Works
A full list of John’s vocal, chamber, orchestral, and film music. Links to audio & video recordings are included when available.
Featured performances
Choral Music
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Gospel Oak (2023)
Double choir
Poetry by Sharon Morris
37’00Green mask
Kairos
Terrible steed
The subject
Living my life backwards
Wanting green
Summer
Again the fall
For the oak
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first light (2019)
SATB chorus & cello
Poetry by Breyten Breytenbach
7’00”Winner of the 2020 NOTUS Composition Competition
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Angelus Domini (2019)
SSA treble chorus & organ
4’00” -
O Salutaris Hostia (2018)
SATB chorus
6’00” -
Gloria (2017)
SATB chorus
3’00” -
Autumn Dusk (2016)
SATB chorus
Poetry by Sara Teasdale
6’00” -
Comme Je Trouve (2016)
SMzATBrB chorus
Poetry by Leah Jean Griffith
7’00” -
O Magnum Mysterium (2015)
SMzATBrB chorus
7’30” -
In Midnight Sleep (2015)
SATB chorus
Poetry by Walt Whitman
5’00”
Opera & Art Song
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From My Car On Broad Street (2021)
Tenor & Piano
Poetry by Ross Gay
3’00” -
The Jungle (2020)
Opera
Libretto based on the novel by Upton Sinclair
75’00” -
Rain Has Fallen (2017)
Baritone & piano
Poetry by James Joyce
6’00”
Chamber Music
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Metamorphosis (2023)
Four pianos
60’00” -
A Separate Peace (2023)
Two versions available:
• flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello
• 2 clarinets, piano, string quartet
11’00” -
Wedding Music (2022)
String quartet
17’00”Composed for the wedding ceremony of Emily Griffith & Chris Ernest on June 24, 2022
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Medicea Sidera: the Galilean Moons of Jupiter (2022)
Pierrot ensemble | fl, cl, pno, vln, vc
18’00” -
Transatlantic Tides (2022)
Four pianos
6’30”Commissioned by Roelof Temmingh for the RCM Cotes-Burgan Atrium dedication concert
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Cyril (2021)
Vln, vc
3’00”Written for the RCM Head-On Photo Festival, and based on a photograph by Susan Papazian
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Chamber Music at Copshaholm (2021)
Solo works | vc, ob, vln, hn, pno
48’00”Created in collaboration with the History Museum of South Bend, and made possible by the Elnora Hartman Stickley Non-Collegiate Grant
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BLOOM (2019)
Double saxophone quartet
3’30” -
Point Nemo (2019)
Two versions available:
• two oboes, English horn
• flute, oboe, clarinet
9’00” -
Sogni di Firenze (2018)
String quartet
21’00” -
Transpacific Tides (2016)
Clarinet solo
7’00” -
Soon (2016)
Cello solo
6’00” -
The Picture of Dorian Gray (2015)
Ballet | fl+picc, cl, perc, pno, 4 dancers
12’00”
Orchestral Music
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When I'm reminded of home (2022)
Chamber orchestra (2, 2+cor ang, 2, 2 - 2, 2 - timp, perc, pno, hp - str)
6’00”Winner of the Royal College of Music Concerto Competition 2022
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Alnilam (2022)
Orchestra (2+picc, 2, 2, 2 - 4, 2, 3+bass, 1 - timp, 2 perc, hp, str)
2’15” -
Snowmass (2019)
Large orchestra (3+picc, 3+cor ang, 3+bass, 3+contra - 4, 3, 3+bass, 1, timp, 4 perc, 2hp, pno, cel - str)
12’00” -
Gezellig (2017)
Large orchestra (3+picc, 3+cor ang, 3+bass, 3+contra - 4, 4, 3+bass, 1, timp, 3 perc, hp, pno- str)
5’30” -
The Saturn Expedition (2015)
Large orchestra (3+picc, 3+cor ang, 3+bass, 3+contra - 4, 4, 3+bass, 1, timp, 3 perc - str)
3’00”
Film Music
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The Strong Man (2019)
chamber ensemble (2d alt sax, 2d ten sax, hn, tpt, tbn, perc, pno, 2 vln, vla, vc, db)
75’00”Commissioned by the Indiana University Cinema as winner of the Jon Vickers Film Score Award
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The Son Will Turn to Darkness (2018)
Pierrot ensemble + perc (fl, cl, perc, pno, vln, vc)
9’00” -
Permanent (2017)
Pierrot ensemble + perc (fl, cl, perc, pno, vln, vc)
8’00”