American composer of sacred & secular art music
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choral . accompanied
And the Greatest of These is Love | SATB & keyboard | sacred/worship | church choir | text adapted from I Corinthians 13 by the composer | commissioned by the Choir of the First United Methodist Church of Baldwinsville | published by CGL Music TBA
Beautiful Rainy Day | SSA and piano | secular | light: pop, upbeat, for children | school or community choir original lyric by the composer | published Boosey & Hawkes under Crystal LaPoint Kowalski
❖ A Carol to our Saviour, A Child ❖ | SSAA + soprano soloist & piano | sacred/concert or worship on a poem by Robert Herrick | professional/college or community choir | commissioned by Keynote Arts Associates, Inc. | published by CGL Music 2026
Come To The Stable | SATB and keyboard | sacred/concert or worship | Christmas | church, school or community choir | original text by the composer | published by Hinshaw Music under Crystal LaPoint Kowalski
Come, Ye Disconsolate | SATB + soprano solo & keyboard | sacred/worship | worship or funeral | text by Thomas Moore | church choir | published Hinshaw Music under Crystal LaPoint Kowalski
Ethereal Minstrel – a prologue & settings of 5 poems by William Wordsworth
SATB, string quartet, piano, harp, flute/piccolo & oboe/English horn | art music | secular
I. “Prologue”
II. “The Power of Music”
III. “The Solitary Reaper”
IV. “The World is Too Much with Us”
V. “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”
VI. “To a Skylark”
commissioned by The Syracuse Chorale | professional/advanced school or community choir/instrumentalists | under revision | published by CGL Music TBA
The Fairy Folk | SSA & piano | secular | light: whimsical, folk | school or community choir | text by William Allingham | published by Hinshaw Music under Crystal LaPoint Kowalski
A Friend of Mine | SAB & piano | secular | light: ballad, sentimental | graduation or commencement | school choir | original lyric by composer | published by CGL Music Publishing TBA
He Comes in Quiet Glory | SATB & piano | sacred/concert or worship | Christmas | church or community choir | original text by the composer | published by Boosey & Hawkes under Crystal Kowalski
I’m Gonna Shine Today | SSA & piano | secular | light: Broadway-style, pop, upbeat | school or community choir | original lyric by the composer | published by Hinshaw Music under Crystal LaPoint Kowalski
In The Garden | SATB + soprano solo & piano | text by C. Austin Miles | sacred/worship | church choir | in celebration of the 175th anniversary of the Dewitt Community Church Chancel Choir | published by CGL Music TBA
❖ Jesus Loves Me ❖ | SATB (optional children’s choir), soprano solo & piano | sacred/worship | church choir | traditional children’s Sunday School song, arranged by the composer | published by CGL Music 2026
❖ Keepsakes from Childhood – Five Songs for Treble Voices & Orchestra ❖ | 2 SSAA choirs (women’s & children’s) or 1 SSAA choir (treble voices) & full orchestra | art music | secular
I. Infancy: “Where Did You Come From Baby Dear?” poem by George MacDonald
II. Whimsy: “A Was An Archer” anonymous text
III. Wonder: “The Wind” poem by Christina Georgina Rosetti
IV. Mischief: “Against Idleness” anonymous poem
V. Lullaby: “Wynken, Blynken and Nod” poem by Eugene Field
professional/college or advanced school or community choir(s) | commissioned by The Syracuse Children’s Chorus | premiered by the SCC & the SSO Youth Orchestra, 1990 | performed by the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra & SSO Women’s Chorus, 1998 | published by CGL Music 2025
Listen | 2-part choir & keyboard | sacred/worship | original text by the composer, based on The Beatitudes | church choir | published by Hinshaw Music under Crystal LaPoint Kowalski
Little Bird | SA & piano | secular | light: for children, upbeat, aspirational | original lyric by composer | school or community choir | commissioned by Keynote Arts Associates | published by Roger Dean under Crystal LaPoint
Long Lost Friend | SATB & piano | secular | light: ballad, sentimental | school or community choir | original lyric by composer | published by Boosey & Hawkes under Crystal LaPoint Kowalski
My Own Song | 2-part chorus & piano | secular | light: upbeat, aspirational, for children | school or community choir | original text by the composer | composed for The Syracuse Children’s Chorus | published by Hinshaw Music under Crystal LaPoint Kowalski
