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

Gospel Oak: nine songs for double choir a cappella

Invention für sechzehn Stimmen | Invention for Sixteen Voices (1969) Score

Opera & Art Song

  • From My Car On Broad Street (2021)

    Tenor & Piano
    Poetry by Ross Gay
    3’00”

    Watch

  • The Jungle (2020)

    Opera
    Libretto based on the novel by Upton Sinclair
    75’00”

    Listen

  • Rain Has Fallen (2017)

    Baritone & piano
    Poetry by James Joyce
    6’00”

    Listen

Chamber Music

  • Metamorphosis (2023)

    Four pianos
    60’00”

    Watch

  • A Separate Peace (2023)

    Two versions available:
    • flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello
    • 2 clarinets, piano, string quartet
    11’00”

    Listen

  • Wedding Music (2022)

    String quartet
    17’00”

    Composed for the wedding ceremony of Emily Griffith & Chris Ernest on June 24, 2022

  • Medicea Sidera: the Galilean Moons of Jupiter (2022)

    Pierrot ensemble | fl, cl, pno, vln, vc
    18’00”

    Watch

  • Transatlantic Tides (2022)

    Four pianos
    6’30”

    Commissioned by Roelof Temmingh for the RCM Cotes-Burgan Atrium dedication concert

    Listen

  • Cyril (2021)

    Vln, vc
    3’00”

    Written for the RCM Head-On Photo Festival, and based on a photograph by Susan Papazian

    Watch

  • 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

    Watch

  • BLOOM (2019)

    Double saxophone quartet
    3’30”

    Listen

  • Point Nemo (2019)

    Two versions available:
    • two oboes, English horn
    • flute, oboe, clarinet
    9’00”

    Listen

  • Sogni di Firenze (2018)

    String quartet
    21’00”

    Listen

  • 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”

    Watch

Orchestral Music

  • 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

    Watch

  • 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”

    Listen

  • 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”

    Listen

  • 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”

    Listen

Film Music

  • 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

  • The Son Will Turn to Darkness (2018)

    Pierrot ensemble + perc (fl, cl, perc, pno, vln, vc)
    9’00”

    Watch

  • Permanent (2017)

    Pierrot ensemble + perc (fl, cl, perc, pno, vln, vc)
    8’00”

    Watch