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Repertoire

* denotes Canadian Composer

Bruce Adolphe ~ Birdsongs (sop, violin, flute, piano)
Efrain Amaya ~ Malagigi the Sorcerer from Arden Forest (flute)
Jacob Arcadelt ~ Il bianco e dolce cigno (SATB)
*Mark Armanini
     ~ The Botanical Garden (voice, piano)
     ~ Chinese Folksongs (mezzo, violin, pipa, piano)
     ~ Two for Satherley (tenor, guitar)
*Michael Conway Baker ~ Some Summertime (flute, piano)
Samuel Barber
     ~ Hermit Songs (voice, piano)
     ~ Un cygnet (voice, piano)
John Bartlet ~ Of All the Birds that I do Know (SATB)
*John Beckwith ~ Songs of the Tang Dynasty
*Denis Bédard
~ Deux Mélodies (soprano, baritone, saxophone, piano)
    ~ Fantasie (saxophone, piano)
    ~ Sonate pour alto saxophone et piano
*Wallace Berry ~ Thirteen Limericks (voice, piano)
Luis Bonfa ~ Mañha de Carnaval (voice, flute, piano)
Johannes Brahms
     ~ An die Nachtigall (voice, piano)
     ~ Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor
     ~ Geistliches Lied (SATB, organ)
     ~ Hungarian Dance No. 1 (piano duet)
   ~ Liebeslieder-Waltzer, Op. 52 (SATB, two pianos)
Benjamin Britten ~ The Ash Grove (voice, piano)
*John Burge ~ Everything Waits for the Lilacs (piano)
*Lloyd Burritt
     ~ Androgyne Carnival (voice, saxophone, piano)
     ~ Crystal Earth (soprano, saxophone, piano)
     ~ Lake of Souls (SATB, flute, saxophone, violin, cello, piano)
*Dorothy Chang
     ~ Songs of Woods and Water (voice, piano)
     ~ Two Preludes (saxophone, piano)
*Stephen Chatman
     ~ The Bird and the Hour (SATB, piano)
     ~ Dandy Man (voice, flute, percussion)
     ~ To the Garden the World (saxophone, piano)
     ~ Song of Solomon (2 voices, piano)
Sondra Clark ~ Feline (voice, violin, piano)
Aaron Copland
     ~ Duo for Flute and Piano
     ~ Simple Gifts (voice, piano)
John Corigliano ~ 3 Irish Folksongs (voice, flute)
*Timothy Corlis ~ Prelude, for the night of the lunar eclipse (cello, piano)
Elvis Costello ~ The Juliet Letters (voice, string quartet)
Celius Dougherty ~ Wayfaring Stranger (voice, piano)
Louis Durey ~ Le Bestiare (voice, piano)
Roland Dyens ~ Tango en Skai (guitar)
Gabriel Faure ~ L’Horizon Chimérique (voice, piano)
Djalma Ferreira ~ Recado Bossa Nova (voice, saxophone, cello, piano)
*George Fiala ~ Canadian Landscapes (piano)
Jean Francaix ~ 5 Exotic Dances (saxophone, piano)
Carlos Gardel ~ Por Una Cabeza (voice, cello, guitar)
*William George
     ~ As Though the Word Blue had been Dropped into the Water (voice, flute, piano)
     ~ Ave Maria Tango (voice, saxophone, cello, piano)
     ~ Canadiana Suite (soprano, tenor, flute, violin, cello, piano)
     ~ A Good-night (voice, piano)
     ~ Greensleeves (3 voices)
     ~ Heaven & Hell (tenor, soprano, piano)
     ~ The Virtues/Karitas Habundat (soprano, mezzo, tenor, violin, organ)
     ~ Winter's Mantle (voice, piano)
Alberto Ginastera
     ~ Cancion El Arbol del Olvido (voice, piano)
     ~ Las Horas de una Estancia (voice, piano)
Phillip Glass ~ Freezing (2 voices, string quartet)
Richard Gleaves
     ~ Cinnamon Beach (SATB, string quartet)
     ~ Harlot's House (tenor, violin, piano)
Osvaldo Golijov ~ Lua Descolorida (soprano, string quartet)
Percy Grainger ~ David of the White Rock (voice, piano)
André Gretry ~ La fauvette avec ses petits (arr. voice, piano)
Reynaldo Hahn ~ Les cygnes (voice, piano)
Joseph Haydn ~ Scottish Songs (2+ voices, violin, cello, piano)
Valdemar Henrique ~ Boi Bumba (voice, piano)
Adina Izarra ~ Plumismo para Luis Julio (flute)
Robert Kraft ~ La Bella Maria de mi Alma (voice, flute, piano)
*Catherine Laub
     ~ The Singing Contest (flute, narrator, actors {interactive})
     ~ West End Menagerie (SATB, flute, saxophone, violin, piano)
*Jacqueline Leggatt ~ Cat’s Eye (saxophone)
Kenneth Leighton ~ These Are Thy Wonders (voice, organ)
John Lennon & Paul McCartney ~ Blackbird (SATB)
*Leila Lustig
     ~ Job’s Wife (voice, piano)
     ~ Naomi and Ruth (organ: arr. 3 voices, organ)
Edward Kilenyi (arr. of trad.)
