Major Works

Representative works conducted with orchestra

Bach Johannespassion (with Baroque orchestra)
Matthäuspassion (staged with Baroque orchestra)
B-minor Mass (with Baroque orchestra)
Orchestral Suite No. 3 (with Baroque orchestra)
Magnificat (with Baroque orchestra)
Bist Du Bei Mir (newly orchestrated Sametz)
Cantatas 4, 61, 131, 180
Barber Adagio for Strings
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Ninth Symphony
Triple Concerto
Mass in C
Overture to Coriolanus
Leonora Overture No. 3
Chorale Fantasie
Meerstille und glückliche Fahrt
Fidelio
– Prisoners’ Chorus
– Recitative and Scene: Abscheulicher!
Bernstein Chichester Psalms
Bizet Carmen (excerpts)
Borodin Polovtsian Dances
Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
Nänie
Schicksalslied
Alt Rhapsodie
Britten War Requiem
St. Nicholas
Bruckner Mass in E Minor
Carissimi Jepthe (with Baroque orchestra)
Debussy Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien (ballet and actors) with text translation by S. Sametz
Nocturnes
Duruflé Requiem
Dvorak Slavonic Dances
Te Deum
Fauré Requiem
Handel Messiah (with Baroque Orchestra)
Israel in Egypt
Ode for St.Cecilia’s Day
Lutosławski Trois poèmes d’Henri Michaux
Alma Mahler In meines Vaters Garten
Gustav Mahler Das klagende Lied
Symphony 2, Resurrection(Finale)
Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana Easter Chorus</td>
Mendelssohn Loreley (American premiere plus world premiere of section newly translated from manuscript) (1993)
Mendelssohn Psalm 42
Mendelssohn-Hensel Lobgesang
Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 (with Chanticleer and the Orchestra of the 18th Century)
Mozart Mass in C Minor
Requiem
Mussorgsky Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov
St John’s Night on the Bare Mountain (chorus and orchestra from Fair at Soroschinski)
Orff Carmina Burana
Poulenc Gloria
Prokofiev Classical Symphony
Puccini Madama Butterfly
– Humming Chorus
and Un bel di
Ravel Daphnis and Chloe Suite no. 2
Tsigane
Reger Der Einsiedler
Rossini Stabat Mater
Salieri Symphony in C
Sametz Carmina amoris (Songs of Love) (Choral Symphony)
White Raven (ballet-concerto for piano, chorus and orchestra)
Be/Dazzled (concertino for solo electric violin and orchestra)
cent fois plus ombre (A Hundred Times More A Shadow)
Earth, Wind, Fire
(concerto for two harps and orchestra)
Orison–A Child’s Prayer
(concertino for two instruments and chamber orchestra)
American Songs – Sacred and Profane
(for baritone solo, chorus and orchesta)
Small Steps, Tiny Revolutions
(ballet)
The Marriage of the Table and the Chair
(cartoon opera in one act)
in time of
(premiere, orchestral version, 1995)
Muji no makotoba (Scripture without words)

Nevermore will the Wind
(original version for choir and chamber orchestra)
Child of Song
(original version for soprano solo, chorus and orchestra)
Musica animae (Music of the Soul)
Thou Whose Birth
The Twenty-ninth Bather
We Two Boys Together Clinging
Fantasia on Jesu, meine Freude
Fantasia on Call to Remembrance
Sametz & Shah-Yukich The Demon King (premiere, 1996) with tabla, tanpura, Indian dancers and giant puppet
Schoenberg A Survivor from Warsaw (staged)
Friede auf Erden
Schubert Mass in Ab
Richard Strauss Trio (Act Three) from Der Rosenkavalier
Stravinsky Les noces (with ballet)
Symphony of Psalms
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Letter Scene and Waltz from Eugene Onegin
K Rodosti (Ode to Joy)
Varese Ionization
Verdi Requiem
Quattro Pezzi Sacri
Aïda
– Triumphal March
– Celeste Aïda
Wagner Wesendonck Lieder
Tannhäuser
– Overture & Venusberg
– Pilgrim’s Chorus
– Entrance of the Nobles
Vaughan Williams Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Serenade to Music
Dona nobis pacem
Wolf Der Feuerreiter

Opera showcase programs including works of Bellini, Bernstein, Bizet, Borodin, Catalani, Delibes, Mascagni, Mussorgsky, Puccini, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Verdi, and Wagner.

Representative works for chorus or chorus and small ensemble

Bach Motet I: Singet dem Herrn
Motet II: Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf
Motet V: Jesus, meine Freude
Motet VI: Lobet den Herrn
Barber Reincarnations
Brahms Warum ist das Licht gegeben?
Schaffe in mir Gott
Der Heiland Reiß die Himmel auf
Byrd Mass for 3 voices
Mass for 4 voices
Laudibus in sanctis
Dalla Piccola Cori dei malammogoliati
Josquin Missa pange lingua
Déploration sur la morte d’Ockeghem
Missa l’homme armé
Ligeti Lux aeterna
Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (arr. for chorus)
Messiaen Cinq rechants
Monteverdi Lagrime d’Arianna
Palestrina Missa sine nomine
Canite tuba in Sion
Sametz Thou Whose Birth
The Twenty-ninth Bather
We Two Boys Together Clinging
Fantasia on Jesu, meine Freude
Fantasia on Call to Remembrance
No More Wars – A Letter for Sarah (for baritone solo, choir and strings quartet)
Kumulipo
Schoenberg Friede auf Erden
Lieder für Mannerchor
Schein Psalm 116 “Das ist mir lieb”
Schütz Cantiones sacre – Ego dormio
Psalm 84
Stanford Magnificat in G
Tallis Spem in alium
Lamentations of Jeremiah
Tavener The Bridegroom
Verdi Pater noster