❖ O Sing Unto the Lord ❖ | SATB + soprano solo & piano | sacred/worship | light: upbeat | church choir | adaptation of Psalm 96 by the composer | published by CGL Music, 2026
The Power of Music | SATB choir, violin & piano | art music | secular | excerpted from “Ethereal Minstrel” & arranged by the composer | poem by William Wordsworth | college/advanced school or community choir & instrumentalists | published by CGL Music TBA
Sing Glory Alleluia! | SATB & piano | sacred/Christmas | concert/worship | light: upbeat | church, school or community choir | original text by the composer (featuring Luke 2: 8 – 13) | published by Boosey & Hawkes under Crystal Kowalski
❖ Special Starlight ❖ | SATB with soloists, woodwind quintet, brass sextet, harp & piano | art music secular or sacred | poem by Carl Sandburg | professional/college or advanced community or school choirs commissioned by The Syracuse University Oratorio Society for the 100th Anniversary Commemorative Concert celebrating the opening of Crouse College | published by CGL Music, 2026
Undersong | SATB & piano | excerpted from the poem by Mark Van Doren | art music | secular | college/advanced school or community choir | published by Boosey & Hawkes under Crystal LaPoint Kowalski
When The Mists Have Rolled Away | SSA & keyboard | sacred/worship | church choir | text by Annie Herbert | composed for The Syracuse Children’s Chorus | published by Hinshaw Music under Crystal LaPoint Kowalski
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choral . a cappella
Alleluia | SATB + soprano soloist | sacred | art music | professional, college or community choir | under revision | published by CGL Music TBA
Ally Bally Bee | 4-part treble choir | secular | light: whimsical, folk | school or community choir | traditional Scottish folk-song arranged by the composer | published by CGL Music TBA
Dona Nobis Pacem | SATB | sacred | art music | professional/college or advanced school/community choir | commissioned by Carl Myrus | published Boosey & Hawkes under Crystal LaPoint
Four English Songs | SSAA | art music | secular | college/advanced school or community choir
I. “Come Ho!” text by William Shakespeare
II. “Memory” text by Oliver Goldsmith
III. “Ode to Solitude” text by Alexander Pope
IV. “Hey, Nonny No!” anon. text
composed for The Syracuse Children’s Chorus | published by Lawson Gould under Crystal LaPoint Kowalski
Four Romantic Songs | on poetry of Byron & Shelley | SATB + soprano soloist | art music | secular
I. “To –” text by Percy Bysshe Shelley
II. “To – ” text by George Gordon, Lord Byron
III. “Music, when soft voices die” text by Percy Bysshe Shelley
IV. “So, we’ll go no more a-roving” text by George Gordon, Lord Byron
professional/college or advanced school or community choir | published by Roger Dean under Crystal LaPoint
1st-place winner Ithaca College International Choral Composition Competition, 1988
I Praise and Love That Child | SSAATTBB | based on the poem by Robert Southwell | art music | sacred/concert | professional or advanced church or community choir | commissioned by the Homer High School Choir| under revision | published by CGL Music TBA
A Joyous Caroling | double SATB choir + soprano solo | sacred/Christmas | college/advanced church or community choir | concert | original text by the composer | composed for The Syracuse Chorale & Chamber Singers | under revision | published by CGL Music TBA
The Lord is my Shepherd | SATB | art music | 23rd Psalm adaption by the composer | sacred/concert | commissioned by The Syracuse Chorale in celebration of its 75th anniversary | school or community choir | under revision | published by CGL Music TBA
Missa Humilis | SSAA + soprano solo | art music | sacred/concert
I. “Kyrie”
II. “Gloria”
III. “Agnus Dei”
IV. “Alleluia, Amen”
advanced school or community choir | commissioned by The Smith College Choir | published by Roger Dean under Crystal LaPoint
My Mother’s Smile | SATB | original text by composer | light: sentimental | secular or Mother’s Day anthem | church, school, or community choir | published Boosey & Hawkes under Crystal LaPoint Kowalski
❖ The Song I Seek ❖ | SATB | original text by composer | sacred/worship | church or community choir | published by CGL Music, 2026
❖ Three Songs of Walt Whitman ❖ | SATB + soprano & tenor soloists | art music | secular