     ~ La calle de la paloma (voice, piano)
     ~ Noche Serena (voice, piano)
     ~ La paloma Blanca (voice, piano)
Armando Manzanero ~ Somos Novios (voice, saxophone, piano)
Marcelle de Manziarly ~ Trois Fables de La Fontaine (voice, piano)
*Alain Mayrand ~ Uriel‘s Anvil (saxophone, piano)
Felix Mendelssohn
     ~ Abendlied (2 voices, piano)
     ~ Herbstlied (2 voice, piano)
     ~ Maiglöckchen (2 voices, piano)
Jose Luis Merlin ~ Insectos, Pajaros y Nubes (guitar)
Olivier Messiaen
     ~ Le banquet celeste (organ)
     ~ Le Merle Noir (flute, piano)
     ~ La Mort du Nombre (soprano, tenor, violin, piano)
     ~ Prelude No. 8: un Reflet Dans Le Vent (piano)
*Oskar Morawetz
     ~ The Fly (voice, piano)
     ~ The Land of Dreams (voice, piano)
     ~ Piping Down the Valleys Wild (voice, piano)
*Larry Nickel
     ~ Album for the Elderly (voice, piano)
     ~ The Last Thing I Shall Do (SATB, saxophone, piano)
     ~ Two Little Boys (flute, piano)
John Jacob Niles ~ The lass from the Low-countree (voice, piano)
Michael Nyman ~ I am an unusual thing (voice, string quartet)
Julian Philips ~ selections from An Amherst Bestiary (voice, piano)
Astor Piazzolla
     ~ Chiquilin de Bachin (voice, piano)
     ~ Histoire de Tango (flute, guitar)
     ~ Los Pajaros Perdidos (voice, piano)
     ~ Oblivion (cello, piano)
Francis Poulenc
     ~ Le Bestiare (voice, piano)
Marcel Quinet ~ Arch de Noe (voice, piano)
Priaulx Rainier ~ Cycle for Declamation (voice)
*Imant Raminsh ~ Three Spanish Lyrics (voice, piano)
Ariel Ramirez ~ Alfonsina y el mar (voice, piano)
Maurice Ravel ~ Le cygnet (voice, piano)
*Godfrey Ridout ~ Folksongs of Eastern Canada (voice, piano)
Silvio Rodriguez ~ Mi Unicornio Azul (voice, cello, piano)
Ned Rorem ~ The Knight of the Grail (voice, piano)
Giacchino Rossini ~ Cat Duet (2 voices, piano)
Albert Roussel ~ Rossignol mon mignon (voice, flute)
Camille Saint-Saëns ~ Carnival des Animaux (arr. Erato Ensemble) (SATB, flute, saxophone, violin, piano duet)
*Farshid Samandari ~ SunarcanuS: Act 2 (SA, fl, cl, sax, vl, cello, dbl bass, piano, perc, CD, video)
Claudio Santoro ~ Cançoes de Amor (voice, piano)
Erik Satie
     ~ Les Anges (voice, piano)
     ~ Aubade (piano)
     ~ Chansons sans paroles (voice, piano)
     ~ La Diva de l’empire (voice, piano)
     ~ Embryons Desechées (piano)
     ~ Gnossienne No. 1 & 3 (piano)
     ~ Gymnopedie No. 1,3 (piano)
     ~ Je Te Veux (voice, piano)
     ~ Ludions (voice, piano)
     ~ Messe des Pauvres (SATB, organ)
     ~ Prélude de la Porte Héroïque du Ciel (piano)
     ~ Socrate (3 voices, piano)
     ~ Tendrement (voice, piano)
     ~ Trois chansons: La Statue de bronze, Dapheneo, Le Chapelier (voice, piano)
Peter Schickele ~ Last Tango in Bayreuth (flute, sax, cello, guitar, piano duo, voices)
Franz Schubert
     ~ Der Doppelgänger (voice, piano)
     ~ Der Erlkönig (voice, piano)
     ~ Ganymed (voice, piano)
     ~ Heimliches Lieben (voice, piano)
     ~ Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (voice, clarinet, piano)
     ~ Lied der Mignon I, II (voice, piano)
     ~ Ständchen (voice, piano)
Robert Schumann ~ Dichterliebe (voice, piano)
*Rodney Sharman
     ~ Anglo Tango (piano)
     ~ Au Revoir, Maria Callas (voice, piano)
     ~ Tobacco Road (voice, piano)
*Bruce Sled ~ Seven Songs and Ayres (mezzo, piano)
*Harry Somers ~ Invocations (voice, piano)
Richard Strauss ~ Ständchen (voice, piano)
Michael Tippett
     ~ Boyhood’s End (tenor, piano)
     ~ Love-duet from Robin Hood (ST, flute, violin, cello, piano)
*Leslie Uyeda ~ The Great Sea (voice, piano)
Ralph Vaughan Williams ~ 2 English Folksongs (ST, violin)
Heitor Villa-Lobos
     ~ Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5 (voice, guitar)
     ~ Songs of the Tropical Forest (voice, piano)
Antonio Vivaldi ~ Il Gardellino (flute, piano)
César Vivanco ~ Fantasía Andina Sobre el tema de El Condor Pasa (flute)
*Russell Wallace
     ~ Dreams (STB, saxophone, cello, piano)
     ~ Qanimenskan Ku Tmicw (STB, saxophone, cello, piano)
L. Warde
     ~ Circles (ST, string quartet)
     ~ Compliments (string quartet)
     ~ Family Tree (SATB, string quartet, guitar)
     ~ Laude Jocunda (SAT, string quartet, guitar)
     ~ The Shore (SA, string quartet)
Kurt Weill
     ~ Berlin im Licht (voice, piano)
     ~ Lonely House from Street Scene (voice, piano)
     ~ Lotterieagent’s Tango from Die Silbersee (voice, piano)
     ~ Die Muschel von Margate (voice, piano)
     ~ We’ll Go Away Together from Street Scene (ST, piano)
     ~ Wie Lange Noch? (voice, piano)
     ~ Youkali (voice, piano)