Commissions

Music for Jazz Ensemble – Festival of contemporary Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC), 1967

Music for a Proterstant Religious Service – University Christian Church and Wesley Foundation, Urbana, IL, 1970

Blueberry Blue – James Lyke for Stripes Publishing Company, 1971

Music for Brass and Percussion – Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH, 1971

Darkness II – Festival of Contemporary Arts, UIUC, 1971

Midnight Realities – Dan Perantoni, 1972

Alone – James Darling of The Cleveland Orchestra, 1972

Zelanski Medley – Ineluctable Modality & The UIUC Contemporary Chamber Players, 1972

Short Piece for Tuba and Euphonium – Tubist Universal Brotherhood Association, 1974

Light and Shadows – Festival of Contemporary Arts, UIUC, 1974-75

Transitions – Contemporary Chamber Player, UIUC, 1975

A Piece for Tuba and Piano – Hal Leonard Publishing, 1976

Music for dance (not completed) – Somedancers, 1976

Windows – Spoleto Festival USA, 1977

Large work for wind and jazz ensembles (not completed)– Northwestern University, 1984

Album – One Plus One Dance theater – 1981

Myth – One Plus One Theater, 1981

Duet II – David Sasaki, 1982

Duet III – American Music Consortium of New York, 1984

Ray’s in the Window: GAMAN – Cleveland Chamber Symphony, 1984

Suite Changes – Concert Artist Guild, NYC, 1985

THO – Tone Road Ramblers

Red White and Black Blues – Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, 1992

FFFF – Tone Road Ramblers, 1992

Beatitudes foRay – Ray Sasaki, 1992

Orphans – John Fonville, 1994

Free Solo, big band style – University of Illinois Jazz Band, 1995

Sonny’s Songs – Dorothy Martirano, 1999

The Waterclown – Cleveland Chamber Symphony, 2000

The Common Root of all Organisms – Tone Road Ramblers, 2002

Destiny and Desire – Vanessa and Vern Sielert and The University of Washington, Seattle, 2003

Maborosi for trumpet/flugelhorn, percussion and six trumpets – Ray Sasaki and The University of Texas, Austin, 2009

Flashback for double bass, Michael Cameron, 2011

Miscreant Angels – Ariane Alexander, 2012