Voice
2002 Two Songs: mezzo sop, pf (3’)
2002 Three Songs: med voice, pf (6’)
2002 Two Songs: ten, mezzo sop, cl, vn, cb, acc, perc (8’)
1989 from Orpheus: ten, bass, pf; text by John Bentley Mays (8’) cmc*
1978 Trotsky in Amherst: recorded voice, hrps, radio; text by Leon Trotsky (20’)
1978 Dark Set: voice and cassette tape; text by C. Butterfield (8’) cmc*
Chamber with Voice
2012 Omar Khayyam in Belfast: ten, E flat cl, ten. sax, cornet, alt. trb, euph, gt, harm, vn, vc (9’)
2011 Contes pour enfants pas sages: 5. Cheval dans un île: sop, ten, 12 voices SATB, b. rec, b. harm, 3 perc, mand, pf; text by Jacques Prévert (10’)
2011 Contes pour enfants pas sages: 7. Opéra des girafes: sop, ten, 12 voices SATB, fl, cl, vn, vc, mand, pf, perc; text by Jacques Prévert (15’)
2009 Stall: 2 improvising singers (20’)
2007 Contes pour enfants pas sages: 1. L’autruche, 2. Scène de la vie des antilopes, 3. Le dromadaire mécontent, 4. L’éléphant de mer, 6. Jeune lion en cage, 8. Les premiers ânes: sop, ten, fl, cl, vn, vc, pf, perc; text by Jacques Prévert (30’)
1990 Jappements à la Lune: mezzo sop, picc, e.hn, b.clar, perc, pf, vn, va, vc, cb: poems by Claude Gauvreau (15’) cmc*
1988 Fragment (from Project for an Opera ...): jazz orchestra and singer (7’30”)
1988 Act I, Scenes 1 & 2 (from Project for an Opera...): sop, ten, vn, cb, cl, tr, perc, pf (23’)
1986 (orchestration 1988) Incipit (from Project for an Opera...): voice, cl, tr, bsn, xylo, perc, 2 Casio kbds, drum machine (Roland TR707), el. bass (43’)
1983 Five Songs: 2 ten, perc (vibr, bongos); texts from Rudolf Arnheim, Guy Debord, Thomas von Hartmann: (7’) cmc*
*cmc: Canadian Music Centre