. at
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Minnesota Dance
Festival
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Composed "Tell Me" for
H.U.W.C.
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Composed "Madeline I" with
Andrew Rist, performed in spring '95 by
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(C.B.A. )
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Composed full-length (2
hrs 20 min) musical drama "Wings, like a Dove",
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includes 20 songs for
small orchestra, 3 ballet sequences, lute solo;
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wrote the entire play (a
depiction of the lives of St. Francis de Sales
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and St. Jane de Chantal,
(1604-1621) and all lyrics in addition to all
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music and orchestrations.
Conducted the premier performance at Scallen
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fine Arts Center, Mendota
Heights, MN in summer '94.
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Composed "Ubi Caritas" for
H.U.W.C.
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Composed "Une Journee a
Paris" for flute and piano, performed with
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Julia Bogorad (Saint Paul
Chamber Orchestra) at the Hamline University in May 1993
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Composed "Gloria in Excelcis Deo"
for 6-voice choir and organ,
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performed in May '93 under the
direction of Robert Wills at Nativity
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Church in St. Paul,
MN
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Composed "Into the Quiet" for full
orchestra (10 minutes) performed in
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May '92 under the direction of James
Riccardo by the Jewish Community
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Center (J.C.C.) Orchestra in St.
Paul, MN
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Composed "The Rose of White" (60-
minute ballet in 2 acts) in
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collaboration with visual artist
Robert Nicpon. Performed the music
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at the Scallen Fine Arts Center in
May '91, orchestrated excerpts of the
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ballet, which were performed by
James Riccardo and the J.C.C.
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Orchestra
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Composed "Almost Spring" for violin
and piano, performed with James
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Riccardo at the Minneapolis Art
Institute, spring 1990
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Performed and composed the music for
"Elvira", an original ballet for the
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Judith Svallander Dance Theater. It
was commissioned to honor the
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Centennial Celebration of the
Woodstock Opera House near Chicago,
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Illinois.
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Invited to Haiti to write a musical
for the "Resurrection Theater", a touring
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group from St. Joseph's Home for
Boys in Port Au Prince, Haiti.
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Wrote the script, all songs, lyrics,
and music of "Two Hands and a Flower"
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and rehearsed this play with the
theater, in preparation for their Fall 1990
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U. S. tour.
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Composed several songs for the
production of "Box-elder Bugs", by the
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Lyric Theater, and performed during
a two month run in Southwestern
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Minnesota and
Minneapolis.
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Created all music in a collaborative
effort for "Nessie", a children's musical,
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which was performed by the Lyric
Theater. The play and
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original music are presently being
published.
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Composed ten piano pieces for "Ecole
de Ballet", created by Marius
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Andahazy. Performed and recorded
them with the Andahazy Ballet
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Company.
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Composed chamber music and arranged
popular songs for Salmagundi
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chamber ensemble (flute, cello,
piano, bassoon, clarinet and violin).
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Performed these original and popular
works, along with works from the
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classical repertoire at Minnesota
Orchestra Sommerfrest, Minneapolis
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Institute of Arts, Landmark Center,
and the University of Minnesota.
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Conceived, composed, directed and
produced an operetta, "Quanta Bella,
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Quanta Summa", in conjunction with
the St. Paul Newman Center.
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Performed at the St. Paul Campus and
at the Commonwealth Health Care
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Center for senior citizens. Cast of
twelve and three performances.
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Wrote instrumental and choral music
for Lutheran, Methodist and Catholic
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churches in Twin Cities and
performed during worship.
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