I. “I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ”
II. “ The Last Invocation”
III. “Joy, Shipmate, Joy!”
professional/college or advanced school or community choir | 1st-place winner Ithaca College International Choral Composition Competition, 1999 | published by CGL Music, 2026
Worship & Celebrate: Music for the Life of the Church | SATB | sacred/worship | church choir
1. “Call to Worship”
2. “Alleluia!”
3. “Precious Child” (2-part baptismal response, original text by composer / with keyboard)
4. “Benediction Response”
5. “24-fold Amen”
6. “18-fold Amen”
published by CGL Music TBA
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solo vocal
Devotions – Three Songs on Christian Hymns | high voice & piano | art music
I. “Holy, Holy, Holy!” sacred hymn text
II. “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” text & melody by Martin Luther – reharmonized by the composer
III. “Jacob’s Ladder” American Folk Hymn arranged by the composer advanced/professional singer | commissioned by Norma Tippett | published by CGL Music TBA
Full of Alone | mezzo-soprano & piano | secular | light: ballad, Broadway-style, sentimental | original lyrics by composer | intermediate/advanced singer | published by CGL Music TBA
❖ Once Upon a Summertime ❖ | mezzo-soprano & piano | light: ballad, Broadway-style, sentimental | original lyrics by the composer | intermediate/advanced singer | published by CGL Music, 2026
❖ A Wedding Song ❖ | medium-high voice & organ | sacred/wedding | text adapted by the composer from I Corinthians 13 | intermediate/advanced singer | published by CGL Music, 2026
When My Mommy Cries | medium-high voice & piano | secular | light: for children, sentimental, aspirational | original lyric by the composer (from her book of the same title) | intermediate singer published by CGL Music TBA
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instrumental
Eulogy | string quartet | art music | for The Cassatt String Quartet | professional or advanced instrumentalists | in progress | published by CGL Music TBA
Five Songs for Five Souls – a gallery of orchestral portraits | inspired by poems by John Ormond, R.S. Thomas, Philip Levine, John Crowe Ransom & Charles Causley | full orchestra | art music | secular | professional/college or advanced community orchestra | arrangement by the composer of the original choral/orchestral work | commissioned by The Syracuse Chorale | premiered by The Syracuse Chorale & members of The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, 1997
I. “Cathedral Builder”
II. “Ann Griffith”
III. “For Fran”
IV. “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter”
V. “Timothy Winters”
under revision | published by CGL Music TBA
❖ Sonata for Bassoon & Piano ❖ | bassoon & piano | art music
I. “Marziale”
II. “Pastorale”
III. “Il ponte di Londra”
advanced/professional instrumentalists | published by CGL Music, 2026
❖ Sonata for Cello & Piano ❖ | cello & piano | art music
I. “Marziale”
II. “Pastorale”
III. “Il ponte di Londra”
advanced/professional instrumentalists | published by CGL Music, 2026
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Many of the works listed above are in queue for publication by CGL Music Publishing in the coming months, and will be available for purchase here, exclusively. Many others are already published by Boosey & Hawkes, Roger Dean, Lawson-Gould, and others. They are available for purchase from many quality music retailers.
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