Selected Works
- Opera
- La Passion de Gilles (1983) Libretto by Pierre Mertens.
- Reigen (1993); based on La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler
- Wintermärchen (1999); based on The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare.
- Julie (2005); based on Miss Julie by August Strindberg
- Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne (2009); based on Iwona, księżniczka Burgunda by Witold Gombrowicz
- Poppea e Nerone (2012); New orchestration, for a modern chamber orchestra, of Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea'.
- Other
- Violin Concerto (1980)
- String Quartet No.1 (1988)
- Surfing for viola and orchestra (1990)
- Love and Dance Tunes for baritone and piano (1993); settings from Shakespeare's sonnets
- Summer Dreams, String Quartet No.2 (1994)
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