- Monotone (2022)
- for medium/high voice, text by Carl Sanburg
- The Want of You (2021)
- for medium/high voice, text by Angelina Weld Grimké
- Appalachian Nursery Rhymes (2020)
- six humorous songs for medium/high voice
- This Union (2019)
- poem by Hafiz for high voice and organ
- My Love (2018)
- for high voice, text by Chloë Schaaf and Aiden K. Feltkamp
- A Draft of Guinness (2018)
- for high voice, text from a letter by Alec Guinness
- A Dream of Fabled Lands (2017)
- a seven-song cycle for high voice, texts by Elizabeth Browning
- Word of the Day (2015)
- for medium voice, text by Joanna White
- Sufi Songs (2014)
- two songs for medium voice, texts by Rumi and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
- perfect summer sky (2013)
- for high voice, text by Evelyn Lang
with keyboard
About Me
Jay C. Batzner (b. 1974) is currently on the faculty of Central Michigan University. He reads too many comic books and tries to find time for sewing and other various hobbies. Jay likes playing chess but loses a LOT of games.
Jay’s frequent interdisciplinary collaborations with choreographer Heather Trommer-Beardslee has led to several dance works based on student veterans, ecological succession, the Larry Craig scandal, and hyena behaviors. The hyena piece even includes puppets!
80s atonal awesome bilston comic books comics concerto contemplative counterpoint duet dulcimer duo electronics fixed media funny hard high voice improvisation marimba medium voice noisy percussion piano poem poetry pop quartet sci-fi scifi setup short song song cycle speaking spiky spoken strugatsky timpani trigger triggered trio unpitched weird white zen